Teknoman117

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by Teknoman117 7mo ago
Absolutely not, unfortunately. The problem is not that gaming GPUs are in demand, it’s that selling silicon to AI center buildouts is so absurdly profitable right now they just aren’t making many gaming GPUs. If you can only get so many mm^
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by Teknoman117 8mo ago
I just wish there was a stronger source on this. I am inclined to agree you and the source you cited, but unfortunately > [1] This story requires some reading between the lines - the exact text of the contract isn’t available - but somet
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by Teknoman117 8mo ago
As someone who works in the datacenter hardware / system software space who does robotics as a hobby - the craziest thing to me about ROS is how tied it is to Linux and how Linux-illiterate half the people using it seem to be. It was l
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by Teknoman117 8mo ago
Waymos require a highly mapped environment to function safely in. Not to take away from what Waymo has accomplished, but it's a far more bounded problem that what the "self driving" promise has been.
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by Teknoman117 9mo ago
Trust / spam score is the largest one I think, second to consumer ISPs blocking the necessary ports for receiving mail. Even if your "self hosting" is renting a $5/month VPS, some spam lists (e.g. UCEPROTECT) proactively
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by Teknoman117 9mo ago
If my experience driving through a school zone on my way to work is anything to go off of, I rarely see people actually respecting it. 17 mph would be a major improvement over what I'm used to seeing.
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by Teknoman117 9mo ago
I have a TV because it's a nicer group experience than everyone viewing something via their personal device - whether that is cuddling up with a partner on the couch to watch a movie, or crowding around the TV with friends to play 8-wa
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by Teknoman117 9mo ago
Maybe it’s ironic that I’m saying this because right now I’m scrolling HN while waiting for my flight to board rather than trying to strike up conversations with people … but when I was riding the bus home a few days ago, I got fed up with
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by Teknoman117 9mo ago
Getting a Lego Mindstorms RIS 2.0 set for Christmas in 2001 is what instilled the love of programming, computing, and engineering in me. I’ve pretty much known what I’ve wanted to do with my life from that point forward. The homebrew commun
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by Teknoman117 10mo ago
The current generation of consoles can’t play games directly off the disk. They have to be installed to local storage first.
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by Teknoman117 10mo ago
As someone who works at an F100 company with massive proprietary codebases that also requires our users to sign NDAs even see API docs and code examples, to say that the output of LLMs for work tasks is comically bad would be an understatem
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Enshittification of Arduino Begins? Qualcomm Starts Clamping Down(itsfoss.com)
11 points by Teknoman117 11mo ago|2 comments
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
One of my friends got a Pimoroni InkyFrame and was trying to figure out what to do with it. Ended up learning a substantial amount about how dithering works to convert images into the 7 colors the eInk display can produce. It just sits ther
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
There's also this fun company (DM&P): https://www.vortex86.com Their "Vortex86DX3" is basically a dual-core 1 GHz Pentium II system on a chip...
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
As someone who does backpacking, a few reasons for bringing power sources: - A satellite communication device. You don't use them for internet access, but it does allow me to send my location and a small message so I can let an emergen
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
The last 20% of the performance takes like >75% of the power with Zen 4 systems XD. A Ryzen 9 7945HX mini pc I have achieves like ~80% of the all-core performance at 55W of my Ryzen 9 7950X desktop, which uses 225W for the CPU (admittedl
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
ARM systems that support UEFI are pretty fun to work with. Then there's everything else. Anytime I hear the phrase "vendor kernel" I know I'm in for an experience...
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
An interesting example of this was i386 support (as in being able to run on the 80386) being removed way back in kernel 3.8 (early 2013). If you can support 80486 why can't you support 80386? Well, there really wasn't much support
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
That's also in line with my memory of it. We still don't have all of the interesting C++ features in freestanding mode. It's still a fairly unknown component of libc++ and libstdc++. I've only been playing with it rece
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
I almost had that experience with one of the popular PC liquid cooling hardware vendors around 10 years ago. I emailed them saying I'd be interested in developing drivers for their hardware for Linux as I was a happy customer and was i
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by Teknoman117 1y ago
Apparently I have trouble telling the difference between different shades of pink...
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
It's shocking how recently this all seems to have been removed. I'm in my early 30s and learned most of this in public school.
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
It just works and it's so, so much faster. Went from an Ender 3 v2 to a Bambu P1S. No more re-leveling the bed, no more first layer adhesion problems, and your prints run 4-6 times quicker.
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
I would assume it's in order to maintain mechanical compatibility with the previous Pico.
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
It's the same SoC as the LicheeRV (SG2002)
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
I would hardly call hardware video decode/encode overrated. A hardware block will do the work with a fraction of the power that the CPU would take to do it, and in the case of something like a Pi 4 or Pi 5, you're now spending all
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
4 units per block, 2 blocks per RP2040.
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
Admittedly this is from a hobbyist perspective, but I'm hard pressed to reach for an ATmega for basically anything these days due to the RP2040, the Pico, and its clones. I do wish there were more ADC channels though. Even an external
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by Teknoman117 2y ago
You don't even need the 8 :), 4 quadrature inputs will fit on one PIO block. Some lovely person got a quadrature decoder into 24 instructions, so you can potentially still do something useful on the same PIO block if you only need one
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by Teknoman117 3y ago
My main trouble with the emulators/virtual machines is that late-90s and early-00s Windows/DirectX games are a huge dead spot. There are a ton of titles from this era that just don't work on current Windows, even with dgVoodo

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