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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
That’s pretty neat! I’ve been looking at ESL e-ink displays for a while as a more static status display, but the lack of standards and open source software is a problem.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Aah yes, that’s right
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
They were big in software for the one laptop per child project: https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-class-develops-applications-sup... And, while not open source, built this: https://dirsig.cis.rit.edu/ Also,
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
I hate political posts on a tech news site, especially ycombinator. These problems will never be solved and only cause agitation on both sides. Closing the ycombinator tab for the day.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Another political post on a tech news website. Closing the tab for the day.
37.
by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Yep Mitch Kapor and the eff.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Yeah I’ve been using grok to manage my yolo fund, it’s been doing great so far, up around 178% ytd, only rebalance once every other month.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
Another dying industry acquiring another dying industry. Reminds me of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems.
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by cramcgrab 10mo ago
It was actually created in around 10 days by Brendan Elch at Netscape, originally called Mocha.
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by cramcgrab 11mo ago
Could be man or woman, and they’ve been doing it forever. Not news. Every time I see one of these political hit stories it makes me close the tab for ycombinator for the day.
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by cramcgrab 11mo ago
No more kids cameras in the classroom
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Please moderate your techie site and reduce the amount of politics and preaching, or else you will wind up like Reddit, digg, and of course, the once famous Leo Laporte, who is now exclusively preaching his politics to his 100 faithful foll
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
If pbs was only balanced or apolitical. There were several high profile blunders they refused to apologize or change. Would have been the same outcome if things were reversed. Heck, they could have done a pbs right and pbs left channel. But
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
I’m glad California is on it. These more they can stick it big tech, the better. Somebody’s got to look out for us.
46.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Yep, remember the 3com Audrey, probably still have it in a box in my basement!
47.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Zfs includes nfs, its built in and very handy still!
48.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Auto home! And jumpstart! Aah, the network is the computer!
49.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Well that works out doesn’t it? Saves them from discovery.
50.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Headline and article misleading
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Aah, the PowerPC architecture! Very nice! Remember working on the ibm P5 series, really nice machines with both hot swap and cold swap components, color coded for convenience. Great operating system, aix was solidly integrated into the arch
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Most viral things are driven, at least initially, by bots or click farms. Also, fake promotions from websites to artificially amplify posts or stories. View counts on a video or post can easily be manipulated.
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Division I, Section 7.3.3 Obstruction of Traffic Without Permit $1,000.00 “officer, I’ve got a permit to obstruct traffic!”
54.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Doesn’t do videos, that’s a dealbreaker for me
55.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
It would be nice if the usps would get out of mail delivery and focus on email. Wouldn’t mind a usps email account
56.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Because cloud. And local hardware and software lags now.
57.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Great times working at SGI back in the 1980s, lots of long hours, lots of fun inventing things that needed to be invented. Still miss the MIPS.
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Always amazed at apple engineering and Chinese/Indian manufacturing
59.
by cramcgrab 1y ago
Based on the data, no https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
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by cramcgrab 1y ago
Nope. Biology wrong.

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