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jdeeny

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About jdeeny

email: jdeeny@gmail.com

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    Comment #21044778

    The software, on and off tablet, feels like it was an MVP and now they are improving it gradually. The quality of the existing software is actually pretty good, everything is smoot…

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    Comment #21044721

    I think you can using the new USB network interface based web-UI. Which is not great and quite an interesting choice of ways to go about things IMO.

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    Comment #14043030

    Linux desktop is at a pretty nice place right now, you should at least give it a try.

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    Comment #13567812

    Unadjusted looks correct for me in Chrome and Firefox in Fedora. I have an nvidia card so I'm not using Wayland, I'm not sure if that would make a difference.

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    Comment #13117724

    It can be used similarly to italics in English writing.

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    Comment #12893066

    The Tesla charging station where I live is located at traditional style shopping mall, which is in deep decline. I'm certain they are appreciative of any captive customer, and I wo…

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    Comment #12278110

    An EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) is erased electrically rather than with UV light like an EPROM. Even if there isn't a possible attack with light, th…

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    Comment #12262410

    If a compiler supports ARM and Thumb, it covers a majority of modern embedded platforms. The days of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers are coming to an end -- 32-bit Cortex-Mx chips a…

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    Comment #11879290

    As a C magician, rust provides too many clear improvements over C to ignore it. I certainly don't feel like I am 'throwing everything away and starting from zero,' as much of my C …

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    Comment #2076361

    If Digikey doesn't have it, no one else does either. I don't think that is really true. Digikey does have an impressive inventory, but there are plenty of brands that they don't st…

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    Comment #2065203

    If you assume that there is no cache (only on-die memory) and that memory is not shared between cores, things become much simpler and scale more linearly. Core-to-core communicatio…

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    Comment #2046563

    I would love to see a few examples from the printer cheat sheet. I'm sure this would be helpful in structuring user manuals and other documentation.

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    Comment #1785349

    I found it referenced on wikipedia[1], but the source given[2] in the article does not mention broken bottles. The documents in the collection may. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

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    Comment #1765096

    As far as I know, Phenom II processors are backwards compatible with AM2+ sockets [1]. And they work with DDR2 when in an AM2+ socket. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_II

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    Comment #1712535

    I made an InDinero account to kick the tires a bit, and made a few comments when closing the account. I received several emails from Jessica within 24 hours and an offer to discuss…

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    Comment #1610985

    I know for a fact that you have at least one employee, yourself. I'm in a rural area and the local paper loves to do stories on any small business happenings. A single-person start…

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    Comment #1492167

    I just tested some PNGs that I am currently using in a sprite. These are transparent arrows used for slideshow control. Four images make the sprite: Individual image sizes: 1811, 1…

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    Comment #1364925

    I think he means they have reserved the right to change prices for existing customers, but choose not to do so as a general rule. If they ever are in a situation where they need to…

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    Comment #1338867

    http://www.budind.com/ http://www.boxenclosures.com/ http://www.polycase.com/ Polycase is carried by Allied (www.alliedelec.com) and has some inexpensive, decent quality plastic bo…

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    Comment #1289328

    I've completed a lot of projects with 8051 derivatives in the past (Dallas and Atmel mostly), but I am designing new projects with ARM Cortex-M3 chips from NXP. More speed, more me…