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epx

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PU5EPX https://epxx.co

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    Comment #48858851

    Just to play the routes.

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    Comment #48854338

    Another notable, if old, train simulator from Japan is OpenBVE. It was easy to model railroads on it. Many short Brazilian routes were/are modeled in OpenBVE. It is particularly co…

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    Comment #48025923

    +1, always thought it was an IBM standard, move with TAB and commit the form with ENTER.

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    Comment #47811700

    It is all a conspiracy, now that mechanical keyboards are affordable and available and so many shapes and switches, they want to take this last pleasure (typing) from us

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    Comment #47512432

    Having a single big DC converter at a home would help a lot with power factor (LED lamps connected directly to AC have terrible power factor).

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    Comment #47377935

    Have had two Airpods. Great devices, but broke down after a year or so and I don't want to spend their price every single year.

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    Comment #47274225

    And checksummed filesystems.

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    Comment #47252657

    Was expecting Boltzmann and entropy to be involved at some point :(

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    Comment #46636833

    In the last 2-3 years, every contribution I made has been reverted by a reviewer or editor, either giving some excuse like lack of references, or none at all. Ceased to contribute …

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    Comment #46575669

    I understand the individual rationales of C++ things but I lost the faith on the whole thing.

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    Comment #46368437

    Yes, it is strictly HTTP, not even persistent connections required.

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    Comment #46368007

    Would HLS be an option? I publish my home security cameras via WebRTC, but I keep HLS as a escape for hotel/cafe WiFi situations (MediaMTX makes it easy to offer both).

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    Comment #45661940

    I have donated to them in the last two decades, and stopped because of this. Won't feed those beasts

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    Comment #45481831

    Thanks for the service. Showed that site to my own ISP's technicians when they were having difficulties to activate IPv6 support.

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    Comment #45141060

    It is a bit expensive for this kind of "dangerous" experimenting. I wish there was a ESP32-like capable of running Linux. (Actually, there is: BeagleBoard. But these are even more …

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    Comment #44203750

    Aren't 99,99999% of these transistors used in cache?

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    Comment #43936894

    Curious about how difficult would be to splice it.

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    Comment #42419382

    At least here in Brazil, WhatsApp consolidated its position by working well in feature phones that ran J2ME and dominated the low-end market before Android. It took testing and ada…

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    Comment #41191956

    Imagine being able to live forever... in the dungeon of a dictatorship that is forever as well.

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    Comment #41081608

    I miss the simplicity of OSS :\

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    Comment #40780833

    They have and a lot.

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    Comment #39983594

    Another interesting episode was the detection of RSA keys with common 'p' or 'q' factors using GCD: https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf

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    Comment #39533791

    Doing this with home automation.

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    Comment #39362874

    Symbian was terrible. Working with it was worse than mining asbestos.

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    Comment #39184539

    Partly on my own experiences, used to have a steel bike w/o suspension that I rode for thousands km and it was a joy, the next bikes I've had were aluminum and locking the suspensi…