wanderingjew

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Show HN: IoT device to warn you of a supernova hours before Earth is destroyed(exaluminal.com)
145 points by wanderingjew 4y ago|119 comments
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by wanderingjew 4y ago
There is no copyright on recipes; this is why the SEO laden essays exist. You can just steal recipes, because no one owns them anyway. Given the choice between a recipe site that has a thousand words about someone's grandmother or a re
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
well, not here ...
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
no, I'm just testing something out. I changed it back. Yes I test in prod.
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
Mold for the silicon keyboard - the first five keyboards is going to be about $6k. After that, each keyboard is about a dollar a piece. Same with the plastic enclosure.
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It runs in userspace, and can emulate several SCSI devices at one time. There is a control interface to attach / detach drives during runtime, as well as insert and
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
I built something similar: https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/dumb.html What are you going to do about the actual cost of the device? You've already got an e-paper display, but you're also adding a 'lapto
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
If you're shocked by this, you would be appalled at the state of Open Source Hardware. I've gone over the OSHWA Certified Project list [1], go into the repos, and actually take a look at what these projects offer. The _majority_ o
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by wanderingjew 5y ago
This is a great trick, but it's only really useful if you're using a CRT or are on a very memory-constrained platform where you can't store a separate 'bold' font. I've implemented it here https://tw
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Fairly easy, a few thousand lines of C. Bit of work, though. Parser is the hardest, a lot of details to get right. You don't really need a buffer for the output, because you can't type that fast. Of course, driving the display is
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
If you're talking about the recipes, it's open source in that it's public domain. Or it's not open source, because it can't be copyrighted and therefore all the frameworks that allow for open source don't apply
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
The vsync of the se/30 is 59hz so good luck with that
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Hi, creator here. It's not meant as satire or irony.
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Hi, creator here, yes I have a long history of advocating violence _in response to violence_.[1] I'm also the founder of Guillotinery[2], a guillotine startup. I'm looking for some VCs that would like to get in on the ground floor
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Creator here. Yes, the original idea ended up being a ~$200 BOM or something like that. I dug in and decided to do _everything_ on a $2 microcontroller. Unfortunately for me, that means spending a lot of time getting the code to work, and g
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Creator here. It's a dumb terminal. Out of the box, it does nothing. It's a keyboard and a screen, and everything you type goes onto the screen and out the serial port. However, there's an internal 2x20 header that just happe
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
You can do it for ~$30-40. There are two problems: The screen, and the microcontroller. For the screen, you can just use a regular TFT, and only display one color. This has the benefit of bringing down the size of the frame buffer down from
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Patent would be invalidated by prior art.
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
While plagiarism is unethical, nearly all means to combat it (detection software, esp. Turnitin) is also unethical; two wrongs don't make a right. Under the ToS of all plagiarism detection software (at least that I've looked at),
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
That's unnervingly accurate.
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
Looking forward to the Twitter commentary on this thread.
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by wanderingjew 6y ago
For anyone buying this, please keep in mind USB-ATAPI floppy drives are especially broken in nearly all modern OSes. I'm speaking from experience with ZIP drives, including the internal ATAPI and IDE versions. Support for Linux was d
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
The president was impeached, and there was no mention of it on HN. To say there is political content on HN is absurd.
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A Custom-built G4-based workstation, running Mac OS 7.6.1(reddit.com)
1 points by wanderingjew 7y ago|0 comments
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
I'm going to write a new JavaScript framework and call it 'Solidarity' so you can start talking about it.
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
> This is an unsolved problem... Yes, this is the point. It's NP-Hard. If you solve this problem, you can make far, far more money doing something besides routing mechanical keyboards and Internet of Things sensor cruft. Autorouters
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
Can you clarify, because while you've said gaslighting HN users is, "an egregious violation of the guidelines and a bannable offense on HN" [1], you're also saying the _questioning_ of gaslighting is allowed? Given the n
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
This is hacker news, please try to keep your comments constructive
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by wanderingjew 7y ago
That the theory presented (inserting a microcontroller INSIDE a circuit board) is absolutely the hardest way to do things, especially when the article (esp. the article's graphics) heavily implied this chip was implanted right next to

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