jpterry

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   by jpterry 2y ago

   For ham radio, I would strongly recommend buying some 12v LiFePO4 batteries, or a product based on them. It seems many of these consumer "power bank" products (like ecomax) are built on lithium ion batteries, and with that comes m
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   by jpterry 6y ago

   I too am very curious. I've seen this same message repeated a few times now. I've noticed there strange echoing in the reporting and messaging around this whole event, so I'm taking it all with a grain of salt. My assumption
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   by jpterry 6y ago

   In theory, if you had individual leads to each LED, possible. However, I don't think the way WS2811s (and similar) are addressed would allow this.
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   by jpterry 12y ago

   The QR code contains data unique to your web session. You're already authenticated to WhatsApp on your phone. So the data in that QR code is sent back to WhatsApp's web server, through your phone, and they connect the open web ses
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   by jpterry 13y ago

   Very cool. Much easier to get working than powerline, imho.
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   by jpterry 13y ago

   Myself and some friends built a very similar tool during the LAUNCH hackathon. It's a shared code editor with some github integration for saving your work, and webrtc handling the video chat. Check it out, we'd love some feedback. https://
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   by jpterry 14y ago

   Relatedly, github insists on this width in both their language style guides and code windows on the web site. The VT100 had a 132 columns and was released 34 years ago! Why are we still limiting code to 80 characters per line?
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   by jpterry 15y ago

   Firstly, I can attest that migrating the datastore of an application which has scaled to require a NoSQL solution is no trivial task. Secondly, I believe the author of the original posting really meant that "premature optimization is the ro
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   by jpterry 16y ago

   I'm in Santa Barbara and am very interested.
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    by jpterry 17y ago

    I also use Netbeans IDE. It works through a native gem and requires a specific version of the gem to work properly. Its a little funky, but I almost never need it.
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    by jpterry 17y ago

    He is. The first argument is the width, the second is the height. Therefore, the height is calculated based on the golden ratio applied to the width.