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by dajt 3y ago
Well, it's by ESR so the smug pedantry is taken as read. It may be stuff every hacker used to know (and I'm old enough to have dealt with everything there other than the 36-bit stuff) but so what? There's a ton of stuff going
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by dajt 3y ago
I find a lot of python like that. It's a simple language to get started in but an incredibly complex language to try and get across more than skin deep. Maybe not C++ complex but more than I expected. It has some wild features and craz
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Allowing LMIC to sleep soundly on a Feather bed(oshed.blogspot.com)
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More Good Times with LMIC and an AdaFruit LoRaWAN Feather M0(oshed.blogspot.com)
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Good Times with LMIC and an AdaFruit LoRaWAN Feather M0(oshed.blogspot.com)
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by dajt 8y ago
The keyboard at least might be a cheap fix. I got a new Thinkpad and the right-hand shift key was useless which is the one I use. I couldn't be bothered returning it and bought a keyboard off ebay. About 5 - 10 mins to install and its
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by dajt 9y ago
I have 4 kids, two of which are at an age where they just throw ALL their money at these damned games. The other two will hit that stage soon enough. In my mind these games are no better than poker/slot machines. Adults should be respo
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by dajt 9y ago
It's incredible, isn't it? I can't believe any govt still hires them. They were behind the Australian census debacle too.
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by dajt 9y ago
'Stunning'? Come on. hackernoon and medium, not worth clicking on links from either of them.
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by dajt 9y ago
These "hardware features", whether its [U]EFI or ME or whatever acronym, IMO is a land grab by hardware vendors over what we know as the "OS". Less computer owner control, more vendor control. As long as you can still
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by dajt 9y ago
I spent every waking hour tinkering with my C64, and made a career from that. But a C64 is a very different beast from a ipad or even a rpi. I think the percentage of owners back then tinkered with them as well as just loading up games was
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by dajt 9y ago
No, I mean a tablet is a stupid thing for a school student to have. I could sort of see the point of a cheap laptop or chromebook - at least typing on them is reasonable. But there is nothing wrong with writing on paper either. Teachers giv
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by dajt 9y ago
Yeah, or a build-it-yourself Z80 kit. I'm not being sarcastic. An rpi or an arduino would be way better than an iPad.
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by dajt 9y ago
I wasn't all that impressed with the code - too 'clever' and concise for me. I wouldn't be surprised if it let a bunch of unexpected inputs through as another commentor pointed out. That may have been okay back then but
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by dajt 9y ago
Only the oldest of teens would worry about those things. I agree they're all bad but I'm not convinced they'd have much of an impact on under 17 year olds. I'm extremely hacked off that the high school I'm sending m
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by dajt 9y ago
+++ATH0
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by dajt 9y ago
One of the really important things I miss is being able to get a measure of how you're performing. When you're in the office you can pretty constantly see how you're going compared to your team mates and whether you're &
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by dajt 9y ago
I've been working remotely for 12 years and I agree with the OP. While I like not having to go to the office everyday and the more flexible arrangement there are a lot of challenges: 1. You miss out on a lot of socializing. 2. You lose
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by dajt 9y ago
There is obviously more to it than that, but it was my thought way back when. I interviewed with Mike and Scott when there didn't seem to be many other people involved. A few days later the company I worked for started the process of g
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by dajt 9y ago
I don't follow links to medium.com for that reason. I'm getting old and grumpy and medium.com posts seemed authored specifically to irritate me. I'm not part of the new world so I guess I don't feel at home there.
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by dajt 9y ago
Yeah, that was a pathetic self-justifying post. "Sorry, won't do it again." would have been better. Losing their next bonus would be better still.
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by dajt 9y ago
I'm struggling to find anything I want to buy on the Australian website. I can't even get enough into the basket to get free shipping. And their goods categorisation is abysmal - whatever department you're in you seem to get
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by dajt 9y ago
Can anyone ELI5 how two additional OSs can run network stacks without interfering with each other and the user OS networking? I assume ME and UEFI use DHCP to get their addresses yet my modem/router only shows the one from my user OS.
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by dajt 9y ago
What if you want to quickly flick through pages? Having to wait for each page to render would be awful.
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by dajt 9y ago
If the author wants to show how to write a front end targeting GCC then writing a translator to C would not do that. It is an educational exercise.
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by dajt 9y ago
I agree. I grew up using vi on SysV on a Wyse-60. I don't want to go back there.
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by dajt 9y ago
I think you're right. And if so I agree with Linus. I don't get the entitlement of OSS people. They want to play in someone else's sandpit but enforce their own rules. If you don't like the way the project is run then fo
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by dajt 9y ago
Linus seems to have a different take on OSS than most OSS warriors. I don't think he sees proprietary software as 'evil' or OSS as morally superior. I get the impression he just thinks OSS will be better in quality. Depending
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by dajt 9y ago
Mine too! Loved playing around at $C000.
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by dajt 9y ago
Yeah, it's more for grown-ups who don't know how to code. One of my sons is doing pretty well but I'm keeping a few levels ahead to see what's coming and I'm not sure he'll grok indirect addressing all that eas

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