Unklejoe

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by Unklejoe 6y ago
This is because when I was growing up (Windows 95 era), it was normal for a computer to just completely freeze regularly. If I saw a static "processing", I'd assume the computer froze and would rip out the power after like 5
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
GPS time is already immune from leap seconds. It has a fixed offset from TAI of 19 seconds and always will. It also contains UTC offset information so that you can derive the current UTC time from GPS if you wanted to.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I always kind of predicted that services like YouTube will eventually end up just like cable TV when it comes to ads (formerly known as "commercials"). I think even services that you pay for (like Netflix) will eventually get ther
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
What's the general consensus on when these will start rolling out to the public? I know I can look this up on my own but there's so much conflicting info out there and things are changing so fast.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> saddled by a gearbox and even worse when it's a manual gearbox Couldn't you just leave it in like 3rd gear all the time or something?
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I never had to install any drivers. It all just worked. To be honest, I have no idea how. It just shows up as a network printer.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
If all you need is black and white printing, there is no need to be buying HP inkjet printers anymore. Get yourself a <$100 Brother laser printer and never look back. They work under Linux without any configuration and you can refill the
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
The Volvo page is so much better in my opinion. It's neat with decent information density. I'm not a fan of pages that try to do the whole dynamic immersive full screen huge picture thing.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Nah, it's okay to split an HDCP encrypted stream as long as you enforce HDCP on the outputs as well. I think the standard allows for something like 32 endpoints.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I know that at least the Minuteman III ICBMs are inertially guided. They program the coordinates into it and hit "send". No remote control, no flight termination.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Yes, I realize that. My comment was in response to the criticism of these companies being funded by tax dollars while being granted a patent. The implication being that we're paying (as taxpayers) but getting nothing in return since we
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I thought the vaccine was going to be free anyway?
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I have to admit, that was captivating. The part about cryptic images that resemble children gave me the chills for some reason.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Personal anecdote: I'm still driving the 2011 BMW 335i that I bought in 2014. It now has 265,000+ miles. The key with owning a BMW is to do all of the maintenance yourself. That brings the cost of ownership back down to planet Earth. I
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I have had tinnitus since as long as I can remember. About a year ago, it got significantly worse during a period of time which happened to align with extreme stress in my personal life. I also developed muscle fasciculations at the same ti
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Can't wait until someone grabs the sim or hacks the firmware to use it as a general purpose data connection.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> Its probably possible to do this via HDMI info frames too somehow These only flow in one direction though - from the source to the sink
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> something moist like your finger I wonder how well this would work in a real life scenario. My dad does autobody work, and his hands are like dry, cracked stone. They probably have very high electrical resistance. I'd imagine a wo
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Part of this is because of the complex equalization that must be performed when locking to the incoming signal. Basically, the device has to sweep through several different EQ settings until it achieves the combination with the best signal
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I'm in South Jersey and it's the total opposite. I have two friends in the process of buying a home, and all of the homes they look at are immediately sold, sometimes with bidding wars. It seems like values are up like 10% as a re
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I've seen this done on dating profiles before too
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
FYI: You can get to the river at the River Winds restaurant in Deptford. It's basically all rocks, but it's still pretty cool.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> they are either refurbished drives Just a heads up: there's no such thing as a refurbished hard drive. It's not economical. Instead, those drives are actually just used drives with the SMART counters cleared. I've been p
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Yes, definitely real! Although what you're probably thinking of is nitrous oxide injection. One popular manufacturer of nitrous oxide systems is "NOS", which was featured heavily on the Fast & Furious movies. The "sc
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
We use something similar on turbocharged drag (grudge) racing cars. The boost controller has a "scramble" button which overrides the preset boost targets and allows you to run a higher (and unsafe) boost level as long as the butto
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> Remember when channel changes on TVs were instantaneous? I think about this every time I use the Hulu "Guide" on my Fire TV. It's extremely slow and cumbersome. I remember using the early digital cable boxes in like 2005
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Sort of related question: How often does the FCC go after small scale electronics suppliers? Like, say I wanted to make a small microcontroller based device for cars to control the air compressor for air-ride suspension (just an example). T
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> I'll assert that the only benefits of FPGAs over ASICs are one time costs and time to market. There's one more big one: the ability to update the logic in the field.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Damn. He was one of those people who you could just tell was a good dude. I grew up watching him.

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