borgel

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by borgel 8y ago
Wow, that's a really good idea. Time to find some boxes!
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by borgel 8y ago
I used to enjoy wrapping a metal slinky around the base of mine. Then whenever I touched metal to it I’d get little sparks. Must have been acting as an antenna, but I wonder what exactly was going on.
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by borgel 8y ago
Right next to my university! A bunch of the buildings were marked as rad shelters.
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by borgel 8y ago
I assume it has to do with which side the reflective coating is on? If it's on the room-facing face there is no gap. If it's on the backing (wall-side face) there is a gap as thick as the glass.
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by borgel 8y ago
Yes and no. Some of the general part features will be familiar (in the sense that an ARM Cortex M[X] is the same as any other Cortex M[X]. In reality every vendor's peripherals, and more importantly HAL and associated drivers and libs,
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by borgel 8y ago
At work we often try to do a different color for each revision so you can tell at a glance what's in a given unit. It's definitely saved me a few times!
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by borgel 8y ago
Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...
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by borgel 8y ago
Agreed, absolutely worth a visit. Weird comparison to the Newseum. In hindsight, I also had a similar reaction.
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by borgel 8y ago
Agreed. Also Anathem is fantastic.
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by borgel 8y ago
Yes! This talk was fantastic!
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by borgel 8y ago
I think it was the CEO of OnePlus [1]. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17152840/oneplus-6-notch-...
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by borgel 8y ago
Quite a frustrating limitation!
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by borgel 8y ago
Covered here [1] I think? (disclaimer, I write for HaD) https://hackaday.com/2018/08/21/an-led-you-can-blow-out-with...
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by borgel 8y ago
Plus it seems like this would weaken Google's partial stranglehold on the market is a side effect.
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by borgel 8y ago
I thought there was no way that could be true, but it is [1]! I'd love to try out out and see how well it works in practice. [1] http://www.microcenter.com/product/473125/mini_cnc_engraver_...
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by borgel 8y ago
In an act of great timing, there was just a pretty decent article about this on The Verge [1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...
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by borgel 9y ago
What's he doing with whales?
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by borgel 9y ago
You can't, but you can on Samsung's Gear Icon X earbuds [1]. Not sure if they do anything clever with the files though. [1] http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-iconx/
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by borgel 9y ago
If anyone is interested, the original Amazon letter to the shareholders (reproduced with every succeeding letter) is worth a read [1]. In some ways it pretty much explains all of Amazon. [1] http://media.corporate-ir.net/med
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by borgel 9y ago
From the fabs I usually use (PCBWay, JLCPCB) I've found it's usually cheapest to order them along with the PCBs themselves. On PCBWay they're about $10. JLCPCB they're $9.
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by borgel 9y ago
FWIW, my SE was fine with iOS 11.
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by borgel 9y ago
Wish they had a prototype to show off. It will be interesting to hear what users think of it.
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by borgel 9y ago
Ditto, very interested. You wouldn't happen to have any photos of the prototype, would you?
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by borgel 9y ago
Me too! I put together something similar a while ago [1]. It was great fun to build, but doesn't make a very ergonomic computer :) [1] http://makezine.com/2017/06/15/commute-deck-keyboard-device/
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by borgel 9y ago
For what it's worth, Apple was rumored to be buying this [1] company, who purports to have built an e-ink keyboard with relatively normal chicklet style keys. [1] https://sonderdesign.com/
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by borgel 9y ago
I'm an embedded developer. What are you hiring for?
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by borgel 10y ago
Interested too
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by borgel 10y ago
Got mine! Still haven't figured out what to do with it though.
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by borgel 10y ago
If you enjoy pondering on that, you may enjoy reading Permutation City [1] by Greg Egan. [1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156784.Permutation_City
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by borgel 10y ago
Excellent point.

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