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by wrigby 10y ago
I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the differences between using SWIM vs a commercial product like FlightAware. From my cursory glance at SWIM, it seems like it's probably better for getting flight plans and weather inf
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by wrigby 10y ago
I was curious as to how this was done, so I took a look at the external JS that CodePen was configured to load. He's using GreenSock[1], which looks like a really cool tool for building rich interactions and animations with SVG+JS in t
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by wrigby 10y ago
I think it's essentially half of what Echo does. Echo has to do two separate tasks [1]: The first is to figure out exactly what direction your voice is coming from. Once it has a direction, uses beamforming [2] to get a higher SNR for
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by wrigby 10y ago
I've never gotten a better drum overhead sound than with a spaced pair of 414's (I think TL II, but it's been awhile). Love that mic. That said, I don't think the 414 color is the same as the U87 color. My impression has
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by wrigby 10y ago
I've found that the engineers who build products on open source software very rarely have the authority to donate company money, and the businesspeople that do have the authority rarely understand the benefits of it. I think a guide on
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by wrigby 10y ago
I think the remote wake is based on when the car is put into reverse, which would be challenging to tell from the phone. I imagine that only running the camera when the car is in reverse is a key part of keeping power consumption down in th
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by wrigby 10y ago
If you're IDE doesn't do it, then I highly recommend using ack[1]. It's my go-to tool for tasks like this, and I've found it a joy to use. 1: http://beyondgrep.com
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by wrigby 10y ago
My understanding was that FaceTime and iMessage weren't open sourced because of issues related to a patent troll (VirnetX IIRC). I'd be interested in hearing from others that are more familiar with the situation.
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by wrigby 10y ago
Yep - it's pretty common in the pro audio industry to use DB-25 cables for 8 channels of balanced audio (+, -, gnd per channel). They'll break out to 8x XLR or 8x TRS (1/4" headphone plug) connectors. It's used way
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by wrigby 10y ago
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_980
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by wrigby 10y ago
Abusing WebRTC can be a viable option in latency-critical applications, but it brings a bunch of other concerns with it (browser support, no way to leverage a CDN, etc).
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by wrigby 10y ago
I think this would be really useful to UX researchers! The folks I know in that space often set up screen-sharing sessions with users, and watch them interact with the UI in real time. Adding gaze tracking to this process seems like a natur
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by wrigby 10y ago
Yep! I've only ever driven manual transmission cars, and my dad taught me that early on. "Just leave it in first and idle along." Even in a very driver-friendly manual car, stop and go traffic can be brutal.
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by wrigby 10y ago
Thanks for jumping in! Sounds like it's really nice for urban small-cell deployments, campus networks, etc. Do you experience a lot of issues with keeping links aligned at those tiny beamwidths?
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by wrigby 10y ago
I would love to hear more about that - have any links? From a quick google, all I can dig up makes it sound like it's normal circular polarization, which is used quite often in satellite. Not sure why it wouldn't make it into terr
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by wrigby 10y ago
It's interesting to see the huge channel bandwidths they're using to attain this. Advances like this are largely driven by higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable in recent years. Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths
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by wrigby 11y ago
Great list! A couple more of my favorites are: Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/podcast/ Startup (also by Gimlet): https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
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by wrigby 11y ago
I really like this. I hadn't thought of doing that - will try next time it comes up!
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by wrigby 11y ago
That makes sense - since port numbers are unsigned integers, you can just use a bitwise AND rather than a more costly MOD. I haven't actually looked at the internals of the hash, so I'm just assuming it's simply BUCKET = DPOR
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by wrigby 11y ago
That would actually be pretty cool, but the data would have to be redistributed across the new set of buckets when the parameter was changed. That could get really messy...
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by wrigby 11y ago
I think it depends on the network - some have names (like the Internet, ARPANet, DoD's NIPRNet, etc) and some don't (like the global POTS network). Saying "we talked on the phone" is more like saying "we talked on t
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by wrigby 11y ago
In fact, paying with cash sometimes requires a sort of captcha equivalent: the pens[1] that are used to detect counterfeit bills. Depending on the area you're in, when you pay with a $20 bill (the most commonly counterfeited), the cash
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by wrigby 11y ago
The Linux on Dreamcast effort made a ton of progress running on SH4. I haven't touched it in years, but I remember it being pretty mature, and that was quite a few years ago. I guess this means that BMWs are basically just a Dreamcast
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by wrigby 11y ago
Regarding #1, I strongly think that the JS community should come together and build out a library that fills the same role as Boost does for the C++ community. Sort of a collection of things that are missing from the standard library. I sup
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by wrigby 11y ago
This saying coincides with the ever-popular "done is better than perfect." My dad (a microwave engineer) taught me a variation: "Perfect is the enemy of good enough." The concept is very important to learn, especially fo
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by wrigby 11y ago
My impression is that the Touch ID (on the iPhone at least) stores the fingerprints locally, and it's pretty hard to get at them, but I admittedly haven't done much research on it.
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by wrigby 11y ago
It looks like it's the exact same case dimensions as the iPhone 5/5s to me. I'm pretty tempted to get one... my iPhone 6S just feels a smidgen too big.
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by wrigby 11y ago
I think you can pretty easily distinguish stairs climbed using just the accelerometer, but I could be way off. I'd be impressed if a barometer had enough resolution to indicate smaller (~10ft) altitude changes.
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by wrigby 11y ago
I've been in an almost identical situation! I made $25/hr (without benefits), then got dropped to ~ $18ish / hr (with 401k matching and health insurance) at the part time job I worked while I was in school. I worked 20 hrs a
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by wrigby 11y ago
When you're not logged in, the `onclick` attributes aren't present in the anchor tags.

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