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maharishi1on Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to receive bank SMS oversea?

I have not tried this but if you are into programming, raspberry pi and a place to put the hardware in US with internet access, you can do that. You can buy raspberry pi with a SMS hat and program it to receive the sms and send it to your gmail account.

maharishi1on Ask HN: How do you organize and inventory your non-digital assets?

I use keeppass to keep an inventory of all my digital and non-digital assets (bank account #, car title, tv receipts etc.) and upload it on Google drive. Using various addons I can sync up the data from multiple places, even my phone. You can scan the files and attach it to the entries themselves (although it increases your file sizes). keeppass has tons of addons and tools that you can use. and all its entries are protected with strong encryption key.

maharishi1on Ask HN: Web applications or software that lets you remotely administer SQL data?

You can use Excel with data connections to do that if you have limited number of people who are going to access it and update data.

maharishi1on Ask HN: How do I make use of the 1-10 minutes of downtime while jobs run?

read articles in hacker newz....

maharishi1on Ask HN: How much bandwidth is actually used for sending a single character?

Size of Ethernet frame - 24 Bytes Size of IPv4 Header (without any options) - 20 bytes Size of TCP Header (without any options) - 20 Bytes So total size of empty TCP datagram - 24 + 20 + 20 = 64 bytes

total size of TCP datagram with 1 char - 24 + 20 + 20 + 1 = 65 bytes

maharishi1on Morse Keyer for kids / beginners using Ardiuno

either you can use the visual studio 2015 or use the Arduino Code editor from their site and open the MorseKeyer.ino file and pitches.h file