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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
The XC7S50 is a Spartan7, which is supported by Vivado's WebPack edition (free but with many non-FOSS parts) as well as the FOSS SymbiFlow toolchain (I can't figure out which Place-and-Route tool that targets Xilinx 7-series parts
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
At most state schools (including the one that employs me) on-campus room and board now costs at least as much as tuition due to years of upward pressure on amenities from [parents of] students and the resulting ill-considered public/pr
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
It is neither reliable nor guaranteed safe. I have an MSEE and can't explain to my own satisfaction why it sometimes works. The only thing I've read that makes sense is that it resets the protection circuitry after an undervoltag
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
This. Goodwill's policy is, AFIK, a "reasonable measures to wipe" so once they saw it fail to POST and no obvious HDD caddy they just listed.
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
(Author's HN account) Hmm. Maybe I'll leave the cap off in storage, then. I do remember some of my more modern ThinkPads getting a screen dot from their TrackPoints, but those machines spent a lot of time in backpacks getting l
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
The short version is most of Apple's management was replaced with NeXT folks within a few years, and the combined company behaved more like NeXT than Apple. The degree to which Apple in the 90s was dysfunctional is pretty legendary, th
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
(Author chiming in, you've given me an opportunity for one of my favorite sport-arguments) I'll admit that even Jean-Louis Gassée (Former Mac head, Be founder) later said NeXT+Steve was the right choice (see: https://9t
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
That's mostly a really nice explanation, the one thing that bugged me (which is my pet peeve in math-y CS papers) is a not-perfectly-clear explanation of your variables. The ones in the equations interspersed with the diagrams of the
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I needed triggering behavior that the restrictions on their Stacked ROI mode(s) didn't let me rig up. The project is doing a sort of frameless capture off a conventional sensor, so I was hoping to use Stacked ROI as a sort of threshold
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
Basler has very well-made equipment and lovely software (Pylon) compared to most of what is available in the imaging world. If you want to see what things would actually cost at open market price, look at Edmund Optics listings for the cam
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I got one of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/ That webcamera_usb amazon storefront is actually ELP, who is a big player in that kind of lower-end industrial/security/for small volume i
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
Even the Chinese HDMI-UVC adapters are out of stock, I ordered a decent looking one from Banggood ( https://www.banggood.com/1080P-HD-4K-60Hz-HDMI-to-USB3_1-Typ... ) that still showed a few in stock several weeks ago, it ha
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by PAPPPmAc 7y ago
I ran into that the other week as well. Get a UVC industrial camera with a M12 or CS mount lens to use as a webcam, most are better cameras than the "webcam" models and not everyone has noticed UVC cameras _are_ webcams so the pri
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by PAPPPmAc 8y ago
About 15 years ago in comp.lang.lisp Scott McKay (a coauthor) was asked and says that PLDI didn't accept it, so they didn't finish the paper. https://comp.lang.lisp.narkive.com/9qf4g9bV/looking-for-full...