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601.
by gh02t 8y ago
Yeah, I have thought some sort of downsampling chip was probably the way to go, but I'm not that familiar with products in that area. This is exactly why I am asking here, thanks!
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by gh02t 8y ago
I made one for my computer monitor and it looks really impressive, particularly with games. Unfortunately it's much harder to do on a television DIY nowadays because you have to decode the HDMI signal in realtime, which isn't re
603.
by gh02t 8y ago
Content exclusivity makes the competitive market really hurt consumers, though. Netflix might stay relatively ad-free as a selling point, but what are you gonna do if Hulu (or one of the dozen other services) steals your favorite show from
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by gh02t 8y ago
This is not really accurate, especially nowadays... * Based on Gentoo- it was actually based on Ubuntu during development, and I believe it switched to a Debian base (from Gentoo) a year or two ago. * A slapped on browser - it's a lot
605.
by gh02t 8y ago
Hulu runs ads even on the paid service. You have to pay extra on to remove them. They're fairly long, too, around 60-90 seconds every 15 minutes or so. Something about that really gets under my skin, but I'm honestly surprised it&
606.
by gh02t 8y ago
You can do quite a lot simplifying to get equations that are solvable. A lot of engineering techniques do this, using simplifications that capture the essential behavior of a system (in fact I'd argue that knowing when such approxima
607.
by gh02t 8y ago
Agreed. According to the summary text of the bill: This bill, beginning on January 1, 2020, would require a manufacturer of a connected device, as those terms are defined, to equip the device with a reasonable security featu
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by gh02t 8y ago
That's why it's ambiguous without context, because it can plausibly be covered up with a non-racist interpretation. In my uncle's case I know that is what he means from context, and I've seen those terms used similarly
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by gh02t 8y ago
I'm curious to know more. Maybe some form/relative/precursor of EDIF ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF )? Not exactly Lisp, but an S-expression based format for describing netlists.
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by gh02t 8y ago
The article looks to be using screenshots from the FPGA IDE (Xilinx Vivado in this case), which is probably why they look so bad. The later snippets are using actual text and look a lot better, at least on my screen. FPGA design is really r
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's difficult to quantify, because it's hard to distinguish between what someone claims as justification and their actual motivations. Having grown up in a part of the US where racism has a long and strong history (South Carolina
612.
by gh02t 8y ago
I also use clac on my desktop ( https://github.com/soveran/clac ). It's a line-oriented RPN calculator like Unix dc, but it shows the stack dynamically as you type. I have a long-term ambition to port it to a physic
613.
by gh02t 8y ago
I used QGIS extensively in my dissertation research and I actually prefer it over ArcGIS. I found ArcGIS unintuitive and clunky, whereas it was much easier to figure out things in QGIS. QGIS is not the greatest UI ever, but ArcGIS is misera
614.
by gh02t 8y ago
A 1 ghz CPU absolutely can run a smooth touchscreen GUI, I think what OP meant is that it's not gonna be capable of running a snazzy Electron interface or some other trendy framework that makes everything super easy. You can't rea
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by gh02t 8y ago
You also have to remember, Hackaday is a mixture of true amateurs and semi-pro "hobbyists". People in the latter category would probably be more interested in and capable of designing a fully custom SBC for whatever project they h
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's also cultural- line breaks, indentations, and parenthesis help a lot to make Mathematica more readable, but there's a strong tendency to do things in one liners like you show. Even the official docs are like this. I think e
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by gh02t 8y ago
The display is only part of the story. You could save some battery life with an e-paper display sure, but you still have the CPU and radio grinding away at the battery. The ultra power saving mode on my Samsung phone is a good example, it t
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by gh02t 8y ago
This looks tedious to use directly, but it'd be good to build things like editor plugins on top of. The docs also show that it can do stuff that would not be simple to do with search and replace (e.g. transforming function arguments).
619.
by gh02t 8y ago
Isn't that exactly what Sigfox and LoRaWAN are?
620.
by gh02t 8y ago
The articles are about two subtly different problems. The first is finding something difficult in your code and then getting distracted learning about it in depth. The second is about getting lost in the process applying deep theory to a si
621.
by gh02t 8y ago
Part of that might be the harsh nature of fluorescent lighting used in a lot of offices. Natural light is broad spectrum, but typical fluorescent lighting is a few sharp peaks. Combined with the 120 Hz flicker common in many I find them pre
622.
by gh02t 8y ago
Yeah, the only downside is that it doesn't support simulation yet, which is super important for doing anything non-trivial. I think just a few minutes of playing with it and looking at the examples (it has a bunch of really good ones)
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by gh02t 8y ago
Yes. http://www.codeghar.com/blog/openbsd-on-ubiquiti-usg.html They're basically the same hardware.
624.
by gh02t 8y ago
> ASICs, on the other hand, are custom-built ICs which are designed to very efficiently perform one task, like performing SHA hashes or h.264 decoding. ASICs aren't necessarily task specific, you can do whatever you want in an ASIC.
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by gh02t 8y ago
I had some exposure to VHDL, but only from a workshop I attended and it wasn't really any more than you could get from watching YouTube tutorials. I prefer Verilog now anyway as it's way more concise. The best place to start is to
626.
by gh02t 8y ago
As someone who just started getting into it, it's kinda hard to come up with an application until you have one and know how to use it a bit. I bought an icestick not knowing what I was going to do with it, but now I have quite a few id
627.
by gh02t 8y ago
It's an abbreviation for "mille", same root as the "milli" in millimeter. Common in electronics for describing trace widths and pitches, even outside of the US simply because there are lots of parts laid out in whol
628.
by gh02t 8y ago
Thanks. Damn phone keyboards.
629.
by gh02t 8y ago
Probably kind of both. Kapton tape is extremely tough and useful for a lot of things. It's pretty common in space applications, they probably had it around for a variety of uses.
630.
by gh02t 8y ago
No, it's the clear orange tape you see wrapping up electronics exposed to heat some times. Polymide plastic film.

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