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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'd argue that the breaking point was Docker. Running typical Linux userland applications was doable - and they did it - but making Docker work would have been effectively impossible, as it depends on a ton of highly Linux-specific sys
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Deeply unserious. Arduino put little real thought into what features industrial users would actually find useful. I suspect the main market for their "professional" boards is hobbyists with money to burn.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Seconding this. I think my high school AP Biology class did a similar exercise in the early 2000s.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The fact that the FSF doesn't even seem to have a web page on their own site describing LibrePhone leaves me with little expectation that this project will succeed. I can't find anything on Savoye's site or socials either.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
They already did that. The previous release was based on Android 6, and is functionally useless nowadays given that it only runs on a couple of Samsung devices all released around 2011-12. If you're trying to maintain a fork of a large
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Looks like: 1) Too few developers to keep up with new Android releases, or with devices becoming obsolete over time. They got stalled trying to update to Android 11 (2020) and never finished. 2) Refusing to support newer devices that doesn&
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'm not sure what kind of laptop you're using, but most laptops I'm aware of use considerably less than 800W. :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
minipro already runs on macOS and Linux. There's better tools out there for general-purpose IO, though - the Glasgow Explorer [1] is probably best in class, for instance. (Although one place where MiniPro-type devices outperform it is
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by duskwuff 1y ago
As someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the USB CDC drivers (the closest thing to a "generic USB serial" interface) on Windows were buggy for a very long time, so vendors avoided it. It'd be feasible to make one now, bu
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The licensing scheme is not terribly robust, either; there are a number of cracked (full) licenses floating around if you know where to look. Given that AMD makes most of their money on hardware sales, and the software is only really useful
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Only the most popular FT232 as far as I know. Specifically, the FT232RL - a simple USB-to-serial chip. (And many of the clones are actually quite high quality.) As far as I'm aware, the FT2232H - a more complex USB to various-seri
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by duskwuff 1y ago
For what it's worth: if you have a FT2232H adapter hanging around (and if you don't, you should consider getting one), those adapters can easily be flashed to be compatible with Vivado: https://docs.amd.com/r/
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by duskwuff 1y ago
As a tip: the VLC app for Apple TV is incredibly useful. It can play video files (in essentially any format) from local network shares.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
As an aside: it's only relevant on microcontrollers nowadays, but ARM T32 (Thumb) code density is really good. Most instructions are 2 bytes, and it's got some clever ways to represent commonly used 32-bit values in 12 bits: ht
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There's also a technical side to that problem - you can't communicate the content of that book to a LLM as text, because it's made up of invented characters. There's no standard way to represent them to a computer.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Another Western example is Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
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by duskwuff 1y ago
What would "abandoning" CSS even mean? Going back to table layouts? (Oh good lord no.) Anyways, CSS is fine. The problem space is complicated.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
DSEG7 uses some lower case forms (e.g. for "b", "n", "t") to avoid letter shapes which are impossible to represent on a 7-segment display (like "N"), or which would be ambiguous (e.g. "B" &#
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by duskwuff 1y ago
A Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are loosely connected; you can read them in either order. Both novels reveal some details which explain bits of the other. However, I would recommend skipping Children of the Sky . It&#x27
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And vice versa: you can take a real photo, have an AI model make a minor change to it, and you can now claim that it's "a fake AI image".
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's worse than you think: there are official C2PA mobile apps which will apply C2PA tags to anything captured by a "camera". This includes external USB cameras, such as HDMI capture cards. You can probably see where this is
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by duskwuff 1y ago
You're assuming that the bifacial panels have their faces pointing north/south; they can also be highly effective oriented east/west, so that they maximize power production in the morning and evening. (Also: if the panels do
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by duskwuff 1y ago
At least for me, compressing a single "a" at compression level 0 gives me an output of 91 bits, which rounds up to 12 bytes.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Two and a half issues: 1) The handling of dynamic blocks leaves something to be desired. The parameters are left mostly undecoded. It'd be really neat if the Huffman symbols were listed somewhere, rather than just being left implicit.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And that's for parents who choose to homeschool. If you start trying to force parents to homeschool their (poorly behaved) children, most of them probably won't (and/or can't) follow through.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Cables should be dumb pipes, not devices with their own active circuitry. You only need the active circuitry for high-power (240W) or high-speed (Thunderbolt) cables. Ordinary cables just need a single, cheap resistor.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's not the em dash, but the negative parallelism ("not X, but Y"). This is a pattern which some LLMs really like using. I've seen some LLM-generated texts which used it in literally every sentence. (The irony of openin
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by duskwuff 1y ago
What concerns me about that CoC is that the last point ("Attention to personal traits...") sounds like it could easily be interpreted to disallow members of minority groups from self-identifying. For an example of how this can pla
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Would you prefer what current OCR does and just suddenly sentences go 2#!@%7Q&*@3 ladfk !@$? Yes, actually. I'd rather be aware that the OCR tool failed somewhere than have the tool silently fabricate part of the text, or &quo
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> > "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected." I'd argue that this is unreasonable for any project large enough to need a CoC at all. What it amounts to is excusing

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