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by davemp 8y ago
Hardware switches are more expensive and less durable.
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by davemp 8y ago
You're right. I was working under the assumption that Apple would have just went for TB3 if they supported those features. I'm not going to claim that I know too much about the crazy USB-C/TB3 specs though.
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by davemp 8y ago
I would only do that with along side my MBP. I don't currently use a tablet though.
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by davemp 8y ago
Nope. Apple would need to do a pretty decent amount of work on iOS to support desktop like behavior. I'm not sure if there's much sales incentive either. Which is a shame because Apple got where it is by pushing the best possible
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by davemp 8y ago
It's such a shame that there's no thunderbolt 3 in the iPad Pro. I would love to ditch my MBP to just plug an iPad into a TB3 monitor and get a mouse, keyboard, drawing tablet, and charging with 1 wire. I can get close to that wit
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by davemp 8y ago
This is ignoring the major part of hardware development that is actually just non-free software tooling.
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by davemp 8y ago
If you have an engineer who's paid $100 000 a year with three weeks vacation, that's 407.05 a day. It starts to make sense that you'd buy $4000 IP for an operating system, unless by some ungodly powers they can write that in
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by davemp 8y ago
I have multiple FPGA designs in use today. What does or doesn’t bother you is irrelevant. I don’t really care to explain the obvious net win that open source designs (and tools) are for society. The only argument I’d consider reasonable is
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by davemp 8y ago
I would attribute the weird FPGA dev attitudes to Stockholm syndrome. I always get the most mind boggling replies in defense of the evil vendors when I criticize FPGA’s embarrassingly small amount of freedom. > [black box components] oft
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by davemp 8y ago
It’s so surreal that people in the FPGA industry refer to libraries/components as “Intellectual Property”.
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by davemp 8y ago
> For a community that prides itself on the hacker mentality and the curiosity that comes with it, you lot certainly don't show it. Idiots. This is my first post in the thread. The blog is cool and all. Though, all I can say is that
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by davemp 8y ago
GP is phrased pretty poorly and disrespectfully. Though I think there is a decent underlying point. People are generally pretty good at not putting questionable, critical parts into vehicles. Hopefully that holds for the software "part
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by davemp 8y ago
> Specifically, it allows breaking digital rights management (DRM) and embedded software locks for “the maintenance of a device or system … in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications” or for “the repair of a
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by davemp 8y ago
This is such a neat idea. I can see building a Little, Free Library being an interesting project. Add a solar embedded stack [1] to it and you could add some fun features such as: shelf time tracking (maybe to replace never read books), num
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by davemp 8y ago
It's obviously a very complex topic, and it's hard to know if this person's social needs were actually being met. I was just trying to encourage people not to forget social aspects when examining their susceptibility to depre
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by davemp 8y ago
Having close relationships with family and/or friends also helps if you need a bit of care.
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by davemp 8y ago
> ...use of real mode (still required for BIOS calls like e820) requires the ability to get back out of real mode, so you need the bootstrapping stuff in a real OS even if it's not in the tutorial. I'm not particularly well ver
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by davemp 8y ago
Thanks for the links, they were good reads. Coincidentally, for those projects I did end up mounting to a tmpfs, syncing configs from a server, and writing them to a SPI flash chip with FEC. Fun to know that others suggest the same! I was j
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by davemp 8y ago
I'm with you on this. It's similar to how every x86_64 OS guide goes through the ancient ritual of working your way up to long mode. Why not just use UEFI?
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by davemp 8y ago
Interrupts at their base are signals for crossing from an asynchronous, parallel world into a synchronous, sequential world. Some sort of signal needs to exist for that purpose. There is likely a way to cross domains that can be formally re
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by davemp 8y ago
That's really nice. I remember having to use Read-Only on a few Raspberry Pi projects because they have a tendency to corrupt SD cards. Getting a free storage performance boost would really improve usability for my past use cases.
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by davemp 8y ago
Purely speculation, but I think a well made video/lecture is the best way to learn concepts and reading a concise document is the best way to get information. Videos have richer tools with visual aids and tone, but text is searchable
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by davemp 8y ago
I think minecraft with a lot of entities can be pretty CPU bound.
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by davemp 8y ago
As it turns out bombarding a generation with the idea that you just have to follow your dreams and have "passion" for your work (whatever that means), doesn't do so well when met with reality. Children/adolescents are pr
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by davemp 8y ago
> So is Unix. The Unix Hater’s Handbook [1] is a pretty good read (or skim). It’s healthy to remind oneself that, even though unix-likes are a savior from the deeply unpleasant alternatives, warts are present. [1]: https://hom
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by davemp 8y ago
DXRacer are actually pretty decent chairs for long periods at a desk. Pretty much the only (known) product between cheap but shitty office depot chairs and great but expensive aeon chairs. It’s not all marketing—mostly maybe but not all.
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by davemp 8y ago
Social media is really wild right now. Twitter verified symbols are almost exactly Dr. Seuss’s star belly sneetches. [1] I’m sure with a bit more effort one could compile a long list of social behaviors warned against by literature that soc
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by davemp 8y ago
This is an overreaction. The F35 is a maturing platform. Issues are being ironed out and the result will be an incredible aircraft far beyond any other fighter currently flown. There is a product. The run away price tag certainly shows inef
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by davemp 8y ago
This is, unfortunately, all too true. > “An interesting question is, ‘Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named W
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by davemp 8y ago
I find PS tab complete to be sub par compared to fish. It’s too aggressive when there are multiple completions.

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