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by jack12 9y ago
They did own Direct2Drive to buy, download, and (manually) install games, FilePlanet to (manually) update games and download demos, and GameSpy to chat with friends and find multiplayer servers. That covers most of Steam's functionalit
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by jack12 9y ago
This is exciting, but I'm new to Keybase and don't entirely understand it yet. How can I clone a Keybase-hosted repository on a remote server? Can gpg-agent proxy through ssh similarly to ssh-agent to allow access to GPG keys (and
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by jack12 9y ago
Items shipped by sellers in China often have such asymmetric shipping costs that the cost of returning them to China might be more than the entire item is worth.
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by jack12 9y ago
Just a heads up: on the US Amazon site Feitian has a USB-A + NFC token for $16 (and there's a one-per-customer coupon on the amazon product page to knock it down to $10). Feitian also have a BLE + NFC + USB token for $24 (with a coupon
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by jack12 9y ago
Aside from the obvious reason why (iOS support looks unlikely to ever happen), I imagine seeing the list of supported browsers read nothing but "Chrome" discourages implementation too. Though U2F's javascript API situation ma
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by jack12 10y ago
I think it's possible to view the tweet as general bemusement rather than an attack, though I obviously don't know exactly what is intended. The next tweet is "I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation for w
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by jack12 10y ago
It still seems to need to at least check for the latest version after that first install, I have a ~4 second wait before evaluation of the first expression on every single launch of the REPL while it hits up their package server. And if y
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by jack12 10y ago
It required 60 votes, and received 59 (officially 58 because McConnell switched his vote to retain the ability to reintroduce it). It only needs one more vote to pass, in other words. Feinstein was absent today, but will presumably be vote
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by jack12 10y ago
I think the ESP8266 supports operating in SDIO mode, it's the descendant of a chip used to add wifi to low-end tablets. So it could be used as a literal replacement for an on-board WiFi module, if SDIO pins are available on the Orange
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by jack12 10y ago
The same store has the Orange Pi Lite, which is essentially the same as the One but with wifi instead of ethernet (plus a microphone, ir receiver, and a 2nd usb port). It costs $2.01 more. They also have the Orange Pi PC Plus, which has bot
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by jack12 10y ago
The nrf51 is available with 32K RAM, but only in combination with 256K of flash, designated with the AC suffix (AA: 16K/256K, AB:16K/128K, AC:32K/256K). The 32K chip has been shipping on Adafruit's boards for a while, an
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by jack12 11y ago
It looks like the smallest of those WizNET W7500 boards is only $30[1], and includes a magjack on a carrier board (not shown in the mbed pictures) which is still fairly compact overall. The W7500 seems to include a Cortex-M0 that you can ru
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by jack12 11y ago
Just to be explicit, while this competes in the "tiny but breadboard-friendly microcontroller" market, it's not a nRF51 board (it's actually a more powerful chip, CPU-wise) and it does not have any sort of radio, bluetoo
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by jack12 11y ago
And in the least elegant, but cheapest, form factor WaveShare make a module they call the Core51822[1] that is cloned by tons of folks and is basically the generic nrf51822 module you'll find for ~$5 on ebay. It's the most awkward
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by jack12 11y ago
BLE "tags"[1] cost ~$2 shipped and seem to send a notification every time their button is pressed. I'm not sure if they perform well in the case of powering down and then back up, though. It seems like they might need a butto
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by jack12 11y ago
When you say IoT applications, do you mean phone apps which are dealing with data which originated from a "thing" in the IoT, but that the data has already gotten to the phone or cloud through some other, non-Couchbase Mobile chan
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by jack12 11y ago
This article is very confusing in the way it refers to "early backers", I think it's leaving people with the wrong impression of what is shipping. They are shipping "alpha" CHIP computers only to the 150 people who
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by jack12 11y ago
Supposedly, biometrics at points of entry have already decreased the ability for an individual operative to claim more than a single identity in a lifetime [1]. I imagine having to deal with the change from being able to use agents many tim
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by jack12 11y ago
Could be LEON, which is still closely associated with the ESA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON
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by jack12 11y ago
All About Circuits (www.allaboutcircuits.com) is an expanded version of this open-source textbook. It looks like any corrections and additions made on All About Circuits feed back to this source too, but AAC has a slightly more web-like lay
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by jack12 12y ago
Except that there are reports ( http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=307397.0 ) that the boards from official distributors are shipping with Arduino Srl 's USB Vendor ID, indicating that purchasing any "official
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by jack12 12y ago
From the comments on the question, it's actually for a joke/complaint about the cost of that very logo: http://pvp.comeze.com/brandgenerator/ (type in Halifax and it shows a message about the cost). It would
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by jack12 13y ago
The thing is, the only tool provided for using the PRU is an assembler[1]. So trying to make an AM335x into an "Arduino" required at a minimum: a friendlier real-time IO system / PRU toolchain, the creation of an Arduino sket
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by jack12 13y ago
Both the BeagleBone and the Minnowboard are made by the same company, CircuitCo. I'd say that the Arduino announcements today must have been a bit painful for them, except I'd guess they're probably also the partner company b
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by jack12 13y ago
>BTW: If anyone invents a time machine, please go back and get the original Arduino header alignment fixed. The TRE has all of the arduino signals on a 2x17 0.1" header, the one with a white background around it (which seems to mean
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by jack12 13y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing some reviews of these when they start arriving. I'm especially curious to see how well (or rather if) they achieve that Arduino IDE/sketch compatibility, it seems like a point that a lot of ARM-b
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by jack12 14y ago
Interesting the way it has circled back around. ISTR it was deliberately started as a paid mac-only app by Steve Streeting / sinbad after he switched to macos and decided trying to do the added services thing wasn't his favourite, after yea
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by jack12 14y ago
It says it's listed on a blacklist of domains involved in spam. But it's not clear if all the folks pointing at the one blacklist are examples of it being relisted multiple times or just people rereporting that it's on that list. It's not l
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by jack12 14y ago
I'd love to see support for writing directly into distribution's package managers' databases added to things like pip, npm, gems, etc. too but I'm curious what playing nicely with automake gains here. I'm not too experienced with it, and I
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by jack12 14y ago
On Arch the 'gvim' package also includes a more featureful console vim, including python (2, not 3) support built-in. The downside is that the dependencies for gvim include GTK and a good chunk of X11. If you do need a console-only vim on a

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