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by urtie 4mo ago
Well, there was a neat feature that Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 had that got killed because the iPhone couldn't do it: you could call and send SMS through integration with a Bluetooth enabled phone. That functionality was then removed, and
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by urtie 10mo ago
There are projects such as https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-java and https://wasmtime.dev/ that extend this embeddability to Java, .net, C, C++, rust, Python, Ruby and Go. Wouldn't want to call
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by urtie 1y ago
This reminds me of the Basicode system, which transmitted cross platform programs over the radio... and in the Netherlands, some of the programs could then be checked against the checksummed program listings on Teletext...
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by urtie 2y ago
Well, for the Dutch market there's Luna: https://www.nedap-luna.com/ . This has the advantage of being integrated fully into a formal care structure and of several years of research in how to best present information sp
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by urtie 2y ago
Well, the costs for the 'in' and 'out' reader are really not the major issue for most companies, as you could conceivably set a particular perimeter that cordons of 'secure' from 'not secure' and woul
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by urtie 2y ago
From TFA: 'pretty substantial code base too. About 55,000 lines of ruby code'. Am I the only one to think that 55k LoC is not pretty substantial? That's the amount of code you can easily deal with as a single person, no team
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by urtie 3y ago
I've run something similar for 5 years, using https://www.smartevse.nl/ as the brains. The main advantages over commercial EVSE's in my case were that I could loadbalance charging the car with the electricity dema
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by urtie 3y ago
Or a library who's code now only exists on the wayback machine... and of the modified version that you actually use only a single copy exists on an old machine that one of the devs in the company never bothered to hand in for recycling
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by urtie 3y ago
Over the past decade, decade-and-a-half, it seems to have become quite common in at least the Netherlands to install taps that provide cold, hot and boiling water in new kitchens. These days, the higher end taps also do chilled and carbon
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by urtie 4y ago
I remember how I 'earned' my autographed copy... by asking 'so, how do you suppose we add interactivity to VRML? Binding with Java Applets? JavaScript?' The world these days does look quite a bit different than it did
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by urtie 5y ago
The problem with space sensing interfaces is one of intentionality. The best example of how this is hard that I can think of is that of a passive IR sensor wired to trigger opening a door. If that door is parallel to a hallway, the door wil
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by urtie 5y ago
What I like most about this manual (and others from that same era) is that the manuals do not coddle you. They provide the details, up to the exact memory layout of your computer. And that in a manual for an educational language!
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by urtie 6y ago
Just to get you an idea of how wrongheaded this entire thing was, I have a personal anecdote relating to this shitstorm. Back in autumn 2013 I got a letter stating that I had received too much in child care benefits, with a request to pay i
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by urtie 6y ago
I'll never forget the 'update' from 10.4 Tiger to 10.5 Leopard that completely dropped the previously perfectly working Bluetooth addressbook/SMS/taking phone calls integration with a slew of bluetooth capable featu
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by urtie 6y ago
ELAN was specifically developed to be used in the systematic teaching of programming to students in secondary education. As such it had very much the same goals as BASIC, but given that it was developed a decade later, and with one of the a
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by urtie 6y ago
To put those density numbers in a bit more perspective: the entire country of the Netherlands has a population density of 521 persons per km². This is including the rural areas. While I wouldn't want to be without a car and happily own
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by urtie 6y ago
Move to a different country. Apply for citizenship. Renounce your original citizenship. Rules may apply...
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by urtie 6y ago
Sounds very much like BASICODE[1] which was used to broadcast e.g. tax return software on national public radio in the Netherlands back in the 1980's [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE
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by urtie 6y ago
It seems as though the Nedap Livestock management approach is a bit easier to apply, plus it does location within buildings[1]. Love the hololens integration as well[2]. [1] https://www.nedap-livestockmanagement.com/dairy-fa