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russh··on Show HN: A Better Alternative to Font Awesome – Unicons
The license restrictions?

"No Unlawful Useused to create pornographic, libelous, obscene or defamatory Material. No Commercial use of “Editorial Only” Items: You can not use content marked "Editorial Only" for any commercial, promotional, advertorial, endorsement, advertising or merchandising purpose. This type of content is not model or property released and is intended to be used only in connection with events that are newsworthy or of general interest."

russh··on Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
Did your neighbor call the insurance commissioner and attorney general to tell them that they were operating a non-registered insurance company in Massachusetts?
russh··on U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
Corruption, regulatory capture, and worst of all... convenience.
russh··on IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
Unfortunately, the IRS includes ignorance in their definition of deliberately.
russh··on Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner
It depends on the proximity of large unplanned cash outlays to payday.
russh··on Guide to Software Defined Radio
For some values of "those" yes, for others No. Some are receivers that can only receive but you can also get transmitters or transceivers that will do both. Most of the cheap dongles are receive only. Disclaimer: Your local laws regarding the legality of transmitting (or even receiving) on a particular frequency at any given power may vary.
russh··on Thoughts on Forth Programming
That is the best book anyone has ever loaned me and some day I plan on returning it.
russh··on The falling price of a TV set
My local Ford dealer would not even talk about the price of a used car until filled out paperwork and they ran a credit check without asking.
russh··on Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?
Occasionally, in tiny basic running on an Arduino powered robot when teaching classes at our local Makerspace.
russh··on The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes
Truly a tone deaf reply. I understood the point they were making.
russh··on MicroPython: An Intro to Programming Hardware in Python
I've spent the last couple of months redoing one of my Arduino projects in MicroPython and CircuitPython and I'm pretty happy with the results. I think the *Python version will be much easier for people to use then the Arduino version was and that will make up for the shorter battery life.
russh··on LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC
I've been using EasyEDA for the last two years and have started ordering some of my parts from as well. It's worked pretty well for me, just be sure you verify the pinouts and packages for any user generated parts.
russh··on Private Equity company acquires .org registry
And remove it from the email whitelist.
russh··on Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
"You can turn it off if you want. We will probably turn it back on in a future update, but you can turn it off again if you want."
russh··on BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
RiteAid sells hard liquor in Washington state.
russh··on My Favourite Git Commit
Thats swell, we don't think about you at all.
russh··on The Beauty of COBOL (2018)
There is RPGII code I wrote back in the 80's that is still in daily use today. Most of the people who know I wrote the code have passed on, so the support calls have stopped.
russh··on Google and Ambient Computing
Google probably will not, but can you say that about every Google employee?
russh··on macOS Catalina
Mojave was a frustrating experience for me until I bit the bullet and did a clean install and remigrated my stuff. I doubt I'll do another in place upgrade again.
russh··on Ask HN: Why IBM's OS/2 Warp Has Failed?
It's a shame it was so expensive in the beginning. I was given a copy of OS/2 Extended Edition from a local IBM guy. I saved up enough money to buy a used C complier and spent a few years working on a project. I really enjoyed programming on OS/2.
russh··on CentOS Stream
That is so very incorrect. Way back in the beginning, they offered RHEL without support but with updates. At some point they started charging for access and eventually they raised the prices high enough that I couldn't afford to use it any more.
russh··on Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
I learned about that from watching Stringer Bell in "The Wire".
russh··on What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them
''An ecosystem,''

Thats a brilliant metaphor.

russh··on In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]
Most of Diamond Age is incredible, the rest not so much.
russh··on Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis
How about they test for actual impairment before legally declaring you impaired?
russh··on Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis
I have but I also read the news.
russh··on Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (2014)
That is very cool and gives me some ideas, thanks for posting it.
russh··on AI Portraits
They should have used Mongo, I hear it's webscale.
russh··on A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014)
Thank you, I'll be watching this tonight after my SO nods off.
russh··on Teaching Tech Together
This is useful to me. Thanks!
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