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by pronoiac 6y ago
On the DIY Book Scanner forum, I saw the TIFLIC scanner, which I plan to build. A build post: https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/2018/09/25/my-build-of-the-... A demo from the creator's about 1 minute in:
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Oh man I feel for the maintainers here, with the many "this isn't the place for that" and now-deleted comments. It's on my mind, as I just set up a vpn gateway on a Pi, and while I sorta want to document the process, I d
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by pronoiac 6y ago
> As a PSA to everyone, you should only ever use whois in a terminal window to see if a domain is available. A month or so ago, I discovered .wang was a TLD, and I immediately brought it up with friends, and we spent some time happily an
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by pronoiac 6y ago
While it's not explicitly mentioned, I think Cloudflare is providing financial support to the Internet Archive.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I'm guessing this comment is about puzzle 13?
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Roughly estimating, each Mac Pro could crawl around 3k pages per second.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Possibly dumb question, but why not use notation like vol 2, page 50 instead of page 210?
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I remembered there were third-party games available on the iPod, but checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game , it doesn't look like an SDK ever made it to the public.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
True. I emailed the mods.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Also, I know people have used CNC to mill a PCB.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
There are a couple of points of view on that. * yay! That's definitely a sign of appreciation. * going by hourly rates, how much of your time should $12 get?
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Agreed, in markdown: `~`. I might follow it with a comma and more of a sentence, for clarity or safety.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
From memory here, GNU ddrescue is what you're looking for: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Yes, the demo's hosted on a github.io page.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
It's part of the demo, Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate - https://robinsloan.github.io/perfect-edition/build/web/index... - which I'm reading now. The creator of the project i
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by pronoiac 6y ago
There were four novellas before the novel, though.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
searches for Murderbot I’m surprised to see it’s not mentioned yet! Martha Wells’ Murderbot series is really fun reading.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I had the same issue, emailed the moderators using the "Contact" link in the footer, and got a response quickly. Recommended.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
(2017)
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Huh? My Synology NAS runs btrfs.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
> "The comments are in the commit messages" - almost nobody ever goes looking for them there Consider it another tool in the toolbox. I've gone spelunking through git history to decipher the reasoning of something still
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Scans of ANTIC! and Analog Magazines are available on the Internet Archive. Here's the Solid States article from Analog's Feb 1984 issue: https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-16/pag...
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by pronoiac 6y ago
> run all tests on all the commits That gave me pause; I'm used to relatively small commits, for easier review and verification, so that seemed too much. Reading the link, I think they mean, run tests on every branch on every push
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I expected the demo would be embedded in the blog post, but it wasn't. Here it is: https://mostlymaths.net/sketches/iris/index.html
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by pronoiac 6y ago
You might like Ryan North's "How to Invent Everything," the survival guide for the stranded time traveller: https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/
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by pronoiac 6y ago
"gsh" or "gush" would be as clear and less awkward to discuss.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I couldn't fetch the article, so I'm looking at the ScienceDaily page. It's a process to turn: * otherwise-waste carbon dioxide into (taking electricity) * syngas, which can be turned into * synthetic diesel, methanol, alcoho
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by pronoiac 6y ago
This looks like the same story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200610152016.h...
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by pronoiac 6y ago
I've used that combination, and it was pretty great! Much quicker than my previous font-making efforts in FontForge, though also more organic.
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by pronoiac 6y ago
Sounds more like a theremin than a kazoo to me. (A kazoo sounds funnier.)

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