Implement File Tail and Sensor Health

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Implement File Tail and Sensor Health

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This question evaluates skills in large-file streaming and buffer/pointer manipulation for tailing files, along with data-structure and time-window reasoning for tracking sensor liveness from heartbeat timestamps.

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Implement File Tail and Sensor Health