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If the device can run PostmarketOS with a mainstream kernel, then it can run any Linux distribution. (I put Arch ARM on such devices, since I like that distro.)That's the big hurdle though - mainstream kernel support.For most devices, even if they can be rooted and jailbroken, yo

Before anybody gets too excited, it's better to understand what exactly happened.China ran an experimental reactor that achieved some conversion of thorium into uranium. More precisely, the conversion ratio was 0.1 [1]. This means that for each new fissile atom generated from tho

I thought this was a really good piece of writing. It’s rare to do something like this because the job discourages it by putting PR filters on everything you say.My uncle was a pretty big pop star in the 1960s. His group at one point had a big fanzine, they were household names a

More modern choices are JADX (https://github.com/skylot/jadx) or Vineflower (https://github.com/Vineflower/vineflower). If you want a paid, higher-quality option, try JEB (https://www.pnfsoftware.com/). Sadly it's not maintained anymore and even the intellijidea-derived decompile

Congrats on the interesting project! I was curious to know more about the scientific payload: how did you measure the fluorescence? Did you apply excitation light continuously? Or did you rely on ambient light and correct for it when measuring fluorescence? Did you have a control

Some time ago I noticed that in Chrome, every time you click "Never translate $language", $language quietly gets added to the Accept-Language header that Chrome sends to every website!My header ended up looking like a permuted version of this: en-US,en;q=0.9,zh-CN;q=0.8,de;q=0.7,

US actually provided child care to mothers employed during WWII. [0]Richard Nixon vetoed the bill that would have expanded it out to all families. [1]Funny how we keep forgetting the past and reject what benefited us as a whole with a moved to pure individualism built around self

As the article said Duralex was the brand use by a large number of school cantinas in France. Inside of each glass there’s a small number used by the brand to identify the mold used for the creation of the glass. For kids that was a way to decide who is going to fetch the water f

The first Go proverb Rob Pike listed in his talk "Go Proverbs" was, "Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating."Go was designed from the beginning to use Tony Hoare's idea of communicating sequential processes for designing concurrent programs.However, li

I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid (before it was ADHD). People always describe the disorder as "lack of focus" but that's a really poor description for what I have.I would say I have "hyper focus", to the point where if I'm working on something interesting, I will lose track of t