calebm

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   by calebm 8y ago

   Could anyone describe practical benefits to studying lambda calculus (other than, perhaps, to better understand the underlying concepts in LISP)? It seems kind of interesting because it is a way to describe what programs do with a very smal
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   by calebm 8y ago

   I remember a mechanical engineer friend of mine who worked in a power plant telling me that large flywheels are still used for energy storage. Funny how basic the energy storage solutions often are.
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   by calebm 8y ago

   The RPi Zero W does ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/ ). I haven't tried the Zero W yet, but I have tested the Pi 3.
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   by calebm 8y ago

   Writing a plugin would be a great way to get into programming.
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   by calebm 8y ago

   * Panda PAU07 N600 Dual Band (nice, small, 2.4GHz and 5GHz) * Panda PAU09 N600 Dual Band (higher power, 2.4GHz and 5GHz) * Alfa AWUS052NH Dual-Band 2x 5dBi (high power, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, large, ugly) * TP-Link N150 (works well, but not dual
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   by calebm 8y ago

   More like the context determines if something is evil or not. For example, if I'm listening for drones flying around my house so I can deauth them to prevent them from spying on me, I would say that is justified, but if I monitor peopl
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   by calebm 8y ago

   That's an ideal use-case of trackerjacker. Another good one (that I'm meaning to write a better plugin for) is to alert on anomalous devices nearby. I have a draft of that plugin here: https://github.com/calebmadri
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   by calebm 8y ago

   Just lightly. Seems difficult to detect for sure, but probabilistically some insights could be gained.
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   by calebm 8y ago

   Not all cards support monitor mode. I have some recommended cards at the bottom of the README.md file.
10. 400.▲
    by calebm 8y ago

    Like almost everything in life, it depends on your intentions.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Thanks, appreciate the feedback!
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Good point, I may add that. One thing to keep in mind though: you can create a simple plugin to keep as up-to-date on whatever data you care about as you like. Here's a simple example of a plugin: https://github.com/cal
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Thanks!
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    by calebm 8y ago

    trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security c
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    Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to(github.com)

    159 points by calebm 8y ago|33 comments
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Dependency injection scares me as it feels like a move towards the JavaEE/Spring world.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    This reminds me of the documentary "Waiting for Superman". It's kind of poetic that LeBron James is making this effort.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    False by recursion :)
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    by calebm 8y ago

    "Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World" (by Haruki Murakami). I love every book I've read by Haruki Murakami, but I think this may be my favorite. I suspect that, for a work of literary surrealist/magical realis
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    by calebm 8y ago

    My goal memory/storage specs for my next laptop is 32Gb, 1Tb SSD. But that is only available in the 15" (I prefer 13"), and it costs $3600 (which is more than I'm willing to spend at this time).
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    by calebm 8y ago

    I was so sad to see that too! I'm still waiting on a 13" 32Gb macbook.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    It seems that minimalism is finally on the way out.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    I'd be curious what the battery life is like for a device running intentionally cpu-heavy algorithms.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    I appreciate this gesture of heterogeneity.
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Nice analysis. Just thinking of it intuitively, the cell phone transmitter has to send data several km, whereas the bluetooth only has to transmit a few meters. Couple that with the inverse square law, and a bluetooth headset sounds much lo
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    by calebm 8y ago

    When I'm trying to hack a program/computer/whatever, I typically end up breaking that thing multiple times before getting the desired effect. If that thing were a human body, I could imagine it going badly. Sadly, you can&#x2
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    by calebm 8y ago

    Literally today, my wife took her Macbook (bought last year) to the Genius bar to get the Enter key fixed - you had to press really hard to get it to take. The repair person just cleaned off the underside of the key. They said they didn&#x2
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    by calebm 9y ago

    I want to get one of those giant XML bibles and keep it on my desk just to troll people.
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    by calebm 9y ago

    Just today on Reddit, there was a "shower thought" that being a Millennial is like starting to play monopoly where there is a hotel on every property. My response is that, of course all the properties in the major cities have hote
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    by calebm 9y ago

    Great and to-the-point analysis.