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jdc··on Ć Programming Language
if the author gets this polished enough, it could be a _fantastic_ bindings generator!
jdc··on Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests
I think your method would be much better for the indoor use case, but the laser method could clear your whole backyard in theory!
jdc··on AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups
Here's a question for you from somebody that does _not_ know SEO at all. How good / close to the state of the art is Moz these days?
jdc··on Typography in Alien (2014)
Man, what I wouldn't give to have Berthold City Light as my virtual console font!
jdc··on Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
> A common case is they perceive it as a loss to themselves, even when there is no justification to that perception.

This is symptomatic of an oppositional mindset IMO.

jdc··on Starlink review, four months in
It may be that anyone who is willing and able to do so has already thought of it, but on Linux you could multiplex the connection with LTE/3G/dialup and probably get pretty good results.
jdc··on Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
Wow, never thought I'd see Wikimedia at more than 4x the budget of Mozilla!
jdc··on Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)
All it would take is one good PR against libtorrent
jdc··on Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?
He died under suspicious circumstances before he could testify against powerful people against whom he likely had devastatingly compromising information.
jdc··on YouTube alternatives: P2P video hosting that uses up to 60% less bandwidth [pdf]
Working link: https://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/~kovchegy/web/papers/p...
jdc··on America has a drinking problem
This is a very interesting point, however it does stand in contradiction to GP's claim that Europeans broadly drink more than Americans in absolute terms.
jdc··on SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)
BOM from the paper:

Telit GT-864 QUAD/PY GSM modem $65

External antenna $25

Raspberry Pi 2B+2 $35

GPS (GlobalSat BU-353) $30

Bait Phone (Motorola Moto-G 4G LTE) $95

4G Hotspot (ZTE Z917) + 3 month plan $100

DC/AC inverter $26

Powered USB Hub $17

Pi accessories $15

SD Card (32 GB) $17

Modem accessories $30

Cables $35

Box $12

Total $502

https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.p...

jdc··on Scalability, but at What Cost [pdf]
Isn't this a solved problem? Just use a failover, right?
jdc··on Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
It's also worth mentioning that the shared article claimed that Malaysia, under former Prime Minister Najib Razak, had signed unfair deals with Singapore in return for help to launder stolen funds, so this is a big allegation.

However, a guy has to wonder what the odds are of the state levying such a fine in defence of an ordinary citizen.

jdc··on Just Be Rich
> This is largely because families in poverty tend to also abuse their kids at higher rates

Source?

jdc··on Illegal Prime Numbers
And yet regardless debate about hypotheticals, Phil Carmody discovered the first non-trivial executable titanic prime, Professor Caldwell published it and neither of them faced repercussions.
jdc··on The Nuclear Lightbulb (2020)
It could make an excellent fourth stage, however.
jdc··on Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keywords and concepts
> Doesn't make it a bad choice, particularly if his goal is student engagement - but it's not a tool that I feel has much use outside of the very limited environment of teaching/story telling.

And that's enough.

jdc··on Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine
Thanks - I was aware there was a Latin precursor but I didn't know about the Book of Han!
jdc··on Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine
"Punish one, teach a hundred"

- Mao Tse-Tung

jdc··on ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
If Wi-Fi routers implemented 802.15.4 we should be able to run 6LoWPAN + Thread/CHIP etc or Zigbee on the same hardware.
jdc··on Comparative unsafety
I wonder what a good approach to safe pointer arithmetic would be.
jdc··on This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
Burning question: what ISP is it connected via?
jdc··on Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool
It seems to me you could get away with it being most of your redundancy, especially on systems that aren't mission critical. I mean, between CoW and the Merkle Tree of checksums going on the machine would have to literally random walk into a hash collision for the data to be unrecoverable.
jdc··on Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics – and Unresolved
See https://www.outline.com/XCTFJJ to bypass the registration-wall.
jdc··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
Try this one:

Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved [March 22, 2021]

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947620

https://www.outline.com/XCTFJJ (registration-wall bypass)

jdc··on Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
Maybe it's a means of last resort to prevent the work from effectively going to waste in case of bankruptcy/low adoption?
jdc··on Intel joins DARPA in search of encryption 'holy grail'
Are there any good papers (with code even) you know of demonstrating these kind of practical applications?
jdc··on Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch
Watchy is open-source hardware: https://github.com/sqfmi/watchy-hardware

BOM: https://github.com/sqfmi/watchy-hardware/blob/main/WatchyBOM...

jdc··on OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model
There's also OCCA which does JIT compilation to C++, OpenMP, CUDA, HIP, OpenCL and Metal. Originally built at Virginia Tech and now maintained by the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations of the DOE.

And it seems to have decent Python bindings.

https://libocca.org

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