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by simmons 8y ago
That's great! Its use of a 680x0 emulator with a re-implementation of the Mac OS API reminds me a bit of how DOSBox emulates an x86 but provides a host re-implementation of BIOS and DOS APIs. Is the name a reference to "advanced t
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by simmons 8y ago
I'm not the above poster, but I also use voip.ms. I don't think you'd need any software at all to set up a phone number with voicemail that mails the recordings. If you want to place calls from your provisioned phone number
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by simmons 8y ago
I can certainly imagine thieves opening the box soon after taking it and throwing anything that doesn't look valuable or easily fenced into a ditch. However, RF bags may be expecting a bit much sophistication from people who can'
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by simmons 8y ago
That's certainly a fascinating idea. My initial thought was "Wait, doesn't the kernel already provide a sandboxed execution environment -- called userspace?" This would still have scheduling overhead, but I assume the i
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by simmons 8y ago
I agree 100%. I don't happen to use npm/Node, but I'm terrified that this could happen in the language/package ecosystems that I do use. I don't think that throwing wide-ranging functionality into the standard libra
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by simmons 8y ago
Indeed. I've often thought that such high-latency mix-nets (with their potentially superior resistance to traffic analysis) would be a nice complement to low-latency networks like Tor.
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by simmons 8y ago
Yipes! That's good to know about, thanks. At the same time, I've also been surprised at how lenient the browsers are at accepting associations from my incomplete implementation (e.g. without the required SCTP extensions, etc.).
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by simmons 8y ago
Yes [1], but it's incomplete, needs a lot of TODO resolution and cleanup, (insert other scary disclaimers here), etc. I also have some slides from a presentation [2]. [1] https://github.com/simmons/webrtc-sctp [2
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by simmons 8y ago
Great work! I can really appreciate the effort you likely put into re-implementing SCTP, since I'm currently working on implementing SCTP in Rust for the same reasons (WebRTC support). :)
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by simmons 8y ago
Bootstrapping identity is a very hard problem, and implementors can't resist the easy path of piggy-backing on someone else's identity or authentication system -- social security numbers, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc. A
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by simmons 8y ago
It's my understanding that renice doesn't limit CPU usage, but rather adjusts the process's priority in the scheduler relative to other processes. So I don't think it would stop a process from eating up all available id
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by simmons 8y ago
I've noticed that a lot of sites will end up using 100% CPU usage on their Chrome tab. I haven't investigated, but I do wonder what sort of faulty design leads to this. You occasionally hear talk of sites using your CPU to mine
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by simmons 8y ago
Having grown up in a small town in the 80's where it was hard to get access to all the media I might have wanted, I can really appreciate how great it is that kids today have access to this incredible world of content! And there'
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by simmons 8y ago
My Dad is in his early 70's and has never used the Internet. In fact, he never even had a cellphone until this year when I bought him a flip-phone and convinced him to accept it. I think he's plenty capable of learning such tech
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by simmons 8y ago
I don't know if people or specifically children were happier in the 80s/90s, but after spending a couple of weeks with my 10-year-old niece, I'm completely floored at how she tries to fill every waking minute passively consum
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by simmons 8y ago
I see. It may be that Concatenated SMS is what my VoIP provider is failing to support. (I saw some talk once about fallback to MMS for long messages, but maybe that was just speculation or an uncommon scenario.) I guess I'm in the sa
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by simmons 8y ago
Like the author, I also rolled my own SMS-over-XMPP solution a few years ago. One central ongoing frustration is that a lot of what people think is SMS really ends up being MMS. Not only do I miss pictures, but people send group texts that
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by simmons 8y ago
GEOS really pushed the limits of the hardware with a great deal of cleverness. It's amazing to compare something like GEOS with the primitive software that was available for the exact same hardware several years before. Using it on a
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by simmons 8y ago
I definitely remember this being a thing in small-town America in the 1980's -- particularly with aluminum cans, which I suppose is one of the more valuable recyclables. Schools and churches would ask people to save their cans and bri
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by simmons 9y ago
Ditto, mostly! There was one page of the Programmer's Reference Guide that had a grid showing the hex opcodes for each instruction and addressing mode, and after many adventures in hand-assembling code, this ended up being the most wo
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by simmons 9y ago
That sounds like something that he should have been alerted to via Reverse 911, but I suppose he wasn't properly registered yet if he just moved. I know my county uses Reverse 911 to notify of wildfires, because I errantly received su
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by simmons 9y ago
> Now Steve wants to warn the public about the dangers of LiPo batteries if left on charge for a substantial amount of time. I've also occasionally heard recommendations from people to not leave devices charging because it may pot
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by simmons 9y ago
I'm personally a big advocate of Rust. That said, like yourself, I'm also a little skeptical that it's the right tool for most web apps. I think a case can be made for small Rust web apps embedded in consumer electronics th
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by simmons 9y ago
There are a number of languages that meet the memory safety criteria, and they each have tradeoffs that may make them a good choice for a certain range of use cases. This project happens to be based on Go, but similar projects in other lan
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by simmons 9y ago
This is great! I think it could have uses far beyond the Raspberry Pi. As someone who's worked in the consumer electronics industry for years, I think we desperately need to rethink our approach to Linux-based electronics with respec
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by simmons 9y ago
I don't think running an Android layer on Fuchsia would necessarily be a problem for battery life (it's not like you'd need to emulate a different CPU), although loading all the Android frameworks and services could be a RAM
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by simmons 9y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one still using a Nexus 5. My only frustration is the delay between tapping on the screen and the desired action occurring (e.g. in Google Maps). Do you find that ROMs based on newer versions of AOSP ma
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by simmons 9y ago
I occasionally thumb through these old magazines, and I'm always impressed with how many small technology businesses were making niche products and placing these ads in the 80's. What I find more astonishing is how geographically
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by simmons 9y ago
Yeah, if nothing else, it sounds like it could be a bookkeeping hassle for the customer. I've recently seen mention on a local subreddit that people here in Colorado are getting notices from Newegg about this [1]. [1] https:/&#x
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by simmons 9y ago
> The latest figures, per Wikipedia, puts traffic at about 74 million posts per day, totaling more than 37 terabytes. Just yesterday, I spoke to someone who mentioned Usenet as a means of pirating movies. I cry a little inside wheneve

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