abollaert

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by abollaert 3y ago
I thought both Thread and Zigbee run on top of IEEE802.15.4, but Thread is based on 6LoWPAN / IPv6 where Zigbee uses its own network layer. But Thread idd functions fine without the internet (although you probably could connect devices
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by abollaert 4y ago
... at which point we can also "undeprecate" RestTemplate and pretend that never happened either :-)
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by abollaert 6y ago
... which is why we want to use FFI instead ;-) Now you already can using JNA though. JNI still requires you to write native code and compile it for your target platform, FFI eliminates that need.
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by abollaert 6y ago
Thing is that people try to look for conspiracies where this is probably just an honest mistake.
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by abollaert 8y ago
Insights discovery most likely.
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by abollaert 8y ago
Tangentially : I'm currently reading a book about microbes and microbiomes in general. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi... I've found it to be pretty interesting and accessibl
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by abollaert 9y ago
Has been discussed before. https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218550
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by abollaert 9y ago
I used to do Hello Fresh regularly too, but I quit using it after about a year. Thing is, it's about 7 euros per meal per person, and when you're comfortable enough to cook the meals yourself, just getting the ingredients from the
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by abollaert 11y ago
IMHO that does not matter. If they knew about the software, they are the ones responsible, not the engineers. And it seems unthinkable that engineering just went ahead and put in the software hack, without getting a go from management or th
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by abollaert 11y ago
I don't think he refers to the caching being a bad thing, but that it probably does not affect performance that much, since most Strings are likely to be small (and the number of times hashcode is called is also likely to be small). Th
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by abollaert 11y ago
Shouldn't they also take other factors into account, like image quality, sound quality, connectivity and the likes? Seems rather easy just to slap a "quality" label onto a TV just based on how well it runs the Netflix client.
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by abollaert 12y ago
I also noticed this. An example of an application of this saying would be a whistleblower.
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by abollaert 12y ago
The invention of the PCR technique for duplicating DNA sequences is at least partially attributed to the use of LSD. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis ) Francis Crick is also known to have experimented with LS
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by abollaert 12y ago
Why do you say Soekris dropped the ball? I've been running Gentoo on a net5501 for years now (since 2009) and never had any problems except with the USB (which I'm using to read out my SMA inverter). Are their newer designs flawed
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by abollaert 12y ago
In the case of EJB and so on, it's not just OO concepts. You also have declarative distributed transactions and nesting of these transactions, role based security with a shared context. I thought the concepts were originally based on C
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by abollaert 12y ago
Technically it's EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JavaBeans is a pattern where you need to adhere to particular coding conventions (getters, setters, naming of said getters and setters). I also used to work with these a long time ago (EJB
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by abollaert 12y ago
I get what you are saying, but you do make it sound like the (older) people with children are the worst ones, by virtue of having children or being older. Also there is a reason why these measures are in place, being that people with childr
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by abollaert 12y ago
... and don't have children?
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by abollaert 13y ago
I'd gather you won't be counting in BTC directly then. 0.000132 is 132 microbits (or yu-bits). Bitcoins are divisable up to satoshi's, which is 10^-8. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14438.msg195287#ms
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by abollaert 13y ago
Yeah but it's not the UI that's laggy. It's mostly the library updates. I've got a Raspberry that takes 15 minutes to do a library scan, while my Ion takes about a minute, maybe 2. It depends on your use case of course,
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by abollaert 13y ago
Nice writeup. I've got a similar setup, however, I grew a bit annoyed with Raspbmc, as it's a bit slow as your library gets bigger. So I'd recommend an Atom box to handle this part (I'm using an Ion330 from Asrock, but t
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by abollaert 13y ago
I still have the "Little Black book of computer viruses". I just got my first AT computer then (a 486DX). Very entertaining stuff that was... http://home.swipnet.se/smaffy/asm/info/vir.pdf
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by abollaert 13y ago
Makes me think of the time the CCC reverse engineered a trojan used by the German police. http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner
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by abollaert 13y ago
No, for example you could also run IP on DOCSIS, which is typically employed by cable modems. Or you could run it on an 802.15.4 stack, using 6LoWPAN (in the RF world, and lately also narrowband PLC such as G3). Remember that IP is layer 3
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by abollaert 15y ago
The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this argument is used as a red herring, and that there are other issues that need sorting out (involving money and control).
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by abollaert 16y ago
I seem to remember something about Nokia 1100 phones being used for bank fraud (only specific ones that were manufactured in the Bochum plant). http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163515/nokia_w... Edit : Spelling.
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by abollaert 16y ago
I used switches from CJC systems (a small Belgian company, a friend of mine designs prints for them, so I was able to get my hands on a few of them for the sake of my "experiment"). http://www.cjcsystems.com/index.php?page=Products&cat
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by abollaert 16y ago
I used a combination of Arduino boards (Atmega controllers), Velleman dimmers and a Velleman relay board to control all the lights in my home, with pushbutton switches that have feedback LEDs. Then I wrote an application on top of that (run