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Some cities will put BLE beacons in tunnels that transmit the location and then you can find your location via the strongest beacon signal. This seems like a nice way to figure tha…

Seems like a great tool for back burns when fighting wildfires. I wonder how far it can get in the hour long battery life.

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | PST I'm a software engineer with backend focused full-stack experience, I spend 6 years working on embedded linux distributed applications. Seeking a 3-6 mo…

Kinesis makes them for ~170 if you don’t want tenting or a palm rest

I took the undergraduate version of this course while at Cornell. It was a wonderful course. I taught me a lot how computers work, and how to organize a large (for me at the time) …

I have a couple strategies: - If im hungry I drink a glass of water first. Most of the time I drink something that impulse to eat goes away while satisfying my wandering mind. - I …

I cook meals in SF most nights for way less than $20 for 2 people without trying, meat or seafood and veggies.

The bring up isn't actually very painful at all. The devices we are running are armv7, so we can easily just cross compile with the standard go tooling. The syscall package and mem…

Author here, happy to answer any questions!

Samsara [1] does 3+ years on a CR2032 https://www.samsara.com/products/models/im31

Intel edisons are not great for power constrained solutions since they either have full power or are off. Would be really nice to have the ability to scale the CPU frequency for lo…

>Still, food and other necessities are Upstate-cheap if you don't shop at Wegmans. Where do you suggest shopping for food then? Wegmans is cheaper than Tops.

I hope you mean 2^56 and 2^256 :)

IIRC the Chinese government will subsidize exports from china.

Wouldn't loop detection be equivalent to solving the halting problem? Obviously a naive approach would be disallow recursion/ mutual recursion, but there are valid use cases for th…

There is a third row in the back. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/tesla-model-...

Samsara [0] does this too. [0] https://www.samsara.com

There's a CSA I just signed up called Imperfect Produce. They deliver boxes of produce that doesn't meet the aesthetic requirements for grocery stores. Sounds like a more economica…

Sometimes I use something like: #define ALLOC(n, type) (type )malloc(n sizeof(type)) which makes it harder to have those types of bugs, though not impossible.

doesn't seem to work on safari on OSX

this should have a (2015) on the title