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by the_biot 6y ago
Hugged to death. Wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200422195643/http://www.openss...
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by the_biot 7y ago
Display is $1500, controller $500, software under NDA and you can't buy it as a mere mortal. It probably takes over a minute to update the display, considering those 3-color waveshare 10" ones take 15 seconds. Honestly, this is cr
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by the_biot 7y ago
What's the point of this? The link literally only shows the title, everything else is paywalled.
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by the_biot 7y ago
No, Jobs didn't "found Apple as the antithesis of IBM". Woz and Jobs started Apple because Woz wouldn't/couldn't be bothered with all the sales/admin etc involved in running a company. All the rest is Jobs
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by the_biot 7y ago
It's sad to see so much effort put into making this as open source as possible, only for the firmware to require Microchip's proprietary MPLAB.
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by the_biot 7y ago
This takes on the wrong side of the closed e-reader problem, IMHO. There are lots of top notch devices available for cheap, but they have closed software. However they generally run Linux. Making a custom kernel/distribution for existi
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by the_biot 7y ago
Indeed a mention of librarything is missing from this article. Ironically I joined Goodreads after fleeing librarything as it was so stagnant.
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by the_biot 8y ago
They interviewed 28 people.
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by the_biot 8y ago
Why not just grab the data with a logic analyzer while it's on the bus? I see no reason for the whole OCR workflow here.
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by the_biot 8y ago
Traditionally, PUDN -- but it has never worked for me. Otherwise libgen comes to mind.