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MonkeyDan

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About MonkeyDan

https://monkeybrains.net

Recent public activity

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    Comment #18378954

    Don’t forget the inability to install add-ons (i.e. ad-blockers) in Android Chrome.

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    Comment #18371779

    Android Chrome includes phone model in the user-agent.

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    Comment #18357869

    I really wish Apple would offer two-factor auth in the form of fingerprint then PIN. Is that an option on the iPhone Xs with Face ID?

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    Comment #18330197

    The National Map! https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/ Kinda hard to use, though. You can find the raw data by state here: ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/NED…

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    Comment #18019452

    And use something like coconutBattery to check. iOS reports 82% while coconut reports 62% (!) on my 2 year old 6s. Definitely getting that replacement ASAP.

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    Comment #16602979

    Yes! Check out the USGS National Map[1]. A lot of the country isn't covered, and what is there is pretty dated, but there's a recent capture of the entire west coast available. [1]…

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    Comment #16589860

    I wouldn’t mind a PoE-powered, full gigabit SBC in the same form factor and similar price. Any such thing exist?

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    Comment #16414306

    Any benefit to using this over Server-Sent Events? (other than IE/Edge support)

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    Comment #16397229

    I wouldn't mind seeing a two-tier approach, with authoritative municipal data as a base (see https://openaddresses.io/ for an example of collecting a large number of sources and no…

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    Comment #16178404

    Just in time for Labo?

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    Comment #13957168

    http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/

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    Comment #12229072

    Hey there, Sorry you didn't get a reply. We respond to every inquiry, but sometimes the responses end up in one's spam folder. We run our own mail servers and despite our best effo…

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    Comment #11959118

    In some buildings, our (MonkeyBrains') pricing is less. Higher density = lower rates. The base rate covers hardware, wages, 100% employee health care, other infrastructure, and sup…

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    Comment #11876908

    Carrier-grade microwave radios are usually sold at a base price for a specific speed (e.g. 100 Mbps). Software licenses can then be purchased to upgrade the capacity (e.g. to 200 M…

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    Comment #11863280

    Totally possible. Though getting data out of WebGL can be hairy. And actually getting on the rooftops of the ideal buildings is a whole nother story.

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    Comment #11857005

    Inspired to share this by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852783 Terribly unoptimized, but runs decently on modern Intel integrated graphics cards and iPhones.

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    Comment #11856920

    Me too. Though it's just rendered as a 2D raster: http://monkeybrains.net/viewshed I'm trying to build something that can be used across the DSM we have of SF for better planning o…