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[–] solrize 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Maybe for the toys section?

https://coastportland.com/collections/headlamps/products/rl35r

Just what I needed, a voice controlled headlamp, lol.

[–] solrize 2 points 4 weeks ago

There is a new version of the Microstream that uses an AAAA cell, but is not of much interest imho. Oh hmm (I just looked it up). I had thought they had branded it as a new Microstream but apparently it's a new Nano. Either way, meh. It's about the same size as a Skilhunt E3A and uses a crazy battery format, i.e. forget it.

https://www.streamlight.com/products/detail/nano-light-ii

https://www.batteryjunction.com/streamlight-73020

[–] solrize 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Start out using your phone. Get enough experience taking pictures that you have a better sense of what you might want in a camera that your phone doesn't already do. Take at least a few hundred careful, thoughtful shots that way to see what it is that you can and can't do with the phone. Then come back and discuss your findings in detail and we can make more suggestions.

[–] solrize 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Hey Zak, if you're still updating this, I'm going to suggest linking Parametrek's very precise review of the Nitecore HA11 in the section about that light: http://parametrek.com/blog/ha11.html

I've almost lost interest in the HA11 though. The H25LR is now my goto light for just about everything. It's my #1 recommendation for a first or only light for almost anyone, unless you specifically want a pocket EDC. Also, I hadn't really thought about it before, but it seems to me to be of higher quality (thicker metal) than the earlier micro-USB version that I had used for a while. So I think it is a no-brainer and I might make a followup post saying so, particularly if I manage to install a tritium vial. The HA11 is a lightweight in-the-pack light for occasional use, and I might install an L91 cell in mine to save a little bit of weight.

Do you think you might review the Wurkkos HD10? I've been intrigued by that for a while, as an SP10 Pro alternative. I still haven't fixed my Skilhunt E3A.

[–] solrize 5 points 4 weeks ago

If you had something hog memory and a lot of other stuff got paged out of ram as a result, that can slow things down. Try running "top" and see how much swap space is in use. If it's more than a little bit, once you have enough memory available by shutting off whatever was hogging it, try "swapoff" (pages the stuff back in, which can take a little while) followed by "swapon" to re-enable swap.

[–] solrize 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

SammysHP, do you plan to review the HD10? I've been thinking about that light.

[–] solrize 26 points 1 month ago

Just open an issue on the github suggesting the feature. You can also make a ko-fi donation as someone suggested. Doing something like that as straight-up paid work is legit, but it would cost a heck of a lot more than $20, as everyone has already said.

[–] solrize 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That's potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.

[–] solrize 5 points 1 month ago

I think it is best to have some understanding of how an OS works, and how Python works, before asking whether you can write an OS in Python.

Python is basically a scripting wrapper around a bunch of C functions ("builtins") and there are means of installing additional C functions if you need them. Without any of the builtins, you really can't do much of anything. For example, "print(2+2)" computes the string "4" (by adding 2+2 and converting the result to decimal), then calls a builtin to actually print the string on the console.

For an OS, you will need quite a few more C functions, mostly to control timers and task switching, the main functions of an OS. Given enough C functions though, in principle you can write an OS.

[–] solrize 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn't say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.

Why is this on /nottheonion?

[–] solrize 3 points 1 month ago

The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.

[–] solrize 10 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Aha, here comes the 16gb Pi 500 with a working M.2 slot. It never stops.

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