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I can't say I have. Let me look into it. Thanks for the share

I agree with this assessment. I've been running two nodes for about a year, maybe longer, and in that time, I've only had perhaps two contacts.

Even with a YAGI or a dedicated pole antenna, both tuned to 868 MHz, the range in my location is quite poor. The signal seems to drop off quickly, even after walking just a kilometer down the road. While I understand that height is key (and my antennas are fairly high), it appears that 868 MHz attenuates very rapidly.

So, to reiterate, I don't believe Meshtastic is a particularly effective solution. The principle behind it is sound, but the practical execution falls short. I think established methods like Hamnet and traditional amateur radio are far superior, especially now with SDRs making a simple handheld radio incredibly affordable (around €20)

Ah yes. I've had to repair one of the Dallas ICs before. You have to dig out a dremel and bite down till you get to the metal then add some hook up wire. Unlike OP I chose to use rechargable batteries that used to be used for home wireless phones - they are the right voltage and often they supply a battery charger.

If you're lucky you can desolder the the old battery and use a couple of pin headers to get you back up and running. I do find it irritating some retro machines wont even boot without a working battery.

It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now).

In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere

Whilst I agree, and I hope the vessel had adequate insurance for such an eventuality, it's a excellent "training" exercise.

Real world scenarios which don't involve any enemy combatants are invaluable to keep everyone at peak readiness

One tip you may appreciate is to use the Australian version of airbnb (.au), their regulators require them to show the true cost of the rental, including all fees in the headline price.

It operates exactly the same as your regional airbnb once you switch the location and currency. For example, switching to USD and searching for apartments in California

They are carefully spun around using Carbon nanotubes

Plus you mitigate getting a bad batch of the same drive. See IBM Deathstars and the Seagate drives.

May have to go check my up hours on my drives now, I must have a few nearing that sort of write hours

Man it's still ongoing, and now the trolls have discovered it. The original thread somehow managed to crash my iphone due to the sheer number of replies.

Amazing GH even made this possible. Not sure if there's also a data leak, I notice my email was CCed, not BCCed. Now they've managed to email nearly half a million people, this could go on for ages as idiots keep responding to the original chains.

Wonder if EpicGames should temporarily mark their account as private till this gets sorted out. Glad I'm not the guy at the end of the phone trying to sort this car crash out.

Shame they had to sell out with their bullshit subscription model

Sadly it costs next to nothing to buy a ROG, it's basically a percentage point on the annual bill.

They need to make the RoG more expensive to genuinely fuel renewables

Funnily enough you've just surfaced an old memory of mine, we did the same thing.

I vaguely recall having to build a 486 out of a bunch of parts, install windows and get to the desktop.

Fun times

Same here @300.

My problem with VM is their constant bumping of prices. Until recently I was paying MORE than a new customer (by quite a margin).

You have to keep an eye on your bills

The LCD panel had cracked, digitizer was fine.

Long story short, the quickest, easiest fix is to replace the entire display + chassis.

In Singapore I was quoted $500sgd but I wasn't sure how long I was hanging around for so I didn't want to risk it.

My newly found issue with Dell and the XPS 13 9360 series is their insane costs.

Dell you see wont give you an indication of cost, instead you must send the laptop back at a cost of £40.

Stupidly I thought they'd be fair, but no they came back with a quote for £626. They had no interest in offering a discount - so I told them to send it back and get shoved.

£40 was the cost of my laziness. Now I'll just DIY for significantly less.

Worth baring in mind if you're not confident repairing the machine yourself.

Quite enjoyed this. I've been toying with the idea of using Amazon distribution to increase scale.

Very helpful to see the steps laid out. Thank you

It would be interesting to see how a Usenet/Torrent adapter may work to at least supplement loss

Indeed. Take last years raid on the bank vault in London. Turns out they had full recordings on their calls. Whilst it did implicate them, how did they have them in the first place? And more interestingly, why to such quality.

Couldn't agree more. It could even add ascii images for a touch of 1337.

looks forward to seeing a shell version

This seems so common with prototype parts. I'm not sure what the difficulty is building a sheild which you can just drop on a commodity component.

Mass producing a PCB is 'fairly' simple these days assuming the quantity is sufficient.

Anyone have any insights into the cost?

Couldn't agree more. These brainwashing tactics are used throughout the industry, not just startups. It's a disgusting approach and be responded with firm regulation and, where appropriate, class action.

In short, no.

Isn't that just a pacing issue. If there's enough discrete work going through the pipe line then burn-downs (or if you're not traditionally agile, targets) should be pretty reflective of your output.

You have to be careful, but I wonder if giving a developer access to their own progress/burndown would be an encouragement for those who arn't quite so self motivated.

I love this idea and very much agree you end up with a much more modular, and proactive organisation with the right people. Owing to desk space issues, finance is moving more towards working-from-home. Honestly, in my next job I'd like to go 100% WFH - the amount of time saved from commuting is huge and, from an organisational perspective, if I get inspired over the weekend or the evening I'm much more likely just to get some bits and pieces done.

Unfortunately there's still a lot of legacy managers and people who make the transition tricky. If you can start from the ground up, or at least foster it within teams that's great.

This a nice alternative to "hacklinks".

I would suggest providing a hint to the remote content. For example, if it is an image - state it, maybe with a preview.

It would also be useful to filter out 'tabloid' sites like reddit (or restrict it to /r/programming /r/sec etc).

Some mechanism to preview content or view their content in a consistent style would be nice as it can be a bit jarring going to Slashdot from an otherwise clean interface

[edit] Probably worth mentioning the labels on the left don't seem to do anything on chrome and if you resize the background remains at the same height.

Any clue what timezone?

I'd love to actually have a purely remote job. I work from home quite a lot but I can never find any 100% remote jobs which don't pay graduate salaries :(.

Seems a real gap in the market given most companies don't even have any seats for you

I'm really excited to see this. When Android was first released I was over-the-moon thinking about all the various applications I could build. As I started building a few all the noise of Java and the poor testing and tooling was really getting on my nerves.

My most popular release is very event centric which means tons of anonymous inner classes polluting the code and making the entire thing quite aesthetically displeasing.

With Android Studio (IntellJ), Gradle and hopefully Groovy a lot of that noise and pain can be removed. I would be dubious moving over to that or Scala until the Big G approves but it speaks reams for the future.

I does sadden me that Groovy has fallen by the wayside these years (as primarily Groovy developer) given it is such a jump over Java. Scala looks great but for the type of apps (web/mobile) it still is rather verbose and slow to compile - not ideal for RAD imo. With Java 8 coming it's good to see they've taking Lambas over, even if it's a bit clunky.

I'd hardly call some of those companies start-ups. Take Blinkbox for example, that's backed by a FTSE 100.

On a more serious note, what do other devs feel about working at startups themselves (freelance + perm)? The only I nearly got involved in was folded within 6 months. I'd have potentially been in a very bad situation as a result had I gone through with it.

[edit] I'd do piece meal work. Throw in hours along side my regular job but going full time without a decent golden parachute would worry me.

Damn just as I was reading that our corp firewall blocked the domain for hosting malicious content (it's usually over zealous)...

That is really horrendous. Sent shivers down my spine just reading it :/