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by crote 3mo ago
It is likely to be 1.1 speeds, and considering that USB-B connectors are chunky and dying out it is likely going to be cheaper to go for USB-C. USB-C connectors from well-known brands start at less than $0.20, USB-B ones are $0.30. Same s
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by crote 3mo ago
OP mentioned in another comment that a decent chunk of users is elderly, and C-to-B cables (albeit rare) do exist, so confusion isn't impossible. I personally really don't like it in a world where everyone has USB-C power bricks
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by crote 3mo ago
> The ESP32-S3 includes ±2 kV ESD, which is respectable. This might not quite mean what you think it means, by the way. In practice it is almost always just a property of the IP macro they use for the physical GPIO design, and its functi
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by crote 3mo ago
Same with ATMegas: I was working on a product line which was based on the atmega32u4 for legacy reasons. They became unobtainium and our platform recently started gaining RP2040 support - which was readily available at lower cost - so the d
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by crote 3mo ago
Technically it doesn't - it just needs to be compliant. It is completely left up to you how you are going to demonstrate this if they ever come asking for the paperwork proving this. This can be a certification by an independent te
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by crote 3mo ago
Notably, that link does not repeat that "some Chinese factories were claiming...". It just states that some people put it on noncompliant products. It is unclear whether any Chinese factories ever made that claim.
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by crote 3mo ago
Because there's a never-ending stream of plausible use cases where it just missing one little option . Just look at the web: people have done all sorts of horrible stuff in Javascript to make up for missing HTML / CSS properties.
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by crote 3mo ago
I'm glad to hear that! Someone should probably update the Wikipedia page they link to in the changelog, then.
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by crote 3mo ago
If they are solely doing it for legal reasons, I would expect some form of malicious compliance - like an accompanying blog post explaining how it'll be marked as "Firefox is legally required to tell you the EU considers this pa
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by crote 3mo ago
> Firefox now verifies and displays Qualified Website Authentication Certificates (QWACs) in accordance with eIDAS regulations. Interesting that they just buried this in the middle without even a screenshot, considering how hostile Moz
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by crote 3mo ago
The hard part is getting the NIMBYs to let you build any truck stop. Adding a bunch of chargers afterwards is a piece of cake.
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by crote 3mo ago
You can , but (at least in Europe) it is rarely done. A big problem is that it doesn't count as a daily rest if the vehicle is moving. This means in practice that the longest you can drive in pairs is 4.5h A, 4.5h B, 4.5h A, 4.5h B, 1
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by crote 3mo ago
What annoys me the most is that they are so damn obvious! I can understand patenting the steam machine, but most software patents are simply the first solution which would come to mind to any developer encountering the same problem. What&
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by crote 3mo ago
But that's the thing: you already have to pay a driver to sit around! In Europe there's (simplified) a mandatory 45-minute rest break after 4.5 hours of driving. Similarly, there's a mandatory 11-hour rest period after the
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by crote 3mo ago
The buzzing is pretty obvious when it is rainy or misty. I passed a power line during my high school bike commute, it never failed to amuse me. I wouldn't call it "loud" though: noticeable, but the average traffic noise is
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by crote 3mo ago
Unlikely to happen any time soon. The problem is mask manufacturing costs: you spend a lot to make a set of masks, but after that making the chips is incredibly cheap. Great for mass production, not so great for prototyping. And there&#x2
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by crote 3mo ago
> 99.99% of cheap Chinese products you buy on Amazon don't actually have this testing done at all. So by doing any testing you're already way above them. Yeah, but those Chinese dropshippers don't have significant local pr
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by crote 3mo ago
Yeah, hardware is indeed not too hard if you have a trivial hardware project and ignore all the hard stuff. Complexity-wise this is probably the easiest board one could imagine. It's an off-the-shelf MCU module, a 1:1 copy of the MIDI
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by crote 3mo ago
Apple is one of the few brands I completely expect to be able to genuinely pull this off. Their volumes are high enough that they will literally build an entire factory from scratch to produce a single product line, they are far enough up
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by crote 3mo ago
In my country you, as a civilian, fly the national flag for the equivalent of July 4th, and for big personal events like graduations. Flag merchandise is of course also worn in support of the national sports teams. Outside of that the main
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by crote 3mo ago
> Just how many millions of units can you sell Just how many millions of people do those outdoors activities? You can't survive selling solely to YouTubers, that's definitely true, but you don't need to. Just like tennis
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by crote 3mo ago
It's honestly embarrassing that our leaders still haven't realized why this is happening, and still aren't taking any actions to prevent it from getting worse. Giving billions of free money to shareholders of Intel &
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by crote 3mo ago
> It’s basically just water, sugar, and caffeine sold for $3. ... and some of their products don't even have sugar!
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by crote 3mo ago
American manufacturing is a rounding error, especially when it comes to consumer electronics. Western manufacturing can't compete with a Shenzhen. Our supply lines suck , our labour is too expensive for any kind of manual work, and we
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by crote 3mo ago
> treat it almost like a disposable And that's why GoPro is dying: they are selling a premium product in a market of disposables.
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by crote 3mo ago
The GoPro has always been explicitly marketed as an action camera - to the point that people for a long time called any action camera "a GoPro". Comparing them to smartphones or mirrorless cameras is completely missing their poi
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by crote 3mo ago
TI usually links to chip datasheets, which do tend to change from time to time. Having both a reference to a specific revision and a trivial link to the latest revision is quite handy in practice.
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by crote 3mo ago
Basic 5V devices just need a 5.1k resistor on each CC pin to GND. It is pretty obvious when reading the actual USB-C Connector Specification.
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by crote 3mo ago
No need to worry about that: Switzerland is a developed country, so it has a functioning welfare system. Nobody has to steal solar panel to survive.
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by crote 3mo ago
Sounds like classic private equity, no? Buy it, sell off all the valuable parts, close it down, repeat. Who needs the Chinese to ruin your country when your own people will happily kill successful companies for the tiniest scrap of profit?

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