southpawflo

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by southpawflo 2y ago
thanks for the link, I enjoyed reading that
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by southpawflo 3y ago
Friend, you've hit the nail on the head. As another example, I purchased an Xbox One years ago. Imagine my surprise when I turned it on this past November 3rd only to see a fullscreen ad for a videogame, before I could even sign in! An
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by southpawflo 3y ago
it's funny that this pops up a few days before I return the remarkable 2 (through their 100-day money-back guarantee, otherwise I wouldn't have tried it). to anyone considering buying one, if you are left-hand dominant, skip it. w
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by southpawflo 4y ago
I had some difficulty with this as well, but [1] had the answer: after toggling the repo on, swipe down so that fdroid force-refreshes the repo list. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/how-to-enable-repos/5722
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by southpawflo 5y ago
tackling communications security and privacy: https://betrusted.io
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by southpawflo 5y ago
to preface, I'm not saying that you don't know this, but maybe for others: gentoo is not a linux distro either (from a certain point of view), more a meta-distribution, where you use the package manager (portage) to build everythi
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by southpawflo 5y ago
To be decided. I prefer radio frequency to infrared. I'm always on the lookout for the door into summer. Mise en place, which vim naturally follows. Problem solving and critical thinking have been more useful to me than any particular
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by southpawflo 5y ago
the way I've understood 'blood sport' was that the particular sport never matters, the important parts are the viciousness and cruelty involved. so for me, martial arts = sports, and cockfighting = blood sport.
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by southpawflo 5y ago
I vaguely remember something along those lines as well, perhaps about C. S. Lewis and the Narnia series? It's been a while though.
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by southpawflo 5y ago
I was led to this work because of the fomu [1]. Also, if you're familiar with the Precursor [2] you'll realize the second, smaller fpga inside is the iCE40 as well (which makes sense, the same people responsible for tomu/fomu
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by southpawflo 5y ago
after all, what's the difference between a drunk driver and a stoner driver? the drunk driver runs the red light, and the stoner keeps waiting for the stop sign to turn green!
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by southpawflo 5y ago
lol ask if he's hiring - for a friend, of course. and if he's been in a different economical strata than you for a while and it hasn't changed things on his end, sounds like you have a real friend. don't screw that up ov
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by southpawflo 6y ago
because then your shell will be slower than a snail. for real though, after looking at your examples I feel that features like those would fall on your terminal emulator to bring to the table, not the shell itself. specifically, I don'
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Software Development for the Precursor(crowdsupply.com)
3 points by southpawflo 6y ago|0 comments
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What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code(biojulia.net)
2 points by southpawflo 6y ago|0 comments
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by southpawflo 7y ago
at the bottom of the linked page the author explicitly references oberon as a source of inspiration for this project
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by southpawflo 8y ago
this is awesome, thank you for making this. there is a distinct lack of materials to help with learning just risc-v assembly, without going to c and I look forward to playing with this.
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by southpawflo 8y ago
works well for me with a nexus 5x and foldable bt keyboard. also if you have a google chromecast you can turn any hdmi monitor/tv into your display. you can zoom in and out by 'pinching' in termux and make the text suitable f
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by southpawflo 8y ago
I don't know. I feel that speed is not important to me, it's the accuracy (gained with practise, of course) that I want. I make a lot of typos, it takes me much longer to edit something on a touch interface as my thumbs just don&#
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by southpawflo 8y ago
I've tried several morse keyboards for android, but all of them seem to be more fun than useful. if only I could get a cross between the hackers keyboard and morse, I could stop finger fucking these tiny screens and actually type what
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by southpawflo 9y ago
I am constantly 'running a social simulator' in my mind. I was diagnosed as autistic a few years ago in my mid twenties.
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by southpawflo 9y ago
that's why I love spacemacs - with the default setup, you hit the spacebar and a text based gui with all the possible options pops up. it allows me to continue to actually work instead of floundering about for some simple action while
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by southpawflo 9y ago
I've had multiple teachers tell me that if you can't explain something you don't completely understand it yet. grok what I'm saying? :)
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by southpawflo 9y ago
even though I'm being downvoted I'm still curious as to what the defs are
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by southpawflo 9y ago
what are the definitions for an honest day's work and pay? do you think that the definitions would be the same between a 6th generation american white male and a 1st generation american latino male?
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by southpawflo 9y ago
with today's privacy and security concerns, for any new project, would starting from a position of anonymous trust despite the increased resource requirements really be a downside? I ask as an outsider to the industry. I do understand
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by southpawflo 9y ago
it's interesting, last night I was trying to get to sci-hub.io and all that showed up was a blank page. I assumed due to the nature of the site that maybe it was taken down but instead it's a .io problem
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by southpawflo 9y ago
call me an asshole but instead of trusting or not trusting people, I trust that someone will always look out for themselves first and others second. I'm never surprised when they act that way and pleasantly surprised when they don&#x27
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by southpawflo 9y ago
http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935_lightning_sensor_mo... that's the breakout, this is the python library you can use with it: https://github.com/pcfens/RaspberryPi-AS3935/
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by southpawflo 9y ago
a post on hackaday.com led me to a lightning sensor breakout board that connects at 3.3V which is perfect for a rpi. since I live in florida I jumped at it. just got it hooked up the other day, unfortunately NOAA's lightning strike dat

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