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I thought both Thread and Zigbee run on top of IEEE802.15.4, but Thread is based on 6LoWPAN / IPv6 where Zigbee uses its own network layer. But Thread idd functions fine without th…

... at which point we can also "undeprecate" RestTemplate and pretend that never happened either :-)

... which is why we want to use FFI instead ;-) Now you already can using JNA though. JNI still requires you to write native code and compile it for your target platform, FFI elimi…

Thing is that people try to look for conspiracies where this is probably just an honest mistake.

Insights discovery most likely.

Tangentially : I'm currently reading a book about microbes and microbiomes in general. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi... I've found it to be pretty in…

Has been discussed before. https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218550

I used to do Hello Fresh regularly too, but I quit using it after about a year. Thing is, it's about 7 euros per meal per person, and when you're comfortable enough to cook the mea…

IMHO that does not matter. If they knew about the software, they are the ones responsible, not the engineers. And it seems unthinkable that engineering just went ahead and put in t…

I don't think he refers to the caching being a bad thing, but that it probably does not affect performance that much, since most Strings are likely to be small (and the number of t…

Shouldn't they also take other factors into account, like image quality, sound quality, connectivity and the likes? Seems rather easy just to slap a "quality" label onto a TV just …

I also noticed this. An example of an application of this saying would be a whistleblower.

The invention of the PCR technique for duplicating DNA sequences is at least partially attributed to the use of LSD. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis ) Francis Crick is …

Why do you say Soekris dropped the ball? I've been running Gentoo on a net5501 for years now (since 2009) and never had any problems except with the USB (which I'm using to read ou…

In the case of EJB and so on, it's not just OO concepts. You also have declarative distributed transactions and nesting of these transactions, role based security with a shared con…

Technically it's EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JavaBeans is a pattern where you need to adhere to particular coding conventions (getters, setters, naming of said getters and setters…

I get what you are saying, but you do make it sound like the (older) people with children are the worst ones, by virtue of having children or being older. Also there is a reason wh…

... and don't have children?

I'd gather you won't be counting in BTC directly then. 0.000132 is 132 microbits (or yu-bits). Bitcoins are divisable up to satoshi's, which is 10^-8. https://bitcointalk.org/index…

Yeah but it's not the UI that's laggy. It's mostly the library updates. I've got a Raspberry that takes 15 minutes to do a library scan, while my Ion takes about a minute, maybe 2.…

Nice writeup. I've got a similar setup, however, I grew a bit annoyed with Raspbmc, as it's a bit slow as your library gets bigger. So I'd recommend an Atom box to handle this part…

I still have the "Little Black book of computer viruses". I just got my first AT computer then (a 486DX). Very entertaining stuff that was... http://home.swipnet.se/smaffy/asm/info…

Makes me think of the time the CCC reverse engineered a trojan used by the German police. http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

No, for example you could also run IP on DOCSIS, which is typically employed by cable modems. Or you could run it on an 802.15.4 stack, using 6LoWPAN (in the RF world, and lately a…