ericlathrop
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Comment · 5 years ago
A bat conservationist thinks bats are blamed for viruses because they're sampled more often than other mammals:
"Since 2005, when coronaviruses in horseshoe bats were first hypothesized to be the ancestors of the coronavirus that caused SARS, bats have received far more scrutiny than any other group of animals. For example, in the study on which the scariest headlines were based, researchers sampled nearly twice as many bats as rodents, shrews, and nonhuman primates combined and didn’t even include carnivores or ungulates."
Comment · 7 years ago
GE makes in-wall Z-wave light switches that work wonderfully. No cloud dependency, and you can control them with open source software like HomeAssistant.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'd like to see how one of the oldest package managers, Perl's CPAN, stacks up.
Comment · 11 years ago
The current version of titus is 0.2, released on 2014-08-17.
Comment · 11 years ago
I did exactly this over the holidays to get into a deceased family member's computer.
Comment · 12 years ago
There's a growing open source keyboard community built around keyboards like the ErgoDox using the Teensy Microcontroller. Keyboards are surprisingly easy to build from scratch by hand.
Comment · 12 years ago
Do you have node.js installed and in your $PATH?
Comment · 12 years ago
That looks very nice. Much more comprehensive than my tool. If all my tool accomplished was to prompt you to release your better tool, then I'm a happy camper. Yay open source!
Comment · 12 years ago
Wow, that's a pretty neat approach! How well does that work with multiple people?
Comment · 12 years ago
This tool helps you stay distributed by keeping a server somewhere that constantly backs up all your repos. With this you can't accidentally forget to make a copy if you make a quick repo in a coffee shop somewhere, and delete the local copy days later when you're cleaning up.
Comment · 12 years ago
Plus, you can use this to backup someone else's repos in case they delete them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Not when you use several different computers, or when you're done with an old project and delete your local copy.