em3rgent0rdr

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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Work should be time-bounded. Weekends should generally be off limit, even if it supposed to be a "fun" work thing.
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
portmanteaus are great, actually. Didn't know that about facebook. Non-dictionary names don't need to be as wierd as Mosptnspg. Could simply be Frodel.
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
didn't know that... In that case I should count "Facebook" as another violater.
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Nah. "Google" is pronounced the same as the English word "Googol", so I do consider it appropriating. Meanwhile, Invidia is a latin word, which as a dead language, and it is pronounced differently from "Nvidia"
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. It's really not too hard to create a new name for your company, e.g. Microsoft, Facebook and Nvidia.
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
ESP32-CAM
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Well the title and premise is a bit silly. If you're designing easy hardware by wiring parts together that already do all the hard stuff, then "hardware is not so hard" is something you might conclude, but that only applies f
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
> "actual regulations...emissions" yeah, and looking at their board I see they use one of "ESP32-WROOM" modules, which has the wifi & blutooth & antennae (pre-certified by Espressif for FCC, CE so itself doesn
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by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Star Trek used the fictional "gigaquad" unit of computer data storage, and conveniently deliberately avoided defining how many bits the base unit of a "quad" is, so they never would get embarrassed if such an amount of s
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by em3rgent0rdr 4mo ago
Noise and component imprecision has always limited analog computing.
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by em3rgent0rdr 4mo ago
Presumably any new Android 17 features that aren't counter to GrapheneOS's mission, such as "Bubbles allows you to turn any app into a compact, floating window" https://blog.google/products-and-platforms&
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by em3rgent0rdr 4mo ago
"an OS that behaves like a real computer that you can put on an old/cheap commodity phone": https://postmarketos.org/ "an app that creates a programmable environment layered over and isolated from the su
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by em3rgent0rdr 6mo ago
With more bits, then SUB is going to be more and more expensive to fit in the same number of clocks as XOR. So with an 8-bit CPU like Z80, it probably makes design sense to have XOR and SUB both take one cycle. But if for instance a CPU use
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by em3rgent0rdr 7mo ago
Some old guitar effects used -9V DC.[1] And the convention with guitar effects power adapter is the barrel is center negative (which is motivated with facilitating easy wiring of the socket's switch to connect to a 9V battery inside).
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by em3rgent0rdr 7mo ago
> "download a pre-prepared disk image directly to your disk" Well not quite direct; the bits go through your RAM in between.
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by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago
Too bad can't access $CorpStreamingVideoService full-resolution on linux :(
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by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago
Impressive. Noting however that double-clicking is not working in Minesweeper. :)
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Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop expanding to more Pixel devices(support.google.com)
1 points by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago
That curricula is often more specifically called "Computer Engineering". CS students meanwhile usually aren't bothered by anything below the compiler.
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by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago
> "CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum" "Electrical and Computer Engineering" (ECE) departments already exist and already have such a major: "Computer Engineering".
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by em3rgent0rdr 8mo ago
Stallman was right.
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by em3rgent0rdr 9mo ago
It's about the friends you make when collecting stickers.
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by em3rgent0rdr 9mo ago
It depends. Many modern microcontrollers are perfectly fine driving LEDs directly off IO pins if the pin specs say it is rated for sufficient current (like 20mA). However, older ones like ESP8266 can only do like 2mA and the 8051 even less.
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by em3rgent0rdr 9mo ago
When C code is run in machines capable of failing with gruesome death, its unsafeness may indeed result in gruesome death.
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by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago
I don't think the prevalence of these articles this time of year is because the authors go on holiday, but instead is because the new year is the perfect time to ponder: "Will this be the year of the Linux desktop?"
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by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago
Why can't these posts just say "microsecond" instead of the vague and misleading "ultra-low"?
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by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago
Very useful. It would be great for the browser become the cross-platform application target. I've been eagerly waiting for Qt WebAssembly to mature.
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by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago
Looking at the complexity and area of hardware floating point, I often wonder why we don't see more unified combined integer+floating point units, like done in the R4200 [1], which reused most of the integer datapath while just adding
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Married millennials, here comes the crypto divorce cliff(cnbc.com)
9 points by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago|0 comments
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by em3rgent0rdr 10mo ago
If you use a tile-based hardware renderer, such as on the original nintendo chip, then pixels are rendered on the fly to the screen by the hardware automatically pulling pixels based on the tile map.

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