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by boznz 9d ago
Not putting any action in the first 10% of my first novel was a big mistake, the reason is a lot of people these days "Read a Sample" and if they are not hooked then they just go to the next. Yes, the book may have ended with civi
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by boznz 11d ago
New Zealand has already done it. Rocket Lab may have rebranded as American but it still builds and launches from NZ every few weeks
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by boznz 12d ago
I have tried to use AI on this from GPT3, documenting a few of the attempts on my blog. They know the datasheets and the theory enough to be extremely useful at the start, but the most recent ones are becoming scary good. Routing a PCB is c
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by boznz 26d ago
I'm currently building a RP2350 board with the HDMI/USB and I2S Audio I have also added the 16MB SRAM and higher vCore for overclocking which the RP2350 supports for a similar personal project to this. My first PCB had a few newbi
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by boznz 27d ago
I stopped viewing all news media companies five years ago. Real news will get to you pretty quickly by other means such as HN which I still frequent a couple of hours a week. Modern news is re-hashing even the trivial in the worst possible
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by boznz 28d ago
Another rule of thumb. Use what you are comfortable with until it stops doing what you want.
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by boznz 28d ago
..And there lies the problem.
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by boznz 29d ago
> How would I break through, if not ads? You wouldn't, your product would languish in obscurity and unless the searcher knew the exact actual product name forever be on page 200 of the search results (As a Sci-Fi book author I found
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by boznz 2mo ago
A Duress Password would be a good idea, so if you are ever asked to unlock your PC or phone you can use it to provide a sanitized sandbox view of your data or alternatively scramble/delete anything that would compromise you.
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by boznz 2mo ago
Nice design. I have done similar projects for myself and my friends, aesthetics is always the key to a make and forget music system you will actually use daily. My last one re-purposed a pioneer amplifier https://rodyne.com/
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by boznz 2mo ago
I expect >99% of my web traffic is bots or agents and I was actually considering removing the page counter as it is pretty meaningless and makes my site look far busier than it is. I am reluctant to however do anything about it just in c
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by boznz 2mo ago
Writing styles like this actually gets in the way of reading a story in my opinion and, I also assume, is also some high-brow writers way of getting around for the need for an actual story anyway. Many of the books I had to read at school,
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by boznz 2mo ago
The relays sound also like a nice source of monitoring for whoever controls them.
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by boznz 2mo ago
All governments are corrupt even poster children like here in NZ, its all about degrees of corruption. however one system of politics allows you to call this out and potentially vote out the perpetrators, the other will suppress you, lock y
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by boznz 2mo ago
Lots of the comments here are about porting to older kindles or eReaders, but the firmware is currently for the ESP32 chipset which none of these use.
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by boznz 2mo ago
Already happens in NZ, we got a few years grace, but now we pay the same as diesel vehicles up to 3.5T weight NZ$76/1000KM (US 7 cents/mile), and NZ$38 for plug in hybrids. I don't personally mind paying so long as it does go
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ASI May Require a Level of Trust We're Not Willing to Give(rodyne.com)
1 points by boznz 2mo ago|0 comments
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by boznz 2mo ago
Good post which basically states the f*cking obvious about how any "prize" or "winner" of any subjective category works.
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by boznz 2mo ago
When I write a character, I picture not just the character but the voice, same with reading, and going from a paper or eBook to an audio book usually breaks both. Books I write rarely include characters from Manchester (UK), so reading voic
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by boznz 2mo ago
Thank you for this, I'm going to give it a read. I am unfortunately very bearish on politics in general. All politicians think short term, look after themselves, their families, their friends, and their interests first; Facts, and work
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by boznz 2mo ago
Yes unfortunately any system can be gamified once the incentives are there: Best wine, best movie, best album, best keyboard, best monitor, the list goes on. Hugo or Nebula winners, and any other "winner" for that matter are usual
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Home made 8192 Core RISC-V Cluster [video](youtube.com)
10 points by boznz 2mo ago|2 comments
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by boznz 2mo ago
Totally amazing. Deserves a second look
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by boznz 2mo ago
Still occasionally bring out my old jaguar for Alien vs Predator to try and remember what the excitement was all about, but as to putting Linux on it, amazing effort, but I think I'm going to pass :-)
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by boznz 2mo ago
But how do you know the books you want to buy in the first place? That's the Indie creators dilemma, sometimes good creators are terrible marketers, or have no budget, and their creation is undiscovered from the others that spend, mark
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by boznz 2mo ago
Many of us do. But the majority of ebook readers will: a)never find us and b)just want to click buy now not download epub (from a site they have never heard of) then transfer to kindle manually. So best to cover your bases and give them t
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by boznz 2mo ago
Easy solution, make a show that lasts exactly one season, put all the good plot elements in it, and give it a proper ending, so it doesn't become a fucking never-ending soap opera.
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by boznz 2mo ago
Vive la révolution :-)
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by boznz 2mo ago
With the whole ecosystem stacked against new and indie authors, and AI getting so good I can see why some people could easily fall for this. I made the tough decision at the start of my Sci-Fi novel writing career to work 100% on the book a
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by boznz 3mo ago
>Gutenberg might be ugly, but it was fast to load, had all the data I needed and I was downloading the ePub within 5 seconds. That wasn't a defense, that was me saying it worked well for me. Looking at it again in light of your comm

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