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southpawflo

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    Comment #42777676

    thanks for the link, I enjoyed reading that

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    Comment #39227564

    Friend, you've hit the nail on the head. As another example, I purchased an Xbox One years ago. Imagine my surprise when I turned it on this past November 3rd only to see a fullscr…

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    Comment #37280267

    it's funny that this pops up a few days before I return the remarkable 2 (through their 100-day money-back guarantee, otherwise I wouldn't have tried it). to anyone considering buy…

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    Comment #30999698

    I had some difficulty with this as well, but [1] had the answer: after toggling the repo on, swipe down so that fdroid force-refreshes the repo list. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/ho…

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    Comment #30829738

    tackling communications security and privacy: https://betrusted.io

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    Comment #30683116

    to preface, I'm not saying that you don't know this, but maybe for others: gentoo is not a linux distro either (from a certain point of view), more a meta-distribution, where you u…

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    Comment #30167980

    To be decided. I prefer radio frequency to infrared. I'm always on the lookout for the door into summer. Mise en place, which vim naturally follows. Problem solving and critical th…

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    Comment #29964369

    the way I've understood 'blood sport' was that the particular sport never matters, the important parts are the viciousness and cruelty involved. so for me, martial arts = sports, a…

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    Comment #29702383

    I vaguely remember something along those lines as well, perhaps about C. S. Lewis and the Narnia series? It's been a while though.

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    Comment #28680207

    I was led to this work because of the fomu [1]. Also, if you're familiar with the Precursor [2] you'll realize the second, smaller fpga inside is the iCE40 as well (which makes sen…

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    Comment #28403504

    after all, what's the difference between a drunk driver and a stoner driver? the drunk driver runs the red light, and the stoner keeps waiting for the stop sign to turn green!

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    Comment #28179809

    lol ask if he's hiring - for a friend, of course. and if he's been in a different economical strata than you for a while and it hasn't changed things on his end, sounds like you ha…

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    Comment #25404772

    because then your shell will be slower than a snail. for real though, after looking at your examples I feel that features like those would fall on your terminal emulator to bring t…

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    Comment #22427840

    at the bottom of the linked page the author explicitly references oberon as a source of inspiration for this project

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    Comment #19462570

    this is awesome, thank you for making this. there is a distinct lack of materials to help with learning just risc-v assembly, without going to c and I look forward to playing with …

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    Comment #19349653

    works well for me with a nexus 5x and foldable bt keyboard. also if you have a google chromecast you can turn any hdmi monitor/tv into your display. you can zoom in and out by 'pin…

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    Comment #16846436

    I don't know. I feel that speed is not important to me, it's the accuracy (gained with practise, of course) that I want. I make a lot of typos, it takes me much longer to edit some…

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    Comment #16843496

    I've tried several morse keyboards for android, but all of them seem to be more fun than useful. if only I could get a cross between the hackers keyboard and morse, I could stop fi…

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    Comment #16682797

    I am constantly 'running a social simulator' in my mind. I was diagnosed as autistic a few years ago in my mid twenties.

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    Comment #16553518

    that's why I love spacemacs - with the default setup, you hit the spacebar and a text based gui with all the possible options pops up. it allows me to continue to actually work ins…

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    Comment #16471114

    I've had multiple teachers tell me that if you can't explain something you don't completely understand it yet. grok what I'm saying? :)

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    Comment #16353039

    even though I'm being downvoted I'm still curious as to what the defs are