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Well, there was a neat feature that Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 had that got killed because the iPhone couldn't do it: you could call and send SMS through integration with a Bluetooth e…

There are projects such as https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-java and https://wasmtime.dev/ that extend this embeddability to Java, .net, C, C++, rust, Python, Ruby and Go. Wouldn…

This reminds me of the Basicode system, which transmitted cross platform programs over the radio... and in the Netherlands, some of the programs could then be checked against the c…

Well, for the Dutch market there's Luna: https://www.nedap-luna.com/ . This has the advantage of being integrated fully into a formal care structure and of several years of researc…

Well, the costs for the 'in' and 'out' reader are really not the major issue for most companies, as you could conceivably set a particular perimeter that cordons of 'secure' from '…

From TFA: 'pretty substantial code base too. About 55,000 lines of ruby code'. Am I the only one to think that 55k LoC is not pretty substantial? That's the amount of code you can …

I've run something similar for 5 years, using https://www.smartevse.nl/ as the brains. The main advantages over commercial EVSE's in my case were that I could loadbalance charging …

Or a library who's code now only exists on the wayback machine... and of the modified version that you actually use only a single copy exists on an old machine that one of the devs…

Over the past decade, decade-and-a-half, it seems to have become quite common in at least the Netherlands to install taps that provide cold, hot and boiling water in new kitchens. …

I remember how I 'earned' my autographed copy... by asking 'so, how do you suppose we add interactivity to VRML? Binding with Java Applets? JavaScript?' The world these days does l…

The problem with space sensing interfaces is one of intentionality. The best example of how this is hard that I can think of is that of a passive IR sensor wired to trigger opening…

What I like most about this manual (and others from that same era) is that the manuals do not coddle you. They provide the details, up to the exact memory layout of your computer. …

Just to get you an idea of how wrongheaded this entire thing was, I have a personal anecdote relating to this shitstorm. Back in autumn 2013 I got a letter stating that I had recei…

I'll never forget the 'update' from 10.4 Tiger to 10.5 Leopard that completely dropped the previously perfectly working Bluetooth addressbook/SMS/taking phone calls integration wit…

ELAN was specifically developed to be used in the systematic teaching of programming to students in secondary education. As such it had very much the same goals as BASIC, but given…

To put those density numbers in a bit more perspective: the entire country of the Netherlands has a population density of 521 persons per km². This is including the rural areas. Wh…

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Sounds very much like BASICODE[1] which was used to broadcast e.g. tax return software on national public radio in the Netherlands back in the 1980's [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

It seems as though the Nedap Livestock management approach is a bit easier to apply, plus it does location within buildings[1]. Love the hololens integration as well[2]. [1] https:…