cjdaly

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by cjdaly 2y ago
Did you see the article claiming Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't really Hunter Biden's laptop, but rather had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation"? If stories like this, run by fake news sites
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by cjdaly 3y ago
multi-color is lots of fun! https://github.com/cjdaly/FishCoin
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by cjdaly 4y ago
For your embedded cistercian projects: https://www.tindie.com/products/savageelectronics/rgb-cister... (I'm not the maker, I just noticed these last year on Tindie and picked up a couple.)
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by cjdaly 5y ago
Sketchup has a Ruby API. This book is good if you can find a copy: https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-SketchUp-Creating-Models-Ru...
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by cjdaly 5y ago
> get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing The problem with this plan is that vaccinated people still catch and spread the virus. The available vaccines do not create "herd immunity" in the tradit
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by cjdaly 5y ago
here is a satellite view I've been watching, also from NOAA: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
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by cjdaly 5y ago
Interesting that this is happening at the same moment Glenn Greenwald is promoting (Canada based) Rumble as a free-speech alternative to Youtube. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/strengthening-substack-jour...
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by cjdaly 5y ago
I agree with you. Cargo cult is when physical goods are delivered by some high-tech society to a lower-tech one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult ). Buying stuff from Amazon is more like cargo cult than Clubho
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by cjdaly 5y ago
['belonged to intelligence']( https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-pl... )
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by cjdaly 5y ago
if you want to be extra confused, look at the HalloWing: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4300 it's a feather mainboard, but with the 'wing' no
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by cjdaly 5y ago
... also check out the TinyS2, which has the form factor of the TinyPico, but it has the ESP32-S2 SOC - https://unexpectedmaker.com/tinys2
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by cjdaly 5y ago
I buy from all of those places, but when they are sold out I also check digikey ( https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC09... ) and canakit ( https://www.canakit.com/rasp
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by cjdaly 5y ago
the chip can do some video, but low res: - https://excamera.com/sphinx/store.html#gameduino-3x-dazzler-... - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4984
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by cjdaly 5y ago
yes! I found these on sale at digikey. Search for "arduino nano rp2040". They cost about $28.
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by cjdaly 5y ago
... another place I have order from in the past that has some in stock: https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-compute-module-cm4.html
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by cjdaly 5y ago
digikey has some in stock now. like this 4GB / 16GB: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC02... ... search for "pi compute module 4" in digikey. I see 5 different on
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by cjdaly 6y ago
even the BBC is pushing RISC-V: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17596
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by cjdaly 6y ago
I think, like the dollar/taxes example, it is circular but self-fulfilling. If you asked a central banker why they value gold, I suspect they would cite the "Rare but not too rare" and "Easily distinguishable from look-a
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by cjdaly 6y ago
The article leaves out one big factor in why gold is valued. Similar to "why does the dollar have value?" (answer: taxes), a fundamental source of gold price support is that central banks all around the world - by longstanding off
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by cjdaly 7y ago
there are certain, specific individuals who could stop and it would make a huge difference. someone decided to punch this hole in the ground. someone directed the engineering. I’m glad this new Sentinel-5P sat is up. it’s hard to manage wha
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by cjdaly 7y ago
sort of related to this (indie gaming hardware), I recently got the Adafruit PyBadge. You can program it with CircuitPython, Arduino or MakeCode (a microsoft visual coding IDE). fun if your idea of fun is making the game and then playing
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by cjdaly 9y ago
that doesn't sound like a fair comparison. How many human interventions were there in the 2-3 million Uber miles?
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by cjdaly 9y ago
yes! for headless/server type applications I think this is the sweet spot right now. In the US, Ameridroid is faster than ordering direct from pine64 (in my experience). The biggest downside for me is Rock64 doesn't have an OS wit
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by cjdaly 9y ago
These little computers are floppy and like to slide off the desk under the weight of their own USB cables. This has led me into many adventures with wall mounted enclosures. [0] https://github.com/cjdaly/CompuCanvas