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by bradfa 1y ago
Dell Latitude and Lenovo Thinkpad parts are pretty easy to come by on eBay. I’ve bought a handful of different parts from drive caddies, OEM batteries, hinge assemblies, keyboards, and trackpads without much drama. Dell Latitude service ma
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by bradfa 1y ago
I have an HP ENVY laptop that’s very nice. Amazingly good screen, takes SODIMM and M.2 NVMe, flips around as a 2-in-1, and is quite thin and light for a 15” laptop. But omfg the HP website and product lineup are impossible to use and figure
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by bradfa 1y ago
Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple. Yes you can likely get AGESA but there is a whole bunch of other code you’d still have to write yourself and it’s not trivial without quite a few documents that AMD is unlikely to give you even with
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by bradfa 1y ago
I have a ton of respect for what Oxide did by not using an off the shelf firmware for their Epyc chips. But unless you’re them, AMD is going to send any small customer to Insyde to buy their UEFI and AMD is not going to give you the kind of
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by bradfa 1y ago
They also can’t hold copyright on their creations.
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by bradfa 1y ago
Totally agree. 20ish years ago Newegg was my one stop for computing purchases online. Now I just use it to gauge pricing as I find their search and filtering to still be the best. Most of my online computing purchases now come from B&H
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by bradfa 1y ago
The best ones seem to be the year or two just before the launch of Crunch Labs. Decent educational content, lots of excitement for engineering and science, and no real shilling. Lots of the newer stuff feels like it was created or edited b
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by bradfa 1y ago
Defined benefit plans work best when administered by an authority higher up the chain than a single employer. Like a union, trade organization, or government entity. Defined benefit plans work well when risk is spread, proper actuarial over
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by bradfa 1y ago
In my town in NY state USA, they require a stamped engineering drawing for a ground mount system and it has to be rated for wind and snow load. Most of the ground mounts which come with stamped drawings have run about $1/W total cost
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by bradfa 1y ago
Most of my Vanguard investments are in a very small number of IRA mutual funds which have automatic monthly deposits configured, but even just for the few trades I do with fun money each month the current web UI grates on me. I know it can
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by bradfa 1y ago
I provide them feedback in their surveys and through unprompted methods at least once a year about how much I detest the new web UI. Don't worry :)
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by bradfa 1y ago
I HATE the new web interface. It's significantly slower, shows less useful information, and has many more times where it just doesn't work as compared to the old web interface. If there was an option to go back to using the ol
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by bradfa 1y ago
My degree is in EE. I do software now. In the groups that I've worked in at large and small companies, the talented software people have always been paid better than the talented hardware people. But, on the consulting side for expe
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by bradfa 1y ago
If you can do ASIC design, you can probably do FPGA design. FPGA design is a pretty easy thing to do remotely, it's not ALL that different from software work. I know a bunch of consultants who make very good money living where they d
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by bradfa 1y ago
I know of a bunch of people, some who only have high school degrees, who are entirely self-taught and are doing tinytapeout ( https://tinytapeout.com/ ) chip designs. Yeah, that's not nearly at the skill or scale of des
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by bradfa 1y ago
I’m a Bosch dishwasher powder soap with some in the bottom for presoak but still pre-rinse type person. Clean the filter once a month (takes 2 minutes literally) use jet dry (or equivalent) and I have zero complaints about how my 20 year o
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by bradfa 2y ago
How does due diligence miss this? Not saying the bank was in on it but it feels like the bank screwed up.
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by bradfa 2y ago
It's nice to see compassion for Troy in the comments. Compassion within internet comments seems to be quite rare these days.
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by bradfa 2y ago
My family receives multiple pieces of mail each week which are important and valued. Losing the USPS entirely or reducing to once a week delivery would be very much noticed here.
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by bradfa 2y ago
There's already some wood pellet boilers on the market which can integrate a sterling engine, to supplement off-grid battery-backed photovoltaic solar panels for local electricity generation. The power output of the sterling engine is
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by bradfa 2y ago
In the USA a fully loaded cost of a not-fresh-out-of-school developer today is very likely >$200k. You have to factor in benefits, insurance, equipment, licensing (Windows, GitHub, all the AI subscriptions, etc), space (RTO!), any stock,
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by bradfa 2y ago
Yes, first party drivers are made. Upstream Linux and mesa project should have good support in their latest releases. If you're running a non-bleeding edge distro, you may need to wait or do a little leg work to get the newer version
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by bradfa 2y ago
But such a board likely would have a buck converter between the USB 5V input and those components and their capacitors. Just use a buck with soft start and that can effectively hide the bulk capacitance from an inrush perspective, no? Then
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by bradfa 2y ago
The author is offering 1.5 hours of meetings, as three 30 minute conversations. It's not nothing, but it's also probably not really the level of mentoring that can be super impactful. But it might make a difference to some peopl
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by bradfa 2y ago
Doesn’t SO2 in the upper atmosphere help to prevent the sun from warming the Earth as much?
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by bradfa 2y ago
Crowd Supply page says 56MHz bandwidth which seems much more in line with my expectations.
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by bradfa 2y ago
85kHz bandwidth must be a typo for >$700, right?
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by bradfa 2y ago
When they reduced the price of the dev kit, they priced it below the low volume sales price of the cheapest Orin Nano 4GB module. Presumably the module prices go down when you buy in bulk but for small volumes it was (is still?) cheaper to
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by bradfa 2y ago
Losing money to enter a market requires a lot of money. This generally only happens in a big company, which is the current market where no one cares about being open or hackable, or VC funding, which has historically been anti-open and anti
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by bradfa 2y ago
When they came out with the POWER9 systems originally the price to performance wasn’t that bad. It’s been a while since then. But also they seem to have known their market so priced it to hopefully be a sustainable business to recover the e

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