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by gh02t 9y ago
Literally tens of thousands of them. Sensors are not interchangeable, if you have requirements on precision/accuracy for your project then it dictates what you have to use. And often enough the on board in a phone sensors aren't r
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by gh02t 9y ago
Also wired Ethernet. Running a server over WiFi is flaky, especially on a phone optimized for low power usage. The Pi's wired networking is lackluster, but it's still more stable than WiFi. And adding on to GPIO, the Pi has easy t
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by gh02t 9y ago
Depends on your goal, statistics and probability theory are separate (though of course related) fields with different applications. For me I really needed the measure-theoretic bits because I was (am) working on modeling ergodic processes.
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by gh02t 9y ago
"For Scientists and Engineers" sounds to me like it's targeting people who already have a strong background in more advanced mathematics, but not necessarily probability and measure theory. If so I think this is a decent way
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by gh02t 9y ago
TiddlyWiki is pretty nice. https://tiddlywiki.com I used to use it regularly, though my notes aren't generally terribly organized and nowadays I just use disposable legal pads.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I'm not an expert on DragonFly, but from what I know it's design differences aren't really that radical. It differs substantially from FreeBSD, but it's not like a fundamental re-imagining optimized for SMP. Performance
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by gh02t 9y ago
True, I was thinking news in general.
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by gh02t 9y ago
Their news coverage is pretty strongly slanted to the left. Just because I tend to agree with them doesn't mean I think they are really that much better than Breitbart in terms of providing objective reporting. In any event, what I mea
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by gh02t 9y ago
OP's point was that Fairness Doctrine was never a hard and fast rule because the FCC was hesitant to actually enforce it due to free speech concerns. Broadcasters were generally willing to cooperate, but they got lots of wiggle room. P
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by gh02t 9y ago
A desire to stay relevant. Print publishers often get criticized for being behind the curve, but a few like NYT and BBC have invested heavily in the technology of their business. Not sure how much it's paid off, but my impression is th
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by gh02t 9y ago
That's why I qualified it with "like Windows or Linux", but yes they haven't totally disregarded backwards compatibility. They definitely have a history of dropping support for many things a couple years after they stop
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by gh02t 9y ago
> But, as you've said, you're not an Apple customer, so this isn't irrelevant is it? Apple customers in general don't work like you do. Thank you, this was exactly my point. Buying Apple and expecting long-term backwa
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by gh02t 9y ago
Apple is a bit special though, since their hardware and software go together. They don't sell 32 bit Macs and have never emphasized backwards compatibility like Windows (or Linux) has and quite often they have emphasized the opposite.
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's give and take. Maybe not "do what you love no matter what" but "try and do something you at least like " is still good advice. If you force yourself to do something you hate just because you think you'll
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by gh02t 9y ago
Apart from reading the buttons that control the device and writing the display, a digital iron needs firmware to control the feedback loop that maintains the temperature. Digital irons generally have PID based temperature regulation, unlike
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by gh02t 9y ago
I believe git uses its own implementation for applying deltas sucked down by `git pull` https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/patch-delta.c There's also `git apply` that applies user supplie
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's not as dangerous as a CRT, but there are some dangers; however it doesn't really matter. They're tightly integrated, you can't just pull out the smart bits and leave behind a tuner. Generally most modern TVs are gon
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by gh02t 9y ago
This is great! I forwarded this to my girlfriend (who is blind) and she loves it.
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by gh02t 9y ago
Making one with a Pi Zero W + the camera is pretty straightforward. Most of the good network cameras with simple APIs (RTSP or MJPEG) are not so trustworthy on the security side.
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by gh02t 9y ago
There's a lot to learn if you're starting with electronics and automation from scratch, but you can start with the Adafruit tutorial on IR: https://learn.adafruit.com/using-an-infrared-library/hardwar... I do
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by gh02t 9y ago
Home Assistant is an open source home automation tool, not a voice assistant. It's very good, I've been using it since early days. They also place a big emphasis on privacy and local control. https://www.home-assistant.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I use it in my personal projects a lot, it's very easy to code up an i2c master and/or slave on pretty much any microcontroller. Very handy for abstracting different sensors or actuators by hiding them behind a microcontroller tha
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by gh02t 9y ago
Big difference, you're only trusting the host computer (and the JTAG dongle) once . This is manageable, use an airgapped junk laptop with no HDD or similar if you're ultra paranoid. Sure perhaps the firmware is compromised and le
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by gh02t 9y ago
Am I correct in understanding that the exploit would most likely be cleared by re-flashing the firmware to a known good image before you use it? Especially if you did so using JTAG it seems like it'd be very difficult (albeit probably
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by gh02t 9y ago
Alpha NT didn't become popular because of price and compatibility. DEC wanted to sell Alpha in serious workstations and servers and only made some half-hearted attempts to target the consumer market. Meanwhile the consumer marker coale
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by gh02t 9y ago
> They also have an embedded sensor that can be used to track geographic history whenever the card is swiped. This almost makes it sound like the card keeps a log of where it is used internally. If that is the case then it could be used
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's a realistic point though. Illegal industrial espionage definitely happens and with the resources of a huge multinational corporation it becomes easier to conceal behind a wall of secrecy and misdirection. I doubt Apple would do it
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by gh02t 9y ago
The Lattice boards mentioned above are a good start. Really they're your only choice since they're the only open source toolchain, but the iCEStick is a pretty good place to start. It's a decent FPGA in a USB stick form facto
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by gh02t 9y ago
I meant to explicitly say that the Lattice iCE40 is the one exception thanks to a heroic volunteer effort. I edited a bit to make that clearer.
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by gh02t 9y ago
> But it's hard to find and get started with a good open source toolchain That's because there aren't any. The one you have happens to be the exception - it's the only FPGA line with an open source toolchain AFAIK. FP

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