MarkusWandel

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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
The "glass fiber modem" is an inherent part of the GPON network. These are complicated. The "P" stands for "passive". Yours and and up to 127 other houses are all on the same "light domain" i.e. th
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Thats the app, not the watch. On my Android phone, I think it's runnig afoul of OS power saving features.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
There was a news story here in town a few years back where a private citizen - not cop - brought a ghost car (driver passed out) to a stop by driving up in front of it, making bumper contact and then braking both to a stop. Not recommended
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
I've never actually tested what happens if you ignore the "steering input required" nags from LKAS. Does it truly keep driving at cruise control speed? I assumed it would eventually slow to a stop. As for the safety feature
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Also standard equipment now (in my mid-level Honda Civic). However once gone to zero, it won't roll again until you nudge the throttle pedal. Also, just like lane keeping it "needs supervision". Once someone braked hard up
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
To my knowledge it is completely offline. The fanciest version of it (Honda Civic) has wifi and will connect to your house wifi when in range (and also do wireless Android Auto) but mine doesn't have it. This one has no cloud featu
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
But can you put the AI written code genie back in the bottle? Once that starts dominating app development, things will get even worse.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
A Fenix 5S+. A lucky garage sale find. I can't btw vouch for "fully debugged" on some of its fancier features. I mean map display? On such a tiny device? I'll just use my phone. But the basic sports stuff is rock
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Wait a minute. My recent-ish car has LKAS. It recognizes white lines (or possibly curbs too) and if both boundaries of the lane are recongized, will steer for you - for 10 seconds maybe, before it nags you provide some steering input. Bu
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with all of that - that single-purpose tech is making a real comeback. But I do have one example in my daily life that supports this: A Garmin watch. Unlike "full" smartwatches (arbitrarily defined as:
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Uh oh. So far it's largely un-ensh*ttified.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
The rationale in the article doesn't need a dedicated MP3 player. It just needs MP3s on your phone and something like Pulsar Media Player (free, local files, no cloud).
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
That's probably what it was, an engineering estimate with a couple of significant digits. It's been years.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Junk food and sedentary lifestyle for your brain . What could possibly go wrong.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
And then there are short vs. long tons (neither of which is a metric tonne)... nautical vs. statute miles... troy vs. regular vs. fluid ounces...
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Handily enough the speed of light is about a foot per nanosecond, give or take. A nanosecond doesn't sound like much, unless you start to work out, for example, how many bits are inside your 40Gbps USB-C cable at the moment (they do t
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Here in Canada, my family ran a fishing camp with a lot of US customers. I was talking with one of them about metric vs. US units and to demonstrate I said how about this: How many gallons in a cubic mile? And he was able to work it out
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Oddly enough as a person born in a metric country, now living in Canada which is metric, and always educated in metric, I agree with you on the feet and inches. "A couple of inches" doesn't imply nearly the precision that &q
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
That, and the stuff on Facebook. All those AI-written articles which usually make a big ado about a minor event, but if you google the name of the protagonist or do a Google Lens on the picture, you can get the original story in 1/1
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
What is just awesome, to a tinkerer, is the great can-do spirit people had then. You couldn't buy it, so you made it yourself. They were going to do a helicopter, but for the lack of a suitable engine. As if the rest was just a solv
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Opposite experience here. My aging mom had been on Windows XP for years and years, and then someone gave her a cast-off laptop running Windows 10. That was such a culture shock. Endless pop-ups to do this and subscribe to that and so on.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
My read on this is that Whirlwind was radical because it was 16 bit parallel. Previously anything to get a compute machine working would do, and bit serial is pretty natural. This one was designed from the get-go for speed.
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
I don't have the math for this, but a colleague does, and after spending a few minutes on Matlab came up with about 0.278 bits/flip of channel capacity (Shannon) for the single observer, and I think around 0.451 bits/flip of
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Shannon's information theory asssumes optimal coding, but doesn't say what the optimal coding is. Anyway if a single observer who lies 20% of the time gives you 4 out of 5 bits correct, but you don't know which ones... And N
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
"get not you might it but"
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
The 1541 is a computer, as defined by "can load and run a program". Enough protocol exists on the stock drive/IEC bus/software to do this. Fast load programs used this and I'm sure some copy protection schemes d
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
The whole "integrated development" experience. Take it or leave it, but old farts like me go all the way back to poring over code on printouts since your only window into it was one file at a time in an 80x25 terminal - not termi
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Unix oldtimer here (first exposure: 1987). A lot of copy/pasting is at the shell prompt. Aside from being super lightweight - just select something in previous output, e.g. a file path, middle click, and done - what about the key bind
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
I argue the opposite! Phone cameras, while hardly perfect, are easily on par with the sort of cameras people used to do street photography with, and improving constantly. I too remember the "no photos" rules - in the pre-smartpho

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