joe_bleau

Sorry to mislead--you're correct, it is a tunnel.

https://tunnelbroker.net/ will give you a free IPv6 subnet and you can route it over your existing IPv4 link. I think you can get either a /64 or /48.

There was a 50% off coupon code for https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html that brought it down from $6/month to $3/month. Not sure if the code is still active or if it works for larger plans.

Interesting...here's some random thoughts:

zfs send/recv support? That seems to be the missing piece in the low-end cloud storage world. There's rsync.net and zfs.rent, but those seem to be targeting 10+ TiB. (My current solution is a 1 TiB 'storage' VPS for $3/month, running Debian ZFS on root. Works nicely, but scrubbing 600 GiB takes over a day!)

I'm not sure a one week trial is long enough, considering you're asking for annual payment up front. For instance, I didn't want to 'start the clock' by creating an account.

Borgbase has a 2 repo / 10 GB free tier, and lots of object storage services offer 20-75 GB free.

BTW, https://www.extralayer.eu/dashboard/registration.php has a broken link ( https://www.extralayer.eu/dashboard/index.html ). Several minor typos on https://www.extralayer.eu/terms-of-service.php and https://www.extralayer.eu/acceptable-use-policy.php, too.

Borg support is good. Might consider restic, too.

Location? I'd want to know where my data is.

[no time for video, so if these are answered let me know...]

Two things I never got about the iPod:

Why not add a second headphone jack so two people could listen and share the experience?

Why didn't Apple preload some music (maybe classical stuff in the public domain, performed by affordable Eastern European orchestras) for a better out of the box experience? Think about kids getting an iPod at Christmas; until it was sync'd to a computer, there wasn't much to do with it.

Sounds crazy, but the Orcale free tier might work for you. Enough to run two small Linux VPS instances free.

Should ship in July (!). Based on the Nordic nRF52840. $9 for Xenon (BLE+mesh), $15 for Argon (BLE+mesh+wifi(ESP32-S0WD)), $29 for Boron (BLE+mesh+LTE). I like that it has an onboard lithium cell charge circuit.

I ordered a Xenon and Argon to play with.

Shameless referral linkage, if anyone else wants to pre-order: https://particle.io/mesh?referral=MK92YF

Testing the ssh client config workaround:

   ssh -v user@localhost 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep -i 'roaming'

returns "debug1: Roaming not allowed by server" when vulnerable, and nothing when not. YMMV, only tested on a few machines, etc.

The movie was also responsible for a variant (HP 200B) of the very first Hewlett Packard product, the HP 200A audio frequency oscillator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP200A

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/TFTNB-Disne...

Altruistic? I can take ~$147 and purchase a share of BRKB, putting BH to work for me and sharing in the company's profit. How can I get a piece of that sweet YC action?

(Note: no idea what mp3 encoder Audacity uses, and I'm sure the results will vary with encoder settings as well.)

I just fired up Audacity and generated a click track, with the first click at 1 second in. The exported 44.1k wav file, when loaded in Audacity, shows the click at exactly 44100 samples in.

The exported mp3 file, when loaded, shows the click to be around 46357 samples in. (It's a bit hard to measure, because the encoded has smeared the pulse.) Somewhere between 51-52 ms late relative to the wav file.

Listening to the wav and mp3 ticks summed, the delay is obvious--they are not in sync at all. Adding 2257 samples of silence to the front end of the wav file puts them back in audible sync.

A quick scan didn't reveal to me whether he's time aligning the signals during the subtraction. I've played with listening to the wav-mp3 signal before, and I seem to recall that the mp3 encoder would introduce a little delay.

I added a transient pulse in front of the music so that I could (visually) time align the signals before subtracting them.

I'd order one.

The phrase "synthetic programming" certainly brings back fond memories for me. Something about entering a weird but valid program instruction, then removing a memory module and power cycling to forcibly corrupt the RAM and build the initial wedge to then enter the synthetic codes?

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Am...)

Better customer support than DO? Maybe some customers just like dealing with Luke, a fellow HN member?

I ran across this while researching a way to OCR data from a video of a frequency counter and digital multimeter. I didn't use his exact workflow, but it got me pointed in the right direction. Much better than manually typing in data every second of a 20 minute video.

$2 sounds really cheap--did I miss the laser on the bill of materials?

Anyone else hoping for a modern and inexpensive replacement for the legendary classic EG&G microflash?

Estimate of inducatance and capacitance?

The handful of cars I've checked (after Bob Pease wrote about it) won't lock the column unless you remove the key. Some might lock, but only when the tranny is in park. Worth checking out.

Do you even want/need power steering assist in a runaway situation?

In my case it was the paypal/larger size restriction. And to be fair to DO, once I had opened a ticket (and provided links to the company website, twitter, facebook, and reason for wanting larger droplets) they explained that adding a credit card to the account would allow me to spin up the larger droplets. I didn't want to bother my boss, so I just dropped it.

I too have been bit by the droplet limit. $60 credit (but no credit card) in my account, wanted to spin up a fast box to build a kernel, but I was locked out of the larger droplets. Never did get a straight answer as to why, just a suggestion to link a credit card. Oh well.

You'd think, right? Luckily the ARM dudes came up with Thumb-2, so most (all but 6) of the Cortex-M0+ instructions are actually 16 bit, not 32. (Nice chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M .)

But what's even more interesting is to actually compile apps and compare code size. Miro Samek did this for a couple of RTOS-like framesworks and compared across a mix of 8, 16 and 32 bit micro architectures (PIC, 8051, M8C, 68HC08, AVR, MSP430, M16C, ARM7 Thumb, and ARM Cortex-M3 Thumb2). For his test, the MSP430 was the most dense, but Thumb2 wasn't far behind. (http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2009/03/insects-of-the-...)

Of course, there are 4 bit micros out there...

If the code hasn't been linted, expect lots of false positives. I usually have to disable entire classes of less serious warnings to notice the errors, then slowly work through to the less serious stuff.

Yep, PC-lint from Gimpel catches it:

Error -> Warning 527 Unreachable code at token 'ret' (col 12)

Back in the day, there was a windows based IDE/simulator for the PIC 8-bit microcontrollers. The simulation ran much (2-5 times?) faster if you wiggled the mouse. Someone wrote an app to send fake mouse events to the simulator window.

We use them to add ethernet and new comm protocols to regulated legacy embedded devices that only have serial ports.

Quick comment about the signup procedure; just finished the sign up and phone number verification, and I'm wondering why I have to enter the '+' in front of the country code and area code. Your signup form is smart enough to notice it's missing and let me know to enter it...so why isn't it smart enough to see that it's missing the leading '+' and just tack it on?

Reminds me a bit of entering a credit card number into a form, only to have the validation tell me that spaces aren't allowed.

"restarts required once daily"? Do you mean restarting the crashed application (Chrome), or an actual daily reboot of the OS?

I still run XP and 2k. I need it to support hardware that does not have a 64 bit driver. (It might be possible to run under win7 32 bit, but I've not tried.)