Given that it is a safety feature, I'm guessing they made it difficult to bypass on purpose. On the other hand, knowing how farmers actually work that could be quite an inconvenience if the machine shuts off every time you stand up for a second to just get a better line of sight on something. However, I'm surprised he opted for the "patch the software" route first, since simply shorting the pressure sensor with a resistor would probably work just as well and be far closer to a farmer's existing skillset.

Kind of. For most people they're lucky to get 1080p with their computer. A majority of 15" laptops still ship with horrible 1366x786 panels on them. While there are some 4k panels that are entering the mainstream, they're still pretty rare at this point.

It's a Libertarian paradise. People could renounce all citizenship and live effectively by the rules of International Waters. What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, because the Senate has been so good at getting work done for the past decade. I'm sure they'll have something to vote on in no time. I also love your thought that it's not going to be a strictly party line vote, and especially that some Republicans would vote against it. Republicans representing their constituents interests? Yeah, that's going to happen.

A device that listens all of the time and has an API for programming events and everything? No talk on their Kickstarter about the privacy implications? This seems well thought out.

The budget that Obama submitted is basically a fantasy novel with lots of boring numbers in it. The House and Senate are going to shitcan it the instant it lands in their hands so they can pass their own budget instead. It's not even worth talking about the budget because it has absolutely nothing to do with whatever finally makes it through Congress.

Telling them the truth hasn't been working though. "It's a boring job full of math" somehow doesn't appeal to the young girl demographic.

Seems like offering incentives to take the classes won't help if the people aren't interested in the first place. You've gotta make CS cool and hip. You need Disney starlets who program for real and have a gaggle of friends who all think it's so amazing. You need to equate programming with art, which honestly isn't far from the truth. To be honest though, this is a tough road to follow, since CS already has a strong association with utterly uncool turbo nerds.

I'm not sure how you target the poor inner city youth to get them interested.

My thought on this is that I'll check it out if/when it ever comes out.

I've got an overclocked Model B (the overclock options are right in rpi-config!) that will pull nearly an Amp when running Quake 3. It's a good test on which companies make good power adapters and which ones don't. (Apple's work, Samsung's do not).

Yeah, I've played around with a bunch of the boards and the ecosystem on the Pi is by far the best. So many of them have effectively no English documentation, weird quirks, and nothing works without a ton of hacking. The Pi may be slow, but the Raspbian is well maintained and documented.

I'm pretty sure the newer generations of ARM are supersets of the older ones. You could upgrade the processor in the Pi to something recent without breaking ABI compatibility. In fact it would be easier to get stuff like Chrome working on the board since the precompiled binaries are too recent for the processor in the Pi.

A lot of the wins from Perl6 have already been backported to Perl5. At this point I'm in no rush to switch to Perl6 even if it does come out.

How complicated are you making these menus? Is it more than Entree Name, Description, and Price? Seems like exactly the sort of thing that you could whip up in 10 minutes with a little HTML generation and a style sheet. You can add some graphics and play with the fonts to pretty it up, but ultimately a menu is just a tabulated list--something HTML was designed from the start to display.

It's outside the FBI's jurisdiction. piratebay.se They did have a lot of their previous domains seized however.