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by jimmies 9y ago
I can tell that USCIS has not been doing well lately. Look at how far behind they are in terms of issuing Employment authorization cards. You can look far back in the thread and see how fast it was in previous years. Now it's full of c
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by jimmies 9y ago
I'd imagine it'd be competing directly with the likes of Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Modules. And the RPi3 CMs don't seem to be as popular as the RPi 0 so far. And that's given the RPi was super popular, and was known for the
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by jimmies 9y ago
>The X200 was way easier. I think to most people, the idea that one can have coreboot by just messing with the software seems appealing. From what I understand, one always need an external flasher for the Thinkpad while you don't wi
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by jimmies 9y ago
GalliumOS wiki is a good resource about this. They have your answer here: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility You can do the coreboot firmware without the ME mod entirely within the Chromebook itself without n
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by jimmies 9y ago
Extremely easy. http://galliumos.org will do. Even vanilla Ubuntu works. Everything works out of the box. The battery lasts a ridiculously long time. Remember to buy the older generations so you don't have to deal with 1.8V
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by jimmies 9y ago
Bad news for you: when you use Messenger without a Facebook account, Facebook still makes a Facebook account for you. It's just invisible to you and maybe they don't want you to have the impression that it is, indeed, just a Fac
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by jimmies 9y ago
Welcome to the bright side. I've been enjoying my Chromebook with coreboot and nerf'ed Intel ME for years. It's not as hard as many of us would think. By the way, Chromebooks are cheap and is a fantastic platform to experimen
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by jimmies 9y ago
Years ago someone I used to know ;-) used to upload php scripts to traverse the ".." dir to shared hosts. You can do that with 9 out of 10 smaller shared hosts. It was hillarious. There is a whole lot less of attack surface when i
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by jimmies 9y ago
I am so glad nowadays to get websites for my hobby projects going, I just have to do a Github page, and don't have to worry about all that stuff (and don't have to pay, either). Github pages + Static content generators are among t
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by jimmies 9y ago
>The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge, and ample experience exists with many supplements to support their use... Oh -- you don't tell me the entire Western system of medicine evolved
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by jimmies 9y ago
There are cultures in the world that are more obnoxious and more "impolite" than American in my humble opinion (and I'm not implying anything about Italian culture here). However, I think the distinction of noise in America i
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by jimmies 9y ago
American culture of making noise and hyping is tiring and annoying at times. Sports events are the most prominent example. Going to popular sports matches in the US: football, ice hockey, basketball, etc. and you'll be bombarded with a
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by jimmies 9y ago
>Even if it's 5$ it's good once you calculate how much it will give you in your whole life (if you are young of course). Please be extremely careful when you tell young people that. I am 30 now. I am used to be a person who wor
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by jimmies 9y ago
I think it does something unusual on deeply nested comments. It simply discourages deeply nested comments because they are usually unuseful except for the two participants.
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by jimmies 9y ago
That two can be decoupled. As the Google Maps example illustrated, there are ways/reasons that the app isn't updated, yet it still has an internet connection. The iPhone 4 is stopped at iOS 7, and most apps nowadays require iOS 9.
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by jimmies 9y ago
Replace "car-hailing app" with "phone that makes calls", "desktop operating system", "game", "TV that decodes images from airwaves", "car", "firmware to read expiration dates
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by jimmies 9y ago
> But what if precision medicine leads to negative psychological outcomes, including worry, loss of control, or worse? Hey, do I get depressed because I planned a picnic with my friends tomorrow and today the weatherman tells me it'
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by jimmies 9y ago
You can say the same thing with people being pissed off about forced Windows updates that got in their way: They could go make a coffee. I might have made it more dramatic than it really was, but forced updates do make people upset. At leas
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by jimmies 9y ago
It was Android. I don't exactly remember the message, but it was a forced update message from the app. Maybe it didn't tell me that I haven't updated the app in a month, but it refused to let me do anything without updating.
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by jimmies 9y ago
Everything you said about it being dead before the car arrived is true. However, it was not the point. What if the phone died before it could update? What if the driver couldn't see me so they had to call me, or I forgot the license pl
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by jimmies 9y ago
>In 2016, when I got a new phone, the default setting changed and I would just wake up to my device stating, "Tinder has been updated. Deal with it". I turned off auto-updates on my phone. So this happened. Last year or so I tr
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by jimmies 9y ago
IPv4 exhaustion is going to get really bad if we don't move to IPv6 soon. IPv4 exhaustion means no more personal server boxes at home. The US has huge chunks of IPv4 allocation. In Vietnam, it's not as fun. IPv4 addresses have rea
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by jimmies 9y ago
What a coincidence. Just today, I released the project that I've been holding off for more than a year: Basically, it is a distro [1] for the Raspberry Pi that sole purpose is to clean the Intel ME automatically using me-cleaner from C
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by jimmies 9y ago
That is really cool. Seems like there is an extension for everything. Thank you.
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by jimmies 9y ago
I can't read the article because the website is down. But I have something to say about torrenting movies. Late last year, my old parents who don't speak English came to visit me for a couple of months in the US. I'm just a g
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by jimmies 9y ago
I don't know about whether it is deliberate, but I know it's much more complicated than just retaining old APIs. It's incredibly easy to break legacy compatibility. You only need to provide a server that serves images. What c
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by jimmies 9y ago
I wish I knew that piece of information before wasting hours just to figure out I had to use the DUN profile instead of PAN/BNEP. After another half a day I decided that there was no chance I could understand bluez system in the Raspbe
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The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps(tnhh.net)
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by jimmies 9y ago
Given the work I do at Google and FB doesn't harm other people, then I am doing a very good thing for the world. 1, It makes a lot of money for me, and I'm a happy person 2, I spend the money I earned to buy products and service
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by jimmies 9y ago
Most people would do the same as you do, even people working for Facebook and Google. I have friends who work at Monsanto and are absolutely believing they are doing good for the humanity. Look at Agent Orange by Monsanto, I wouldn't t

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