greatcircle

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   by greatcircle 2y ago

   Landley said in one of his talks (I think it was the linked one) that his goal with Toybox was to enable Android devices to function as a Linux-like development environment. Toybox provides the shell utilities. You can plug in a keyboard an
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   by greatcircle 3y ago

   I installed Windows 10 the other week - it kinda blew my mind how poor the install experience was. The iso contained files greater than 4GB, which breaks fat32, which I'm sure many people are still using on flash drives. So I had to us
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   by greatcircle 7y ago

   I wonder how the pilots managed to consult this manual while wearing big bulky astronaut gloves. There's so much raw data in the manual, I can't imagine they were expected to memorise it all. Though I'm sure you need to have
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   by greatcircle 8y ago

   You could build this type of system with more sparsely placed nodes if you used HF communications, at which frequencies the waves reflect off the ionosphere [1]. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave