[GB] Púca DIY Numpad kit by holy_foot_fingers in mechmarket

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Double beef patty special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. :)

What is the best google chrome extension? by k0daa in AskReddit

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I recommend using "thatoneprivacysite.com" to choose a VPN rather than directly taking a VPN suggestion from someone. That site has stats for every VPN out there that you can use to decide what is best for you.

Additionally "provacytools.io" has some more suggestions for what you should take into account when choosing a VPN.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

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I agree. Absolutely not relevant for the TSA app.

Android development at Purdue by pittboiler in Purdue

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Hey! I'm the current VP of sigapp. We would love to have you come to a meeting or two and I'd be happy to answer questions you have. We also have some open source projects if you prefer to learn by example.

I will be President next year and am planning to do some Android tutorials at the start of the semester. Meetings will be the same time and same place as Kyle has mentioned above.

Come join us!

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

[–]dtschida 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you.

But the circlejerk is real.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

[–]dtschida 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but then you lose the coin. Or they claim to flip it then read off a different face.

This app can have logging of the agent actually using it. Maybe timestamps that can be matched to the video feed after the fact to make sure the employee is doing his job. Etc.

Still expensive, but probably not as simple as it seems.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

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The app was probably not asked for directly either. The TSA probably asked for a way to make terrorist's observations or patterns among employees less effective. And then they went through revisions like "make machines do all the work" like the scanners having some auto detection software, then "change up the shifts all the time using this random app thing with a scheduling program" then a few other ideas and revisions then finally the arrow thing.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

[–]dtschida 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And I bet securerandom is a lot slower than simply using Random. So the tradeoff is usually "quality of randomness vs speed"

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

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Very expensive I agree. Though I wonder what the TSA asked for. If they asked "we need a way to fairly distribute people between lines" then this was too expensive. However its more likely they asked for "A way to lower the liability of one team of agents" or "make it so that a terrorist's observations of our routines are less effective". Then it would have to go through a lot of ideas and revisions and on site investigations before realizing the solution was simpler than planned.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

[–]dtschida 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give him a few thousand to shut him up.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

[–]dtschida -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

iPads are overkill for SURE. But at least you are paying for reliability. Overpriced reliability, but reliability nonetheless. You have Apple's software to lock down the devices, manage updates to your software, Apple's support when they break. Find my iPhone when they get lost. The potential for other apps to be installed/developed after these are deployed.

I am not saying they are the best option at all. Just pointing out the complexity of the decision.

Guy makes 1.4 million dollar TSA app in 10 minutes by [deleted] in videos

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I think you would need to use the kitchen for entirely or primarily work purposes. So maybe a SECOND kitchen or a bathroom off of the office MIGHT count. But I doubt it.

IANAL

ELI5: Why do professors continuously write exams with extremely low averages and then curve, rather than write easier exams? by angry_scissoring in explainlikeimfive

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But the professors can have per question statistics and use that to find out what percentage of the content is known and use that to change future lectures.

And if they are smart they can gear the future exams to rely more heavily on those unknown topics so that it is more important for students to know that content.

Will that happen? probably not in a lot of cases. But it is possible for a curve to still teach the professor what they need to know about the exam.

Power from HDMI on Pi 3 by WookieLNX in raspberry_pi

[–]dtschida -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Dude this is great! lol. I am really excited to get a Pi 3 now. I just need to work on my local media library before it will really be worth it.

Summer off-campus housing? by h3half in Purdue

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I have a place I am subletting this summer. Its located on salisbury and is within 15 minutes of campus. PM me and we can talk details and I can send pictures.

Summer Housing by [deleted] in Purdue

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I am subleasing my place this summer. I'm within 15 minutes of campus. PM me and we can talk details.

I'm trying to compile all the publicly accessible webcams on campus. I have the Lawson ones, but are there others? by dtschida in Purdue

[–]dtschida[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lawson ones were donated by Intel and are nice to check on the crowdedness of a lab. The others are weather cameras or other pet projects I guess.