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bluehavana··on Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive
Happy #whyday!

http://wicswac.org/whyday.html

bluehavana··on 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
Could also try a Sharp Memory LCD. Faster refresh rates and pretty low power consumption depending on usage pattern. Here's an article of someone using it with an ESP32: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/07/how-low-can-an-esp32-go/
bluehavana··on Ruby's Creed
One can only ever use Symbols as keys in the 1.9 hash literal syntax, whereas complex objects responding to `#hash` can be used as keys in hash rocket literals.
bluehavana··on Cmder: portable console emulator for windows
The page says it includes clink, which says on clink's project page: "Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe"
bluehavana··on A Tmux Crash Course (2011)
I don't seem to have that problem, :/

make sure "mouse-mode on" is set, rather than "mouse-mode copy-mode".

Here is my mouse config:

set-window-option -g mode-mouse on

set-option -g mouse-resize-pane on

set-option -g mouse-select-pane on

set-option -g mouse-select-window on

set-option -g mouse-utf8 on

bluehavana··on A Tmux Crash Course (2011)
If you happened to have mastered screen, all the more power to you. I know there can be a lot of power in screens rc and scripting.

Tmux was easier for me to understand and the default packages are much easier than patched screen.

Also, there seems to be a steady stream of features released for tmux. I've heard screen can be quite stagnant.

bluehavana··on A Tmux Crash Course (2011)
Have you tried tmux's mouse modes?

You can use the mouse wheel to scroll and highlight to copy. I think you are specifically trying to say the mouse highlight won't go past one window though, right?

You can also resize panels and select widows.

bluehavana··on Margins on website development are shrinking
It's the starter-kit Walmart hobbyism. I can buy a bike at Walmart for ~$100. The bike will get me to where I want to go with reasonably light usage. Anything outside the first time, light usage model is a ever deepening pool of cost/value.

Walmart is great if I'm poor and my son needs a bike that he can crash (since he's just learning) and he will grow out of in the next 2 years; he probably couldn't put enough miles on the bike to break it within then.

If I want a bike to ride five miles to work everyday, I'm looking at $500 (used) to $1500 for something nice and dependable.

The Walmart model isn't bad as long as everybody understands the metrics involved.

bluehavana··on The Truth About Brining Turkey
"Portable roaster ovens" can fit an OK sized bird and are just a bit more expensive than a good crock pot. Completely worth it to have your oven available on a busy holiday. That way you can set the turkey for any temp you want and vary your actual oven with the sets of things that cook quicker.

The only thing: they are pretty hot and could be a safety concern if not at counter height.

example: http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-4818-14-18-Quart-Porcelain-Cookw...

bluehavana··on Which Distros Work on New Windows 8 Machines
Turning off secure boot is only required for x86 and the actual article (at mjg59.dreamwidth.org) says "in case you don't want to fiddle with firmware settings."

So for Arm you would still need a signed boot loader.

bluehavana··on Sprint Launches StarStar Me To Replace Your Phone Number With Your Name
I think facebook is the solution most people use now.
bluehavana··on /bin/false is not security
Keys get pretty unmanageable at scale. The biggest part of key management is changing keys, which is a really important part of security.

Use Kerberos and a Directory Service if you can, unless you have a solution to SSH key changes.

bluehavana··on Memristor-based non-volatile memory matches DRAM performance
Memristors have the possibility to perform logic as well.
bluehavana··on 802.11 Packets in Packets: A Standard-Compliant Exploit of Layer 1
Travis is investigating physical layer attacks on most popular protocols, including Ethernet. He talked about it at RECon.
bluehavana··on Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use
Yes. The time it takes to recognize something with your visual cortex is orders of magnitudes less than reading words.

Learning what the icons mean might take a little time and one might argue that spacial patterns are learned when reading anyways.

bluehavana··on Why You Should Move To Berlin
Sounds great. Anybody hiring?
bluehavana··on HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
The no more hard drive and persistent ram thing should be really interesting. Completely change how we do things.

Also, application specific processing... writing instruction sets for each application will be really interesting. Cell processing et al will be a thing of the past.

bluehavana··on Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back
Sequel and DataMapper have different purposes I think. Sequel is a lot more transparent in the translation between the ORM and SQL and allows a more powerful control of SQL statements. DataMapper allows some very powerful controls on the ORM and Ruby syntax side.
bluehavana··on Launching Google Wallet on Sprint and working with Visa, AmEx and Discover
And maybe Andriod@Home and the car unlock/start apps will get rid of keys as well?
bluehavana··on Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011
If you ever have to wipe an SSD the wear-leveling will totally mess with your wipe process. It is always best practice to just do full disk encryption on SSDs, even if you aren't taking it out of the house/office.

Edit: Reference https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/13722-SSDs-and-the-Im...

bluehavana··on Learn Vim Progressively
The one thing that made me switch was the many different text files I was editing. vim makes editing text files very easy and there almost always a syntax file for the type of file you are editing.

I use vim so that even though I may be editing C++, Ruby, YAML, JavaScript, Python, HTML, and CoffeeScript in the same day, I can still use the same editor and shortcuts across all the different types of text files. Also, vim is always one of the first editors to get syntax files for a new language.

If you only do ASP all day, VS is worth sticking with.

bluehavana··on What's rising faster than health care? College costs
I'd be way more interested in those statistics over time? A degree has mostly always meant more money/better job eligibility, but is that now a smaller gap compared to years past.
bluehavana··on How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
This presentation has been around for a bit and points to actual research: http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres...
bluehavana··on Coming soon: make your phone your wallet
There's almost a whole formal exchange with cash in Japan, even the way the cashier counts your change is very deliberate (didn't notice this until I saw a Japanese person do this in the US).

I've heard China also has some issues with credit cards, but has more to do with trust issues.

bluehavana··on My New Setup
That backup is probably at more risk than what is in the cloud. Think about how many more people they have working on keeping that data safe and accessible.
bluehavana··on The art of endless upgrading
I think people that live on the bleeding edge have know this for a while, especially devs that live on the bleeding edge.

I've always said software that isn't currently being developed is dead.

bluehavana··on CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development
Could try jobs.github.com. Coffee script will also be a semi-default in Rails 3.1. A Ruby and good JS person should be able to pickup CoffeeScript in a few hours though.
bluehavana··on Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
It's funny that he mentions Google as an example of a company that gets the paradigm, but most of Google is C++ and Java. C# has better functional paradigm support than both of those.
bluehavana··on Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
Learn Scheme in 20 minutes, because it's that simple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHA0nJv8EA