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by roryisok 1y ago
what's exciting about this is that it's got an FPGA with micro-HDMI and usb-c so you should be able to use it as an e-paper monitor out of the box
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by roryisok 3y ago
downloaded this, enjoying it so far. thanks!
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by roryisok 3y ago
"inexpensive". I love that. Like we're all searching for rubik's cube solver robots for our loved ones for christmas but they're all just too damn pricey!
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by roryisok 3y ago
I tried to use this and it showed me an apache2 landing page instead of my app website, which led me to realise my app site had been down for at least a day because apache had actually crashed due to nginx using port 80 (I don't even u
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by roryisok 3y ago
please stop submitting dailymail links. dailymail is fear-mongering hate-speech dressed up as journalism.
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by roryisok 3y ago
One practical way you could attempt to do this would be to massively tax airline tickets, ideally by distance flown, and then allow people to claim 4 untaxed tickets. You could also maybe allow people to sell their tickets if they never int
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by roryisok 3y ago
> real paper made from trees is still considered crucial to countless businesses and government systems globally, despite the environmental impact of producing it. For decades, computers, smartphones and tablets have provided an alternat
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by roryisok 3y ago
> ARM wrestles nice pun
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Ask HN: Looking for an Engaging Science Book
2 points by roryisok 3y ago|6 comments
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by roryisok 3y ago
yep you're right, I was wrong, it only goes back to late 90s
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by roryisok 3y ago
Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions But for whatever reason, the scans are poor quality an
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by roryisok 3y ago
Growing up, myself and my siblings built sets when we first got them as gifts, but after that they went in the pile. We would build whatever was in our imagination, from the multicolored heap. Now I have my own kids, and they all want to bu
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by roryisok 3y ago
I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work. However, the €80k the government grant for doing up a derelict house is not going to very far. Irelan
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by roryisok 3y ago
> for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee So like $400
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by roryisok 3y ago
Very nice! I'm also this guy > I'm a writer who sometimes misses the fancy features of a code editor, so I started building I haven't added any external services to mine yet. Interesting to see the things we have in common
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by roryisok 3y ago
Is this any relation to pico8, the fantasy console? If not, can the picosystem run pico8?
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by roryisok 3y ago
We used to bake potatoes in piles of grass from when my dad mowed the lawn. wrap your potato in tinfoil twice and bury it at the bottom of a large grass pile in the morning and come back at the end of the day. the grass gets so hot as it st
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by roryisok 3y ago
Ann Reardon is great, she debunks so much stuff. I didn't even realise how many fake cooking videos there were out there until I started watching her channel
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by roryisok 3y ago
I had to click through to find what the worst part of England was, and ended up on an FT article about Blackpool and the causes of and reasons behind its decline. Very sad but very interesting.
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by roryisok 3y ago
omg I remember todo.txt! I've kept that mantra alive with my own todo apps (private use only, I'm not selling myself here). I always build stuff that follows the same philosophy of "store everything in text files".
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by roryisok 3y ago
ditto. I was turned off LifeHacker a long time back by the ads and slideshows and junk content. delighted to start rediscovering it.
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by roryisok 3y ago
This post reads awfully whiny to me. Who cares if the new bulb that's 90% more energy efficient than your old incandescent is not exactly the same color as the totally unnatural electric light you grew up with? Sure, there are some nic
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by roryisok 3y ago
As in, turn an inkplate10 into a secondary (or even primary) display for something like a raspberry pi. I want to make an eink writing machine, something like a freewrite but not costing $500.
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by roryisok 3y ago
Has anyone figured out how to make Inkplate10 function as regular display? I'm not clever enough to make it work, but I'm assuming its something to do with peripheral mode
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by roryisok 3y ago
> In the future state, your AI will simply give you the answers directly. You won't email me and you don't need me. that sounds great. you emailing me about a project and waiting for me to write an email to you is an inefficien
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by roryisok 3y ago
> Soon Office will include advanced AI capabilities to write and reply to email. What is the point of me reading it? If my AI can generate a satisfactory reply, your AI could have generated the response too. No email needed, nor a reply.
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by roryisok 3y ago
> In a rare moment of humanity, one of your friends calls you. AI knows all about your friends and their recent events so had already summarized talking points. In case you can't be bothered, AI will carry out the actual conversatio
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by roryisok 4y ago
> key about naps: no need to sleep. brain never fully on, never fully off. If I took a 20 minute nap and didn’t fall asleep, i just took an excellent 10 minute nap! When a person doesn't sleep properly, this is exactly the kind of r
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by roryisok 4y ago
You can buy used phones on Amazon. There are loads of premium refurbishment outfits like refurbed.at (Austrian) who will sell you a second hand device in mint condition. There are also high-street tech repair shops that usually sell second
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by roryisok 4y ago
This is the reason. All those people who need to be on the absolute bleeding edge, sell perfectly good phones for a quarter of what they cost new, to people like me. Everyone I know buys new phones for anywhere up to 800 for the latest Sams

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