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I thought both Thread and Zigbee run on top of IEEE802.15.4, but Thread is based on 6LoWPAN / IPv6 where Zigbee uses its own network layer. But Thread idd functions fine without the internet (although you probably could connect devices to the internet if you'd want to).

... at which point we can also "undeprecate" RestTemplate and pretend that never happened either :-)

... which is why we want to use FFI instead ;-) Now you already can using JNA though. JNI still requires you to write native code and compile it for your target platform, FFI eliminates that need.

Thing is that people try to look for conspiracies where this is probably just an honest mistake.

Insights discovery most likely.

Tangentially : I'm currently reading a book about microbes and microbiomes in general.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi...

I've found it to be pretty interesting and accessible if the subject interests you.

Has been discussed before.

https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218550

I used to do Hello Fresh regularly too, but I quit using it after about a year. Thing is, it's about 7 euros per meal per person, and when you're comfortable enough to cook the meals yourself, just getting the ingredients from the grocery store takes the cost to about 3 euros per person. Which saves about 20 euros per week. As someone said above, teach a man how to fish. The recipes are quite useful in that regard though. That being said, it takes a bit of extra time to compile your shopping list, so I guess you need to factor that in too. But since you need to go to the grocery store anyway, I think it's negligible.

IMHO that does not matter. If they knew about the software, they are the ones responsible, not the engineers. And it seems unthinkable that engineering just went ahead and put in the software hack, without getting a go from management or the compliance dept. It's about who signed this off.

I don't think he refers to the caching being a bad thing, but that it probably does not affect performance that much, since most Strings are likely to be small (and the number of times hashcode is called is also likely to be small).

There's also a catch : if the hashcode of the string is 0, the hashcode will be recalculated every time (since the code assumes it has not been cached yet).

Shouldn't they also take other factors into account, like image quality, sound quality, connectivity and the likes? Seems rather easy just to slap a "quality" label onto a TV just based on how well it runs the Netflix client.

I also noticed this. An example of an application of this saying would be a whistleblower.

The invention of the PCR technique for duplicating DNA sequences is at least partially attributed to the use of LSD. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis)

Francis Crick is also known to have experimented with LSD when discovering the double helix structure of DNA.

(http://www.intuition.org/txt/crick2.htm)

Why do you say Soekris dropped the ball? I've been running Gentoo on a net5501 for years now (since 2009) and never had any problems except with the USB (which I'm using to read out my SMA inverter).

Are their newer designs flawed in some way?

In the case of EJB and so on, it's not just OO concepts. You also have declarative distributed transactions and nesting of these transactions, role based security with a shared context. I thought the concepts were originally based on CORBA, which is even older.

Technically it's EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JavaBeans is a pattern where you need to adhere to particular coding conventions (getters, setters, naming of said getters and setters).

I also used to work with these a long time ago (EJB 1.1 and 2.0). A lot has changed since then though, and EJB 3 has solved a lot of the pain points (arguably pushed by the success of concepts used in Spring and Hibernate, whose authors served in the JCP for the newer JEE specs).

I get what you are saying, but you do make it sound like the (older) people with children are the worst ones, by virtue of having children or being older. Also there is a reason why these measures are in place, being that people with children have more risk (more expenses and responsibility) and are less mobile. And older people typically have a harder time in the job market.

... and don't have children?

I'd gather you won't be counting in BTC directly then. 0.000132 is 132 microbits (or yu-bits). Bitcoins are divisable up to satoshi's, which is 10^-8.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14438.msg195287#msg1...

Yeah but it's not the UI that's laggy. It's mostly the library updates. I've got a Raspberry that takes 15 minutes to do a library scan, while my Ion takes about a minute, maybe 2. It depends on your use case of course, but when you use sickbeard, you end up doing library updates almost daily.

Nice writeup. I've got a similar setup, however, I grew a bit annoyed with Raspbmc, as it's a bit slow as your library gets bigger. So I'd recommend an Atom box to handle this part (I'm using an Ion330 from Asrock, but there's probably better hardware available for this nowadays).

I still have the "Little Black book of computer viruses". I just got my first AT computer then (a 486DX). Very entertaining stuff that was...

http://home.swipnet.se/smaffy/asm/info/vir.pdf

Makes me think of the time the CCC reverse engineered a trojan used by the German police.

http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

No, for example you could also run IP on DOCSIS, which is typically employed by cable modems. Or you could run it on an 802.15.4 stack, using 6LoWPAN (in the RF world, and lately also narrowband PLC such as G3).

Remember that IP is layer 3 in the OSI model, and you could run it on top of other layer 2 implementations than Ethernet.

The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this argument is used as a red herring, and that there are other issues that need sorting out (involving money and control).

I seem to remember something about Nokia 1100 phones being used for bank fraud (only specific ones that were manufactured in the Bochum plant).

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163515/nokia_w...

Edit : Spelling.

I used switches from CJC systems (a small Belgian company, a friend of mine designs prints for them, so I was able to get my hands on a few of them for the sake of my "experiment").

http://www.cjcsystems.com/index.php?page=Products&catid=...

I used a combination of Arduino boards (Atmega controllers), Velleman dimmers and a Velleman relay board to control all the lights in my home, with pushbutton switches that have feedback LEDs. Then I wrote an application on top of that (running off an AT91SAM9 dev board) that implements mood combinations, also exposing a protocolbuffers/http based API (events are IP multicast) that I use to control everything with my Android phone. I also use it to configure the Arduino's (and upgrade them remotely using avrdude). It's still not completely finished, but so far it's been working quite well for me. The central application runs in an OSGi container, and exposes every light and mood as a service, so I would like to plug some light sensors into it so I can let it control some lights automatically (for example the one at the front door). I was lucky enough that I knew what I was going to need so all the wires were in place when I needed them. For future additions I think I'm going to have a look at Z-Wave or Zigbee.