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by Kirby64 11mo ago
JPEG only supports up to 8 bit color. It has much worse compression than more modern standards. It doesn't support alpha transparency. It doesn't support many of the modern smartphone image embedding functions (image sequences, de
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by Kirby64 11mo ago
These laws are anachronisms back when they didn’t want manufacturers directly selling vehicles to consumers because there was a fear (or maybe, an experience?) with manufacturers selling vehicles without any reasonable ability to get parts,
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by Kirby64 11mo ago
Note this was with the AirPods 3, not the pro 3. Every AirPods Pro line should have this.
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by Kirby64 11mo ago
https://medium.marco.zone/apple-implemented-the-biggest-impr... More modern Airpods use AAC-ELD, which is way way better than mSBC. Still not as good as it could be, but pretty decent and sounds far less muddy. Basically no
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by Kirby64 11mo ago
It's essentially an RX 7600, roughly. It's not quite 'the most casual gamer', but it isn't super amazing. But... neither is the steam deck, and steam deck flies off the shelves.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Nope, Bosch 800 series specifically do not have an indentation, and also state in their manual that they do not require any prewash detergent and the prewash does not run with any detergent.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Other other brands dynamically do this, so you don't need to do any recalibration manually. Bose Ultra headphones, for instance, seem to do this dynamically all the time. You can tell this happens since the ANC slowly ramps up as you g
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Generally speaking, the hasps on employee locks aren't big enough to hold anything truly sturdy... I doubt even the most resistant lock you could put on a typical locker hasp would hold up to the giant 3 foot bolt cutters.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
It’s likely in the order of 10-30, especially with something like ENIG as a finish. If you wanted more cycles, you’d want to switch to a hard gold finish which would likely increase the cost substantially. This is truly only for a debug por
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Is this somehow new information? I thought it’s been known for years (decades?) that increasing physical activity also increases daily energy use. The “metabolic adaption” that people discuss is merely a fractional reduction in NEAT expendi
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Just because someone uses Outlook doesn’t mean they use Teams too. I’ve seen Zoom or Slack with Outlook/Office suite for the remainder at companies.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Unless you’re using the “passive” PoE variants (ubiquiti sold these for awhile, for instance) that always has voltage on the pins, there is no risk. Negotiation is mandatory for the actual IEEE variants. Just use those and don’t worry about
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by Kirby64 1y ago
This seems like a strange decision for MacBooks/laptops in general. Although USB-C chargers are extremely ubiquitous, the ones capable of charging laptops in a reasonable period of time are not nearly as common. It’s pretty hard to fin
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Fry’s always seemed like they were way over their skis in expansion. There were… 4 fry’s in Dallas metro at one point, each of which was much larger than the single micro center. Meanwhile, Microcenter seems very slow and deliberate with ex
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Its better than many alternatives, though. Try using built in nav in many cars. I tried using it in a Hyundai rental when CarPlay was having trouble connecting and it was so truly terrible. It was so unusable I spent the extra 10 mins just
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Not quite as seamless, but for anything like that where you’re headed to a destination, you can always send the location to these various UIs. Tesla and Rivian support sending addresses to their cars via their apps (through the share functi
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by Kirby64 1y ago
I’d suggest that’s just a case of what you’re used to. I never use CarPlay except when I get a rental and every time I use it there’s a learning curve to relearn how it works. Just like any new UI honestly. As for Tesla nav in particular, I
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by Kirby64 1y ago
I believe that’s called a lease.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
It’s awful if the vendor makes it awful. Know that this is deliberate lack of investment and not that it’s impossible. To my knowledge, there’s a few companies doing it right: Tesla, whose nav is pretty great and responsive Rivian, who appe
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by Kirby64 1y ago
> Common "jellybean" passive components like resistors, capacitors, inductors... are designed to be standardized and interchangeable with any other component of the same specifications. The remaining factor might be cost and ma
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by Kirby64 1y ago
No teardown org will know what the models of passives are, nor would they be able to figure out all the traces between various parts “in an afternoon”. This stuff takes days or weeks depending on the depth of understanding you want.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Hard to beat “every single part used” from this document. You talk as if the electronics market vendors have some ability to identify what capacitor models are used.
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Did you read what FCC published at all? They published the BOM, with specific part numbers and alternatives, the full schematics, and block diagrams of where the chips are laid out. Any teardown org would be absolutely salivating at this in
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Not sure why you would think the specifics of how one of the largest company’s in the world designs their phones wouldn’t be useful. There are entire companies that exist solely to generate their own schematics from teardowns because they’r
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by Kirby64 1y ago
And your point? Samsung is likely more adherent to the USB-C spec than cheap Chinese devices. Audio Accessory Mode (the technical term for the analog audio mode in USB-C) was removed as an optionally supported mode from the specification la
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by Kirby64 1y ago
The message you’re describing sounds like it (and most devices) telling you nicely it doesn’t support the legacy, now removed from the spec, function to do direct analog audio over USB-C. I.e., the DAC is built into the phone instead of bei
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Digital is digital, but you’re ignoring multiple places where things might not be the same: That $30 CD player… if it’s connected to headphones, how were the headphones driven? Especially if you have nice headphones, it’s very easy for a ch
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Presumably if you want something that resists chipping due to the high forces of the ultrasonic, so you'd pick something with quite high toughness and moderate edge retention. Maybe something like CPM-CruWear? If you prefer something w
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by Kirby64 1y ago
Again, it’s not that it’s bad per-se, it’s that it is easily outclassed by numerous other more modern steels. It’s cheap compared to more exotic stuff, and feels almost insulting at the price you’re paying for the knife. If the knife we’re
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by Kirby64 1y ago
The knife itself is made out of AUS-10, which is a very mediocre steel. It's not bad per-se, but when you're spending $400 on a knife, you typically expect premium steels to be used. Additionally, most knives in that price range t

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