mrsteveman1

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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
It's probably still available in your region as a $2 rental from one of the other streaming services, and would be well worth it.
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
There was a time when it looked like they might switch their Airport and Time Capsule routers, which previously had been running VxWorks and NetBSD, to a variant of iOS. But then they shelved the entire product lines a few years later. It d
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> But I refused to use WPF for my apps because back then you'd have to force the user to install the latest .net which I thought was too much of a bother. That always puzzled me, even though I've seen some of Microsoft's r
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> A lot of the US problem is that those patients will then be given a big box of opioids to take home for the next week. Even the week isn't really a problem, in fact that's become one of the restrictions here in Ohio because t
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> Is that true even if you mount the filesystem(s) read-only after boot time ? Yes, read-only filesystems are not the solution to most of the Micro SD card problems on the Pi, because the filesystem and the OS are relying on the card to
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> The thing is, out of ignorance a lot of doctors simply deny it's possible. This kind of thing infuriates me - when doing pharmaceutical trials, the manufacturers must have come across instances of patients going through withdrawal
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> If you store your data under /run (or /var/run) your district will probably put it on a RAM disk. You’ll lose it in a crash, but you won’t be writing to the SD card and provoking it to corrupt in that crash. > If you
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
The Pi boards actually replaced ESP32 boards running ESP-IDF firmware I wrote, I probably have 15+ of them at this point and still plan to use them for other things. The ESP32s were routinely dropping from WiFi (some being crashes, some jus
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
I have probably 8-9 Zero W boards in projects at this point, running everything from cat cams, temperature sensors in various rooms, even my stereo amplifier is controlled by (but not passing audio through) a Pi Zero W. All of them now have
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
Then again, if a browser cookie is the only thing providing access to "evidence" on a particular machine, then it wasn't actually on that machine to begin with. That's far from a mere technical detail, as it also means t
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
The Pi Zero W is my default for the same reason, and most of mine were all of $5 due to sales at Microcenter. It's pretty hard to beat that unless you need more CPU power. Add an industrial MicroSD card for ~$15 (to prevent the infamou
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
Seems a bit like saying a broken steering wheel doesn't make the whole car unusable, you just have to find some other way to steer. It's a laptop, if the keyboard routinely doesn't work properly, then it becomes a slightly mo
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
Illegal to manufacture just means the people who can legally possess it will have to deal with and buy it from people illegally manufacturing it under poor conditions with zero regulatory accountability. And some of them will get sick or di
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
There was a time, brief I'm sure, when making something available on the internet basically meant paying for a high speed connection to be installed wherever you were operating, rather than a big cooled building filled with servers.
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> That means, when there will be people willing to purchase Linux versions of Adobe/Autodesk/whatever apps, but not their Windows or Mac versions. I think this is becoming a real possibility. The other day I realized that all o
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> I must admit the ones that really get to me are Windows updates that for some reason best known to the devil himself seem to be postponed until I actually need to use the computer. This is the one thing that's becoming really in
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
I'm also curious what happened to all that custom FPGA and ASIC hardware that miners were using for a while. Surely it's sitting unused somewhere, right?
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> If it is then we should just publicly say that the government shouldn’t be able to tap phones regardless of what technology they are using to communicate. They can tap phones, and should be able to tap phones, along with VoIP, video ca
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
If the "safe harbor" you're referring to is CDA230, you have it quite backwards. They're shielded under that statute even if they ban people and delete things selectively, regardless of the reason. Under the legal envi
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
I have an APU2 and it's really the perfect router for any small office or house. Intel NICs, plenty of ram and an mSATA port make it quite capable. I have pfSense on it at the moment, which works very well. At one point I had an 802.11
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> - Deaths related to accidental overdose would drop If you want to have any chance of achieving this one, the drug in question has to be obtained from a pharmaceutical channel rather than a black market channel. That means legalizing sa
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> Maybe for marijuana but the societal effects of legalizing something like heroin wouldn’t be so clear cut. Here's the issue though, it's simply not the case that the law gives us any control over the situation. The opposite i
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
Vaporized CBD (isolated by itself) is apparently quite effective for many people who have trouble getting to sleep because they can't stop worrying about every possible outcome of an upcoming meeting or date, or replaying stressful con
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
Any recent iPhone/iPad, Apple Watch, the iMac Pro, and Macbook Pro touch bar, all contain Apple's "Secure Enclave", which runs the L4 microkernel: > The Secure Enclave runs an Apple-customized version of the L4 microk
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> The worrying items are 3-6 that basically say anyone who provides software/hardware or develops that software/hardware is part of either used for providing communications or "an electronic service" are subject to th
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
The Lepton modules you can buy are limited to 9fps, yes. They do seem to make some that are higher frame rate, but they aren't advertised anywhere. FLIR and other companies like Seek[1] are selling 15/30fps imagers that are not mu
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
> Interesting thing about them is that they are still based on all-analog vacuum tube technology. Yep, as I understand it, at least the 2nd Gen tubes have a surface that turns incoming photons into electrons, then those electrons bounce
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
You can get a FLIR Lepton 3 thermal sensor for about $150-180 used, typically in the form of an older FLIR One 2nd Gen iOS/Android dongle (eBay). 160x120 resolution isn't great (320x240 is generally the "good enough for cas
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by mrsteveman1 8y ago
If you're referring to provisional ballots, those precincts generally require the person to return to the board of elections within 10 days and provide some form of ID. If you're referring to a normal ballot, I've not seen an

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