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by leggomylibro 7y ago
You might be overreacting to dark humor from kids who are ironically parroting what they keep hearing about their generation from their elders: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes." Don't worry, they're young enough th
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's amazing to think that Java started out as a language for small embedded devices. I guess it's coming full circle :) Cool project, even if there are a lot of features missing atm. It's always nice to see alternatives to r
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I understand your point of view, but I would phrase it more like: "Why are Germany and France not worse off than Italy despite having looser quarantine measures and an earlier start to their outbreaks?" And I still haven't he
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
That sounds like it involves the legislature passing a law, not an executive decision.
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I mean that they have not felt the need to take the extremely aggressive step of suspending their citizens' civil liberties for an arbitrary period of time, and rightly so. Is this what you want in your community? https://ww
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Sure I believe that the virus is here and that it is serious. I wouldn't be surprised if my neighbors had it, and I might have had it a week ago judging from symptoms, but so what? I'm staying away from at-risk groups like the eld
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
But Italy did not start earlier ; France and Germany did. Here's an animated map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932... So I ask again, if this is such a super-pandemic, why are Germany
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
>The constitution explicitly carves out allowances for quarantines. Where? I could be missing something, but I don't see that: https://constitutionus.com/ The closest I could find was the part that grants Congress t
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Why would it be taking much longer for the virus to spread in Germany than it is in Italy, when Italy is implementing much stricter quarantine measures than Germany? "Just wait a week" is the refrain of everyone who is panicking r
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I don't understand how people can keep saying this with a straight face. It's been months since the infections started in Wuhan, people keep predicting imminent doom within the next week, and it keeps not happening. I think we nee
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Then why are countries like Germany, which were exposed earlier, not experiencing similar problems and lockdowns? I am deeply troubled by this sort of isolated authoritarian overreach and the eagerness with which people accept it. If states
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Obviously you don't run off to your favorite bar, but it all depends. If the government won't pay you to skip work and your workplace won't give you PTO, you might not have a choice if you want to make rent. And I would certa
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Italy has basically suspended its citizens' civil liberties across huge swaths of the country. That does not seem like anything close to a proportional response, and I am very troubled by how okay everyone seems to be with the curtaili
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It seems like it's usually a cost per length/area problem. Cities are small, and they have a lot of people who pay taxes, so the marginal cost to pave a road between any two places and make regular deliveries along it is small. Fr
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yes, definitely. I kind of see it like a hobby subreddit from 5 years ago or a niche forum from 15 years ago. It is well-moderated (thanks dang!), it doesn't have the critical mass of users which leads to wider adoption, it has a narro
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I ran into this sort of heavily individualistic attitude a lot when I was traveling around places in remote nature-y states like Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas, etc. And I can empathize. Many people feel aggrieved that they work much harder for
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I'm with you up to the last paragraph. It's not useless. FPGAs have plummeted in cost and there are now open-source toolchains for some of them. There's also a Free commercial-grade ISA that you can use in your personal desig
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I think the jury is still out on that one. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-adult-brain-d...
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
>A company or individual putting “Facebook” or “Instagram” in their domain name without Facebook’s authorization would constitute trademark infringement. That is not true in the US. A trademark consists of both a name and the goods&#x2
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
GD32VF103 chips are similar to STM32F103s and you can get boards with them for ~$5: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Longan-Nano-RISC-V-GD32VF... Kendryte K210 modules are a bit more expensive, but they include an "A
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's also less vulnerable to global trade conflicts. A royalty-free license means that you don't have to depend on a company like ARM for your CPU design. For example, if you're a Chinese manufacturer who relies on STM32 chip
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Well, there's an ESP8266 board called the "PixelBlaze" which is designed for driving these LEDs, but I don't think the firmware is open source: https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze This page seems to have
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Well, congratulations - it's an impressive project! Putting things together in a sturdy way that looks nice is the hard part. Thanks to all of the free libraries and IDEs, the hardware and software are practically an afterthought these
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Right, people should spend some time in areas that they are considering moving to and decide for themselves. I only commented because I recently took a long driving tour of the US looking for places away from major cities and near national
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Fun! It's amazing how ubiquitous WS2812Bs have become in such a short time. They're wonderful for everything from wearables to signage to room lighting, and there are 12V versions available if you want to drive longer strings. Som
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Smaller cities and towns are fantastic, both in terms of community and cost. Remote work incentives like this seem like a great way to draw people to less populated areas. Honestly, I think that a lot of folks who feel stressed and cramped
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It would probably look like someone publishing the realtime location and browsing histories of powerful public figures. But good luck with that; there's a reason why that sort of information isn't sold on a per-person basis.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yes, but I also dislike copyleft for the same reasons. Personally, I draw a distinction between "open-source" software and the more restrictive and viral "Free Software" which Stallman argued for, but that's been ar
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Nice UI - I noticed that there are a lot of web apps, but not as many 'offline' projects. D'you see this as a mostly web-based platform, or could you also see entries for programs like Photoshop and commercial IDEs? Either wa
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's not so much a legal thing as an ideological one. "Open-source" is a manifestation of the idea that knowledge should be free. It's based on the belief that societies grow when people are not restricted in how they bu

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