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Adafruit makes a keyboard kit that you can assemble and write your own macros in Python: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5128

I loved that system. One of my favorite techniques in the endgame was to attach a colony pod to a missile unit. You could then drop a city wherever you needed it behind enemy lines…

It's generally agreed that the Voynich Manuscript was written (and should be read) left to right. For example, margins are aligned on the left and uneven on the right, indicating t…

> Maybe deployment isn't as hard as I'm making it out to be! That said, nothing easier than sending some packets to an IP address. I think this might be the case. Get a USB zigbee …

I have to say, the results were absolutely worth it in the kit. The PiDP-10 is a beautiful work of art and I am thrilled to have it!

It's less about what I need to know and more about how I need to organize it. I get the same information from all of my reports, but the ones who were managers hand it to me ready …

I had the same experience moving from IC to manager. I didn't realize the amount of work that managers are doing that I didn't see and more importantly that they couldn't tell me a…

At a guess it's to avoid a conflict with Yankee over a noisy channel. (I.e. if you hear "[static] ank [static]" did you hear "Frank" or "Yankee"? "Foxtrot" prevents that conflict.)…

The NATO phonetic alphabet was one of the highest reward-for-effort things I've ever learned. It doesn't take long to commit to memory and become proficient with and the amount of …

It's not just denials. This is anecdotal but my company moved from Aetna to UHC starting in January, and there are already dozens of threads in our internal slack about drug co-pay…

Imagine you're a 10 year old in a typical suburb in the US. There might be a pet dog or cat around if you're lucky, but nothing even at the level of a goat or chicken, let alone so…

You might be surprised at how many salespeople are also introverts. Through years of being an (introverted) sales engineer, I've learned that outgoing socialization can be tough ev…

I think that in your eagerness to malign cities, you might have missed the joke.

As Erma Bombeck said, "when you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home".

"Divorce" here means "separate entirely". So > Huawei makes divorce from Android official means "Huawei has officially separated from Android and will no longer be using it in any …

It's because of the quantum properties of USB connectors. They have spin 1/2.

s/better/louder. I definitely don't consider "louder" to be better in this case.

It's a delight to see the Haiku folks keep BeOS alive after all these years. I often wonder where we'd be today if Microsoft's illegal activities had been stopped soon enough for B…

I don't think your alternatives actually solve the same problem. Your alternatives would give you the single most recently joined employee. The actual problem being solved is to fi…

Nope. We didn't evolve the ability to detect botulism in food because it's really, really rare unless you have the right conditions. Most of the stuff you'd find in nature has been…

Yeah, I realized after I posted that I wasn't clear that I was referring to computer hardware. The iPhone dwarfs everything else that they sell.

> I'd love to give them my money if I they would just stop pushing MacOS and force feeding their app store ecosystem. But that's opposed to Apple's revenue goals. They make far, fa…