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by bradfa 3y ago
Lots of the software in a modern printer is licensed by the printer manufacturer. They can’t open source it because they don’t own the copyright, they’ve simply bought a license which allows them to make modifications and ship products with
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by bradfa 3y ago
I have two 6th gen and one 5th gen iPad. All 3 run iPadOS 16 fine. Currently the 5th gen iPad is the oldest iPad that iPadOS 16 supports.
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by bradfa 3y ago
But take a wider sample of consumer SSDs, a large majority are <=3 years. And look at enterprise SSDs. Seagate Ironwolf and WD Red are not enterprise spinny hard disk drives, instead look at Seagate X18 or WD HC560.
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by bradfa 3y ago
Only in very small capacity raw flash chips, generally less than 1GB in size. This is still somewhat popular in embedded systems because it's often inexpensive. But it's basically impossible to purchase an SLC flash-based drive
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by bradfa 3y ago
It depends on what kind of performance you're looking for and how you value that performance. Under sustained long duration (ie: hours to days) of continuous full load performing small block writes, even the highest rated consumer SSD
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by bradfa 3y ago
Re: roll cage: Possibly in some jurisdictions it may be regulated as a motorcycle? Many times motorcycles require the use of a helmet even if said "motorcycle" isn't a 2-wheeled vehicle with an exposed rider.
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by bradfa 3y ago
OK, interesting. In NY we have a mandatory yearly safety check for all vehicles but also an emissions check for specific classes of vehicles (ie: gasoline cars/trucks >=2 years old, but diesel passenger cars and EVs are exempt). M
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by bradfa 3y ago
Recycling or reprocessing of used nuclear fuel is not done in the USA currently. I'm curious if this will change in the near future with what appears to be renewed interest in nuclear power plants. Being able to renew what's cur
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by bradfa 3y ago
Is there a smog exam in California for electric cars? Honest question, as it wouldn't surprise me if there was due to complicated legislation.
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by bradfa 3y ago
It's a very common task in embedded development to need to reduce sleep or idle power consumption but in my experience it's never basic nor easy to do it right. Lots of times engineering teams just punt the issue and the customer
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by bradfa 3y ago
To be fair to Harvard and Princeton, neither actually costs very much to attend if you get accepted but come from a lower/middle income family. The hard part is getting accepted. Princeton has quite large aid packages outlined here:
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by bradfa 3y ago
Any discussion on how much shooting giant microwave beams through the atmosphere would warm the atmosphere locally or globally? Clearly the beam won't be 100% efficient and that power loss is going to partly be absorbed by the atmosph
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by bradfa 3y ago
My plumber is the same way. One man business and said it’s hard to keep employees as once trained they quickly job shop for a raise and he can’t match the bigger firms’ pay or they’d strike out on their own. So he gave up on it and stays a
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by bradfa 3y ago
I just bought a new HP ENVY laptop with a Win 11 Pro license. I replaced the RAM and M.2 before first power-up and made a USB boot drive with the Windows 11 media creation application to do the install. The installer lacked wifi drivers s
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by bradfa 4y ago
I was wondering how Oxide would be able to follow through on their claims to be open sourcing even the firmware for their AMD systems. This makes it a little more clear.
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by bradfa 4y ago
This is what’s currently happening. It’s windy in some remote places. Connecting those places to the grid is horribly expensive but building a chemical plant there isn’t. That’s the locations where efuels are being made today. Like the Pors
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by bradfa 4y ago
Or they could just use a permissively licensed OS, like one of the BSDs. There's no need to use a proprietary OS in order to avoid the GPL, pretty much all the BSDs shun the use of GPL code and they offer similar abilities to Linux. G
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by bradfa 4y ago
Sure, he does rant about it, but the user facing APIs break constantly none the less.
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by bradfa 4y ago
Linux kernel user facing APIs never break? It really depends on what you consider user facing. If you’ve ever relied on or considered sysfs to be a user facing API there have been numerous and severe breakages over time in the Linux kernel
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by bradfa 4y ago
Have you ever worn out an SD card used in one of your phones?
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by bradfa 4y ago
My iPhone 8 is still going strong! It has a bright spot in the middle of the screen, the battery isn't what it used to be, and the camera is clearly not as good as the newer iPhones that my extended family all have. But it's not
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by bradfa 4y ago
I've never actually experienced this on a personal device (anecdata, I know). But my dayjob for many years has been in embedded systems and working with flash devices and even there, as long as you don't design the product to wri
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by bradfa 4y ago
iPhone battery replacements, at an Apple store with 1st party parts and labor, now seem to be about $90 for many models. That's reasonable enough that I would definitely choose it over a slightly less expensive 3rd party repair or DIY
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While Back in the Box does resell some Android devices, the majority are iPhones and iPads, said its chief executive, Ari Marinovsky. A big reason is that Apple updates device software for more years than its competitors do. That seems li
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by bradfa 4y ago
Static Control Components was always fun to watch! They really seemed like the leader in terms of making 3rd party consumables chips, at least on the tech and legal side of things. The chips on toner/ink started because there was a ne
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by bradfa 4y ago
The cat and mouse game of "cracking" the toner/ink chips has gone on as long as they have existed. It's been over a decade since I worked for Xerox on these kinds of chips, so they may have gotten much more complex and
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by bradfa 4y ago
Kodak had some serious reliability issues with the print heads in those printers. I think that was more the reason that it failed rather than consumers not liking the up front price on its own. No one likes buying what’s supposed to be the
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by bradfa 4y ago
The “security” chips are very inexpensive. Both the physical chip and also the associated cost to engineer them into the product and to program them on the assembly line. HP need an update capability or everyone would be outraged if they co
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by bradfa 4y ago
The main memory map places the DDR memory starting at 0x8000_0000 up to 0xffff_ffff in both AM62x and AM57xx. Below 0x8000_0000 are a bunch of other memory mapped devices and interfaces. Additional memory beyond 2GB are all located above 0
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As I mentioned in another comment, 2GB is the maximum memory size that all of the processors within the SOC can access, so it's a perfectly reasonable amount of RAM to spec for this SOC. The Cortex-A CPUs can access more than 2GB but b

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