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by avian 6y ago
I've only seen early bird prices for physical products or things like tickets. It makes sense to me where there's inherently a limited supply and over time the available number of items for sale falls and hence price gets higher.
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by avian 6y ago
> Every X copies sold, the price increased: sold 30 at $12, 70 at $19 It's currently at $29. I haven't seen this way of selling content before. It's funny because it's kind of backwards of everything else I've se
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by avian 6y ago
Maybe that’s a region dependent feature, but my YT only marks YT-supplied ads in yellow on the timeline. Videos with a sponsored segment (as in, “this video was sponsored by ... checkout this amazing product of theirs”) only show a small ba
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by avian 6y ago
I wonder if putting art on inner PCB copper layers is more common? Similar to silicon art on ICs? It would only be visible on x-ray and to people in the PCB fab. I've never personally done it, or seen any in the wild, but it seems more
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by avian 6y ago
It would be fascinating to find out where some of these parts come from. CuriousMarc had a video sometime ago where he got a batch of exotic HP custom ICs for his HP 9825 from a random seller in China. He first thought they were counterfeit
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by avian 6y ago
The slides shows an external "Thunderbold controller" chip. Seems like something they would have hanging off a PCIe bus.
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by avian 6y ago
I suggest checking the type of ink first. Inks for my printer (type 664) are definitely water based and don't dissolve well in alcohol. A cloth dipped in alcohol hardly touches any dried-on ink, but distilled water will dissolve it nic
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by avian 6y ago
Similar experience. For some reason my Epson clogs more easily than the HP it replaced. I tried cleaning heads manually (there are a few tutorials out there that show how to do it with distilled water and some cloth). It's very dirty w
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by avian 6y ago
From my perspective as a user making me click those traffic lights isn't essential functionality.
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by avian 6y ago
The effect of GSM phones on analog audio equipment was actually an oversight in defining the standard. Fully compliant equipment had that effect. Some years back when I had some small involvement in new EU regulations that case was actually
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by avian 6y ago
As others have pointed out, EMC testing often only considers typical use and this is not one. Another thing is that regulations don't only consider radiated power. Constant-level spurious transmissions are sometimes tolerated to a high
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by avian 6y ago
I've spent months and sleepless nights trying to get a product through the EMC certification. It's certainly possible but it's time consuming and expensive. With a shoestring engineering budget and a product that needs to be
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by avian 6y ago
"economy of scale but backwards" describes the whole content industry, doesn't it? At your local shop you will typically pay more for a hit album CD with millions of copies made compared to an indie release with maybe 100 cop
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by avian 6y ago
As someone who has also worked with fleets of devices (R.Pi-based and others) working off SD-cards, I can confirm what jon-wood is saying. For some reason SD cards fail at a much higher rate than eMMC flash chips in traditional SMT packages
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by avian 6y ago
One comment regarding your "performance comparison" graph. Is the "dd" result read or write? I wondered the same thing with your Compute Module 4 post.
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by avian 6y ago
None of these do what the OP is asking. AFAIK there is no way to share files between the systems with the setup described in the article (short of something like a network sync or using an unencrypted USB key) > Ext4 read/write for
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by avian 6y ago
My hypothesis is that, if given a (simulated) spectroscopical observation of Earth's atmosphere from a distance, astrophysicists would come up with plausible non-biological, non-industrial explanations for it.
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by avian 6y ago
It's a long-standing bug that also affects me. It's quite annoying since it's easy to irreversibly hose up your sync account by going over the remote storage quota. Maybe you don't have a Firefox account and/or sync
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by avian 6y ago
It's not just Twitter. Fake SpaceX "live" streams with a couple thousand viewers regularly pop-up in my YouTube recommendations. They're peddling the same kind of crypto scams.
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by avian 6y ago
I think Webmention is viable at the moment just because of the low adoption across the web. Just like with pingbacks and trackbacks, any kind of manual moderation becomes infeasible when valid posts get swarmed under thousands of automated
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by avian 6y ago
Back around 2001 I made Tablix ( https://www.tablix.org ). It was my first larger open source project. Back then the faculty I was studying in had some really inconvenient timetables for students and I initially made Tablix to sho
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by avian 6y ago
I can't wait for the first website to tell me they won't do business with me because I have an invalid name. It's just the next step from forcing me to remove "invalid characters".
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by avian 6y ago
How abuse-proof are the optical connectors on those? Can you carry devices and cables in dusty bags all day and not worry about getting dirt in the optical path?
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by avian 6y ago
If anyone wants to dive into physics behind the reasons why you can't efficiently collimate light from a large emitter like a LED array, this Stack Exchange answer [1] and the Wikipedia article about etendue [2] is a good start. [1] h
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by avian 6y ago
> Initially, NASA underestimated the electromechanical interference (EMI) projected by the light and the Apollo computers crashed when the beams were aimed at the rockets on the launch pads. Not wanting to ruin a good story, but I find t
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by avian 6y ago
The issue with cheap (<1000 EUR) color laser printers seem to be that you will throw them out once you use up the supplied cartridges. Either 1) you won't be able get new cartridges because of model churn 2) new cartridges will cost
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by avian 6y ago
> Using an Excel sheet as a database How do you know it was Excel? I see no technical details in the posted article except "some files containing positive test results exceeded the maximum file size".
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by avian 6y ago
One role of product churn is to reduce the impact of unbiased reviews and make comparisons with the competition harder. If the model you're buying is only available in your specific region for a month or two it's impossible to kno
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by avian 6y ago
It's possible. I've looked at some feed sources and didn't see anything obviously wrong. I suspect TheOldReader also because if I go to view only a specific feed, the entries are sorted correctly newest-first, but displayed p
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by avian 6y ago
Is anyone else having very old posts (e.g. published in 2003) float up as just published on top of their TheOldReader "all items" timeline? I subscribe to some blogs that include very old posts in their feeds and it seems like The

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