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Philosophy

What Is Metaphysics
Oct 10, 2024 jasonr

What Is Metaphysics

When reading, Riddles of Existence (Earl Conee & Theodore Sider), chapter 11, "What is Metaphysics," it became increasingly clear that it’s not a simple task to define it. Th

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Software And Reality Construction
Oct 8, 2024 jasonr

Software And Reality Construction

Computers via software have granted us many personal freedoms and creative outlets that did not exist before. With a personal computer, it is possible to manifest ou

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Robotics

Mac Attack
Oct 8, 2024 jasonr

Mac Attack

Just a friendly reminder to all the embedded programmers out there... Always, and I mean ALWAYS, make sure you have a different MAC address assigned to your devices. I just spent 3 hours tro...

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Project Roam
Oct 6, 2024 jasonr

Project Roam

R.O.A.M (Robot Object Answer Map) is an initiative I am leading. It introduces a fresh method to map directions for our autonomous machines. How does it work? The mapping process

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Tutorials

Platform Check For Vscode Cmd
Jun 25, 2026 jasonr

Platform Check For Vscode Cmd

import os import shutil import platform from pathlib import Path def find_code_cmd(): system = platform.system() if system == "Windows":

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Modulus Fun
May 12, 2026 jasonr

Modulus Fun

data = { 1: 'test_a', 2: 'test_b', 3: 'test_c', 4: 'test_d', 5: 'test_e', 6: 'test_f'}rows = []row = []for i, (key, item) in zip(range(1,7), data.items()): row.ap...

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Rpi Camera Websocket Setup
Jun 27, 2025 jasonr

Rpi Camera Websocket Setup

Streaming MJPEG from Raspberry Pi to Windows via UDP Overview This guide explains how to stream MJPEG video from a Raspberry Pi using `libcamera-jpeg` to a Windows machine using UDP sock...

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Raspberry Pi 4: Wi Fi Hotspot Bridged To Ethernet Network
Jan 29, 2025 jasonr

Raspberry Pi 4: Wi Fi Hotspot Bridged To Ethernet Network

This tutorial will guide you through configuring a Raspberry Pi 4 to act as a Wi-Fi hotspot that shares access to an Ethernet network. Devices connected to the hotspot will be able to access...

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Setting Up Gitlab Community With Apache Proxy
Jan 28, 2025 jasonr

Setting Up Gitlab Community With Apache Proxy

RHEL Based:sudo yum update -ysudo yum install -y curl policycoreutils openssh-server perlcurl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.rpm.sh | sudo bashsudo

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Using The Python Csv Module
Oct 9, 2024 jasonr

Using The Python Csv Module

Do you ever just need to work with data from Excel in Python, or open up a CSV (comma-separated values) file and parse through its contents? You may not know this, but Python already comes p...

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Useful Bullet Points
Oct 8, 2024 jasonr

Useful Bullet Points

How to set a route to a path:app.use('/audio', express.static(%pathToAudioFolder%)); 3D Map Download:Download Terrain 3D - Cesium quantized mesh of the entire planet | MapTiler Data Create...

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Web Kiosk For Aml S905x Cc (le Potato)
Oct 8, 2024 jasonr

Web Kiosk For Aml S905x Cc (le Potato)

In this tutorial, I'll be setting up a web kiosk on the LIBRE AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) computer board, using the desktop based Rasbian Buster, which can be downloaded here fro

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