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by grapeshot 10y ago
I don't pay for Amazon Prime, so between shipping and sales tax it often makes financial sense for me to buy a product from an eBay seller over Amazon even at a higher price. You'd think Amazon would want to stop this by banning P
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by grapeshot 10y ago
My favorite YouTube channel for getting to sleep lately is "Mr. Carlson's Lab". Soothing voice, no music and long-winded explanations on electronics repair seems to work pretty well.
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by grapeshot 10y ago
Nonstandard headset connectors were prevalent 15 years ago on feature phones and the Game Boy Advance SP, but no one liked them back then either. I just threw out a drawer full of old proprietary cables and accessories from back then, in fa
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by grapeshot 10y ago
Chrome is lately behaving even more unpredictably when scrolling with the spacebar, because now if you click on either the back or forward buttons it puts a focus rectangle on them and now pressing space will go back/forward again inst
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Job Applicants(medium.com)
5 points by grapeshot 10y ago|0 comments
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by grapeshot 11y ago
The Chrome password manager still crashes the entire browser when trying to save any password with emoji in it on Windows. Firefox works perfectly fine.
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by grapeshot 11y ago
It's for CRT Controller (probably after the Motorola 6845 CRTC chip that was in the original PC)
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by grapeshot 11y ago
Looks like it's the result of taking exactly 19 terms of a certain Taylor series expansion for π.
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by grapeshot 11y ago
Most laptop manufacturers now have a whitelist in the BIOS to prevent the use of wireless adapters that didn't ship with the machine. (Lenovo, HP and Toshiba definitely do this.) Up until Sandy Bridge it was usually possible to patch t
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by grapeshot 11y ago
Isolated UTF-16 surrogate code points definitely crash Unity when it tries to display them. (Seen when I pasted some emoji in a text box in TIS-100 and tried to backspace.)
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by grapeshot 11y ago
Sign up for everything on sweepsadvantage.com that doesn't require Facebook.
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by grapeshot 11y ago
This is basically correct but the I and Q signals need to be filtered much more drastically (down to a bandwidth of about 1.5 mhz) to avoid artifacts, and more luma detail can be obtained by using a comb filter (summing adjacent lines to ca
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by grapeshot 12y ago
The other common problems in computers as old as that would be leaking NiCad clock batteries (the corrosive gunk coming out of one of those will eat the copper right off the motherboard), tantalum capacitors which like to fail shorted and b
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by grapeshot 12y ago
There are still a few other things that will limit the life of modern computers. 1. That waxy thermal pad material certainly dries out and becomes ineffective in less than 10 years. 2. Power supplies still have large electrolytic capacitors
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by grapeshot 12y ago
Tesla is trying to keep tight control over the availability of spare parts and diagnostics tools for now, probably because Musk doesn't want any bad press from problems with a salvaged Tesla someone has improperly repaired. This is lik
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by grapeshot 12y ago
I find it unfortunate that I can't completely remove the graphics card from the mid-range system, and I'm not allowed to select a SSD for it either. If I could do those things I would be able to compare this site directly to the P
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by grapeshot 12y ago
That wasn't even the only firmware problem with those drives. There was a later bug that would cause the drive to not be recognized after a hard power down, and it wouldn't show up again until you left the computer sitting at the
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by grapeshot 12y ago
It's not just the retina Macbook screens, the image retention issue affects basically every LG IPS laptop panel manufactured before 2013. It's just that Apple wasn't using the IPS panels until the Retina.
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by grapeshot 12y ago
Here's what happens when you do mix up 44.1 khz and 48 khz. Van Halen - Jump (Greensboro): http://youtu.be/Mjx_GjyXCs4
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by grapeshot 12y ago
It's time I made sure my family's 2007 iMacs are up to date, I guess. At least one of them is probably still on 10.6 because they send me things in Word for Mac 2004 format and that definitely won't run on anything newer beca
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by grapeshot 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7EHKFNMQg
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by grapeshot 13y ago
There will probably be multiple suppliers of these displays, like there were for the Macbook Pros. If the new panel is IPS and from LG, it will probably have the same ghosting problem. (If you have a LG IPS display, you can see this issue c
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by grapeshot 13y ago
It's possible to do something like that in C. In C++, you can even do some template magic to create all the appropriate functions for each opcode based on something like the original instruction decode ROM. Brilliant and short code, bu
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by grapeshot 13y ago
I think part of the problem is that with the advent of the Internet, no computer comes with proper documentation that you can read to learn what a system does and how it does it. DOS was probably the last OS that could be completely describ