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by floren 5y ago
The LS swap is the equivalent of gutting a classic computer or piece of stereo equipment and jamming in a Raspberry Pi. Occasionally it's an improvement, sometimes the original parts were too far gone, but a lot of the time it's j
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by floren 5y ago
My 1985 Jeep CJ-7 is similar... I can be rolling down the road in 3rd gear and the gear knob will occasionally start oscillating in a 4-inch circle all on its own.
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by floren 5y ago
Kind of wild that both you and GP developed tricks for shorting the solenoid when a replacement solenoid is like $20 and 10 minutes of work. Well, at least for a Mercury Grand Marquis aka the Ford Crown Victoria, I can't speak for Supe
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by floren 5y ago
The "PE" stands for "placebo, essentially"
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by floren 5y ago
My assumption has always been: people know pseudoephedrine works, so that's what they want to buy, but you can no longer sell pseudoephedrine over the counter. However, you can offer phenylephrine, which still lets you reasonably name
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by floren 5y ago
Posters will now stumble over each other to assure you that tax evasion was so widespread that actually the effective tax rate was lower than Reagan's wildest dreams.
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by floren 5y ago
It's the last entry in the first section of the FAQ: > LWN, initially, was "Linux Weekly News." That name has been deemphasized over time as we have moved beyond just the weekly coverage, and as we have looked at the free
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by floren 5y ago
It is poorly-written, derivative, and juvenile. The protagonist wins ownership of the Internet (and gets the girl) by playing video games well and knowing the most 80s "geek" trivia. I think the comparisons to GamemasterAnthony&#x
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by floren 5y ago
"You're so creative, you should sell this stuff on Etsy!" "Wow, this pie is incredible, you should open a bakery!" I think Californians might be worse about it than most, too. Maybe it's all the pressure of kee
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by floren 5y ago
Nobody should read Ready Player One.
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by floren 5y ago
I just want to read about/see things created by people who like what they are doing and who aren't chasing fans/subscribers/patrons. The most interesting stuff on the Internet, to me, is when a person puts up a crappy
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by floren 5y ago
> They said that access to those tests is not universal. Students from high schools that don't offer AP classes would have a hard time taking AP exams. Yeah, I wish they'd just flat out told me "we expect AP courses"
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by floren 5y ago
It's only a matter of time for Keybase. Sad, because we've been using it for work communications since the very beginning... I remember talking to colleagues back in the day saying basically "I love Keybase, but I'm kind
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by floren 5y ago
> Plenty of medium format cameras used square shaped areas of film negative and you were meant to adjust the aspect by cropping. I shoot a 6x6 TLR occasionally and I really adore the square images I get. I never use it with the intention
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by floren 5y ago
"Understanding Exposure" is good on the absolute basics. However I don't remember if it covers more philosophical stuff like "zoom with your feet", and it probably won't help someone who just straight up keeps
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by floren 5y ago
I've been shooting film on and off for about a decade now, and a good film shot pretty much always looks better than a phone picture. The problem is that going from camera to digitally-shareable photo is either 1) time-consuming, or 2)
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by floren 5y ago
They're definitely customer-obsessed... have you ever seen the movie "Misery"?
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by floren 5y ago
This is an interesting combination of extremely good-looking themes and frankly bizarre stuff like this: https://hotdoglinux.com/EverythingIsAStream/index.html
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by floren 5y ago
Whoa buddy, hang on, sometimes there's a little toggle that changes it to floating text on a black background. Only power users allowed, of course.
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by floren 5y ago
I went to school with Alan and Jose, and I believe they're honestly doing their best to get a real product out there. The company blog ( https://blog.popcorncomputer.com/ ) indicates that they should be shipping to the e
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by floren 5y ago
- Helping kids think in new ways (what teachers want) - Building skills for "the future" / "jobs" (what politicians promise) - Encouraging kids to create their own things, instead of just consuming (what I want) - i
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by floren 5y ago
My main complaint with Clarkson's Farm is that his approach to every problem was "which piece of equipment can we purchase to solve this?" Not very surprising if you know Jeremy Clarkson, I know.
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by floren 5y ago
I'm really interested in learning more about this. Does he have a website? I've sat down and run some numbers before and it definitely seems feasible, but that's just back-of-the-napkin estimation. I grew up on a farm, but of
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by floren 5y ago
The pictures make them look almost textured / ridged, is that noticeable when you hold it? I went through quite a bit of effort to sand my prototype (it's PLA, can't be acetone-smoothed), and I think it's nicer for it, b
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by floren 5y ago
Thank you, I'm looking into options for selling small batches after I make a few more refinements (I'm considering putting a USB-C port in for the cable instead of the current style). Maybe via Tindie or some other platform?
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by floren 5y ago
Ploopy makes cool-looking stuff. Based on the pictures on their website, it looks like the bodies are 3d-printed? How do they feel to use? Their nano trackball looks interesting, too... are you meant to bind keys on your keyboard to act as
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The Bellwether mouse: A modern Depraz clone(jfloren.net)
25 points by floren 5y ago|11 comments
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by floren 5y ago
My first thought when I heard about Russia shelling the nuke plants: "ah, that's a good way to make sure Europe will keep buying Russia gas..."
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by floren 5y ago
https://archive.org/details/Geeks_In_Space
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by floren 5y ago
Did you ever listen to "Geeks in Space", the Slashdot podcast from before podcasts were a thing? IIRC they recorded sporadically around 1999 and 2000, just talking about whatever had been on the front page recently. I've thou

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