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Comment · 2 years ago
Gravity map matching is an approach that can provide absolute references, the general problem there is that gravity maps are not good enough.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, this is about preventing unwanted jamming/interference by a transmitter on frequencies it isn't intending or needing to transmit on as part of the design phase of a product. Overcoming intentional jamming is an entirely different ballgame.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why? Why don’t we use TAI or GPS time for generic world wide coordinated computer time?
Comment · 5 years ago
I have always thought the fork() interface was convoluted, perhaps it is more intuitive to some folks than me; using a old document to create a new one by copying it, opening it, and deleting its contents is not something I had considered.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nope
Comment · 5 years ago
Weakly, yes. Enough to hold its own mass at rest, but I don't think it would work with any type of acceleration. It will stick nicely to a neodymium magnet.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, the satellites should know 6mo in advance. UTC is still a head ache though.
Comment · 6 years ago
In my case improved noise cancellation.
Comment · 6 years ago
Next, if you really want to time something fast you should probably know about cache. In a modern computer there are levels of memory. For now we’ll say we have 3 levels: cache, ram, and a hard drive. Cache is small but very fast, it is the closest level to the CPU. RAM is bigger but slower and the hard drive is much much slower. Because the cache is small the computer has to pick what’s in it. At program load the cache will be full of information related to whatever was running before you. After you run you will have left some information in the cache which will not need to be fetched from slower levels of memory. Unless your usecase is to run your test code repeatedly very quickly, you should be wary of timing multiple calls in fast sequence as the later calls will execute faster due to the cache being primed to execute your code.
Comment · 9 years ago
Android too.
Comment · 9 years ago
I won one from Sparkfun and just recently started using it. I have some experience developing on embedded platforms.

The unit I have was a pain to flash the first time. I guess something got corrupted at some point and I had to recover with a very unreliable process from a Debian box. That said after the first flash, everything install wise has been wonderful.

The development environment is great for my purposes, however setup was non-trivial. Had I not been comfortable in eclipse I doubt I could have gotten the ld flags set correctly, or changed the c++ std for the compiler.

I love being able to upload code over wifi.

Comment · 9 years ago
MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)

I just don't want anyone thinking MRSA stands for anything it doesn't.

Comment · 10 years ago
This may or may not work. Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard and CD Projekt Red all have their own stores, not to mention Microsoft. I think the market is pretty saturated.
Comment · 11 years ago
Android TV is different from Chromecast. Android TV can behave exactly as a Chromecast (you can wake it up by casting from your phone), but it also has a remote driven interface, voice recognition, and apps with non touch interfaces. Developers must release a android TV version of their application in order for their app to work with Android TV, the entire android ecosystem is not available to TV by default.

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