Timmmmbob

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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
You can get a vinyl cutter for a couple of hundred quid.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
But how is iBeacon proprietary anyway? It's just a static BLE advertisment of a UUID. Anyone can do that.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Looks kind of blurry.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yes I have one that "works" in Linux, but it only ever connects at a glacial speed. In Windows it works at full speed as expected. ("Submit a bug", "Have you tried...", "What does [some command] say?"
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yeah I recently discovered enet through Emscripten (which emulates UDP on top of SCTP. SCTP is the protocol used by WebRTC and supports reliable and unreliable packets like enet and RakNet, though I believe Emscripten's UDP emulation o
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
I lived in London for 4 years and that is bullshit.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
So, word wrap? This is the same stupid argument that pro-spaces people make in the tabs-vs-spaces argument - that you have to use spaces (or hard line breaks) so that you can force your ideal indent size (or line length) on other people. Ju
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
According to the comments it returned a modified immutable date. The original date is not modified. Poor function naming perhaps, (should be `modified()`), but it's not really one of the things that makes PHP infamous.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Not really, unless your early 90s PC was really shit.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Presumably you have to use a smart phone to connect to each bulb when you install it and send it a non-fixed key.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
It actually works quite well if you pick the right font. Stroustrup uses it in The C++ Programming Language and it is easier to read. You're just much more used to monospace.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
I hope they reported that to the police!
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yeah BLE uses about 12 mA while transmitting or receiving. But it does not do that continuously. Its average power consumption can be under 100 uA very easily. However, there's no way you'd get even 100 uA by harvesting RF energy
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Also worth considering: https://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yeah it actually makes sense from a physics point of view. All the fancy reflective angles on the stealth plane won't do anything if the wave is longer than they are. "Small" things all look the same in terms of wave reflecti
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
I think this must be a standard ARM thing. The nRF51822 Cortex M0 (with BLE) from Nordic can do something very similar. They call it PPI (Programmable Peripheral Interface). All the peripherals (timers, ports, low power comparator, even a q
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
You don't have to write in low-level C. You can write in high level C++, which is vastly preferable to javascript! Or hell, why not write in Lua! It's what this apparently transpiles to, and is much nicer. The only reason javascri
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yeah the Onion article writes itself: "Turing test proves that 30% of judges are actually computers." A recent Turing test at Reading University backfired after it was discovered that nearly a third of the apparently human judges
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
This seems like a good place to ask: Does anyone know of a library (preferably C++/Emscripten) that simplifies using WebRTC to create real time network games?
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Yeah I saw a card with a screen demoed ages ago which generated one-time-use credit card numbers (or something like that), which is surely the way it should be done. It's so crazy that once I've given someone some numbers they can
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
To be fair that was for technical reasons, and I think it will change soon with fibre. They tend to have sane upload speeds, e.g. 10 Mb/s.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Not really surprising - the whole idea of web desktop apps is kind of crazy, especially for something that you want to have good performance like a text editor.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
This is quite badly named and isn't intended for number-crunching. It's for when you want to use a RPi in a project, but want it smaller or better integrated into your other electronics. Think about a kiosk, or digital signage.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Do you remember how stagnant GCC was before Clang came along?
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Looks like the lock was still your problem even if it wasn't picked.
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
Nothing, because I didn't check it and see an explanation (you need a little "?" icon, or at the very least an instant-tooltip).
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by Timmmmbob 12y ago
This is better IMO: http://www.rfduino.com/ Despite their claims it is not really open source, but you can buy the official dev kit for $100 and it gives you access to the SDK, Soft devices and an SWD programmer (SWD is lik
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by Timmmmbob 13y ago
Yeah but "information" generally requires software to view it. The only reason that web page still works in modern browsers is because they've gone to all the effort to account for quirks in ancient HTML. Apple clearly didn&#
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by Timmmmbob 13y ago
Saying Microsoft isn't perfect at backwards compatibility is nit picking to say the least! They are far far ahead of any competition in terms of backwards compatibility. It's practically measured in decades whereas Apple can'
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by Timmmmbob 13y ago
> no Google staff would be able to access the data Well that's obviously bullshit... But aside from that, if it's commercially available and pseudonymised, I can't see much wrong with it.

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