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Re:No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @11:46PM (#42122998)
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 that out without installing hardware!
Seems like a great tool for back burns when fighting wildfires. I wonder how far it can get in the hour long battery life.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:54AM (#38100038)
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 month contract.

Email mdergosits at gmail.com

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Re:Split keyboards and how to build them on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:03PM (#25923396)
Kinesis makes them for ~170 if you don’t want tenting or a palm rest
Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:37PM (#25388336)
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) software project.

One of the most painful parts of the the project was using Scala which had ridiculously long compile times which made iterating quite a pain.

My favorite memory was that for one project we had to submit a program written meant to stress test everyone's parser.

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 like to eat apples, they are sweet enough to be a good snack but not very high in calories. - I bike to work (4mi each way) which helps if I do eat more than I want.
I cook meals in SF most nights for way less than $20 for 2 people without trying, meat or seafood and veggies.
Re:Running Go on Low Memory Devices on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:07PM (#15133312)
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 memory layout of go structs lets us do almost every without C and when need C, cgo is very easy to use.

Go's easy concurrency made developing this really easy, so I think that go would definitely be the choice regardless.

Re:Running Go on Low Memory Devices on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:03PM (#15128336)
Author here, happy to answer any questions!
Samsara [1] does 3+ years on a CR2032

https://www.samsara.com/products/models/im31

Re:The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:44PM (#13918618)
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 lower power situations
>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.

Re:SeaHash: Explained on Friday December 09, 2016 @12:12PM (#13139986)
I hope you mean 2^56 and 2^256 :)
Re:Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:05AM (#12975070)
IIRC the Chinese government will subsidize exports from china.
Re:Going Serverless: AWS and Compelling Science Fiction on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:52PM (#12934804)
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 those that may not result in infinite execution
Re:Show HN: Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car on Sunday August 07, 2016 @12:15AM (#12241023)
Samsara [0] does this too.

[0] https://www.samsara.com

Re:Wasted in San Francisco on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:31PM (#12228623)
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 economical version of this.
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.

Re:Google Metronome on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:06AM (#11287359)
doesn't seem to work on safari on OSX
Re:Why Pi Matters (2015) on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:04AM (#11287349)
this should have a (2015) on the title
I had this issue with my Mid 2012 retina MacBook Pro 15 in. It was a recognized problem with one of the vendors for the displays. I got it replaced at the Apple Store some time ago.
Is there a comparison to MyFitnessPal? I use that and it's able to import recipes from a link, or scan products using a barcode. How are you getting all of the data for different products? I tried looking up my two favorite brands of yogurt and they weren't there.
Re:Advanced Algebra textbooks on Saturday January 09, 2016 @11:57PM (#10874238)
Somewhat unrelated, but I enjoy the logical dependence chart. It's nice to see the ordering of the topics. Rather than trying to figure that out for oneself
Re:Why I will be using RISC-V in my next chip on Saturday January 09, 2016 @04:36PM (#10872977)
That's awesome! RISC-V seems like a well defined ISA that allows for lots of extensions. Seems like a perfect fit for a board like the parallella.
Re:What’s Hot, What’s Not, in Pots and Pans (2008) on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:17AM (#10856138)
I thought the same thing. There could've been more scientific tests, maybe an infrared camera to see the heat distribution rather than the burn marks on the parchment paper.
There are plenty of places like that. I go to school in upstate NY and while I live in a decent sized town, there are plenty of towns inbetween there and NYC that are pretty barebones.

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