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by fps-hero 3y ago
Isn’t it funny that they decided that, of all episodes, was the one that crossed some sort of line decency. The episode was entirely on-brand, but I can see how someone might watch that one episode and be turned off. The themes and ideas pr
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Honestly it’s incredible that sending 12,000 satellites into space to provide internet coverage to multiple continents across the world is as cheaper than installing ground based infrastructure. The cost per satellite is reportedly $500k, s
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I bought a fake Nokia back in the day (18 years ago). The thing which gave away it was fake was the atrocious battery life (2ish run time hours), and otherwise clunky software. I can assure you faking a hologram was absolutely not problem.
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Touring artist’s absolutely have a say in their ticket prices, after all it directly correlates to how much they will be paid. Once tickets are handed over to promoters and distributors then it becomes out of their control. Festival appeara
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Every action directed at making tickets more affordable will have the opposite effect of making scalping more profitable. Im amazed that a reverse auction style approach hasn’t caught on, when you are capacity limited it seems nearly optima
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by fps-hero 3y ago
If you want to use a car analogy, Prusa is the Toyota of the 3D printing world. No-one is arguably what they offer isn’t high quality, it’s just it’s 5 years too late, and costs too much. For a company that’s been leading the charge on hobb
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I can’t believe they just released the Gen 2 AirPods without updating the charge port to USB-C, especially given the iPhone changeover has been telegraphed for over a year. It’s like they learnt nothing from the MacBook USB-C transition.
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by fps-hero 3y ago
The USB-C cable supplied with my MacBook does not function as a data cable, charging only.
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Isn’t it amusing to be discussing HDR processing artefacts when the subjects have full sun illumination, yet the background is pitch black. Without some measure of artistic license, you’re not going to get an image with any contrast without
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Early access is a great way to outsource your QA. Triple A QA teams number in the hundreds, but for an independent game to have that many people playing it is a triumph in itself. If people keep playing your game in early access, you must b
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Anyone complaining about STCube has never used anything worse. My nomination for worst code generator would be MPLab Harmony. I was unfortunate enough to be one of the first victims of the PIC32MZ line, which didn’t have a middleware librar
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by fps-hero 3y ago
It’s easy to say “PID controllers are audiophile tech for coffee machines”, but the most basic construction for temperature control is a thermostat, and that has been good enough for Italian coffee machines for a very long time. A PID contr
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I can’t even tell if you’re being sarcastic, but exactly what you describe does exist [1]. They work OK, but they are a little heavy in the hand for fine placement. The vacuum is quite weak, nowhere near as powerful as a basic converted aqu
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by fps-hero 3y ago
One super underrated feature is the analog discovery is the network vector analyser. I know what you’re thinking, but it only has xyz mhz bandwidth? Yeah, but have you ever done stability analysis of a DCDC? You only need 100khz of bandwidt
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by fps-hero 3y ago
It seems that EVs are stuck in the range wars, the headline spec for an EV above all else is its kWh and range. It’s ridiculous, no ICE car gets marketed by range, and if they did you’d find that EVs are about on par range wise, they are ju
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I test drove a Polestar 2, what are these car designers thinking with rear view visibility! The between the rear headrests and huge slanted C-pillars you had a tiny sheet of paper sized opening to see out. I honestly thought the mirrors wer
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I’m surprised they accidentally sent you your sales data. Honestly a 50% margin is nothing. We were connected with a FAE who started offering us direct sales in low volumes. Most of those parts had a 80-90% margin on digikey. The problem is
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by fps-hero 3y ago
Wonderful example Cunningham's law, thank you. To summarise your point about decoupling capacitors. Use physically smallest capacitor you can, but with the largest capacitance (limited by the knee in capacitor price). High frequency re
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by fps-hero 3y ago
I think you’re missing the broader point. The “netbook” form factor was absolutely on to something, but it failed to deliver. The atom processor is what enabled the form factor, and practically set the trajectory for laptops for next 10 yea
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by fps-hero 4y ago
It may help to a limited extent with compression, but the window size is so small it is hardly worth it. I imagine a huge part of the speed of the algorithm is how cache friendly it is. Worse is better sometimes.
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Imagine if you could simply deploy an army of fuzzers on a piece of code, vs what could be derived from client side probing. Yes, having access to the source is a problem.
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by fps-hero 4y ago
An hour later, wow. That podcast is mesmerising. That’s absolutely incredible what they were up to. Thanks for the share, on to part two now.
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by fps-hero 4y ago
It’s so frustrating that the entire CSI camera module ecosystem has been completely handicapped by the choice of connector for the camera module. The V1 camera module (OV5647) only supported two lanes, so it was a fair enough decision then,
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Forget the USB boards, they all work to the best of the USB / UVC limitations but they aren’t great. You want to hook your camera sensor up to a processor with a CSI input. Image sensors are really just high speed ADC clocking out data
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Solar is by far the cheapest form of energy by a significant margin. It is already at the point where it makes sense to put it everywhere, and have concentrated large scale generation. For solar to win, we need to solve energy storage, or p
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by fps-hero 4y ago
It may be a hack but it isn’t a new idea. MBed DAPlink has had drag and drop programming for a long time. The STlink programmer also does this, so do the Segger J-links.
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Based on what you could buy through distributors, less than 5% of the STM32 lineup is available to buy. The situation was worse, 6 months ago there were 27 variants available on Digikey of the 3000 or so they make. The G series seems to hav
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Consoles and open source do not mix. NDAs prevent code using their APIs from being released. That said, a lot of open source projects have console ports, they just can’t be shared publicly.
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Thankfully we have great consumer laws in Australia. This is referred to as drip pricing. It also makes practices such as mandatory minimum tips illegal, which would make someone from the US’s head spin. https://www.accc.gov.au&#
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by fps-hero 4y ago
Perhaps a better way would be to use something along the lines of SSH’s randomart. I’m sure there would be an even more interesting variant where the address could be used to generate a prompt for DALL-E.

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