MonkeyDan

Don’t forget the inability to install add-ons (i.e. ad-blockers) in Android Chrome.

Android Chrome includes phone model in the user-agent.

I really wish Apple would offer two-factor auth in the form of fingerprint then PIN. Is that an option on the iPhone Xs with Face ID?

The National Map! https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/

Kinda hard to use, though. You can find the raw data by state here: ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/NED/LPC/projects/

And use something like coconutBattery to check. iOS reports 82% while coconut reports 62% (!) on my 2 year old 6s. Definitely getting that replacement ASAP.

Yes! Check out the USGS National Map[1].

A lot of the country isn't covered, and what is there is pretty dated, but there's a recent capture of the entire west coast available.

[1] https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic

I wouldn’t mind a PoE-powered, full gigabit SBC in the same form factor and similar price. Any such thing exist?

Any benefit to using this over Server-Sent Events? (other than IE/Edge support)

I wouldn't mind seeing a two-tier approach, with authoritative municipal data as a base (see https://openaddresses.io/ for an example of collecting a large number of sources and normalizing it) with user-submitted edits on top.

Just in time for Labo?

Hey there,

Sorry you didn't get a reply. We respond to every inquiry, but sometimes the responses end up in one's spam folder. We run our own mail servers and despite our best efforts (DKIM, SPF, never being on any blacklists) some mail providers bin us.

If you give us a call (415-974-1313) we can look up your address and give you a better idea of what to expect, though we tend to under-promise and over-deliver.

The website is a bit... dated, but we're working on a new one with a new coverage map[0] and more details about our service in buildings that are already on-net.

[0] A slightly better representation of coverage can be found on our outage map at https://monkeybrains.net/map/

In some buildings, our (MonkeyBrains') pricing is less. Higher density = lower rates. The base rate covers hardware, wages, 100% employee health care, other infrastructure, and support. I imagine the costs between the two companies are similar.

Carrier-grade microwave radios are usually sold at a base price for a specific speed (e.g. 100 Mbps). Software licenses can then be purchased to upgrade the capacity (e.g. to 200 Mbps, 500 Mbps, or 1 Gbps). Licenses are also sold to enable features such as encryption and hitless backup radio failover.

Totally possible. Though getting data out of WebGL can be hairy. And actually getting on the rooftops of the ideal buildings is a whole nother story.

Inspired to share this by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852783

Terribly unoptimized, but runs decently on modern Intel integrated graphics cards and iPhones.

Me too. Though it's just rendered as a 2D raster: http://monkeybrains.net/viewshed

I'm trying to build something that can be used across the DSM we have of SF for better planning our wireless links.