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jpterry

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About jpterry

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #42260056

    For ham radio, I would strongly recommend buying some 12v LiFePO4 batteries, or a product based on them. It seems many of these consumer "power bank" products (like ecomax) are bui…

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    Comment #26260705

    I too am very curious. I've seen this same message repeated a few times now. I've noticed there strange echoing in the reporting and messaging around this whole event, so I'm takin…

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    Comment #23749847

    In theory, if you had individual leads to each LED, possible. However, I don't think the way WS2811s (and similar) are addressed would allow this.

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    Comment #8964251

    The QR code contains data unique to your web session. You're already authenticated to WhatsApp on your phone. So the data in that QR code is sent back to WhatsApp's web server, thr…

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    Comment #6005537

    Very cool. Much easier to get working than powerline, imho.

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    Comment #5494213

    Myself and some friends built a very similar tool during the LAUNCH hackathon. It's a shared code editor with some github integration for saving your work, and webrtc handling the …

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    Comment #3979287

    Relatedly, github insists on this width in both their language style guides and code windows on the web site. The VT100 had a 132 columns and was released 34 years ago! Why are we …

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    Comment #2799009

    Firstly, I can attest that migrating the datastore of an application which has scaled to require a NoSQL solution is no trivial task. Secondly, I believe the author of the original…

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    Comment #1711518

    I'm in Santa Barbara and am very interested.

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    Comment #1205946

    I also use Netbeans IDE. It works through a native gem and requires a specific version of the gem to work properly. Its a little funky, but I almost never need it.

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    Comment #1205944

    I also use Netbeans IDE. It works through a native gem and requires a specific version of the gem to work properly. Its a little funky, but I almost never need it.

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    Comment #1004016

    He is. The first argument is the width, the second is the height. Therefore, the height is calculated based on the golden ratio applied to the width.