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by bradfa 8y ago
Cheap SD cards are going to return less than desirable results. Higher quality cards such as SanDisk Ultra Mobile or Samsung Pro series should last quite a while when used as a normal "disk" on a system like this. As an added be
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by bradfa 8y ago
It'd be interesting to compare using a plant like this and what the concentration of various chemicals are in common homes against simply having proper air turnover in the home. If you're turning over the entire volume of the hou
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by bradfa 8y ago
I've not used my XPS 13 long enough to really have a great feel for it but I'd estimate somewhere in the 5 to 9 hour range for light CPU/disk load (ie: mostly typing in a text editor, sometimes compiling and executing, maybe
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by bradfa 8y ago
Not quite as small as you'd like but my work issued Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 is quite small and light with high res. I haven't tried running any Linux on it yet but it should have decent software support with a recent kernel and modern
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by bradfa 8y ago
The Dell P4317Q mentioned in the article can take 4 video inputs (2 DP, 2 HDMI) and you can split the screen into up to 4 virtual screens where each virtual screen displays a given input. So you can do fun splits for side-by-side or 4 corn
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by bradfa 8y ago
The best part of that 43" Dell monitor is that it has a serial RS-232 input which you can control it through. Dell even has a programming guide showing all of the commands. https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-p
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by bradfa 8y ago
Sure, there's places to learn hip new tech that might not be around for a while and you'll have to continuously learn new languages/frameworks/etc. But there's also things like FORTRAN, COBOL, and C, which are all
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by bradfa 8y ago
Intel claim one reason that you just have to trust their binary blob PI/FSP to do these kinds of things is because at each stepping release of a given CPU there are different early boot errata and microcode abilities until microcode is
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by bradfa 8y ago
Shopping on Amazon has gotten to the point where I actively try to avoid any 3rd party sellers now. I've had enough unexpected surprises when buying from 3rd parties that I'm fed up with it. I see Amazon's new restrictions
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by bradfa 8y ago
When my OS updates the bootloader it stores in the EFI system partition, I want that data to be RAIDed. I set the EFI boot order to use the first disk's EFI system partition then the second disk's. Because at the OS level they a
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by bradfa 8y ago
Additionally, unless you do an mdadm software RAID using full disks, you cannot ensure that the EFI system partition will be RAIDed. But if you want to avoid having your mdadm metadata at the start of the drives, you can have it placed in
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by bradfa 8y ago
The price isn't THAT high! Compare to an Intel 16 thread CPU + motherboard with ECC RAM and the ability to address more than 64GB of RAM. You're well into Xeon parts probably in the $300-400 range just for the CPU, then to get
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by bradfa 8y ago
My assessment matches yours, very few online account login systems support U2F. Heck, many don't even support using a TOTP or SMS second factor. But the real value is for the most critical logins, such as to Google, or similar, where
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by bradfa 8y ago
All the FDM printers I've been around when they print with ABS end up making my eyes water and give me a headache if I stay near them for more than a minute or two. Possibly the types of ABS used matters for this but I cannot stand ne
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by bradfa 8y ago
Ah! You're right! But that's a different Motorola (arguably the "real" Motorola) that makes the rugged devices. However those rugged Motorola phones aren't on the Android Enterprise Recommended list. I'll cor
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by bradfa 8y ago
This $29 official Apple battery replacement ends in December 2018, so if you want to take advantage of it, act soon. I expect the price will go back up to the former $69-$79 range in 2019 even for phones affected by this $29 campaign.
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by bradfa 8y ago
Be happy you got updates in 2018! My unlocked LG G5 is still on Android 7.0 but the most recent security update is December 2017. My advice is to focus your next Android phone purchase on devices which are on the Android One or Android Ent
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by bradfa 8y ago
Regarding longer software update promises, a good number of recent Motorola phones are on either the Android One or Android Enterprise Recommended lists, so they should get security updates for at least 3 years from launch and see at least
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by bradfa 8y ago
Sure, some of the money has gone to a small number of rich people, but there's quite a large number of working class people designing and assembling these planes. To say that the money has been set on fire or that no value has been pr
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by bradfa 8y ago
Your car likely gets its picture taken, and probably license plate automatically read, every time you drive through a toll booth, too. No one seems to be outraged over toll booths doing this, so why should any other public road sign (or pr
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by bradfa 8y ago
Does Trolley also handle calculating sales taxes and integrating Stripe's sales tax on orders features? Or is there a 3rd party involved/recommended when using Trolley?
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by bradfa 8y ago
And we need SoCs with 64 bit wide data DDR buses. Most of the existing non-server SoCs are only 32 bit DDR interfaces, so you can't use off the shelf DIMMs which limits so many of these existing cheap ARM "maker" board to ha
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by bradfa 8y ago
I've worked at 3 different companies over the past 13 years (1 large, 1 small, now 1 medium in size) and in all cases a full product development cycle is on the order of 1-3 years at all of them for both hardware and software. I'
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by bradfa 8y ago
20-40: Get married and/or have kids. Both will change your outlook on many topics way more than you expect.
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by bradfa 8y ago
I'm in the USA and I much prefer to use my personal Amex card whenever I can because Amex has always had excellent customer service. My cards have been used fraudulently a few times over the years and I've always gotten a call fr
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by bradfa 8y ago
Hopefully they will start selling just this motherboard, without the case and power supply. I assume the "Lite" version of the board is just the normal Talos II board but with parts to support the second CPU socket depopulated in
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by bradfa 8y ago
Depending on what rules apply to your particular transmitter and if you're not just doing FCC but also testing for other countries' standards, sometimes you cannot run the production software in order to actually test the radio as
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by bradfa 8y ago
The EU already has previously published an initiative, which was voluntary but which many phone manufacturers did end up getting on board with, regarding using micro USB connectors for charging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by bradfa 9y ago
Shapeways already has HP Jet Fusion printers (albeit not with the color printing abilities) that they'll print parts for you on-demand with for quite reasonable prices. It's not "next day" delivery, but it's not fa
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by bradfa 9y ago
The Broadcom SoC doesn't have Ethernet built in, it's a USB connected Ethernet on the normal Pis. The USB bus from the SoC is brought out onto the SODIMM connector on the Compute Module so one could easily add Ethernet on the car

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