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by Sanddancer 10y ago
For inter-IC interfaces, AMBA [1] and Wishbone [2] are open standards for connecting various sections of a chip --bridge between cpu, i/o bits, etc. External interfaces are also pretty open. A lot of FPGAs have dedicated logic for tal
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Gull wing doors are about the only thing there that are more complicated than features in other higher end cars. Air suspension's been in luxury cars for several decades, and there are all sorts of complicated locking mechanisms for do
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Google diving. I got curious as to what the keyboard controller was, so I looked up motherboard pictures and specs and eventually found that it uses an ENE KB910 for the keyboard controller. Searching there for how things were set up was mo
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
This might be of help to you. The OEM version of this laptop seems to be the Compal LA-2601. Which is a very good thing, because the schematics are readily available [1]. So, getting the keyboard working with a PI3 should be a matter of rig
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It's not. Thunderbolt is a very very closed standard by Intel. With standardized protocols, like regular PCIe, to start building a device, getting started is pretty much a case of ordering a few chips, reading the datasheets, and start
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
This bell seems very well made, designed to last a good long while. Given that a wooden ship tends to have a much shorter lifespan than a ship's bell, it seems possible that Muhayideen Baksh commissioned it with the idea that it would
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Things like WPF/XAML can also use an XML-style tree, and the manipulation tools that entails, for UI. However, there are a number of other things they bring to the table that quickly outstrip anything that web-based objects can provide
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It has. The end result of the ATT v. BSD [1] suit was that certain files had to be rewritten [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.... .
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Recessions on average happen every 8-10 years or so. There was a recession in 91-92, one in 81-82, etc. That part of the business cycle is pretty cyclical.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
The kind of border security that Trump is harping on won't stop the heroin epidemic. The cartels have already started shifting to things like drones for pickups and dropoffs [1], or to do more smuggling over the ocean [2]. However, Tru
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Not to mention never raising the cutoffs. The limit for savings someone on medicaid can have is $2000. That limit was last adjusted in 1989. The limit per month for making money, like getting a side job to try to get back to work, is $20, w
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Which won't happen until Intel is more willing to loosen their grip on Thunderbolt. With Thunderbolt, in order to even get in the door, you have to file an application to request to get into the development program which they promise t
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Chrome supports Alsa and Pulseaudio.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Magnetic orientation, probably. Elsethread, it was mentioned that they used Holmium, which is the most magnetically reactive element.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
They're both on Akamai's CDN. I'd suspect the trouble lies in akamai's setup somewhere.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It gets more fun when you're dealing with things like memory mapped I/O, where reading from a register is a destructive action, so even a non-overloaded == can cause side effects.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Code like this, there were just as many, if not more, logic errors that wouldn't be caught as there were mechanical problems that would have been caught with a more diligent compiler. There's just not the discipline there for good
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Yep. I'd add that if it's a warning you're absolutely certain of, use the warning control pragmas to suppress them, and document why the warning's suppressed. Keep the compiler output clean so you can see where you need
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
I'd take that as not even needing to sell what's needed, sell approximately what's needed. Your snake oil just needs to make their cough hurt a bit less, not cure their tuberculosis.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It gets worse for this particular project. They do build with -Wall and -Wextra, but they ignore many warnings that the compiler does emit, and a lot of them are adding/removing a single word. Also, compilers have different default war
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Because pretty much any language that's been touted as a replacement has problems which need solved before they'd really be viable. They're either single vendor with no independent standardization, like Rust or D, or have low
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It does. It seems like the devs are of the "it compiles, ship it" sort. Building the source, I'm seeing all kinds of warnings -- the code trying to return consts, warnings about sign differences, etc. Looks like lots of poten
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
This was done in Russia where labor costs are a lot lower. Most construction workers make a fifth of what they make in the states, and I imagine related costs are also lower. So probably a lowball figure, but plausible.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Yep. Both the PS4 and XBox One are using semi-custom AMD chips with 8-core CPUs and 1152 shader GPUs. So managably beefy.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
If you're looking to creates something that sounds like it came from the mid-70s, you can either try to fiddle with a bunch of different settings in your DAW of choice to simulate the distortion that a reel to reel provides, or you get
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Bottom of the page gives the cost of the foundation -- $277. It also does have an insulated roof, heating, a sink, a bathroom, etc. Electrical, they probably used a wall chaser/cutter to put a groove in to lay the conduit, which was co
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
There is a currently dead project that does that https://github.com/davidar/lljvm . So I'd argue it is comparable.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Java promised that, but we got write-once, debug anywhere. Those different features, bugs, permissions, etc, mean you'll still have to test the platforms, build up different UIs for each platform, etc. About all you'd end up gaini
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Pay to play. You pay more, you jump to the front of the line. This will the let USCIS work through the backlog.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
No kidding. HSAs are great if you're healthy. Soon as you have a chronic condition or two where you need to see the doctor on a more than biannual basis, you see where they, and the rest of the insurance system really starts falling ap

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