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You can get a vinyl cutter for a couple of hundred quid.

But how is iBeacon proprietary anyway? It's just a static BLE advertisment of a UUID. Anyone can do that.

Looks kind of blurry.

Yes I have one that "works" in Linux, but it only ever connects at a glacial speed. In Windows it works at full speed as expected. ("Submit a bug", "Have you tried...", "What does …

Yeah I recently discovered enet through Emscripten (which emulates UDP on top of SCTP. SCTP is the protocol used by WebRTC and supports reliable and unreliable packets like enet an…

I lived in London for 4 years and that is bullshit.

So, word wrap? This is the same stupid argument that pro-spaces people make in the tabs-vs-spaces argument - that you have to use spaces (or hard line breaks) so that you can force…

According to the comments it returned a modified immutable date. The original date is not modified. Poor function naming perhaps, (should be `modified()`), but it's not really one …

Not really, unless your early 90s PC was really shit.

Presumably you have to use a smart phone to connect to each bulb when you install it and send it a non-fixed key.

It actually works quite well if you pick the right font. Stroustrup uses it in The C++ Programming Language and it is easier to read. You're just much more used to monospace.

I hope they reported that to the police!

Yeah BLE uses about 12 mA while transmitting or receiving. But it does not do that continuously. Its average power consumption can be under 100 uA very easily. However, there's no …

Also worth considering: https://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/

Yeah it actually makes sense from a physics point of view. All the fancy reflective angles on the stealth plane won't do anything if the wave is longer than they are. "Small" thing…

I think this must be a standard ARM thing. The nRF51822 Cortex M0 (with BLE) from Nordic can do something very similar. They call it PPI (Programmable Peripheral Interface). All th…

You don't have to write in low-level C. You can write in high level C++, which is vastly preferable to javascript! Or hell, why not write in Lua! It's what this apparently transpil…

Yeah the Onion article writes itself: "Turing test proves that 30% of judges are actually computers." A recent Turing test at Reading University backfired after it was discovered t…

This seems like a good place to ask: Does anyone know of a library (preferably C++/Emscripten) that simplifies using WebRTC to create real time network games?

Yeah I saw a card with a screen demoed ages ago which generated one-time-use credit card numbers (or something like that), which is surely the way it should be done. It's so crazy …

To be fair that was for technical reasons, and I think it will change soon with fibre. They tend to have sane upload speeds, e.g. 10 Mb/s.

Not really surprising - the whole idea of web desktop apps is kind of crazy, especially for something that you want to have good performance like a text editor.

This is quite badly named and isn't intended for number-crunching. It's for when you want to use a RPi in a project, but want it smaller or better integrated into your other electr…

Do you remember how stagnant GCC was before Clang came along?

Looks like the lock was still your problem even if it wasn't picked.