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by greyhair 6y ago
This is one of the hardest things to explain to people. Here is a thought experiment. Lets assume that the minimum required to live in a given place is $20K. So now you have two people, one makes $30K, the other makes $40K. How much more do
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by greyhair 6y ago
Having been there, I second that. Juggling late utility bills in the middle of winter against having food to eat. If you come through that, it hangs with you forever in ways that others that have not will never understand. Even though that
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by greyhair 6y ago
Wait, there is an automatic tool to create the USB stick. I use it regularly. I think it is interesting that you can still buy old Windows 7 hardware, and just stick the Windows 10 install USB into it, reboot, and be on your way. https:&#x
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by greyhair 6y ago
"ding ding ding ding ding ding - We have a winner!" .... exactly
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by greyhair 6y ago
If you want to talk 'telemetry', see the latest MacOS release.
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by greyhair 6y ago
QEMU and Docker under WSL just seems like it should not work, but it does, and it works well.
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by greyhair 6y ago
I really like WSL2, and the vscode integration between 10 and WSL is simply astounding.
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by greyhair 6y ago
They already have a great WSL going already. I run Ubuntu 18.04 under Windows 10 all day long. I use it to model and test code that will take hours to fold into a build for our embedded target. On the last feature I completed, I wrote 2500
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by greyhair 6y ago
Again, all addressable through Windows Update -> Advanced and some very simple once monthly manual update schedule on your work calendar. It is what I do, and it is really not hard at all. This is all discoverable on the web through a ge
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by greyhair 6y ago
How did I find it so easy to set up Windows 10 Home edition to only "tell" me about updates, and no forced reboots. I didn't use any add-ons. Just set 'active hours', turn off everything under 'Advanced',
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by greyhair 6y ago
Just had this discussion at work. We have a mix of MacBook Pros and high end Windows 10 laptops, and every one of them is running a VM hosting Ubuntu 18.04 Is the M1 going to have a VM capable of running a native Ubuntu instance?
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by greyhair 6y ago
A lot of modern hardware coprocessors are hybrid blocks that can be configured through firmware. You can dedicate a very small DSP with the block to feed and manage it. I haven't been involved in a new chip design in a few years, but a
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by greyhair 6y ago
The team at P.A.Semi was the team that developed the DEC Alpha and the DEC StrongARM. After DEC folded, they went on to develop PowerPC based chips. Shortly after they completed their PowerPC design they were bought up by Apple. https:&#x2
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by greyhair 6y ago
The short answer is no. Basically, you are asking them to really have two sets of cores on a single die and switch back and forth. I think the more realistic point of view is that x86 has likely run its course, and now it is time to move on
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by greyhair 6y ago
As well as too little battery capacity to sustain the workload. Applying those cell phone methods to a laptop with better cooling and a larger battery was a win.
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by greyhair 6y ago
Apple's view uses less material over all. For the vast majority of the machines that A) don't fail and B) are never upgraded in any case, the Apple method of getting rid of sockets reduces the e-waste burden.
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by greyhair 6y ago
Unless you are doing some crazy synthesis or simulation, 32GB is plenty. Maybe editing 4K (or in the future, 8K) video might need more? My brother does a lot of complex thermal airflow simulation, and his workstation has 192GB of RAM, but
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by greyhair 6y ago
Interesting article here, but a lot of the stuff laid at Apple's feet here did not begin at Apple. Yes, they implemented it in a high power design, and yes, they did a great job, and it is really performing well, but all of this has be
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by greyhair 6y ago
Tandy did this many years ago, with better ergonomics. [edit] It was really a Kyocera machine branded by Tandy (and others) I knew a Bell Labs department head that owned one back in the late 1980s and used it while traveling. The ergonomics
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by greyhair 6y ago
As an old dude, I agree with you completely. We push way to much on the degree/school thing in HR, long before we get to interview them. For most positions, I would rather have an enthusiastic learner with a BS, or even an associates,
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by greyhair 6y ago
I agree there are other 'tinkering' boards with more open hardware, but the Pi has the advantage of a huge community of very nice supporters. Maybe even as nice as the community over on arduino. The biggest problem with Broadcom o
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by greyhair 6y ago
It all depends on what you want to learn. On a RPi, with a standard laptop on the side (Windows/Mac/Linux, doesn't matter), and some basic installed tools, you can pull down and configure Alpine Linux and run a bare bones IoT
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by greyhair 6y ago
But computing tools are cheaper now than they have been in ages. You can buy an Atmel dip version of the chip in an arduino really cheap, and build basically what is an arduino on a breadboard. Then get a USB programming adapter (again, che
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by greyhair 6y ago
There is nothing wrong with teaching Python as an introduction to programming methods and data, then diving deeper. My son started with Python in his Junior year of high school and as a senior is now learning Java. It is just top down learn
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by greyhair 6y ago
This puts Apple's 1984 commercial completely in a different light. As they roll over to their own silicon, it is going to evolve from being a closed system to being a really really closed system. Twenty three years ago, Apple briefly f
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by greyhair 6y ago
I just made the C64 <-> Pi 400 comparison to someone last week. It is completely analogous. Pair that up with an arduino, and maybe wiring, and you can a have hardware interaction with a Linux desktop on the 400. I just helped a young
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by greyhair 6y ago
You and I are in a similar camp. I have a monochrome Brother laser (with Duplex) and a Color Canon Inkjet, both on wired networking. Both work well including printing from my phone. Not problems with either, I print mostly on the laser, occ
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by greyhair 6y ago
I have the same Vuescan (awesome awesome awesome software) issue with my Canon MG6220. It "generally" works over Ethernet, but occasionally goes off the rails, and I have to scan over USB. Because of that, I have the printer insta
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by greyhair 6y ago
Will never buy anything from HP again. I owned and old used LaserJetII (with a duplexor) for years followed by an old used LaserJet 4-Plus (it was awesome!)that both were so reliable, and so Awesome, that I I bought an HP Photosmart color p
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by greyhair 6y ago
The CFPB has been declawed by the current administration.

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