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by gh02t 9y ago
Paparazzi spying an ailing Senator, for example. BTLE is also used for more sensitive medical sensors.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I'd think passive data collection would be more interesting (for nefarious purposes), considering that BTLE is widely used for sensors and in particular for sensors that record very personal data like heart rate.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I agree, LPWAN is a better solution and this is almost exactly its raison d'etre, but the cost isn't really that much more. They're basically using GSM as an LPWAN substitute. GSM radios cost peanuts and the data costs would
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by gh02t 9y ago
Interesting, Adderall always had the opposite effect on me. I have a tendency towards mild depression, which was a problem on Ritalin but which Adderall treated very well. It functions as a mild anti-depressant in many people (it was why my
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by gh02t 9y ago
Considering the alternative is employing a person who has to go around and read every meter versus the very low cost of a GSM radio I think it very clearly makes sense cost wise.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I actually find ghome to be better for smart home use. The app is a little more intuitive with organization and it is a lot better with recognizing the names of your stuff. Alexa would have trouble recognizing arbitrary names while ghome
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by gh02t 9y ago
No, that's wrong. The signal pins absolutely are 5V tolerant (confirmed by the CEO of Espressif) and work perfectly but if you put 5V to VCC it will fry instantly. I know from experience, in both cases. It used to be the case that peop
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by gh02t 9y ago
They are 5V tolerent on the logic pins, just not on the power. LiFePO4 batteries work great for powering them as their voltage curve matches perfectly without regulation.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I can't see why they would though. I don't think the RPF has the resources to sell so many units at a loss. I suspect it's probably just barely breaking even on both. The Wifi chipset the Zero W uses costs exactly $5 in quant
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by gh02t 9y ago
Very true. It's definitely hard to get more than a couple still. But they aren't perpetually sold out anymore, at least. That is definitely an improvement in the availability that has occurred in the past couple months, so maybe t
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by gh02t 9y ago
All of them AFAIK. Even the Zero W can (finally) be had with relative ease, I just ordered one from SparkFun and Adafruit also has 'em in stock. Been wanting to make one into a security camera but they have been hard to get until just
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by gh02t 9y ago
Similar concept and similar speed, but notmuch is a little more actively developed. I also find the notmuch command line interface a bit easier and the various tools built on top of it to be better. Alot, the terminal UI I mentioned in the
853.
by gh02t 9y ago
Not sure if you're saying you want emacs or don't, but... * You want emacs - https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/ * You don't want emacs - https://github.com/pazz/alot (I use this
854.
by gh02t 9y ago
Worth noting that if you like the idea of indexing your mail, there's also Notmuch. It's a dedicated email search and indexing tool and is very nice when paired with something like OfflineIMAP to sync messages. https://
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's an obligation to the United Nations. The original intent was to make it possible for poorer countries to send mail to wealthy countries. Basically, members agreed that they would offer a service to deliver mail within their own bo
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by gh02t 9y ago
The point wasn't to avoid people (I consider that a downside actually), it was to save having to have a vehicle come pick you up twice a day or generally having to drive around without a fare. It'd be your own personal vehicle and
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by gh02t 9y ago
Heh, what I had imagined in my own little scifi vision of the future was a hub system. Everybody gets their own little single seat self driving car pod thing that drives you to the train station. But here's the twist, instead of gettin
858.
by gh02t 9y ago
Paying the driver is a pretty big cut. If there's no driver to pay and fuel is cheap (because electric / hydrogen / whatever futuristic efficient tech) then the numbers start to work out. You've also got a persistent cus
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by gh02t 9y ago
I think it's a mix. Kojima was pretty clear that he wanted to make MGSV about the player creating their own stories and de-emphasizing an explicit plot. The opening is meant to be a bridge with the older games, hence it having a struc
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by gh02t 9y ago
So I just downloaded it and played around and as far as I can tell there is no way to delete files. Or, more specifically there is a way but it's not implemented or otherwise accessible as far as I can figure from the rather sparse doc
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by gh02t 9y ago
There's a big scramble in the Department of Energy to preserve (and declassify, where possible) a lot of the data from the days of atmospheric testing, which is literally rotting. It's some of the only real world data we have on e
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by gh02t 9y ago
Most of the big data science libraries are sunsetting support by 2020, so I don't think supporting Python 2 is a great idea. It used to be true that there were lots of libs stuck on Python 2, but I'm struggling to think of any maj
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by gh02t 9y ago
Yep, I'm required to make my work freely available when I can. Some of it is sensitive so not all of it can be, but otherwise we have to. Also all of my code and data is open source, which is not required but we have permission. Where
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by gh02t 9y ago
Speaking from experience, it is good. Takes a bit of networking know-how to set it up though, and you still need a router. Their consumer oriented stuff like the AmpliFi is quite excellent too and a bit friendlier. I use an Edgerouter Lit
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by gh02t 9y ago
Not so much that they are competing for parts with smartphones so much as they are straight up picking up the leftovers. Nobody making SBCs is really shipping enough units to really have any leverage with suppliers, not even the Raspberry P
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by gh02t 9y ago
It'd be awfully difficult to precisely position and aim multiple transmitters discreetly.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I dunno if Microsoft could get away with something that extreme without (again) running afoul of anti-trust issues.
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by gh02t 9y ago
My brother, who is in high school in SC, uses a TI-NSPIRE CX. They are miles and miles beyond the TI-83 and later TI-89 we used. Nowadays I use an old HP-42S and Mathematica, depending on what I'm doing. I'm a sucker for RPN.
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by gh02t 9y ago
Isn't the high bandwidth path for HDMI uni-directional? Not half-duplex, but actually one way only, as in the receiver doesn't have the hardware to transmit back (on those lines). I'm not terribly knowledgeable about HDMI but
870.
by gh02t 9y ago
The nicest thing about our mythical hologram printer is that supports would be unnecessary for stuff like overhangs and you could maybe even print complex internal structure, depending on just how capable your 3D hologram was. One can dream

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