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It's consistent to a point. There have been several revisions of The Hobbit and LOTR over the years, but all were done by JRR himself I believe, and were done for continuity sake and detail. As far as the worldbuilding goes, it's exceptionally consistent. Considering the bulk of all work put out was done by JRR, with Christopher Tolkien doing editing passes during compilation. For instance, the Children of Hurin and The Lay of Beren and Luthien were described in LOTR and the Silmarillion, but were not included largely due to length and incompleteness (the Silmarillion is really just a Cliff's Notes version of the full Legendarium, allegedly).

As far as a timeline goes, several are available, but I would try to steer away from most wiki sites, as they have been, in the eyes of some, 'polluted' by the handling of the IP by non-Tolkiens. (ie the movies and games like Shadow of Mordor)

Geography of Middle Earth is a somewhat complex topic, but the big deal is that it goes through some drastic changes as part of the Silmarillion called the War of Wrath. Other than that large shift, the geography is very consistent. Tolkien really, really loves his maps.

I only really decided to go into engineering late in my final year of high school, and I used the local community college (conveniently located across the street from my HS) to take all the calculus and computer science classes that I didn't have covered. In a year, I covered my high school requirements, and my first year of university calculus, computer science, chemistry and physics. The class sizes were tiny, which was amazing, and to this day, I still think my Calc II and Intro to Java professors were two of the best I've ever had. I still have some of the textbooks my Java prof gave me from his own collection because he thought I'd take them further than his lectures.

I transferred into a pretty hard to get into mechatronics program with an OK GPA, but having a year and a half of post-secondary under my belt was a huge bonus when the kids who were coming into engineering school straight out of high school realized that our profs were just too busy to help.

It's really a path that I suggest to everyone that I've met who's just leaving high school. Take some time, save some money, and if you're lucky, get better student-prof interaction.

When I was first learning C in engineering school, the profs were writing their lab instructions for the free copy of Visual Studio that we got. This still caused a headache among a number of students, so once myself and another student found Dev-C++, it was a watershed moment for the majority of the class that was up to this point (myself included) rather noobish, and Windows-only.

My GameBoy Colour was originally from a Japanese exchange student that stayed with my family. It was originally from Japan, with a Japanese copy of Pokemon Gold, and it had no issue playing any of the NA games that I put in it.

TI maintains a SDK for their Sitara chips/boards, and it has mainline kernel support. There is also the Yocto Project, which TI included a BSP layer for.

The US did have NN up until two years ago, it was the default the internet was designed upon.

Wait a second. Don't tell me that you're actually the Captain Hook Pope Mobile

What's the compatibility like for existing BBB capes? Assuming one does a quick pin-conversion daughterboard to convert the PB pinout to the same dimensions as the BBB.

Also is the U-Boot/Linux source between the PB and BBB the same? Namely due to the Octavo being more of a complete solution than the AM3358/PMIC/EEPROM setup the BBB has

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Not nearly as elegant of a solution, but I've found that my Pi 3 does a great job of being the 'media box' I've been using my 2nd gen (I think?) Apple TV for. I've been using it with OSMC, wireless keyboard with trackpad, an external hard drive, and an xbox 360 controller. Great little media box. OSMC is dirt simple, I could probably give it to my parents and they'd figure out how to use it pretty quickly.

Of course if I wanted to do computing I'd just use one of the desktop distros.

There are some things in this article that I can definitely identify with, mainly the 'old laptop' that she was talking about, but an electric toothbrush??? That's hardly the notification-blasting brain-melter that she so despises.

I'd certainly go back to a flip-phone if they had cameras like current smartphones.

A great deal of the land west of the Misty Mountains was old Beleriand, which was the major battlefield of the War of Wrath between the Valar and Melkor (of which Sauron was merely a lieutenant to). As far as Mordor, I believe that the way those mountains are are as old as Time, since Shelob moved there sometime in the First Age after escaping from Ungoliant (her mother)

TempleOS is one of the strangest projects I've ever seen, and the creator is likely a schizophrenic, but I'm incredibly impressed that he managed to make what he did all on his own. I can't claim to have made a compiler from scratch while on the run from my own hallucinations

Turbos are definitely taking hold in the American auto industry as well, with stuff like the Chevy Sonic and Fiesta/Focus really making good use of them with tiny engines. The 2015 Focus had an option for a 1L, 3 cylinder engine with a turbo for commuters. Great stuff.

More or less usable. They did have a tendency to blow apex seals after 80k miles, which was could end up as a full rebuild of the engine. As far as how finicky a rotary can be, the biggest thing to do is let them warm up before driving, and let them cool right down after you're done. They were never an engine to replace the standard fourbanger, but they weren't any more finicky than say a BMW or Audi at the time of the RX-8