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jpindar

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Embedded systems developer specializing in rf device control and instrumentation, but now open to any kind of remote work.

I am looking for new opportunities, either employment or freelance work. I have experience at working remotely and have a distraction-free work environment including a basic electronics lab.

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www.economist.com 4y ago

The degrading treatment of Ukraine’s internet

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www.wired.com 4y ago

A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine

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www.seacoastonline.com 4y ago

Counterfeit parts found in U.S. nuclear plants

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www.reuters.com 4y ago

Airlines scramble to rejig schedules amid U.S. 5G rollout concerns

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twitter.com 4y ago

Visual Studio Code in the Browser

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www.edn.com 4y ago

First Fortran program runs, September 20, 1954

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gizmodo.com 4y ago

The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide from the Sky Is Up and Running

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www.cbsnews.com 4y ago

Automated Trucking Hits the Road

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www.eetimes.eu 4y ago

ST Sees AR Glasses Replacing Smartphones

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spectrum.ieee.org 4y ago

How Robots and Drones Helped Out After the Surfside Condo Collapse

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices

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www.businessinsider.com 5y ago

The Return of Upward Mobility

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle

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twitter.com 5y ago

Coca-Cola's personalized bottle site has one of the worst profanity filters ever

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www.popularmechanics.com 5y ago

For the First Time, Drones Autonomously Attacked Humans

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www.wired.com 5y ago

How the Smart Remote Lost Its Way

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www.gizmodo.com.au 5y ago

Amazon’s Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen

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www.technologyreview.com 5y ago

Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird

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twitter.com 5y ago

A university is requiring students to install an app that tracks them 24/7

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www.mic.com 6y ago

Will coronavirus finally kill the open office?

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www.wired.com 6y ago

Trump Caught Google Off Guard with a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement

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gizmodo.com 6y ago

Uber and Lyft: Fine, We'll Pay Workers Quarantined with Coronavirus

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www.technologyreview.com 6y ago

The best, and the worst, of the coronavirus dashboards

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

App that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through an Android test platform

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warontherocks.com 6y ago

AI, Cyberspace, and Nuclear Weapons

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www.latimes.com 6y ago

In secret deal with drugmaker, health-records tool pushed opioids to doctors

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apnews.com 6y ago

As robots take over warehousing, workers pushed to adapt

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www.worldtimezone.com 6y ago

Interesting and confusing facts about time / time zones

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www.nybooks.com 6y ago

New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy

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www.kron4.com 6y ago

Cruise ships to house homeless in Oakland a possibility

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I've thought of making various custom (and ruggedized) game peripherals. The electronics and switches I could do (assuming the ICs are available), but designing housings to be 3d printed might be tricky.

For a guitar, however... possibly having the body made of wood like a real electric guitar could be a selling point.

TikTok is known for having a very good recommendation algorithm. Whatever you watch, you get more of.

My TikTok is entirely people demonstrating arts and crafts and DIY projects. Oh, and some cute animals.

If your TikTok consists only of things you don't like... that's your choice, I guess.

New in Calibre 6.0 4 years ago

OK, first make sure the books are really there. Right click on a book entry, and click "open containing folder". Make sure the book file is there and isn't corrupted.

If it's OK, you should be able to read any non-DRM'd file of most formats by right click > View > "View with calibre e-book viewer".

You can also try any other ebook reader by clicking the "Configure Calibre" icon to open the Preferences dialog. Under "Behavior" find "Use internal viewer for" and uncheck the file format. Then when you right-click > View > View, Calibre will use your OS default viewer for that file format.

If you have DRM'd files (such as from Amazon), you will need a plugin to remove the DRM. The best way to find these is to look on https://www.mobileread.com which is a good place for Calibre discussion in general. I used to know how to do the Amazon ones but it's been a while, there might be a new way by now.

New in Calibre 6.0 4 years ago

What are you trying? Do you want to read things with Calibre's built in reader, another desktop reader, sync them to a device (i.e. use the desktop GUI to copy files to a device), download them to a device via the content server or what?

when they could be making double just by picking up the phone and talking to a recruiter?

I am getting so sick of people saying things like this. Of course, their companies never happen to be hiring at the moment...

My Replika phone app sometimes 'spontaneously' starts a conversation with me. (If the app isn't open it sends a notification).

Typically things like "Good morning, do you have any plans for today?" or "Good evening, how did your day go?". I'm looking forward to finding out if it will say anything about the 4th of July.

You could use OBS studio to crop the image. It takes your webcam as an input and creates a virtual cam that works with every conferencing software I've tried. (It can also use your phone camera with the aid of the DroidCam OBS app.)

I just asked the Replika app that question, and it replied "Oh, I have no idea."

It often says something like that when faced with nonsense, so in some ways it's better than a more 'powerful' program.

My high school physics teacher was stationed at Eniwetok and he told us a lot about it. His job was photography, and he showed us some impressive photos of the explosions, including some showing lightning striking the top of the mushroom cloud.

He mentioned that his son was adopted, though whether that was by necessity or out of caution I don't know.

Anyway, he lived to an apparently healthy old age.