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by bradfa 5y ago
You'd be amazed at how fast carrier boards with FPGAs on them can be made to solder down to existing sized pads to replace a no-longer-available part when a manufacturing line is shutdown due to parts availability. I wouldn't dis
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by bradfa 5y ago
I think it very much depends on what market you're looking at. Often times on designs I've worked on there's a whole pile of logic gates and other simple discrete circuits which help to do housekeeping type tasks, like synch
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by bradfa 5y ago
That's really cool! It's not really something which could be deployed to general purpose personal vehicles, since they come in many shapes and sizes, but it's great to see such an idea executed for buses which seems like a gr
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by bradfa 5y ago
I don't know why it's the case, but it is very frustrating to me. I have 3 kids and 3 iPads, not assigned per kid, just a pool they all and my wife use. Current implementation is a common "family" account logged in as
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by bradfa 5y ago
Yes, adding ntpd or chrony is another package but they really aren’t that big or burdensome on modern embedded systems. If you can fit systemd you can probably fit a real time daemon, too. I could understand if you’re running in a system w
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by bradfa 5y ago
For some pretty graphs, you can have a look at what the pool monitoring does for my pool servers: https://www.ntppool.org/a/bradfa
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by bradfa 5y ago
The recommended way to use NTP is to run a daemon which will continue to run in the background ensuring your clock is accurate and to have it reference multiple time sources (or a known stratum 1 source, like an atomic clock, WWV station, G
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by bradfa 5y ago
You generally don't need to use the country code. The pool's DNS setup is usually smart enough to give you back servers who are fairly local to you based on your location, assuming your DNS server is fairly local to you. If you&#
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by bradfa 5y ago
I have 3 U2F devices. My wife has 2. For any U2F logins we have, we have enrolled all of our dongles in each login. At least one of each of our devices is always stored at home in a safe place, where we store other valuable documents. If
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by bradfa 5y ago
I have a Yubikey 5, Yubikey 4, and a Feitian Bluetooth key, the Feitian is basically the unbranded Google Titan Bluetooth key. Both work fine, although I haven't used the Bluetooth one in a while. I use my Yubikey 5 on a regular basi
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by bradfa 5y ago
I use a few Yubikeys and a Bluetooth Feitian key with my iPhone 8. My wife uses a Google Titan USB key and Bluetooth key for her Apple devices. Our iPads are too old to have NFC, but the Bluetooth paired fine with Google's Smart Lock
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by bradfa 5y ago
The negativity about using the NTP pool seems unwarranted. The NTP pool monitors all servers in it and will kick out those who are supplying incorrect times or who are unavailable. You're also much more likely to be able to easily fin
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by bradfa 5y ago
For anyone who says, "But what if $WORKPLACE doesn't allow you to plug in USB dongles or use NFC!?!" my counter is then maybe you shouldn't be logging into your personal Google account on that PC. And you probably have
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by bradfa 5y ago
I've used a U2F dongle for my 2FA with Google for a few years. I've been enrolled in the Google Advanced Protection program for a while. I don't have any issues around Google logins, just plug in my U2F dongle and press the
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by bradfa 5y ago
How will this be prevented from just becoming a retirement community? Will they only allow certain people to move here? How will the city avoid criticisms of ageism if most of the people who want to move here are old people looking for a n
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by bradfa 5y ago
I don't see any sports fields in any of the pictures. Sports are a great way to get exercise but most sports inherently have winners and losers. Not only in each game played, but also for the best players. It's not equal. Will
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by bradfa 5y ago
There's a bunch of reasons, here's a few I've heard or thought of myself: * DDR2 is generally 1.8V. There's probably already a need for 1.8V logic within this SOC, so the power rail is "free." DDR3, DDR3L, an
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by bradfa 5y ago
Yes, but you can also look at it as a great way to start contributing to the upstream Linux kernel. Take the vendor's horrible drivers and clean them up, then submit them upstream. You get to learn new things and contribute to Linux,
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by bradfa 5y ago
It's not even clear that they did that. It sounds like they made their own sunscreens from the ingredients commonly found in some sunscreens and then added the zinc oxide to test what would happen.
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by bradfa 5y ago
Geefix are easy to source on Amazon and other online retailers. But yeah, not at Home Depot or Lowe's. But then again, most wood workers (target of audience of that website) probably already source the tools and materials they use fr
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by bradfa 5y ago
What will be interesting, and telling, to watch will be who joins him. If some high profile government people join him in the Forward Party, then Yang doesn't need to be great at management or politics, he just needs to light the fire
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by bradfa 5y ago
This is what I do for our family computer. All our photos and videos are on the family computer, it continuously backs up to backblaze with forever history and we push all our photos and videos to Google Photos, too. We print the photos we
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by bradfa 5y ago
Thanks! This is good news! It seems it just started at the end of last year, and my local watery authority is already publishing results on it: https://mcwa-wordpress-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upl...
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by bradfa 5y ago
I expect the USB organization can sue Amazon and other vendors for allowing these kinds of products to be sold if they're illegitimately using the logo. I'm not fully versed on copyright or trademark law but I believe that's
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by bradfa 5y ago
That link doesn't work for me. Our local school district's most recent water testing seems to have just been for lead. It resulted in a 229 page document outlining how, when, and where they tested every single tap in all the scho
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by bradfa 5y ago
I assume you'll only be able to legally use these logos on your products and packaging if you actually pay for certification. Most USB devices/charges/etc aren't certified today, I don't see this new logo scheme ch
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by bradfa 5y ago
I've worked at Xerox and in the Kodak sites around Rochester, NY, USA. They're all EPA Superfund sites. Surely there's negative health impacts of working on contaminated ground, but MANY MANY* high tech locations in the US
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by bradfa 5y ago
Likely it is legislation, but probably it's required testing for certain permits or environmental reasons and then that testing gets reported. I live in upstate NY and I've never heard of anyone testing for PFAS. In our schools t
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by bradfa 5y ago
The MERV or other rating of a filter is not what's important to your furnace (it's what's important to the humans) but what matters is how much airflow through the filter can be achieved by the furnace fan and how much pressu
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by bradfa 5y ago
Locally, right now, it's hard to find ANYONE in the local Home Depot or Lowe's stores who actually works there. The registers have a skeleton crew, there's basically no one "helping" in the aisles, and usually only

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