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I presume it'd be a lot harder since the builtin one hooks straight onto the main board. One could perhaps turn the builtin keyboard into a USB one and hooks it up to an unused port.

After having a quick look at all the external interfaces of my laptop, the only one that has a predictable latency (that I know of) is the microphone/headphone jack. It should be fairly trivial t…

I'm building a new controller board for Apple Wireless Keyboard (A1314) so that I could have complete control on what each button does and add new functionality (e.g. switch b/w devices quic…

I find it interesting that Wikipedia classifies [1] pedophilia as a "psychiatric disorder". Would this make homosexuality or other sexual orientations a disorder? Otherwise, what's the …

Given that email clients are fairly mature and advanced already (especially Gmail's), it seemed logical to go the unix way and use it as the UI to stream of feeds sent as email. I wrote a bit of …

And how do you prove that you did after the red light camera catches you?

Given the position/speed data that Google collects through Google play services (which assists then with determining traffic conditions for instance), I think Google could do much better at contr…

Hmm, here in Australia, I can't recall a single time this has happened. I've actually tested how well the software for these lights work, for myself at night time when there's no traffi…

How about Camlistore by Brad Fitzpatrick [1]: "Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC …

Isn't block level duplication/checksumming like RAID supposed to solve this hardware unreliability? I understand that by default RAID is not used on end user desktops.

As boring as it may sound, I didn't do anything special, just the run of the mill practices: lowering brightness, running `powertop` and setting all tunables to "Good". At idle, this gi…

For me, Arch won on every machine, desktop, laptop and RPi and I think it mostly had to do with how Arch stays the closest to unix philosophy. I used Fedora for a few years and before that Ubuntu and …

I've seen this happen once or twice before. I think HN should have some simple algo to detect these and adjust weighting accordingly.

"could not be expressed" is not a derivative of "to be". "be" there allows using "express" without needing the subject (e.g. "I can express my feeling"…

Thanks. I'm actually one of those people who was under the impression that USA data was fairly complete.

I have noticed an interesting effect where initially one is given the freedom to use all tools available to achieve a task, and over time restricted to an increasingly smaller subset. I find that this…

"my replacements stand out more when overused" - I have a different experience where repetition of "to be" derivatives equally stand out. As my first editing task after writing a p…

Can you elaborate what social problems you're referring to and how it's affected USA?

This is even more interesting! I wonder if this means RMS would have to open their street data (e.g. maps, sign locations, speed limits, turn restrictions, etc).

Reverse engineering data in commercial products. Of course this is not a viable solution for anything but private personal stuff.

This is a fantastic news. As an Australian and someone who has worked on personal projects requiring a geocoded address database, and had to jump through million hoops to come close to it, this is inv…

I never liked reading books cover to cover and still don't. But I find that new (or different to the usual) quiet environments make it a lot easier to concentrate. For me the public library is …

This. Especially consistency because it leads to that "trust" you allude to, that I can walk into any Mcz (what we call McDonald's here in Australia) and expect the BigMac to taste, loo…

I am aware what I received (and it's not what you described). I was asking how I could receive a signal with the entire planet blocking the way.

Do you mean the frequency? I googled NOAA 18 and Wikipedia told me ~130Mhz.