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by slug 4y ago
Another hypothesis: I think that the batteries on the floor will be colder, so are prone to lose charge / fail faster (internal discharge through plates). Being colder (due to being on the floor) could also bring water vapor condensati
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by slug 4y ago
Before buying my chest freezer I did some investigation about organization approaches. I found several articles and one that caught my attention was about using ikea recycling bins ( HÅLLBAR 3 and 6 gallon - search for 204.202.03 and 803.98
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by slug 4y ago
I had two refrigerators fail on me the past 5 years. The first one was Bosch, but just in name, all the parts were from someone else. Managed to fix it by replacing the compressor controller board, bought it either from Ebay or from the oem
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by slug 4y ago
Artisans Asylum. Took a metalworking class there many years ago when they were still in Somerville. They have all sorts of classes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan%27s_Asylum
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by slug 9y ago
I believe that for the US market you are required to use the 915MHz ISM band LORA modules, the one you pointed to works in the 432MHz band.
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by slug 11y ago
If they were using standard connectors for the display, why would having long life span be useful? I can just use a newer one (better specs) when time comes and can swap with a new one from another vendor if needed be. I spent this weekend
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by slug 11y ago
Parallella board ( http://www.parallella.org/board/ ) with Gbps FPGA Mezzanine connectors ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPGA_Mezzanine_Card ). Not in the price range of RPi but much more powerfu
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by slug 12y ago
Funny the video talks about safety, but none of the riders wears a helmet. Also no mention of power/battery longevity.
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by slug 12y ago
Looks nice, but can 150 ºFahrenheit (65ºCelcius) "kill 99.9% of bacteria and pathogens" ? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_%28microbiology%... it would seem that's not the case. Wonder if
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by slug 12y ago
nice! ~$ xdg-mime query filetype /etc/passwd text/plain
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by slug 12y ago
Nice, they have both Windows and Linux support. I got a Papilio Pro some time ago and it's fun to play with. There's also a few other boards based on the same Spartan 6 series with more gates/ram and cheaper.
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by slug 12y ago
Just tried the angrybots someone mentioned above and it worked just fine (xubuntu 14.04, Linux 3.13, nvidia gtx 670 (driver 331.38), firefox 29)
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by slug 13y ago
My point was that for a non-pgp aware imap client to read the encrypted emails, the passphrase needs to be somewhere, probably in RAM all the time, making it a target, so if there's an exploit, having it encrypted or not is moot. It so
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by slug 13y ago
"Emails are synced from the users’ email accounts via IMAP to the box and are stored in plaintext in a secure storage area on the box" I've seen a better (opensource) approach to use gpg to securely store email: upon receivin
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by slug 13y ago
Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
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by slug 13y ago
From the 'date' command manual, there's more readable alternatives: show New York time 14:25 in your local time zone: ~$ date --date 'TZ="America/New_York" 2014-03-14 14:25' show New York time 14:25 i
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by slug 13y ago
when doing kernel development on embedded systems or on a real host (not within a virtual machine), it's sometimes useful to get system information when it crashes. the cool thing is that it's also possible to send the sysrq throu
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by slug 13y ago
There was a new deb package hitting the repos a few hours after the CVE, so it doesn't seem that they are sleeping on the job...
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by slug 13y ago
Setting up is actually fairly easy using bind and the right tools if you are familiar with DNS configuration. On debian/ubuntu there's a package for it ( dnssec-tools ). Here's a simple tutorial: http://www.howtof
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by slug 13y ago
Changing SIMs might be useless, since the carrier can track phones by their unique IMEI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imei ) and when you use another SIM on the same phone to talk/chat to your friends, 'gov
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by slug 13y ago
That's pretty nice and using that SoC is very convinient. I got a wr703n for $23 and installed OpenWRT on it ( http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n ) to play around with GPIOs. It comes with 5V 1A USB
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by slug 13y ago
dsync seems to stop working properly after a while for some reason, the usual solution is to upgrade it, which implies a compile from source. after a while it's a pain to keep all these packages up to date.
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by slug 13y ago
It's very easy to install ubuntu on a BBB. I have 13.04 and 13.10, both running from the eMMC and uSD cards. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu I own 1 rpi and 2 BBBs and all work just fine. I have the rpi 24/24h
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by slug 13y ago
C++11 is so 2 years ago, C++14 for the win ;) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B14 ) C++11 has many nice new things, if you are not familiar with it, I recommend starting also on the wiki: https://en.wi
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by slug 13y ago
Looks nice, but why not Qt 5 ?
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by slug 13y ago
I use QC-15 Bose headphones daily. You have to be listening to music (or your favorite white/pink/etc noise) while wearing them to be effective blocking voices nearby, don't believe anyone that tells you otherwise. The parado
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by slug 14y ago
If RSS is too old to deserve existence, I wonder what we can say about http,smtp,ssh ; tcp/udp/ip ; ethernet/wifi ? :)
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by slug 14y ago
Awesome work. A simple suggestion: make clear that the labels point to the right picture, say with a horizontal line separating them, since the description for the next image is right below the one before it.
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by slug 14y ago
I disagree that's a non-issue. Recently a relative's 10+ year old computer broke down. After buying a new one, until I was able to boot from an external linux usb/CD disk and be able to boot linux from the hard disk after installation, took
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by slug 14y ago
I also use Eagle and other packages: kicad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiCad gEDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA For a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_EDA_software

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