Timmmmbob

You can get a vinyl cutter for a couple of hundred quid.

But how is iBeacon proprietary anyway? It's just a static BLE advertisment of a UUID. Anyone can do that.

Looks kind of blurry.

Yes I have one that "works" in Linux, but it only ever connects at a glacial speed. In Windows it works at full speed as expected.

("Submit a bug", "Have you tried...", "What does [some command] say?", "It's the fault of the manufacturers" etc.)

Yeah I recently discovered enet through Emscripten (which emulates UDP on top of SCTP. SCTP is the protocol used by WebRTC and supports reliable and unreliable packets like enet and RakNet, though I believe Emscripten's UDP emulation only uses it in unreliable mode (since UDP is unreliable).

Apparently SCTP can be tunnelled over UDP if native support is unavailable (which seems very likely), which means I've ended up with the crazy stack of:

enet, which uses UDP which is emulated using SCTP which is tunnelled through UDP.

Crazy but it works. Bring on the real time web games!

I lived in London for 4 years and that is bullshit.

So, word wrap? This is the same stupid argument that pro-spaces people make in the tabs-vs-spaces argument - that you have to use spaces (or hard line breaks) so that you can force your ideal indent size (or line length) on other people.

Just accept the other people have different preferences, and tabs and soft word-wrapping enables them to use their preference. If you don't then you're being selfish really.

According to the comments it returned a modified immutable date. The original date is not modified.

Poor function naming perhaps, (should be `modified()`), but it's not really one of the things that makes PHP infamous.

Not really, unless your early 90s PC was really shit.

Presumably you have to use a smart phone to connect to each bulb when you install it and send it a non-fixed key.

It actually works quite well if you pick the right font. Stroustrup uses it in The C++ Programming Language and it is easier to read.

You're just much more used to monospace.

I hope they reported that to the police!

Yeah BLE uses about 12 mA while transmitting or receiving. But it does not do that continuously. Its average power consumption can be under 100 uA very easily.

However, there's no way you'd get even 100 uA by harvesting RF energy in a package that small.

Yeah it actually makes sense from a physics point of view. All the fancy reflective angles on the stealth plane won't do anything if the wave is longer than they are. "Small" things all look the same in terms of wave reflections.

The radar-absorbing paint may do something (or at least it could in theory). And long-wave radars are naturally going to bigger and more inconvenient than short-wave.

I've never really thought about it, but I think he might be right!