mattbee

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by mattbee 3y ago
Not used it yet, but the illustration on openvehicles.com shows an OBD-II port at one end, and black box with a DB-9 and lights labelled "GPS" and "GSM" :) So I guess ... it puts your car online, and you can read/co
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by mattbee 3y ago
A pricey field upgrade makes sense in 2016, when EVs were seen as a niche & risky proposition. I can see why they're not bothering now.
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by mattbee 3y ago
No, the only remote control for the aircon, charging etc is via a box with a 2G connection, and a proxy that the app connects to. There is no local WiFi alternative. Bluetooth is only for audio & calls. The functionality can still be ac
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by mattbee 3y ago
I really enjoyed my visit with my (then) 4yo son, but I agree. It's warmingly reverential but almost everything is behind glass. They're computers, they're machines, they can do amazing things just with a screen! The Centre
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by mattbee 3y ago
I used it for a silly credits screen in football trivia game - summer 2002 I could knock on the screen of a many pub trivia machine to make it show my name :)
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by mattbee 3y ago
I'm not going to join the willy-waving but I truly did spend a lot of time building a completely custom billing system! Lots of monthly subscriptions, per-unit billing, pricing changes, tax changes. We added complexity as the business
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by mattbee 3y ago
I don't know about this advice, you ain't gonna need half the features it talks about, and you absolutely can build it out gradually as your business grows. You do need to understand the concepts of invoices, credit, tax periods,
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by mattbee 3y ago
ChatGPT wrapped an ugly outburst in corporate sleaze.
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by mattbee 3y ago
Well simply don't. It was unkind and degrading, with the kicker that you didn't even write it yourself.
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by mattbee 3y ago
Did ChatGPT write this? Yes, OP has troubles, they have spelt them out. Your "concerns" have zero insight, they are an appeal to heartlessness. Who are you writing them for?
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by mattbee 3y ago
It's a great value product, and I would definitely be excited if I was still filling my own data centre with VMs. But you can't buy integrated like this without software support. So when 0xide have the (nice) problem of topping ou
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by mattbee 3y ago
When you learn programming, you are told to never roll your own crypto, or to always use the ready-made libraries, or to avoid manual memory management - and you can have a perfectly fruitful career following rules like that. But you don&#x
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by mattbee 3y ago
A lot of people are saying it's frustrating and doesn't do what it claims... Is that not a legal reason to return something?
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by mattbee 3y ago
My first too; I enjoyed it but if I wasn't meeting up with old friends, I wouldn't have bothered. Coming from the UK, the city trash and cycling standards seem fine :) There is a darned hill in the way of everything in Brussels, b
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The Atherstone Ball Game(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mattbee 3y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
The tone of this article is a bit combative and incurious for my taste. If you want to understand "how a computer works" - well sure C has gone from low-level to a high-level language. But the model of "how a computer works&q
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by mattbee 3y ago
I own one Japanese import minivan and one UK car. My odds of activating the indicator or wiper first time (in any vehicle) is somehow worse than 50%.
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by mattbee 3y ago
As a Brit, when I bark "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes" and Alexa prefixes her reply with "Good evening <pause>", TO ME that sounds like a bitter correction-by-example to my abruptness. It's the sarcastic op
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by mattbee 3y ago
I've also been looking and there has been no information about the nature of the software fault(s) that were the source of the accounting discrepancies that were the trigger for these miscarriages of justice. [edit: yes there are, see
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by mattbee 3y ago
THANK YOU. Was about to post the same link. Where's the double-height, blinking text? The domino characters? Such a look.
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by mattbee 3y ago
Also, Disney+ plays the episodes too slowly. They come out about 30s longer compared to BBC iPlayer; you can hear it in the theme tune.
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by mattbee 3y ago
I really liked this novel! A lot of what people say about Icelanders I assume comes from this caricature of an independent-minded (or uncompromisingly stupid) homesteader. There is sheep and starvation, bathetic death, ambitions ruined ov
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by mattbee 3y ago
Check the wpa_psk_file option in the main config file [1] which lets you specify a file full of PSKs [2], each with its own options like vlanid=X and keyid=X: [1] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/h
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by mattbee 3y ago
You can already do this with hostapd under WPA3 or WPA2 - The password alone can identify each client, and activate different configs for each one. Some commercial APs support this under different names but it's hard to make it work wi
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by mattbee 3y ago
I think Java's "green" threads only ran on a single core, a stop-gap for 90s machines that only had one. Goroutines use OS threads, but only create one OS thread per core. Go does the scheduling internally on top of those few
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by mattbee 3y ago
Apple could have been a lot meaner about this. If they really wanted to discourage 3rd-party clients they could just _subtly_ break them for users of Beeper Mini: Late messages. Truncated messages. A blue bubble that slowly turns brown. Th
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Three (UK phone network) down all day(independent.co.uk)
3 points by mattbee 3y ago|1 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
I don't think this is going to be your Christmas, mate.
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The Therac-25 Incident(thedailywtf.com)
38 points by mattbee 3y ago|10 comments
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by mattbee 3y ago
https://virtual.bbcmic.ro/ is the full experience (clack clack clack)

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