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by korse 3y ago
I'm surprised people aren't mentioning this more. Usenet may be dead for discussion, but it certainly isn't a dead technology. edit: I guess they are. Took a second to search around the comments.
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by korse 3y ago
I tried this for a few years in a work environment. Wacom tablet with a OpenSuse box from which I did a whole lot of work in the terminal and via RDP. It was really nice, however the pen was a bust for me. It ended up being a really large m
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by korse 3y ago
Nice UHK. I've had one for years and don't use a mouse anymore either (on my bench-top computers). I have it hooked into a kvm switch controlling a handful of *nix machines. I still use a mouse on my windows gaming PC for reasons.
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by korse 3y ago
Why does anyone care if it isn't killing bystanders? Self driving is the same as other vehicle performance enhancing features in one major respect. More risk, more reward. If you purchase and use the feature, you should be aware that v
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by korse 3y ago
I guess I haven't seen many people doing 'useful things' with home automation tools despite how they've proliferated. It all seems like change for the sake of itself, rather than for genuine benefit (aggregate time savin
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by korse 3y ago
I disagree. Replace 'smart home' with 'automated home' and then compare to the mature 'automated industry'. You can have a small basket of protocols, hardware vendors and strategies which all do roughly the sam
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by korse 3y ago
Reading the comments, I see so many frustrated people. The cannonball teams aren't weaving traffic at 160. They are using scanners, binoculars and multiple pairs of eyes to map out moves before taking them, attempting to get through st
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by korse 3y ago
Obligatory plug for space combat in the Expanse.
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by korse 3y ago
FYI, there is a bit of truth to these. https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/01/bogota.bulletp... The guy/company making these has done pretty well in the intervening years and has a prett
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by korse 4y ago
You haven't missed too much. The cosmic ray bit-flip guys have a point, but that is very hard to shield against and probably won't kill your servers. See this paper for a deeper dive. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu&#x2F
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by korse 4y ago
Why have I never heard of any of these? I'd figure I'd see at least a couple of brick and mortar institutions. Am I missing something major here?
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by korse 4y ago
One of my mom's credentials is a degree in early childhood development. She and her peers from that life were pretty set (since the mid-70's) that putting children younger than 12 or so in front of 'screen media' had neg
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by korse 4y ago
It isn't just standard ad blockers being used to access Zippyshare. A whole lot of the content is .part files or similar. People share links and run them through specialized downloaders, wget etc. in order to grab all the part files fr
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by korse 4y ago
As someone who primarily works with computers in industrial machinery, this doesn't seem all that fanciful. What breaks the metaphor for me however is the 'computers have no practical use in society' line. Medicine, modern pr
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by korse 4y ago
Perhaps it is a bad way to learn 'applied math'? Bertrand Russel might disagree...
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by korse 4y ago
I would recommend listening to this song. It is a ballad-ization? of a science fiction short story built around the rogue wave concept. Take it however you want, but the stated goal is still valid and we have the technology. https:/&#
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by korse 4y ago
Really nice write up! I've done something very similar with infrared controlled Hexbug battle bot toys. It was a pretty interesting exercise but in the end cutting a few traces and sending commands directly from a piggyback micro-contr
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by korse 4y ago
News aggregators/news agency feeds. Brutalist.report, spidr.today, apnews etc. Minimum filtration outside of my own preferences. This means forums that allow semi anonymous posting, IRC etc. You have to use external tools or learn to m
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by korse 4y ago
Nice work!
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by korse 4y ago
Euclid's Elements, first year of college.
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by korse 4y ago
Not a whole lot of engineers on here I guess? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Concrete_Tobogg...
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by korse 4y ago
Also, traditional landline phones (no hands free short range radio etc) draw power from the telecom central office. They aren't on your standard grid so you are effectively paying for that electricity on your phone bill.
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by korse 4y ago
base^0 = 1 base^1 = base base^2 = base * base et cetera. I've always considered the index and the power to which a base has been raised to be equivalent in many circumstances. Thus starting at 0 makes sense.
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by korse 4y ago
Had one for three years. Use it nearly every day, but I work with embedded systems in robots/industrial machinery. One handed operation, tons of IO, dual boot, fits in back pocket etc. have made this indispensable. One dead battery, re
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by korse 4y ago
IRC is extremely accessible. Sure, you can't send gifs without modifying your client... but you can modify your client (or write your own)! Confused about how something works? Read the RFC! Quit selling pre-packaged experiences; your o
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by korse 4y ago
Thanks.
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by korse 4y ago
>Everybody loves abundance, and everybody hates scarcity. Sadly, this isn't the case. Being rich is about more than having abundance. It is about having 'above average' abundance with the 'richness' level being d
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by korse 4y ago
Information about 'how to grow a potato' and a season or two of experience working out the kinks of growing a small crop of potatoes on available land near you are two very different things.
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by korse 4y ago
First world countries are proposing to fight climate change, while rolling out air carrier services to transport bulk chihuahuas. I feel like this is going to be an excellent target for those in favor of a carbon neutral future.
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by korse 5y ago
What about tape? Tape cartridges are high volume, inexpensive and the drives can be found on eBay or similar for under $200. They don't do random access in any sort of reasonable time, but can be great for archival work. Also, isn&#x27

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