StringyBob

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by StringyBob 6y ago
I can possibly believe it, just because similar RFID using high power sources are known about, from the original ‘the thing’ by Theremin in 1945, to stuff exposed by Snowden like https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives&#
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by StringyBob 6y ago
I’ve found the initial zigbee pairing more and more painful as the number of IoT devices in my house increases. Although normally a one-off at installation, with lots of devices present don’t expect it to work first time. Occasionally when
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by StringyBob 6y ago
It’s worse than that, because as a paying subscriber you are subsidizing listens coming from free/ad-supported accounts too. In fact, other users take away your money from artists you like if they are a heavier user of the service than
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by StringyBob 6y ago
I’ve been very interested in the user-centric model described, but I’m not aware of any streaming services using it. What are the chances that Spotify would make this an option? Even if it was just opt-in, that we go a long way to keeping
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by StringyBob 6y ago
I’ve been a Spotify premium member for over a decade. I love their service for listening to and discovering music. I don’t want to be contributing to over-inflated ‘exclusive’ podcaster salaries that I never listen to. In previous feedback
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by StringyBob 6y ago
A bit more of detail of all the numbers on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model
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by StringyBob 6y ago
A bit mysterious, but seems as files will now have nanosecond accuracy since 1901 (in the 64bit unsigned int), the quota timers are still 32bit and have been downgraded from 1 second to 4 second accuracy to cover the full bigtime forward ti
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Tempted by the offer being open to existing subscribers, but seems odd they are selling a 4K/HDR supporting device, but not offering a 4K based plan!
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by StringyBob 6y ago
As a Spotify premium subscriber, I don’t particularly like that a chunk of my subscription is going to their ‘exclusive podcasts’, while musicians I listen to are getting minimal payouts. I’d be much more comfortable with my subscription
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by StringyBob 6y ago
The messages described in the article/headline are from 2014.
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Caps lock mapped to escape for Touchbar laptop owners - still great for emacs!
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Here’s an example of what some artists want: https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020/Jun/An-Upda...
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by StringyBob 6y ago
There is a gut feeling that indies and up-and-coming artists are losing out with their fans effectively subsidizing pop that gets more ‘disposable’ plays. I’m sure Spotify will know the numbers for moving to user centric streaming payouts,
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by StringyBob 6y ago
You might be interested in this presentation from ARM to Apple from 1992 https://youtu.be/ZV1NdS_w4As
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by StringyBob 6y ago
There’s a few potential uses these days - more than just the famous crypto folklore one! Some examples on https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
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by StringyBob 6y ago
At 130nm, you could fit at least a couple of 68k’s worth of logic in a square millimetre of silicon. The limitation is you can’t fit that many IO pin connections on a chip so small (pad limited). You might as well chuck in the rest of the
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Unless I’m missing something this is jumping the gun slightly. It looks like an empty document template with a few placeholder titles. It doesn’t actually contain any design rule information.
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Maybe being forced to go outside in the sunshine for a cigarette break!
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by StringyBob 6y ago
Just realised boomer means Trident submarine, and not (OK boomer) baby-boomers! https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/06/30/uss-pennsylva...
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by StringyBob 7y ago
> It is estimated that the one-half of the round-trip delay happens in each direction. Anyone know how true this is? Particularly for mobile/asymmetric bandwidth connections - what might the errors bars be?
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by StringyBob 7y ago
> what they've ditched is cache coherency. That certainly makes it simpler to implement but now the cores have to be responsible for their own coherency. Like the quote says: “There are two hard things in computer science: cache inv
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by StringyBob 7y ago
Whenever I hear about large outsourced IT project disasters in the UK I go to check ‘computer weekly’, and sure enough, they’ve been investigating this for well over a decade https://www.computerweekly.com/news/25247531
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by StringyBob 7y ago
Not the answer you were looking for, but I couldn’t find one so got the ravpower 61W and an extra small international adapter.
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by StringyBob 7y ago
If you liked this, here’s a talk by an engineer who worked on the camera systems of the next generation black program, after corona, hexagon: https://youtu.be/GtmtYlcPYYA
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by StringyBob 7y ago
I downloaded Berkanan for iOS this summer for use at music festivals when mobile network capacity usually fails, but I didn’t get a chance to use it - anyone else tried it?
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by StringyBob 7y ago
I remember making something with the LM1881 chip used here to remove copy protection from analogue composite video signals. Needed so VHS videos you bought played properly on my TV! Some things never change...
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by StringyBob 7y ago
Where I live (not in the US) we have parking maximums, not minimums. A new office development will not get planning approval if it has more than 2 parking spaces per 3 employees (based on some obscure measurement of building capacity). This
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by StringyBob 7y ago
For anyone who's interested, but not seen them, I'd recommend the full series of videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iavKBdPo4U for a spectacular amount of background info.
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by StringyBob 7y ago
Although The Walkman was released 40 years ago, Sony had actually made something that will look familiar another 10 years earlier and was used on Apollo moon missions: https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/5254h
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by StringyBob 7y ago
It's not the companies choosing - it's the law. An executive order by Trump. Issued on May 15th with immediate effect. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... https://www.th

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