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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt

That sentence shocked me. It was the last Gladwell sentence I read.

As a college student, I helped create this site in, I believe, 1994: http://pynchon.pomona.edu/ I don't know that I really count as an academic, but I think the site has survived b…

That Mediatek module is nice! Thanks for that, and for the wisdom.

I scanned through the 25-page unclassified report released a couple of days ago. I found no technical details, which I'm afraid means that the question devolves to whether you trus…

The setup.py for Supervisor noted support for Python 3 starting in May of 2014: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/commit/ad5cd0849a5f... . Here are the blocking issues for o…

I believe the answer is no. You might be interested in monitoring this list of what gets closest: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers Also, the Novena mainboard…

Here's the best current attempt at what you're imagining: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Goddam fateless tickers. Why can't they just stay put?

"But plenty of people have permanently damaged their knees by consistently running without getting advice on how best to do it." The people who read running boards all the time rol…

You are correct. But the setup.py for Supervisor noted support for Python 3 starting in May of 2014: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/commit/ad5cd0849a5f... I don't know wh…

The same is true for Supervisor. It has supported Python 3 for years.

Seems kind of like Zwrite: text-only, ephemeral messages. It was just text that appeared in your terminal session. My friends and I used it in (engineering) grad school in the late…

"Hertz, son, it's hertz. Named after the old guy, Heinrich Hertz. Used to hang out at my hackerspace when I was a kid. Well, it was just a garage, but you know what I mean."

For all we can tell, you may have already done so.

It might be desirable to make data available to humans, but not bots, no?

"the functional elements of a 3D print can't be copyrighted" http://boingboing.net/2015/03/23/demystifying-copyright-lice...

A company being successful doing X does not mean that X is what users want. Some users probably want Google etc. to use all data available to improve their services, but some don't…

I think the 18 is counting 16 Epiphany cores plus 2 cores on the Zynq. The 64 is referring to a 64 core Epiphany chip that has only been made in prototype quantities, so far as I k…

I do business with verbal deals constantly in the US. I also do deals with written contracts, but in my experience, the cost to enforce a written contract through legal avenues mea…

Seems like if you rounded up to integer values of animals, the maintenance of the animals could be even cheaper, especially with the need for a freezer obviated. For integers >= 2,…

I agree. If I were a utility, I would be working hard to figure out how to be a storage broker, because if homeowners figure out storage without the utility, the utility will event…

I would not. I prefer engineering, even for less money. It's not even close.

I think it's a typo for "goners."

I just got a Novena in the mail a few weeks ago, and today I assembled the switches of a Phantom keyboard [1] that I'm working on. Glad to hear that someone else has the same idea-…