coggs

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by coggs 1y ago
I lived and worked on the HKUST campus in the 90's.. Very picturesque. Surrounding coastline very rugged. He picked a good spot. No egress there at the bottom of the hill. Fun fact: He camped just below the historic location of Shaw St
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Virginia narrowly avoided power cuts when 60 data centers dropped off the grid(datacenterdynamics.com)
2 points by coggs 2y ago|0 comments
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by coggs 2y ago
There are very active technical discussions of nixies going on here https://groups.google.com/g/neonixie-l
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by coggs 3y ago
I lived in HK in the 90's at the HK University of Science and Technology. It's out in the New Territories, surrounded by small villages and otherwise mostly undeveloped dense, low-lying scrub. We'd hike in the country parks
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by coggs 3y ago
I guess if we were on a conquest for universal adoption we can now say we've succeeded.. <pinches self>
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by coggs 3y ago
Hackaday interviewed me about the origin story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds&ab_channel=HACKA...
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by coggs 3y ago
As one of the original creators of sudo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo ) I've witnessed it getting nearly totally rewritten and then incrementally bug-fixed over the last 43 years. It must take the prize for t
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by coggs 3y ago
I own a Manncorp MC-400 Pick and Place. Surprised wiki does not mention Manncorp or Autotronic or Quad. Seen many inidie DIY PnP projects come and go. The latest generation of low-end Chinese PnPs like Neoden have seen increased popularity
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by coggs 3y ago
I've also switched over to OrangePi. Using the OrangePi Zero LTS in a commercial product. It has FCC emissions compliance. That said, The RasPi community is at least 2 or 3 orders of magnitude larger, so if you get stuck on a weird pro
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by coggs 3y ago
In the mean-time there are now more lower cost, in-stock alternatives to the RPi than ever such at the OrangePi.
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by coggs 4y ago
WeMos D1 Mini FTW. So many ESP8266 libraries out there now.
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by coggs 4y ago
After 30 years running my own MTA I also gave up and moved to fastmail.
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The mysterious world of ‘numbers stations’(globalnews.ca)
5 points by coggs 6y ago|0 comments
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All Circuits Are Busy Now:The AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1990)(users.csc.calpoly.edu)
1 points by coggs 10y ago|0 comments
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by coggs 12y ago
Good article. There was a recent kickstarter for something called 'i2c and spi education shield' with some great tutorials and hw also..
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An Architecture History of the Unix System (1985)(books.google.com)
15 points by coggs 12y ago|2 comments