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First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition(firstinspires.org)
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by j-james 7y ago
I use Geometric Weather [1]. It's beautifully designed, has an excellent selection of widgets, and is open source. You can even set your lock screen to be a live wallpaper of the current weather. [1] https://github.com/
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by j-james 7y ago
Not just for Mint, I've had a very good experience with it on Manjaro. Especially with a pacman hook to backup before a system update [1]... [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/timeshift-autosnap/
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I use (and highly recommend) Timeshift [1]. The GUI is nice and intuitive, and it supports both simple rsync snapshots and more complicated btrfs drives. It took me about five minutes to set it up to automatically back up once a day /
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> It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system ... The wholesale cost in the developing world is about US$0.04. In the United States, it cost
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by j-james 7y ago
I find it interesting how often I observe someone give a disclaimer about being bad at English, followed up with the clearest explanation / documentation / answer I've seen in a good month or so.
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Seconding checking out FIRST - their youngest program, Lego League Jr., starts at age 6. FIRST has excellent robotics programs, especially at the middle and high school level. If you're in the US there's a pretty good chance of fi
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by j-james 7y ago
It seems so for some games, at least Skyrim [1]. But reading through the GitHub "Game Compatibility" issues [2], I get the impression that most problems are due to graphics card and audio drivers, not game-specific irregularities.
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Related: in 2008 the German University of Duisburg-Essen did a study on cattle based off of Google Earth images, with similar results. The researchers also did field studies of deer in the Czech Republic. They found that the vast majority (
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First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition(firstinspires.org)
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This exists as Ruffle [1] and is coming along quite well. The lead developer is a Newgrounds employee (Mike Welsh) and is the author of Swivel [2], a Flash to video converter already in use on Newgrounds. They're targeting both browser
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Radiation Hardening(en.wikipedia.org)
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Currently on HN's front page: Google's App Maker is shutting down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160891
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En svensk tiger(en.wikipedia.org)
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The classic example of a redesign done right is with eBay. eBay's background used to be a (very) bright yellow, which looked pretty bad even for the web in 2009. When they initially changed it to the current white, the designers receiv