jimmies

12 ms·

61.
by jimmies 8y ago
Where should you start? Ask yourself: How bad do I want to switch? Do you want to live the rest of your life feeling you missed out on something when it was not too late, or you think you'll be okay the way you are now. I just switched
62.
by jimmies 8y ago
I feel like the answer is the same why is a Vertu phone $10K. Because people don't really need one, and who can afford it can afford an expensive item.
63.
Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons with OpenWRT(tnhh.net)
6 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
64.
by jimmies 8y ago
As a person who likes Arduino very much, I have to ask: Why Arduino? It seems like you have to design a quite complex system here with many parts and gears to communicate and synchronize together. You'll need an OS for that kind of wor
65.
by jimmies 8y ago
I have a LOLIN32 with 4MB RAM, it is a dream.
66.
by jimmies 8y ago
I am under no illusion that among people who dropped out, the number of people who end up next to the dumpsters is going to be more than ones who become billionaires. Same to state universities vs private universities. One shouldn't dr
67.
by jimmies 8y ago
That's the maximum number of hours that international students could work outside of normal class hours. Basically, that makes attending classes+work an 8-to-5 job. And then I had to come home and study and do homework. Since I had no
68.
by jimmies 8y ago
I used to do IT support for a whole building when I was a undergrad student. One of the professors once had a quote stuck on her door: "People may forget what you say. They may forget what you did, but people will never forget how y
69.
by jimmies 8y ago
>why don't you just use Windows or Mac laptop? Linux tooling support is still very important to me. I want to be able to enjoy Konsole and Sublime text. Windows Subsystem for Linux is getting there, but I don't think it's
70.
by jimmies 8y ago
Absolutely. Same reason I stopped doing custom ROM for my phone. Growing up is hard :(
71.
by jimmies 8y ago
No, the "real" ChromeOS has had acceleration all along. It is about the Chromebooks getting HW acceleration for its virtualized Linux environment when you want to run real Linux apps on it.
72.
by jimmies 8y ago
I am a hardcore Linux user. I went so far as buying Chromebooks to wipe ChromeOS and run Linux on them in the last 5 years. As of late, I have decided to leave ChromeOS alone on my new Pixelbook. There are two reasons for that decision: - I
73.
Terry Davis Demos SimStructure – a rocket simulator (video) (2016)(youtube.com)
10 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
74.
by jimmies 8y ago
Anyone remembers just 5 years ago, Microsoft had a huge campaign about how everyone got "scroogled" by Google? Especially this ad about Google reading your mail to devliver you ads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
75.
by jimmies 8y ago
Very smart people can believe in and say very not-so-smart things. To make the output equal when the input isn't, you're skewing other factors. I remember watching a video about communism the other day that talks about equality. W
76.
by jimmies 8y ago
I used to watch "Nathan for you" which is the somewhat comedic version of the business hacking theme. The difference is that the main protagonist did not always succeed. But when he got lucky and it worked, it was funny as shit. M
77.
by jimmies 8y ago
I got introduced to pot when I entered grad school to do a STEM Ph.D. I was cool with it - I was never an addict. I smoked a couple of times a year at most. It had to be a quite special occasion for me to smoke marijuana, drink, or do other
78.
by jimmies 8y ago
Or you can `/s/doi.org/sci-hub.tw/` the doi URL. ;-)
79.
by jimmies 8y ago
I've never had a relationship until 25. I had all the bad luck when it comes to genetics and upbringing. At the time of 25, I just learned to drive and had my first beater 15-year-old car. I made lots of great friends when giving rides
80.
by jimmies 8y ago
I have several Netgear R6100 routers and I'm very happy with their performance and functionality. They are easily available on Amazon for $20 or so. The only shortcoming with them is that they have 100mbps ethernet ports, which I don&#
81.
by jimmies 8y ago
If you're into hardware hacking, almost all big camera brands (Canon, Nikon, Sony) have (unofficial) custom firmwares [1] that enhance the functionality of the original ones. I have a Sony mirrorless one that is locked to Japanese lang
82.
by jimmies 8y ago
Hey, I just graduated with a Ph.D. degree and I feel the same way you do. The process did leave a lot of scars in my mind. I just can't imagine how hard it is for you to not have received a degree.
83.
by jimmies 8y ago
I totally would share it. I do write my blog at my profile. It will take a while for me to organize my thoughts to write this down (in a month maybe?), but it is coming :)
84.
by jimmies 8y ago
One thing I'd love to add is that is to make friends with people: People who are older than you, people that don't do stuff you do, people with radically different ideas and lifestyles, people in different countries/cultural
85.
by jimmies 8y ago
After being trapped in a rut at 30, I decided to rethink many aspects of my life just 4 months ago. I made a major overhaul of myself, and it worked out so well I couldn't imagine. It's never ever too late to do anything, the impo
86.
by jimmies 8y ago
They exist but they are quite limited. Even installing fonts on iOS seems like a hack, so I can't imagine doing advanced stuff such as inserting videos into a presentation being easy on it.
87.
by jimmies 8y ago
Yeah, this illustration is what can be done in PPT in 5 minutes to explain how adding more layers/data can filter noise from signal, when I don't think it will take 5 minutes for me to write a LaTEX code that does the same. That&#
88.
by jimmies 8y ago
I've been a LaTEX/Markdown person for years before converting to Powerpoint/Keynote. If you want your slides to be minimal and clean and you don't have a lot of time to do, then Markdown works. To me, over time I am conv
89.
by jimmies 8y ago
Recently I have been contemplating getting an Apple machine at home just for Keynote, Pages, iMovie, Counter-Strike, iMessage/Facetime (and Photoshop, perhaps?), which I don't get on my low-powered Linux laptop. I've been usi
90.
by jimmies 8y ago
Literally, win a Nobel prize, or you have to "tick" several boxes for "extraordinary ability." I don't think a good professor in an American university will even qualify. It's pretty legit. Note that that &quot

More ›