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by tdicola 11y ago
Luckily GCC works great with it as it's an ARM Cortex M0. I use the GCC ARM embedded toolchain here and haven't had issues: https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded The only gotcha is that you need to sign up with
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by tdicola 11y ago
> It doesn’t look like there are many other products using the 51822 Actually the nRF51822 is starting to pop up in a lot of products, especially those that use BLE. The BBC Micro Bit will be built around it: https://en.wikip
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"A pandas-like data expression system providing comprehensive coverage of the functionality already provided by Impala. It is composable and semantically complete; if you can write it with SQL, you can write it with Ibis, often with su
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by tdicola 11y ago
People build it and then you can exchange money to receive one, how does that not qualify as a production car? Some are even built in the US (by TMI) and you can find them at dealerships: http://arielatom.com/locate-dealer&
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by tdicola 11y ago
Wow is that 1500A with DC current? Wouldn't there be a big magnetic field generated when so much power is pulled through the wires/bus bars from the battery? Would be kinda funny to do an insane mode launch and your pocket chang
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by tdicola 11y ago
The Ariel Atom 500 (with the V8) is a little bit faster at 2.3 seconds 0-60. However it's not really a daily driver kind of car like the Tesla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIiWhWpzFQQ
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It actually has a REST API for sending a dashboard data so you can pump in new data from Python or any language.
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by tdicola 11y ago
They just need to bring the blink tag back.
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Not only that, the article is almost 20 years old.
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Also use a chatbot script to randomly reply to the user's comments.
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I'd argue its an omission or mistake with the spec then. Being able to passively collect sensor data without connecting to a device is very handy as it allows many devices to read data from many local sensors. If they all have to con
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by tdicola 11y ago
This looks really cool, in particular the telemetry packet is a nice idea for transmitting sensor data with BLE broadcast packets. Using that you can 'passively' read many nearby sensors without having to connect to them. I&#x27
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It looks like they've documented the packet format here: https://github.com/google/eddystone For example URLs: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-ur... ,
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by tdicola 11y ago
I've always wanted to train a little neural net image classifier to find Waldo's face. It seems like that would be a more useful general approach to finding Waldo in any image. However it would break down on the last Waldo chall
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by tdicola 11y ago
That's great! What's changed in the last 30 years that serves are so much faster? Racket design? Balls? How we measure the serve?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Is this really in the spirit of a Show HN post? It's basically an advertisement to rent someone's space.
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That might have been true 20 years ago with big box retail games, but on Steam, GOG, etc. everything is the same price and many games are multiplatform.
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> much smaller Not really, they have ~118k employees and are planning to remove about 7800, so about a 7% reduction. For reference Apple has 98k employees, Google 55k, Facebook 10k.
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No Balmer was known to have thrown a temper tantrum and was ready to quit on the spot if the board didn't approve of the Nokia purchase: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2475938/it-management/s...
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If success is not defined as making money or being the top selling console then sure I guess it's successful at something.
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"Microsoft will record an impairment charge of about $7.6 billion on its Nokia handset unit" Wow, well there it is--looks like the rumor is true. So the Nokia deal was basically a complete flop?
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If you're downloading pre-built binaries like on Windows then unfortunately yes it does matter if you're using 32-bit or 64-bit libraries. Windows in general has always been a bit of a second class citizen with Python library sup
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I've love to know a scenario where OLE is actually used today. It might have made sense in the early 90's pre-Internet & HTML computer world but really has no use today and is just a massive security hole. Seems like it shou
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by tdicola 11y ago
Definitely agree on Alan Kay--his talks are fantastic! I would also add Bret Victor to the list too.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Does FICO even matter anymore? I remember they changed the algorithms over the past few years and I think the banks have their own scores that the public don't see. I really just use my FICO & credit report as a ballpark figure t
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No, when you save the credentials of the wifi password locally that solves the problem of having to ask your friend for the password every time you go to their place. There's no need to broadcast the password to every friend to fix th
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Even if people opt into it, why should this happen automatically? If one of my friends told every single Facebook friend of theirs the password to my wifi I would have a very strong conversation with them and probably never invite them int
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Where are these passwords stored and who has access to them? Can they be subpoenaed by government and law enforcement?
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Who wants to bet as a part of TPP (now that it's fast-tracked) there will be plenty of tax holidays or even tax reductions for moving foreign cash back into the US?
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Samsung rose to power as the biggest (and most profitable) Android manufacturer during the same time Nokia made its big (company breaking) bet on Windows Phone. If Nokia had gone with Android perhaps they could have been the dominant Andro

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