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by bpye 3y ago
You know the tooling leaves something to be desired when editing instruction bytes is the best option to NOP out an assert - for example.
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by bpye 3y ago
Sherlocked - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sherlock#English > 3. (computing slang) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party progr
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by bpye 3y ago
I would bet against Apple shipping any mobile phone with 32GB of RAM - even if the cost were acceptable the increased power draw likely would not be.
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by bpye 3y ago
It looks like the OLED version is replacing the LCD one for the 512/1TB models. It's just the specific colourway that's limited. I'm in a similar boat - I'm gonna keep my LCD 512GB Steam Deck.
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by bpye 3y ago
Also depending on how easily you can scale these semiconductors down, you may not need such complex cores. CPUs today are complex to (amongst other things) improve IPC - but if you’re really talking a 10^6 improvement in clock speed, I woul
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by bpye 3y ago
Gsync/variable refresh rate should be able to make that work. Even if the display doesn’t go down to 24Hz, it only needs to drop to 144Hz to be an integer multiple of 24Hz - you’d just get each frame being displayed for 6 frames.
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by bpye 3y ago
The Glasgow Interface Explorer [0] is starting to ship out now as well. I got mine a couple weeks back. It’s a neat option for a multi-purpose debug tool. [0] - https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow
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by bpye 3y ago
Rewriting code can equally introduce bugs. Maybe it’s worth it for things with significant attack surface - but certainly not everything qualifies.
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by bpye 3y ago
Fun to see this on here. I’ve recently been writing a usb_device [0] implementation for the CH32X035 [1] microcontroller and it was very helpful when trying to work out why enumeration wasn’t working. [0] - https://github.com&#x2
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by bpye 3y ago
I’m not really sure why you say that. Bristol is an expensive city, and certainly has its faults - public transport is certainly not great, for example. But I think in general, not a bad place to be.
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by bpye 3y ago
> Note that one of the relevant BIOS settings is Auto by default, which (counterintuitively) leaves it disabled, so you'll want to change that. I really dislike Auto settings in the BIOS. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a wa
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by bpye 3y ago
I love night trains. I’ve taken them from Warsaw to Prague, Prague to Zurich, and Verona to Paris. It’s by far my preferred option - you get a decent nights sleep and whilst the tickets are more expensive it’s one fewer nights in a hotel wh
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by bpye 3y ago
I’m guessing that’s similar to what we have in Canada - which is essentially sign on through a banking provider? A couple provinces have their own sign on system with their services card now too - BC included.
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by bpye 3y ago
SD Express is PCIe and much smaller, but a full sized SD card still isn’t small. Supposedly microSD Express exists but I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen it…
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by bpye 3y ago
> Two A510 cores can be clustered and share a L2 cache, FPU, and L2 TLB. Arm calls this a merged core configuration, and hopes it’ll increase area efficiency with minimal performance impact. Isn’t this also a lot like what AMD did with B
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by bpye 3y ago
This would be my expectation too. Though I’d think you’d need to go one further - hardware manuals AND a license to redistribute any necessary firmware binaries - the latter has been an issue with Nouveau for example. In fact I think manual
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by bpye 3y ago
Buses can only hope to match the reliability and headway of metro services if they have dedicated right of way and signal priority for the complete route. This eliminates several of your supposed benefits.
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by bpye 3y ago
TransLink (Vancouver, BC) has three SkyTrain expansion projects currently: - https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-t... - https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/proje
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by bpye 3y ago
This seems likely. ~6 years ago on a Delta flight I noticed that I could use Google and view cached pages without paying for WiFi. I managed to catch up on the news on my flight…
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by bpye 3y ago
I'm fairly sure that none of the earlier SoCs had an IOMMU. It's of course possible that there was one hidden in the GPU or something, but nothing on the CPU side.
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by bpye 3y ago
Oh sure - but as someone that wears glasses the idea of them being a combined device is interesting.
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by bpye 3y ago
I see that the PR against the Raspberry Pi linux repo is out [0]. Interestingly they are introducing a BCM2712 defconfig with a 64k default page size. From the device tree [1] it looks like they've rolled their own IOMMU rather than us
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by bpye 3y ago
Also looks like PCIe is exposed via an FPC connector. You could probably come up with a scheme to have an M2 device mounted behind the board - if you really wanted. Only having a single lane of PCIe 2.0 is a little unfortunate. I wonder if
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by bpye 3y ago
> They could also be talking about specific queries, e.g. with Chrome's default settings, the address bar can answer some queries like weather or calculator using search without having to press Enter. I'm almost certain it&#x27
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by bpye 3y ago
Additionally, Chrome 69 was released ~7 months before that email [0] - in September 2018. This release added answers to certain queries directly in the Omnibox - and presumably it was that change that impacted ad revenue. [0] - https:&#x2F
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by bpye 3y ago
Bose had sunglasses with bone conduction audio for a while - but I think they got discontinued. I like the idea but these are, to me, worse. I get why some people would like having a camera, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable with it.
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by bpye 3y ago
I wonder how you’d handle something like Siri’s background activation word detection?
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by bpye 3y ago
Does the DMA allow for a distinction between system applications and those that are sideloaded - or do they expect that any sideloaded app should have access to all entitlements, including those that are private today? I've read summar
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by bpye 3y ago
BC is similar [0], though it’s twice a year. [0] - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/public-safety/emer...
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by bpye 3y ago
Fun tidbit, the UK until this year didn’t have a cellular broadcast system. During the pandemic the government worked with each mobile provider individually to deliver notices to every subscriber [0]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.o

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