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by bradfa 3y ago
The long game here seems to be that if you can get new customers to deploy ChromeOS Flex on existing hardware and use cloud based solutions for their software, then when the customers go to refresh the hardware or renew their cloud software
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Rail dust. Also comes from snow plows in snowy regions.
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$7T sounds like a lot of money but reading between the lines seems to be the projected total cost for not just chip design and fab but also infrastructure to support such an industry over a bit of time. That seems reasonable to me. It&#x2
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Causing rapid decompression is quite hard. Opening a normal door is very difficult during flight except at very low altitudes.
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It makes LA look more like the sci-fi I grew up reading! Funny how the world works and how accurate old sci-fi was.
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I was the first to order a Yikes! 400MHz G4 tower from my local Apple reseller when they first came out. I loved this ad campaign! I was also smitten when Apple dropped the speeds on all the SKUs by 50MHz as I had gotten mine before that
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Sure but we still have tens of thousands of traffic fatalities every year in the USA and the stats are not decreasing in any meaningful way. What we have done is not working to actually reduce automobile deaths.
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Why don't we as a society apply similar safety culture to driving cars and trucks as we do to aviation? MANY more people are harmed or killed by automobiles than by aircraft per person-mile traveled. A small improvement in automobile
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I believe the intent matters. If you need a fence and you’re not trying to use the electricity then it is not theft. If your intent is to consume the power then it is theft. Doing this kind of power harvesting off transmission lines is a st
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My AP is a Mikrotik hAPac2: https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 Mikrotik claims it is a wifi 5 device on 5GHz bands. Qualcomm says the SOC used also only supports wifi 5 on 5GHz: https://www.qualcomm.com&#
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But in this case, I am still getting what I'd consider great performance out of my wifi 5 AP while using an almost 2 year old device. Moving to a wifi 6/6E/7 AP is not going to appreciably make my Internet experience on my p
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by bradfa 3y ago
As mentioned, I'm just doing a speed test to show the bottleneck is my fiber line and not the wifi, hence my wifi is giving significantly better performance than was expected by the commenter I replied to.
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My iPhone SE 3rd gen is bottlenecked by my 500Mb fiber line in speed tests within my office room where the wifi AP is located. My AP is only a wifi 5 device.
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That just defines what the Linux kernel will be able to do, it doesn't necessarily imply that the hardware is using UEFI for firmware to launch another bootloader or OS.
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USB 3.0 host controllers and hubs do not need to consume large amounts of power nor do they need to always be active, if designed well. USB 3.0 has LPM (link power management) and Microsoft wrote up a nice overview: https://lear
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Generally high speed serdes IO blocks, which are needed for PCIe, in ASIC design are rather high power consumers. Even on Intel and AMD laptop spec CPUs there's generally many fewer PCIe lanes than on their desktop counterparts. The
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by bradfa 3y ago
AMD has previously made a variety of ARM CPUs, such as the recent Opteron “Seattle” parts. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/seattle
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For the physical layer, the IEEE specs are actually quite good. A lot of the IEEE 802 specifications are free in PDF format now: https://www.ieee802.org/16/arc/802-16list2/msg00142.html
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by bradfa 3y ago
It's a hot topic in the USA now because finally heat pumps are available and the prices are starting to be affordable. Many areas in the USA still heat with oil for single family residential properties. Residential heating oil has be
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90% efficient furnaces are kind of the low end of the spectrum of product on the market now, at least in my area of the USA. My 20 year old furnace is rated 94% efficient. Pretty much every condensing gas furnace now is going to be well o
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by bradfa 3y ago
Dual fuel is also useful if electricity is expensive but gas is cheap and if you know what the efficiency curves look like for your appliances. I recently did this calculation and effectively when ever a heat pump would be less than a COP
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by bradfa 3y ago
I have a pair of Kensington Expert Mouse full size trackballs (optical, 4 button with scroll wheel, and USB) that are both over a decade old and still work great. Kensington still seem to sell this same model.
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At my previous job all circuit board first revision review meetings I would never shut up about how I wanted as many LEDs on GPIOs as I could get so I could stick various Linux LED triggers on them. CPU, disk access, heartbeat, network, pan
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A former coworker now runs a bandsaw blade sharpening business and he also has a portable wood sawmill that he takes to people's properties to mill lumber for them. It's not cheap to hire him to bring his sawmill to you and mill
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Xerox has been laying off people in the Rochester area for over 2 decades now. The local economy has adapted to it decently. I doubt this situation will be any different. The irony which sometimes happens is that those who work for Xerox
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Yes, they manufacture/sell/service printers and multi-function copy/print/scan/fax machines. They also do some "services" things, although not as much as before since they divested the horrible ACS merger
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That’s frustrating. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at many of my interactions with Walmart when ordering online. Once even got same day delivery for free and without requesting it. Maybe I’m an outlier?
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I’ve given up buying rechargeable batteries online from anywhere except B&H in NYC and then only Panasonic branded ones at that. For a short time Amazon Basics rechargeables were decent but that was quite a while ago and only for a shor
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At least Walmart lets you easily filter search results for only things sold by Walmart itself. That makes it fine by me to be both a seller and marketplace. Amazon does not make such filtering easy at all.
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In North America residential electric is 240V across both hot lines or 120V hot to neutral. Most normal power outlets in homes are 120V but any large electric appliance like a stove or clothes dryer will use 240V. So built-in stoves or coo

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