jimmies

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by jimmies 8y ago
>people shouldn't buy phones from the manufacturers they don't trust. People shouldn't put their pictures , and relationship status, and whom they know, and what they think, and where they go, and what they talk in private
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by jimmies 8y ago
>Mr. Koum, a San Jose State University dropout, grew up in Soviet-era Ukraine, where the government could track communication, and talked frequently about his commitment to privacy. Someone said that the people who love America the most
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by jimmies 8y ago
>But minorities always just "ignore it" - but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect them. Everyone has to go to school, the park, etc, and I pay the same tax so having an environment that is pleasant for everyone is a r
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by jimmies 8y ago
Although I am not black, I am Asian, and can be described by a word started with C (/csg/ if you lurk /g/), and more accurately G. I would be offended if someone calls me that in real life. On 4chan though, I myself real
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by jimmies 8y ago
I am a grad student and writing and maintaining a blog has done me wonders over the years. So: 1. "I'd like to write to help understand how deep my understanding of the subject" -- You need to find the frequency you need to t
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by jimmies 8y ago
I have recently created a software package and wanted a forum to have my users post "fun" stuff that is not strictly technical since it's sort of a hobby. I have decided that it is way too tedious to host my own forums, so I
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by jimmies 8y ago
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I lead a team to translate the whole book to Vietnamese fifteen years ago as a freshman highschool student, and released it for free online. We beat the printed book publisher by months. I should
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by jimmies 8y ago
Even though 100% of the creative and production process is in Shenzhen, the bulk of the profit is not in the hand of them. The details might be a bit wrong, but the way that the people who resell the product did that was very noteworthy to
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by jimmies 8y ago
Gosh, I feel sorry looking at the GNOME power setting panel. It's just as bare-bones as it can get (3:30). When I look at that, it does not suggest "simplicity" and "just works" to me, it just sucks. In comparison,
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Shoving an Arduino into a pillow(tnhh.net)
41 points by jimmies 8y ago|2 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
That's doable but you have to process a lot of traffic from the clients because the client would have to send all the answers it has calculated. Do exactly what bitcoin does: You send a random prefix and require the client to find a ra
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by jimmies 8y ago
Normally the Nexus 5x was $400, but the cost of buying it through the Project Fi and cancel right away was $250. Now the loophole is with the Moto X4.
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by jimmies 8y ago
I have owned 10+ phones during the last 10 years, and the Nexus phones were only ones I bought new. - Nexus 5 was low cost and amazing for the price. I was able to forgive every issue it had. And another international friend also asked me t
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by jimmies 8y ago
You made a really good point: I think the single life is somewhat to blame for financial irresponsibility. Is that because "I can't afford a house/land ever" or is it because of something else? My anecdotal experience se
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by jimmies 8y ago
>What exactly has changed about the cost of having a dog? If you have land, I suppose having a dog is not more expensive. That's what my parents had, and I don't. Part of what makes having a dog expensive for people who rent is
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by jimmies 8y ago
What is a basic need? Something that you can't live without. A bare minimum that you can live with: Clean water, food, internet access, education, safety, housing, healthcare, a mattress, a fan in the summer and a heater in the winter,
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by jimmies 8y ago
I agree with you that the example is quite extreme if a dog is what is really needed to treat the depression. But on the other hand, there are other ways that a person can solve a problem without having a financial strain. Here the problem
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by jimmies 8y ago
>The point is that people of my age are set back economically compared to generations prior at the same stage in life. That is what I was trying to tease out: Some of the problems are serious because of the relatively high cost of living
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by jimmies 8y ago
It's interesting how people see lives as an outsider - I see many who are paid well yet are unhappy and complain they are poor all the times. I have been living in the last 10 years in the US (near the St Louis area) as an internationa
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by jimmies 8y ago
I didn't mean to be sexualizing the example. Notes are taken.
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by jimmies 8y ago
No that's the problem. I said I did not write this to bash the interviewer and I really meant it. The idea here is that to achieve something quite useful like a distro ("made an OS") for the Raspberry Pi, the important part i
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by jimmies 8y ago
>treat these interviews like the SAT If you have an interview with complicated tangled questions with too many things to handle, or questions that require the knowledge of a special algorithm, then either you fail because you haven'
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“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”(tnhh.net)
255 points by jimmies 8y ago|166 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
>The downside is that I still have to press Ctrl + L at bootup and avoid pressing SPACE before the machine boots, otherwise the machine might try to overwrite my system with a clean ChromeOS install You can use flashrom to flash the UEFI
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by jimmies 8y ago
I found cross-compiling makes linking with weird stuff, for example, the raspberry pi's proprietary Broadcom libs hard. You can chroot directly to a raspberry pi image using a simple script with qemu-user-static-arm, and that will guar
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by jimmies 8y ago
Emulators bundled in modern games are not new, recently Modern Vintage Gamer has a video listing a dozen of them [1]. Will the discovering of one open doors to anything? Should we be excited for it? I think it's a cute discovery that d
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by jimmies 8y ago
Bunnie is among a few people that I look up to a lot as not just being innovative as an inventor and engineer, but also a practical and fearless one at that. The "sue the US government" was a crazy and genius move. I have hacked o
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by jimmies 8y ago
I recently converted to your camp of thinking. Facebook is the manifestation of the ignorance, not the source of it. Recently I had conversations with female friends who said this directly to me: "I don't care if Facebook logs my
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by jimmies 8y ago
All of my favorite games ever are the 2D-era RPGs that I didn't play when I was young: Fallout 2, Chrono Trigger, Zelda Link to the Past. While CT and Zelda are relatively polished, Fallout 2 stands out as a piece of programming crap:
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by jimmies 8y ago
Posting on the phone! I have just upgraded and the update is absolutely flawless and can be considered as a dail

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