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by 0culus 2y ago
Bill and Dave would be spinning if they knew what has been done to their formerly great company.
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by 0culus 2y ago
Well, with a 28.8 years half life it should glow a while. BUT, the largest license exempt quantity one can get iirc is 0.1 uCi. Plus it’s a fission product so good luck making it yourself. :) I don’t recommend the radioactive Boy Scout appr
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by 0culus 6y ago
Along with a book (lots of good recommendations to choose from here), I recommend getting yourself some basic tools for practical experimentation: breadboard, multimeter (even a cheap Chinesium model will be fine for low voltage DC work), a
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by 0culus 6y ago
While AoE (and the newly released X-Chapters!) is an excellent handbook to keep around, I would agree with the other commenters that it is not a particularly friendly textbook for a beginner.
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by 0culus 6y ago
Just to be certain, you realize that Duffel Blog is a satire site, right?
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by 0culus 6y ago
Scale matters too. As I clearly stated, I am not making electronics at industrial scales, nor am I generating large quantities of e-waste. As for hacker spaces, why on earth would anyone in their right mind assume that it would be ok to not
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by 0culus 6y ago
This is from the perspective of a hobbyist who does _not_ do industrial quantities of soldering, but rather the occasional build or the occasional repair of a piece of old test equipment. I use eutectic 63/37 Kester solder in several s
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by 0culus 7y ago
Thanks for your reply. I’m certainly going to keep a lookout for both.
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by 0culus 7y ago
What would you say is the final model that "has it"? Besides my vintage HPs (HP15C, 2xHP16C, HP45) I also have the 50g and the modern 35S. For me, the 50g's lack of a proper ENTER key ruins it. I'm sort of on the lookout
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by 0culus 7y ago
I have both the HP15C and two HP16Cs, though I am not old enough to have bought one new. :o) Truly awesome calculators, even if they are a bit slow sometimes. The form factor of the Voyagers is amazingly perfect; in fact the ratio of the le
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by 0culus 8y ago
If you're interested in following these things, the Deep Space Network Now page [1] is a fun one to keep bookmarked. It displays the real time status of each DSN station and what spacecraft they are communicating with. [edit] you'
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by 0culus 8y ago
Typing this from my 2017 12" MacBook...have not had a single issue with the keyboard. In fact, I have grown to quite like it. Sure it's not my beloved WASD Code with the Cherry Clears, but it's one of the better portable keyb
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by 0culus 8y ago
Accessing the recent photos is now accessed directly as one of those "iMessage App" icons that appears in the ribbon above the keyboard. However, the UI change is annoying and I constantly open the camera (though you can also get
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by 0culus 8y ago
I think the YubiKey nano is intended to be left in a port. I don't leave mine in though (keep it on my keyring!)
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by 0culus 8y ago
Both my undergrad and grad OS courses used xv6 and I can tell you that the easiest way to get hacking on it is to spin up a VM (I used vagrant for this since I just wanted headless) and run it in QEMU. MIT has a patched version available th
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by 0culus 8y ago
Yep! I just purchased the 1Password 7 license from the beta app, i.e. voting with my wallet. :)
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by 0culus 8y ago
Honestly, I will be happy if you continue to support licenses vs. subscriptions as an option + syncing with the cloud service of choice (I use iCloud). My use case is pretty simple. I don't need fancy integrations. I just want an easy
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by 0culus 8y ago
Thanks for linking it. I looked all over and didn't see it.
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by 0culus 8y ago
Where is it on their website? I haven't been able to find it at all.
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by 0culus 8y ago
Although it's been said that they will continue supporting licenses through their website, they have made this feature _extremely_ difficult to find ever since introducing subscriptions. I've been a loyal user of 1Password for a l
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by 0culus 8y ago
I've seen base64 used to implement "security through obscurity" in web applications. Many times in situations where they could have just used a cryptographic hash and been done with it.
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by 0culus 8y ago
I actually have two Lamy Al star pens, though I haven't really used them as much as I'd like. Thanks for the reminder!
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by 0culus 8y ago
On a personal note, I really despise handwriting documents. Writing for an extended period inevitably results in uncomfortable cramps in my hands. Thus, I typeset whenever possible (markdown -> pandoc -> LaTeX -> pdf). However, for
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by 0culus 9y ago
Yes it is, and has been done. Subject to [edit: a] security policy (NOT defined by implementation) and a meaningful statement of threat (what are you protecting against?) This paper might prove to be an enlightening read: http://
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by 0culus 9y ago
My own anecdotal experience here: I have been using iOS 11 on my iPhone 6 Plus, and subsequently my iPhone X and now an iPad Pro (from which I type this) and the only severe issue I’ve encountered was my iPhone X entering some kind of weird
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by 0culus 9y ago
As always, you have to do what is right for your threat model. I personally run my own VPN mainly for peace of mind when I'm on untrusted LANs. It's actually not that hard to do, and I can easily serve both my phone and my compu
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LiPoly Battery Charging Best Practices
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by 0culus 9y ago
But going after Netflix, for instance, will result in a price increase for the consumer, no? When Netflix's costs for bandwidth go up, they are going to pass that cost on to you.
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by 0culus 9y ago
I do like his stance of reading and understanding the code you run, before you run it.
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by 0culus 9y ago
Word of warning: one of the sites linked by the article has a very NSFW header image.

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