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by evilbob93 4y ago
I went to a PC expo of some sort in NYC in 1999 because I was in town for an interview. LCDs had just come out, but every exhibit in the hall had them because they were new but also because you could ship a whole bunch of flat screens in th
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by evilbob93 4y ago
In 1992 VAX/VMS from Digital Equipment Corporation was beginning to feel the hurt from various Unix systems that were becoming popular. In 1993, I worked at a US Army contract that still had MS-DOS and we had to do some creative accoun
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Brian Eno started his [ambient] career doing essentially that, creating and tweaking programming systems to do various musical things, and then letting them to go do their thing. Does this make his ambient pieces, many of which started as a
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by evilbob93 4y ago
I tried to use a CPAP 15 years ago but it didn't work for me because of the noise and the fact that I had long hair and it felt like i was trapped in it and it was difficult to get it all right so i felt comfortable going to sleep. a f
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by evilbob93 4y ago
> I don’t believe most people are willing to uproot their lives simply because they can get cheaper housing elsewhere. I’m sure it factors in but it’s rarely the driving motivator. Retirees and other fixed income people may have a differ
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Problem is that the entry-level stuff is going to be done by the AI and fewer people are going to have the chance to go through the steps of becoming a master artist.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Depends what your benchmark is. As the AI stuff is getting better, things like MIDI and Autotune lower the bar to where it's understandable some might see the convergence coming sooner than later.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Perl is getting to be like COBOL - lots of lines out there still doing useful things but they aren't cranking out new Perl programmers like they used to. Lucrative if you can find the gig. That said, I met a millennial COBOL programmer
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Approaching 61. Got two offers this year. The current hot market seems to (temporarily) make ageism slightly less of a thing than it used to be. Probably losing the white pony tail a couple years ago helped too. Dying my hair is out of the
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Everything2 is one of those things that inspired near obsession for me when it was a going thing. I am glad you can still look at it, but it's a little like going to the World's Fair site in New York City. You get the impression t
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by evilbob93 4y ago
You could make the argument that it's further a reference back to "Day of the Dolphin" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Original Furbies can be remote controlled by infrared. The codes are available for Flipper.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
I ordered a second one when I found out that there was already some code written for some a SubGhz radio intercom. Currently only available at the command line interface (yes, you can ssh to it while connected via usb) but shouldn't be
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by evilbob93 4y ago
It depends on the fob. I didn't get it to read mine. That said, there was a post on Reddit of a EMT driver who used theirs to clone dozens of remotes that the ambulances need to open the gate to bring in a patient.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Sorry, I answered the wrong question. Garage Door openers aren't as easy as they sound. Try the infrared remotes first, you'll have better likelihood of doing something useful in a few minutes.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
If you want to start writing code, https://flipper.atmanos.com/docs/overview/intro worked really well for me. If this was the free sample on the kindle store, I'd buy the rest of the book. I encourage you go
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by evilbob93 4y ago
The source is written in C. The provide a docker container that lets you simply download the repo, make changes, compile and then load to your flipper. I hadn't actually written an original line of C code since the 1980s. After a coupl
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by evilbob93 4y ago
the quickest hit of functionality is duplicating buttons from your remotes. Next it's fun to mess with the screens at the pub. Somewhere along the way, realizing that someone out there has the remote you lost long ago and all you reall
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by evilbob93 4y ago
so far a relatively unexplored avenue. The Discord doesn't have a GPIO specialty last I looked but I've seen a few people wishing that there was one.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Don't know if this helps you, but the about screen has this: FCC ID: 2A2V6-FZ IC:27625-FZ for all compliance certificates, please visit www.flipp.dev/compliance
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Other comments mention how this was a Kickstarter that took two years to come to fruition and the supply chain is listed as the culprit. No one else has mentioned that while us backers were waiting, they sent out newsletters that detailed s
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by evilbob93 4y ago
When I tried to go to the link on this post today, my browser gave me a "NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" warning. I have used it successfully in the past to place and receive three different orders of flippers and accessories.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
I was on the 2 year kickstarter wait. Got my order in mid -May (USA). Later on, they had some sporadic availability, got my second one ordered and it has arrived in the last week or two. So far it's mostly a clunky universal remote but
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by evilbob93 4y ago
Somewhat off the subject of this post, but I believe we lost something when calling for help stopped being as simple as grabbing at the wall and punching a couple buttons. What are children supposed to do these days to call 911 or 999?
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by evilbob93 4y ago
for me that Altair or IMSAI would have taken a lot time of to earn with a paper route.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
I graduated high school 1980. Started taking mainframe computer classes in 1981, family got an original IBM PC when they came out. What repeatedly blows my mind is the expansion of storage. A 300 Megabyte removable CDC hard drive was the si
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by evilbob93 4y ago
could they at least open source the Graffiti interpretation library? stupid device made me change how I write for what, three or four years of use? I got the Handera with the add on cards and for a glorious afternoon I had my phone's s
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by evilbob93 4y ago
After waiting about 2 years, I got my Flipper Zero in the mail a week ago. Yesterday I bought a second one and I am getting excited about tinkering with C because the firmware is open source.
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by evilbob93 4y ago
... and? I agree that years aren't necessarily a good metric for experience, although I have decades in IT - started when I was 19 and retirement is a real thing I have to consider. Years do give you some experience that isn't tra
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by evilbob93 4y ago
My mom was a technical recruiter for a big Catholic hospital system in the Detroit area in the late 90's. She decided that she needed a copy of Doctor Seuss's _Yertle the Turtle_ for her cubicle because she thought it described he

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