Unklejoe

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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Let's go a step further and use TAI to avoid leap seconds while we're at it.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
It's interesting that they are able to continue improving video compression. You'd think that it would have all been figured out by now. Is this continued improvement related to the improvement of technology? Or just coincidental?
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
I was thinking the other day: if you replace the word "commercial" with "ad", it somehow seems much more ridiculous to be spending $50+ month for a video service, only to still have to sit through countless ads. It seems
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Do you not remember the whole "freedom fries" movement?
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Totally random, but I would pay a lot of money to attend an "Intro to microprocessor design" class taught by this guy.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Yeah, I mean it’s not the end of the world. It’s probably not worth adding backwards compatibility for config files yet - not while development is so rapid. It would just add maintenance baggage.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Just wanted to say thanks. I've been running my own homeserver for a little over two years now without any real issue. I somehow managed to convince 4 of my friends to use Riot and it's been great. We were originally using Group M
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Come to the defense industry. If anything, the age bias is the other way around, and contrary to popular belief, there are some very cool cutting edge projects.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
While electric cars will cost less over their lifespan (due to much less maintenance), they still cost a lot more initially, and I think that's the biggest hurdle right now. A lot of people can't drop $40k on a car, but they can s
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure I've heard of companies using open source emulators for backwards compatibility with old consoles/selling 'classic games' before. I know at least Sony uses PCSX ReArmed for their "PlayStati
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
It seems like over the last 5 years, Wine has improved a ton. Or at least - it seems way more active. Not sure why, but I suspect that Valve has a lot to do with it.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> stream of bytes I've always wondered: What's the best/defacto way to delimit this back into packets at the application level on the receiving end? I would think the obvious approach would be to insert some magic word int
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
Because it feels good to support your immediate neighbor?
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
They usually ask for C/C++, but what they really mean is C++.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
One time, I wrote a small network protocol stack to handle some proprietary UDP-based protocol that supported fragmentation. Since the header on each fragment contained the total message size, I was able to pre-allocate the full size of the
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
> it’s implemented in the driver level Not anymore, at least for any system that uses libinput (which I think is most of them at this point). The reason libinput doesn't implement it is exactly for the reason you described, too.
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
That probably depends on the industry. At my last job (embedded software for a defense contractor), I was actually the youngest at 28. The guy to the right of me was in his mid 60's, the guy behind me was 50, and my boss was 52. I thin
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by Unklejoe 6y ago
For what it’s worth, you can buy the DirecTV DECA adapters for like $20 on Amazon. They’re actually just MoCA adapters, but they run at a lower frequency than regular MoCA so they don’t interfere with the DirecTV signal. They work fine by t
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
I posted a similar comment and was met with a similar negative reaction - not sure why. I think it's perfectly valid to be skeptical of the long term plans of any company. In this case, it seems pretty obvious that they would eventuall
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
I feel like this will be an easier migration from a software perspective. At least both architectures are 64 bit little endian, so all those buggy C programs that do illegal type casting might still work. One issue might be that X86 is pret
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
I took a look at your project and I have a question. I see that you have support for driving 16 outputs with 250 ns accuracy. Are you using a single timer+compare unit to do this? I struggled with this a little when I tried to do a similar
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
I’ve been watching Speeduino for a while now and the amount of progress you guys are making is insane. Keep up the good work. I currently run/tune Megasquirt in several cars, but I’ve been waiting to give Speeduino a shot.
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
I thought most Ethernet PHYs don't lock actually to the clock, but instead use a FIFO that starts draining once it's half way full. The size of this FIFO is such that it doesn't under or overflow given the largest frame size
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
> Ethernet through twisted-pair wiring only provides 80% of the listed bit-rate Actually, they already accommodated for this in the advertised speed. In other words, a 1 GbE SerDes runs at 1.250 Gbit/s, so you end up with an actual
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
> opens the manufacturer to a whole host of liabilities I don't think so. How would the manufacturer be liable for a failure due to a repair made by someone else? Has there ever been an incident of such a case?
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
Okay, I'm curious now. I'm looking into the Ascend Sierra RAAL Towers and it looks like they're reasonably priced at around $2900/pair, which is right around my budget for a pair of high quality speakers. It seems like y
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
You know what? I'm not going to let people gaslight me into believing that a stereo system needs to be integrated into the "cloud" and rely on some third party service to function. I have HiFi equipment literally from the 197
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
> elevated diastolic (lower) pressure Somewhat tangential, but what is this usually an indicator of? My pressure will sometimes be 115/85, and the 85 seems kind of high. Just curious what causes this and how to fix it.
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
For your own personal use, your own personal anecdotes are really all that matter.
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by Unklejoe 7y ago
My mom has been using Ubuntu MATE for a few years and doesn't even know it. I just put a Firefox icon on the desktop and it was basically the same as any other computer for her.

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