slackersc

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by slackersc 4y ago
I think your second point is actually dangerous advice and it's one of the reasons I prefer Nick Ienatsch's book [1] and the Yamaha Champions [2] school to Keith Code/CSBS. You don't want to be adding throttle and lean a
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by slackersc 9y ago
That's pretty cool! I started trying to learn perl6 and write my first interesting program. I have a copy of 'ray tracing in a weekend' and am trying to translate the basic ray tracer from c++ to perl6. It's remarkably s
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by slackersc 9y ago
I don't know about the X220, but I can tell you about my experiences with setting up an X200 I bought off ebay. Its not quite trivial.. You need to get access to the SPI flash chip on the mother board. They sell some fancy little clips
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by slackersc 10y ago
I recently setup a small personal project on Gitlab as well. I've been very impressed. I was able to setup a private repo, with a CI setup that builds my code and runs my tests every time i push a commit.. all on their servers. For fre
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by slackersc 10y ago
Maybe we have different definitions of 'unreadable'. I'm typing this on an XPS 13 with 1080p screen and 1x scaling (Fedora 25). The text is perfectly readable.
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by slackersc 10y ago
Awesome! I've been using the release candidate for a while now and its been rock solid. Congrats Slackware team!
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by slackersc 11y ago
slackpkg ships as part of the default slackware installation. Are you thinking of sbopkg which is used to build packages from slackbuilds.org?
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by slackersc 11y ago
I think you're giving it a bit more credit than necessary. Don't get me wrong, it's cool that they've got it running on a RPi, but it's almost word for word what you'd write in C (right down to needing to inlin