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skot9000

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About skot9000

I like to build things.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #36773525

    Don’t worry buddy, nobody is going to try and steal it. They will just back into it with a SUV in every parking lot you dare to enter.

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    Comment #36151873

    Came here to say this too. KiCAD has come a LONG way in the last couple years. It’s suitable for professional work and a no brainer for open source hardware. Who is going to drop $…

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    Comment #34429787

    Hopefully these self-brick less than HomePod 1!

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    Comment #33826379

    Ahh, I have so many good memories of BBSing as a kid in the 707. Seeing that dot matrix printout of the BBS list brings me right back. The lure of a BBS that was a toll call was st…

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    Comment #33759813

    Digiconomist’s model is flawed and doesn’t represent actual mining electricity use or carbon output. Also he’s a central banker, so not exactly motivated to fix it.

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    Comment #33315898

    I think a lot of internet connected hardware is sold cheaper than it would be otherwise just so they can get some consumer data harvesting software into your life. ie, that laptop …

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    Comment #32900090

    This wouldn’t really be necessary if we had cleaner power generation.

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    Comment #32282120

    That’s cool they switched CS61C to RISC-V.. we did a MIPS CPU (although maybe they are similar now?)

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    Comment #26674896

    With this you can get busted for stealing _and_ not paying taxes on the fair market value.

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    Comment #14250270

    I looked into the "Guarantee" issue a while back when I felt dissatisfied with Comcast despite their "Customer Satisfaction Guarantee". Unfortunately it seems Guarantee is just a m…

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    Comment #5462764

    This is amazing. I've been playing with it all night. From a high level, what would be a strategy for making this multiplayer?

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    Comment #5243088

    Interesting name! My first thought was the H should be capitalized. But, I guess it is a company name not a unit.

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    Comment #5242996

    I used something similar to differentiate between users on http://wrd.skot9000.com/

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    Comment #5193890

    tell them welcome back!

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    Comment #5136611

    Top CS schools don't teach programming, they teach Computer Science. CS students are very likely to become good programmers from side projects, but so can liberal arts students.

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    Comment #5095503

    Having dealt (attempted to deal) with PayPal after my 10 year old account was randomly frozen, I have come to the conclusion the PayPal is run by robots. Poorly programmed robots.

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    Comment #5024305

    "observe the older people working there. They are the future you. Do not think that you will be substantially different. Look carefully at how they spend their time at work and out…