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by bradfa 6y ago
At least in the USA, due to COVID there has been lower than normal new car inventory at dealerships for the second half of 2020. This drove new car prices up which in turn drove used car prices up. At the end of 2020 it seemed like the inv
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by bradfa 6y ago
The attacker needs physical access to your Yubikey NEO and to then run a few thousand observations. Using a U2F dongle is still MUCH better than many other types of 2 factor authentication. My family are enrolled in Google Advanced Prote
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by bradfa 6y ago
I read it to say that on die ecc is recommended but that dimm-wide ecc is still optional. And now you have 8 bits of ecc per 32 data versus older DDR having 8 bits of ecc per 64 data. Hence the cost for dimm-wide ecc is going up.
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by bradfa 6y ago
I’ve started buying electronics from B&H Photo and Provantage recently. So far I’ve been very happy and the prices are reasonable.
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by bradfa 6y ago
Regardless, it does really all come down to what your compute need is, and specialized metrics for somewhat odd-ball cases can sometimes still heavily favor Intel for the money. Thanks for your comments! I didn't previously fully compr
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by bradfa 6y ago
I haven't been able to test any Zen 3 CPUs. Now I'm curious! From benchmarks listed here: https://calomel.org/aesni_ssl_performance.html it seems that Intel had similar performance in their 2015 release of the i7
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by bradfa 6y ago
I'd be curious to see AES encryption performance compared between the same CPUs from Ampere, Intel, and AMD. In my experience, Intel have a significant performance advantage with their AES-NI implementation over AMD. I wonder what Am
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by bradfa 6y ago
This is an engineering leadership problem. Your new company does not seem to have an engineering leader who understands the cost to the business of having the engineers act the way they currently are. I don't think you have to run aw
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by bradfa 7y ago
Google and Apple are now doing a version of this: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launc...
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by bradfa 7y ago
I think that Google and Apple will be extremely helpful in the coming months, at least in the USA, for tracing the spread of COVID-19. Google and Apple know where probably 90+% of adults/teens in the USA are located in real time. If
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by bradfa 7y ago
Similarly, I've been with GEICO for over a decade now for my car and homeowner's insurance. GEICO is just a homeowner's broker in New York, Liberty Mutual actually insures my house. I shop every year or two and I've ne
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by bradfa 7y ago
How much of the u-boot and Linux kernel binaries which ship with the Pinebook Pro (or are used in the images/installers linked from the wiki) is already integrated into the mainline or upstream of each of these projects? If not much, w
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by bradfa 7y ago
Normal Firefox for iOS with "Strict" setting enabled in the "Tracking Protection" section of Firefox's in-app settings menu reduces nytimes.com advertisements on the front page for me to basically 0. In my experien
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by bradfa 7y ago
Yes, it could be.
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by bradfa 7y ago
I guess it could also be fraud to use something like a UL mark without paying and being certified, which could have criminal consequences. If the vendor is attempting to deceive customers by using the mark, it probably counts as fraud for
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by bradfa 7y ago
I don't believe it's a felony or misdemeanor crime, but it could be copyright or trademark infringement if you use a safety approval logo on your product without paying and certifying your product with the agency who owns the logo
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by bradfa 7y ago
I have 3 children and a minivan. We bought the minivan not strictly because 3 carseats won't fit across the 2nd row of most reasonably large cars (there's a niche market for narrow carseats, see Diono brand) but because: 1. w
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by bradfa 7y ago
Seems like there'd be a market opportunity to automate or at least create an assembly line for constructing the most at-risk parts of buildings. Or to make systems which might cost more in materials but assemble correctly with low ski
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by bradfa 7y ago
Technically, you wouldn't need a full 18MB for the output buffer so long as you perform the JPEG in-line with the rotation and are willing to deal with slicing the image into swaths. So in theory you could get away with like a 1MB out
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by bradfa 7y ago
Wikipedia says EXIF was released in 1995 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif ). If you were shooting with a DSLR, say 6 Mega pixel with 8 bits per pixel, the raw output would be 18MB in size ( https://en.wiki
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by bradfa 7y ago
TI's website is still pretty decent for navigating around and finding the parts that'll solve your problem. ST seems to be making it harder and harder. The former Linear website was very easy to use. Maxim has always sucked, in
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by bradfa 7y ago
I park to optimize my exit from the parking lot. Pull-through spots to avoid reversing, avoiding needing to perform left turns, things like that. If I'm at the food store I'll also try to be near a cart return area, if possible.
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by bradfa 7y ago
I'm speculating but, it's likely due to board size constraints and pricing. AM57xx SoC have 2 different DDR3 memory controllers called the EMIFs. Each one has a 32 bit data width and can support up to 2GB of memory attached. A s
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by bradfa 7y ago
Would it be reasonable to you to get something like 2 years of monthly security/software updates included in your purchase of a phone and then pay a nominal (like $25) yearly fee to continue getting only security updates beyond the fir
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by bradfa 7y ago
The Thing is an early version of the RAGEMASTER device used by the NSA. Neat! :) https://www.spiegel.de/static/happ/netzwelt/2014/na/v1/pub/i...
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by bradfa 7y ago
To make just 1 unit of a decently complex unique design for only $70 in materials, 227 hours of machine time, and a reasonable amount of human assembly time, is seriously impressive! 3D printing isn't the future of mass manufacturing,
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by bradfa 7y ago
Regarding price negotiation, my wife and I have asked multiple doctors, nurses, and billing departments to tell us how much a given service we have received will cost. Both before the service and after the service. We've even called
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by bradfa 7y ago
Yes, one of the benefits of a HDHP is that you can use an HSA which can help since pre-tax dollars can be put directly into an HSA by your employer either as a part of your compensation package or as deductions from your paycheck (you can a
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by bradfa 8y ago
miniNodes makes a 5 socket Raspberry Pi compute module "cluster" board which seems decent: https://www.mininodes.com/product/5-node-raspberry-pi-3-com-...
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by bradfa 8y ago
It's not horrible but it's not remarkable either. 8 years is a decent but it's nothing compared to other SoM (system on module) vendors like Toradex. Toradex generally offer 12+ year commitment on their SoMs. Consider that

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