TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
From my reading of the code, this microcontroller has 128 bytes of RAM.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> But man, without some sophisticated AR tech I don't know how Indianapolis can catch up. It really only requires a few people who want to stay busy doing something that doesn't require of thinking to finish their day. In the e
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Ok, got it. So even the best quality slo-mo interpolation would create tbr soap opera effect. I should have googled that first. :-)
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If your TV created the soap opera effect and this new method does not (does it?), then the new method is clearly better and maybe it did require this complex AI after all to make that happen.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
In the eighties, all engineering students at my university had access to an IBM 3090 mainframe. There were some CS kids who were way better than the admins at exploiting the system. (I don't remember the details, but the student newspa
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Texture map compression is lossy, and it’s a very compute intensive process that is done at the game mastering time, and it’s a fix ratio compression. None of this is the case here. You’re probably thinking about delta color compression.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
HDMI and DisplayPort have Display Stream Compression. However, there are currently no known sources that support it, and it’s a lossy compression. Since bandwidth requirements are going up faster than thr bandwidth of cables, one can expect
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Nobody is going to suffer from an extra pound of weight. For many things in life, it’s not about whether or not you suffer, it’s about what’s more or less pleasant. And for many, that even trumps an occasional inconvenience.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
IBM Selectrix typewriter trainee. It’s just how we learned to speed type in high school. :-)
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The hardware registers in our designs are all defined and used in upper case. The file names in our code base have a lot of upper case in them as well. But the real reason is tbat I learned speed typing in high school on an IBM Selectrix ty
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You must found one. I used caps lock all the time for its intended function (shocking!), so remapping it is just not an option.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If the hiring process is able to identify a good hire whereas just the resume does not (which is a big if, but companies assume that it does), then it totally makes sense to bring in a lot of people to interviews.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
We have a website that has the ARM logo and professional graphics. We have the main graphic of the site that was hosted on arm.com. We have paid ads. We have an article that claims that ARM apologizes for website which coincides with the we
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> ... from home routers (where MIPS has nearly 100% penetration) to low-end set-top-boxes. I don't think that's true anymore for new installations. A lot of those home routers and set-top boxes are using Broadcom chips, and the
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Summary units breakdown: Classic ARM (7,9,11): 16% Cortex-A: 19% Cortex-R: 7% Cortex-M: 58% Of course, there is probably a large difference in licensing and royalty cost between the A series and the M series. Based on the numbers above, it
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by TomVDB 8y ago
For me, the riscv-basics website came up as a paid link on Google. It did so for others as well. Somebody was spending real money to make it do so. Unlikely for a false flag.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If it’s not fooling you, what do you think really happened? That the hardworking staff (engineers like you and me) were strongly in favor of this poor website and collaborated on it to make it happen? To me, internal protests by rank and fi
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Do you by any chance have concrete data or a source for the “by quantity and value” ? I don’t doubt at all that it’s true, but I’d love to understand better what ARM’s exposure really is.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Yes, I got the same one!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wish I did. It doesn't come up like that anymore.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
When I search for "risc-v basics arm" in Google, this article comes up first as a paid Ad. So somebody is paying google to make this thing come up on top.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It’s this microcontroller board: http://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?title=Blue_Pill They are dirt cheap and can be found for around $2 on sites like AliExpress etc.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
How many dual income families make that much? Looking at the sold houses in my neighborhood and the families that move in: a lot.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Here’s a longer look at the economic history: https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bubbles-and-...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Yes. But it won’t change a thing for the big companies: they don’t make those low-volume (and low effort!) chips.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The participating companies makes chips that requires a huge amount of resources to make them happen: design engineering time, CAD software, tape-out cost, validation engineering time, ... The CAD software is expensive, but it's not
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Well, yesterday I filled in <so and so restaurent>, street, miliptas. Apple Maps guided me to <so and so restaurant> somewhere in the North Bay...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You’re making the bold assumption that there is anything being said that is worth paying attention to.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
FWIW: my initial instinctive reaction to the MD part was most definitely negative.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That was my reasoning as well until burglars took my NAS (in addition to the laptops, of course.)

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