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by ac29 3y ago
Your article says USB A male to USB C female is noncompliant. It doesnt say USB A female to USB C male is noncompliant. These are reasonably common and I had one included with both my current laptop and my current smartphone, for example.
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by ac29 3y ago
ARM royalties are on the order of pennies per chip, so no, I wouldnt expect this to affect end-user prices.
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by ac29 3y ago
> How can a simple coaxial cable cram so much bandwidth? A large amount of spectrum to work with and a high spectral efficiency. Wikipedia lists DOCSIS 4.0 as having 1.8GHz of bandwidth, and DOCSIS 3.1 as ~10bits/Hz. Assuming DOCSIS
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by ac29 3y ago
> The prosecution have cracked open the books, turned every single employee, and this is their smoking gun? We are not even one week into a six week trial. This particular fraud is only one small part of their overall case.
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by ac29 3y ago
In the US, thermal power generation is actually a bigger user of fresh water than agriculture: https://labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizations/water-use-15/... This is 2015 data. Not sure if the rapid rise in solar
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by ac29 3y ago
Alder Lake N (N95, N100, etc) is built on a 7nm class process. Many of those systems could be considered SBCs (SoC/RAM/Storage is often all on a single board). Those CPUs are low end for x86, but much higher end than a typical ARM
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by ac29 3y ago
Intel has a cloud available: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devc...
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by ac29 3y ago
Intel Linux GPU drivers have been open source for as long as I can remember (at least 10 years, maybe forever).
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by ac29 3y ago
Even in the absence of all anthropogenic RF noise, the noise floor on larger channels is higher. Specifically, I'm thinking of thermal noise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise
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by ac29 3y ago
>Higher bandwidth should also make connection more robust Nope. Higher bandwidth could mean two things: Larger channel size: larger channels have a higher noise floor and are are therefore less robust Faster throughput: Faster throughput
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by ac29 3y ago
>But my Wifi router only gets 650 down with the phone using it as a stand. I cant speak to WiFi, but on the long range wireless stuff I work with the hardware does almost as poorly with signal levels that are too high as signal levels th
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by ac29 3y ago
> Why would an investment ever be "returned"? Because the money used for the investment was stolen.
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by ac29 3y ago
Not sure if you are cherry picking that example, but I looked up that cereal in my local grocery store in a VHCOL area and it is $6.99/23oz ($0.30/oz).
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by ac29 3y ago
>New housing starts in the US[1] have climbed steadily for the past 10 years This is good, but even at the peak in 2022 housing starts were lower than they were 20 years ago. Given that the population has grown significantly since then,
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by ac29 3y ago
This is also an emulator
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by ac29 3y ago
> I know people who have simply put herbs/peppers/etc directly into oil and go with that method. I've not heard of them getting botulism, but maybe it was luck. According to the CDC, food-borne botulism is pretty rare, jus
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by ac29 3y ago
Are you vegan or vegetarian? I changed my diet to >90% vegan a few months ago and noticed the occasional cravings for meat completely disappeared pretty quickly. I suspect it has something to do with a change in gut microbiome.
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by ac29 3y ago
Too high or too low? If the scale is A-F, that would put ground beef at about average which seems about right. Its a great source of protein and a good source of some vitamins and minerals, but is high in saturated fat and has a low amount
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by ac29 3y ago
> Where is google going to go here? > Can't do huawei because sanctions. Can't do MediaTek or Samsung because their modems are inferior in almost every way (speed, bandwith, power consumption ...). Google has been using Sams
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by ac29 3y ago
Caffeine tablets are way underrated. The equivalent of ~200 cups of coffee in tablet form is less than $10. (and yes, I love real coffee too but it is far more expensive even made at home from the cheapest grocery store beans available)
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by ac29 3y ago
Are you sure? I set up tailscale recently on Arch and the daemon is definitely running via a systemd system service (not a user service).
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by ac29 3y ago
> I simply cannot imagine a Hetzner-style company could not offer dirt cheap consumer storage on the order of 20$/year/TB or even cheaper Hetzner does offer a storage service for ~$40/TB/year (and less for >1TB)
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by ac29 3y ago
> 1. Non-dairy coffee creamer usually contains milk products, so even though it's "non-dairy" it's not vegan I went to look this up and the first "non-dairy" creamer I came across literally says "CONTAI
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by ac29 3y ago
Top 100 movies per year for the past 100 years isn't that much storage. Maybe 50-200 TB? Doable by a dedicated storage enthusiast with a modest budget. Every movie and and TV show in English is going to be several orders of magnitude l
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by ac29 3y ago
A tiling window manager + a high resolution screen can be pretty roomy for doing that kind of work.
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by ac29 3y ago
> 3. Intel still hasn't moved to on-chip RAM, shared across all core-types. (As far as I know?) Apple doesnt have on chip RAM either. They do the exact same thing PC manufacturers do: use standard off the shelf DDR.
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by ac29 3y ago
Apple doesnt manufacture their own chips or assemble their own devices. They are certainly paying the profit margins of TSMC, Foxconn, and many other suppliers.
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by ac29 3y ago
Oof, 20% increase in B2 pricing. I suppose a price increase was inevitable, but thats a pretty big jump. Now that they are publicly traded, you can see their financials and they have been losing money every quarter. This price increase does
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by ac29 3y ago
The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Resource Manual Section 941.18 U.S.C. 1343 cites these as the key elements of wire fraud: “1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another ou
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by ac29 3y ago
Near future? Its been in development for 7 years and still hasnt been accepted upstream (an upstreaming effort is in progress, though).

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