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by donpdonp 9y ago
Agreed. I want encryption not verified-identity from SSL. Self-signed certs provide encryption - browser makers didn't let that happen and created a $$$ monopoly in CAs. It wasnt until the CA list became so obviuously broken ('app
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by donpdonp 9y ago
$500 lidar toy platform https://www.seeedstudio.com/SDP-Mini-RPlidar-Experimental-Pl... using the "RPLidar A2" https://www.slamtec.com/en/Lidar looks interesting.
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by donpdonp 9y ago
Note the title refers to "Expat, a C library for parsing XML", not an obscure novel title for ex-patriots living abroad. Given what shows up on hackernews these days, I had assumed the later on first reading.
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by donpdonp 9y ago
The IndieWeb(.org) group recommends 'Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere' ( https://indieweb.org/POSSE ) that you might find interesting.
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by donpdonp 9y ago
This is an excellent writeup! If any readers are looking for an already-written and tested bitcoin client library and can use javascript, https://bitcoinjs.org/ is great. I wrapped a simple cli tool around the library to ma
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by donpdonp 9y ago
http://scuttlebot.io/ is a distributed log file meant to be an application platform. It has some nice design choices and is worth looking at in the context of making a new social network.
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by donpdonp 9y ago
Kotlin - The Source Awakens
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by donpdonp 9y ago
the pricing model is also from the 1980s.
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by donpdonp 9y ago
MicBleed
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by donpdonp 9y ago
Are there libraries for HOCON written in other languages? I wonder if the authors are aware of http://hjson.org/ . It has similar features as far as loosening the json syntax rules and a lot of client libraries. HOCON seems
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by donpdonp 9y ago
when choosing when and where to eat meat, please consider the the living conditions of the animal. Free range chickens (and their eggs) and pasture-raised grass-fed beef are ways to vote with your dollar for cleaner water and healthier anim
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by donpdonp 10y ago
The wikipedia article is also very informative. I recently had to learn about dBV (decibel volts) when trying to understand the spec sheet for a MEMS microphone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel
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by donpdonp 10y ago
This paper appears to be an IRC session formatted in LaTEX. It'd be easier to read as text.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
Yes, -1% for NASA in the proposal. The EPA is what gets hit hard - listed as -31%. Also worth noting: "Discretionary spending limits, addressed by this proposal, are set by congressional budget resolutions. Congress typically makes cha
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by donpdonp 10y ago
EDN does all this, and looses the commas too (winning!).
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by donpdonp 10y ago
I know, I saw Matt Daemon grow potatoes on Mars in an in-flight documentary called "The Martian".
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by donpdonp 10y ago
Everything I know about jet engines comes from the fantastic multi-year youtube vlog of AgentJayZ of JetCity, Canada! https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ
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by donpdonp 10y ago
Is there any new status on this project? The last blog post from 2017-Jan-10 says "I’m pleased to announce that we are starting to test the first usable version of Pijul.We are not quite ready to release.." I was hoping that getti
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by donpdonp 10y ago
We use flyway with a scala project at work and it does a great job! It was working with ruby on rails that taught me one of the strongest reasons to use psql over over databases - transactional schema changes. If a migration fails I absolut
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by donpdonp 10y ago
I'm-gonna let tiddlywiki finish, but dokuwiki is greatest personal wiki of the tiny subset of internet users that use it.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
So far, the game is a lot more nuanced and involved than I was expecting. TheSims meets HackerNews. Very well done!
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by donpdonp 10y ago
same. i use jsonlint all the time to pretty-print json, but this is faster/easier and a filter language too!
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by donpdonp 10y ago
This would make an intersting server-side service. I was hoping I could POST the json "code" and input, and get an answer in the HTTP body. Sort of a "Lambda 101" project.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
I was hoping jolt was a command line tool in the style of jq. I dont believe jq does transformations of json, only queries.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
I put on a Magical Leap and you won't believe what happens next!
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by donpdonp 10y ago
"You can't just wire up an Arduino to the CAN bus of a 4,000-pound missile and sell it on the open market" best self-driving comment ever.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
Ambitious developer discovers abstract syntax trees expressed as JSON, film at 11.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
The background video clips were done incredibly well in the post. The clips added to the setting of what was going on in the text without being distracting. Kudos to the NYTimes for that.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
Thank you for this series! Its a real education and fun walk back in time to see how the Alto was made and how it operates.
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by donpdonp 10y ago
I feel the same about 'vis'. Its lightening fast and does what I need. https://github.com/martanne/vis

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