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by simmons 10y ago
I need that, too! (Why can't FedEx be bothered to ring the doorbell?) I sometimes wonder if instead of video, it might be easier to do audio analysis to detect the sound of the UPS truck, which tends to be rather unique in my neighbo
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by simmons 10y ago
I get the impression that most people I've worked with in the CE world come from non-CE programming backgrounds, so I doubt there are major obstacles. The biggest help would be familiarity with C/C++ programming, and being comfor
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by simmons 10y ago
What aspect of systems programming would you like to be enlightened about? I do a lot of consumer electronics programming, which I think falls into that category. I grew up learning programming on a Commodore 64, where getting anything don
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by simmons 10y ago
I was a little unsure of which category to choose for my work as a developer of consumer electronics software. "Embedded" means different things to different people -- some people reserve the term for microcontroller-level device
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by simmons 10y ago
It's strange that the security lines are suddenly getting worse everywhere, the last several months. I regularly fly Denver->San Jose. While the lines at Denver can be quite awful, I used to be able to count on getting through San
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by simmons 10y ago
I see similar messages fairly often. I believe "Success" is what you get when you use strerror() to translate an errno of 0 (success) on a Linux/UNIX machine with English localization. So this contradictory message is what
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by simmons 11y ago
Perhaps even more niche, but I remember listening to Internet Talk Radio [1] audio downloads back in 1993 or so. It's amazing how many good ideas can simmer for years before the conditions are right for them to take off. [1] http:&#x
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by simmons 11y ago
I'd be curious to hear what the challenges are. Is it simply that signal strength is too noisy to be used reliably? (I.e., interference, multipath, attenuation when the subject walks behind furniture, etc.) I was attending a theatre
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by simmons 11y ago
Not at all. That's just the median age, and I think the profession tends to have a lot of young people due to the size of the field at the time people chose their careers.
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by simmons 11y ago
I'm a little disappointed that (from a brief glance at the documents) it doesn't appear to support the 5 Ghz Wi-Fi band. I wonder if it's a power issue, or just limited space on the PCB. The 2.4 Ghz band gets kind of crowde
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by simmons 11y ago
> e.g. Preview has always worked fine for me. That's the first thing that went through my mind when I read the complaint about Preview crashing. Then I got to thinking about how Preview can eat up a lot of memory in certain situati
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by simmons 11y ago
That doesn't catch the cases where the sender uses a different From: address, or shares your email address with third parties.
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by simmons 11y ago
I love the concept. In fact, it's somewhat similar to the manual, ad-hoc scheme I've been using for years. It's always interesting to see exactly who is leaking your email address to spammers (whether intentionally or other
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by simmons 11y ago
I used Word Writer 4 on the C64. Its spell-check system avoided loading the entire dictionary into memory or using an on-disk structured random-access database. Instead, it simply sorted the words in your document first, then stepped thro
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by simmons 11y ago
It looks like the only way this land could be remotely considered a town is its history -- there was once a post office and 40 people living there. That was apparently enough to get its name on the highway sign. But it's not an incor
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by simmons 11y ago
I'm not too familiar with how iPhone hardware is put together, but is there a possibility of performing a forensic extraction of the flash memory and performing a brute-force attack offline? Or does the conversion of PIN to the storag
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by simmons 11y ago
I know the feeling. It's hard to believe that my old college town of Starkville, Mississippi has gigabit fiber to the home and I don't here in metro Denver. :/
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by simmons 11y ago
This rings true. Many of us start out with very limiting notions of what's possible, and there's nothing like surrounding yourself with bright people to expand the envelope of what seems to be possible. I attended a school very s
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by simmons 11y ago
This is great advice. I sympathize with some of the concerns in the original post, which is a big part of why I haven't been a full-time employee in 16 years. From reading the comments of others, it sounds like going back to being an
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by simmons 11y ago
The C64 wasn't the best platform for running a GUI, and GEOS required a great deal of patience. I eventually went back to non-GEOS tools for most things (Word Writer 4, yay). GEOS was nonetheless an impressive technical accomplishmen
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by simmons 11y ago
GEOS did support a "SWAP FILE" on the floppy. It wasn't swap in the modern page fault / virtual memory sense, of course. When you loaded a "desk accessory" (Calculator, notepad, etc.) from within another appl
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by simmons 11y ago
Ah, GEOS. I used it quite a bit when I was a kid -- wrote school reports in geoWrite, made labels in geoPaint, and wrote 6502 assembly code in geoProgrammer. (Well, technically, wrote assembly in geoWrite and then used geoProgrammer to as
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by simmons 11y ago
As others have mentioned, there can be issues with running without a C wire. Their "power stealing" technique did not seem to be effective for keeping my first-generation Nest from running out of battery. (Although there may be
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by simmons 11y ago
Maybe it's just me, but isn't it a bit scary there are so many hidden magnets around? I'll have to add the edge of my MacBook to the list of things to keep credit cards away from...
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by simmons 12y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a domain name hoarding problem. After being burnt in the early days by missing a nice domain name to someone who registered it an hour before, I resolved to always register a domain name as soon
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by simmons 12y ago
Like muaddirac, I, too, think there's a lack of tools for solving the problem. I've been a remote worker for ten years or so. A couple of years ago, a colleague and I decided to just run a continuous all-day video conferencing s
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by simmons 12y ago
Are there good sites for discovering these sorts of games? In the category of retro-style games for mobile platforms, it's an enormous chore to find anything good by just paging through the app stores.
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Reinventing software for security; or: The woodpeckers are coming(cafbit.com)
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by simmons 12y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of libraries supporting protocols, formats, cryptosystems, and the like -- stuff that doesn't require interacting with the Android API. Being able to use the Android API from Rust (or any other non-J
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by simmons 12y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't previously stumbled across JNA, but it seems to support Android, so maybe it would be a good way to use general-purpose Rust libraries within Android apps without writing a lot of new JNI shim code.

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