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by flexer2 4y ago
NoraSector: https://app.norasector.com/ -- real-time police/fire/EMS scanner for the Seattle area. Uses custom SDR software that can capture entire radio systems and streams with sub-second latency to clients, al
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Show HN: NoraSector – low-latency WebRTC police/fire/EMS scanner (Seattle)(app.norasector.com)
3 points by flexer2 5y ago|0 comments
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by flexer2 5y ago
Fusion360 is the only thing I run a VM for. There’s a repo out there that sets up wine and installs it but it just doesn’t work very well at all. I’m using VMWare Player and set up the virtual disk to boot from the Windows drive and run it
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by flexer2 6y ago
Extremely wealthy people (i.e. 9-digit+ net worth) have teams of lawyers and accountants that figure out the optimal way to allocate the client's cash to achieve their goals. That may or may not include incurring debt, etc. Rich peop
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by flexer2 7y ago
Sounds like you should contact a lawyer.
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by flexer2 7y ago
Planes are extremely expensive pieces of machinery and you don't make money if you're not flying passengers with them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't in the air as many hours as possible.
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by flexer2 7y ago
It's for delivery.
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by flexer2 7y ago
typo, fixed
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by flexer2 7y ago
Amazon Flex does this as well. I signed up to do deliveries last year to see how it worked, and on a couple occasions gamed it such that I was able to deliver an order I placed to myself (which is really just ordering from a nearby restaur
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by flexer2 7y ago
We use ES heavily. Most of our queries are basic document filtering plus some geospatial stuff. We could probably have done it with Postgres/PostGIS, but with AWS manages ES, it's all "good enough" -- we can do geospat
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by flexer2 7y ago
I wrote up a Medium post about what I do with mine: https://medium.com/@adamargo/how-i-use-raspberry-pis-for-hom... Mostly home automation. 1x homebridge server, ffmpeg transcoder for security cameras, 1x for controlli
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by flexer2 7y ago
There's a pretty simple optimization in the labels you can do, but it doesn't really help that much. The first block of letters is XORing with one set of primes that follow a common pattern, but the second one is stumping me. I
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by flexer2 7y ago
This seems like a waste of money on the surface. The concerns over privacy seem a little silly given the hundreds of CCTV cameras that monitor the stores already, though.
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by flexer2 7y ago
One thing I like about their business model is that it isn't just the autonomous/teleoperation tech, but also that they're a full-service trucking company. That kind of integration should hopefully allow them to provide the
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by flexer2 7y ago
I've been fully remote for the past two years at a company that is mostly distributed (we have to have physical operations in markets we operate in, but the tech team is fully remote). Overall, I love it, and it would be a challenge to
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by flexer2 7y ago
We have a Peloton bike. We used to be Flywheel members, at $300/mo, and that's pretty pricy. The bike pays for itself quickly if that's what you're replacing. The class content is good. It's available anytime. O
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by flexer2 7y ago
In principle I agree with the author, but some of the patterns these big companies have introduced are valuable for companies with significantly lower amounts of traffic. For instance, in the article they reference Kafka. In one of our pr
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How I Use Raspberry Pis for HomeKit Automation(medium.com)
2 points by flexer2 8y ago|0 comments
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by flexer2 8y ago
One of my most used tools with pipes on the Mac is `pbcopy`, which copies whatever you're piping to the clipboard. Copying your public key somewhere? `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy` Pretty-printing some JSON you copied from
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by flexer2 8y ago
I inherited a Canon PowerShot 350 from a dead relative back in the late 90s. I was still blown away that I could take pictures that went straight to the computer with reasonable quality. By today's standards it's garbage of cours
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by flexer2 8y ago
The Echo does this with Spotify too, fwiw. I ended up creating a separate account in my Spotify family for the Echo to link to Spotify, which is less than ideal as you lose your personal playlists, etc.
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by flexer2 8y ago
I had a cab driver do this to me once, in 2016 or so. He dropped me off at the destination and told me it’d be $20 or whatever, cash only. I didn’t have cash on me, and said all I had was a card. He demanded that I prove I had no cash. Bein
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by flexer2 8y ago
libpostal is a pretty incredible open source project, but addresses are so complicated and nuanced that depending on what you’re doing, it might not be able to keep up. I work for a real estate tech company where we do a lot of address pars
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by flexer2 8y ago
My dad spent his career as a natural gas pipeline technician. For a long time they maintained their own radio towers and VHF or UHF (I forget which) radio network. Each district had their own comms guy who maintained the network, and it was
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by flexer2 8y ago
I deleted mine in early 2017. I still have a “burner” account though. It was from back in the days when you needed a .edu address, and I figured out there was an alternate domain at my school that could be used to receive emails to the same
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by flexer2 8y ago
They still use them although where I live it just seems to be for larger packages. Most stuff is delivered to me by Flex drivers now. I agree, though, they are the absolute worst. This guy was probably just a Flex driver. I’ve had bad exper
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by flexer2 8y ago
I have delivered thousands of packages through the Amazon Flex program; I am quite well-versed in their policies. There is no such incentive policy to return undeliverable packages as he claims. If you are out making deliveries, and you can