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by thom_nic 10y ago
Yup I did not mention nix but from what I understand it is very similar in spirit to snapcraft. Unfortunately creating an embedded linux distro leaves one with few package manager/ updater options - Debian (apt/deb, although Sid h
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by thom_nic 10y ago
In addition to the other great projects mentioned, I'll throw out fwup [1] (A/B partition update, used by nerves.io) and snapcraft [2] (containerized packages, not whole-OS.) For myself, I'm comfortable with some form of A&#x
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by thom_nic 10y ago
I actually started using webdriverIO + chromedriver after fighting too much with casperJS - while webdriver (and Selenium) seem to have much more momentum there are still some things I really miss that PhantomJS gave when using Capybara. I
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by thom_nic 10y ago
How is it OK to do this if the browser is sending DNT? Is it really voluntary on the part of the ad network and they can just choose to ignore it?
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Can you explain why? Assuming you could still `apt-get install python27` and `update-alternatives` to symlink that back to the default `python`, no?
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by thom_nic 10y ago
This. The alternative: sudo sh -c 'cat some.img > /dev/sdb' or even more baroque: cat some.img | sudo tee /dev/sdb > /dev/null is a pain by comparison, and the `sudo sh -c` va
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by thom_nic 10y ago
I played with this one a bit and enjoyed it, as a novice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikrosonic... I also got G-Stomper during an Amazon sale although I haven't really played with it at
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by thom_nic 10y ago
The money quote: > True net neutrality is getting the government out of dictating how the internet – and companies who provide access – should work. Leave that up to the people to decide with their wallet. Which is fine, if consumers ac
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by thom_nic 10y ago
(from Facebook) I just learned about Buck from the Yoga post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13124584
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Buck: a high-performance build tool(buckbuild.com)
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Heads up! If you're quick, the TMo-branded ASUS AC68 is on sale for $60 after coupon WIFI40. http://www.t-mobile.com/accessories/t-mobile-wi-fi-cellspot-...
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by thom_nic 10y ago
In the past two years, I've bought... - TP-Link Archer C7. This supports our office of ~30 ppl and has been bullet-proof since day 1. - TP-Link N600. Cheaper but still 5GHz. Also super stable, I use it as a wifi bridge daily. - I ju
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Texas Instruments am335x also is a popular chip with upstream support (Beaglebone Black & Olinuxino am3352-som and quite a few other vendors have modules based on it.) If you want a canonical list, look in the kernel arch/arm&#x2F
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Allowing user-defined rules comes to mind. AFAIK `eval()`-ing user input is can't be done in a safe way. Probably OK on browser but not on the server.
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Been considering the same problem here - how to allow some sort of user-defined rules/ logic flow? The UI is indeed more difficult to (well) do than the data representation of said rules. Anything you can share?
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by thom_nic 10y ago
the following comment refutes that comment and says Angular 1.x is still supported by Google.
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NodeMCU has stopped further development of a new devboard(twitter.com)
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by thom_nic 10y ago
I've been running bananian with the 4.4 kernel on my bpi-R1 (A20 SoC) and everything seems to be working fine. Although I don't use it for anything graphical (it's a networking/storage/server device.) Can't sa
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by thom_nic 10y ago
The GR8 is an AllWinner R8 with RAM in a single piece of resin. They are targeting product builders, see the section: > Powered by a chip you can actually buy. > R8 SoC + 256MB DDR3 > 1 package. 1 price. > $6 in any quantity. (
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Milled cut out in the middle of the mainboard seems like an annoying additional cost. Headers that raise the module off the board would be acceptable, except when vertical space is a constraint.
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by thom_nic 10y ago
This idea of an electrical-arc jet engine is new to me. Can you point to any published material on such a design or prototype? Very intriguing.
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Different chip/vendor but Freescale's i.mx7 is an AMP design with a Cortex A7 + an M4 presumably for the realtime bits. I had the same thought w/r/t development on the PRU. http://www.nxp.com/products&#x
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Source? I have not seen strong argument against running postgres or other DBs in a container. Data directory should be mapped to a persistent volume, of course.
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by thom_nic 10y ago
If you're lucky you can in often get by looking for xmlns attribute on the IQ or message child element and operate on the assumption that you know exactly what namespaces you expect to see a priori. But yes, it's an uphill battle
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by thom_nic 10y ago
IQ messages are "guaranteed" at the protocol level. E.g. recipient is required by the protocol to reply, so pretty much all XMPP libraries make it easy to handle an IQ send with a reply timeout. This is not quite the same as &
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by thom_nic 10y ago
+1 for SleekXMPP. A colleague and I actually contributed a bit to it some years back when we were using it in a commercial application (ARM/Linux hardware.)
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Yes, apparently the limit on 32-bit is 2GB actually. MongoDB has always stated upfront that 32-bit architectures are not recommended for production use for precisely this reason: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/137788967&
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by thom_nic 10y ago
But don't all modern MBPs have both an integrated and discrete graphics card? Mine sure does. So when I'm not doing something graphics-intensive, my 15" MBP uses the Iris Pro graphics. I can't say I've experienc
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by thom_nic 10y ago
Interesting Ethereum uses the term "function" however in programming we understand a pure function to be an operation that always returns the same result given the same inputs. I don't know anything about Ethereum, but if f
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by thom_nic 10y ago
What's the motivator for EE's backing? Assuming it's not just a random crowdfunding campaign they were feeling charitable to. Do they want their own SDR to e.g. do network/ frequency analysis? Or advanced radio R&

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