skot9000

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by skot9000 3y ago
Don’t worry buddy, nobody is going to try and steal it. They will just back into it with a SUV in every parking lot you dare to enter.
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by skot9000 3y ago
Came here to say this too. KiCAD has come a LONG way in the last couple years. It’s suitable for professional work and a no brainer for open source hardware. Who is going to drop $4k/year for an Altium license to contribute to your op
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by skot9000 4y ago
Hopefully these self-brick less than HomePod 1!
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by skot9000 4y ago
Ahh, I have so many good memories of BBSing as a kid in the 707. Seeing that dot matrix printout of the BBS list brings me right back. The lure of a BBS that was a toll call was strong.
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by skot9000 4y ago
Digiconomist’s model is flawed and doesn’t represent actual mining electricity use or carbon output. Also he’s a central banker, so not exactly motivated to fix it.
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by skot9000 4y ago
I think a lot of internet connected hardware is sold cheaper than it would be otherwise just so they can get some consumer data harvesting software into your life. ie, that laptop would be more expensive without the junky pre-installed soft
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by skot9000 4y ago
This wouldn’t really be necessary if we had cleaner power generation.
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by skot9000 4y ago
That’s cool they switched CS61C to RISC-V.. we did a MIPS CPU (although maybe they are similar now?)
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by skot9000 6y ago
With this you can get busted for stealing _and_ not paying taxes on the fair market value.
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by skot9000 9y ago
I looked into the "Guarantee" issue a while back when I felt dissatisfied with Comcast despite their "Customer Satisfaction Guarantee". Unfortunately it seems Guarantee is just a meaningless marketing term.
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by skot9000 14y ago
This is amazing. I've been playing with it all night. From a high level, what would be a strategy for making this multiplayer?
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by skot9000 14y ago
Interesting name! My first thought was the H should be capitalized. But, I guess it is a company name not a unit.
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by skot9000 14y ago
I used something similar to differentiate between users on http://wrd.skot9000.com/
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by skot9000 14y ago
tell them welcome back!
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by skot9000 14y ago
Top CS schools don't teach programming, they teach Computer Science. CS students are very likely to become good programmers from side projects, but so can liberal arts students.
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by skot9000 14y ago
Having dealt (attempted to deal) with PayPal after my 10 year old account was randomly frozen, I have come to the conclusion the PayPal is run by robots. Poorly programmed robots.
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by skot9000 14y ago
"observe the older people working there. They are the future you. Do not think that you will be substantially different. Look carefully at how they spend their time at work and outside of work, because this is also almost certainly how your