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by greyhair 6y ago
I have a fan shim on mine, and it keeps it well within limits. The shim is controlled by the on die temperature, so it runs slowly most of the time, but if you run the CPU/GPU hard for any length of time, the fan really cranks up. You
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by greyhair 6y ago
I reread Moby Dick as an adult within the last couple years. Found it far more interesting than I did when I was young. The book plays on narration in far more complex ways than I remembered. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Seriou
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by greyhair 6y ago
You may be able to slow aging, but you are still going to deal with wear and tear. Until they actually find a way to promote well regulated regrowth of tissue, that is going to be a problem. I am young for my age, having been born into a fa
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by greyhair 7y ago
Fiber boxes (and cable boxes) here are all at least twelve feet above ground level up on a pole. You never 'walk around them' unless you are levitating.
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by greyhair 7y ago
You can explore the same world easily in AVR, ARM M0/4, or PIC. And really be running on bare metal.
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by greyhair 7y ago
In the late 90s, I worked with a small team, about four of us, and ported a DSL soft modem from Windows NT running on a Pentium II running at 450Mhz to VxWorks running on an ARM SA110 running at 120 Mhz. The original software and hardware t
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by greyhair 7y ago
It still comes down to the point that everyone wants you to load an app from an app store. Which drives me nuts. Just give me the web, please. PWA is about the web.
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by greyhair 7y ago
And that third option is only technically available to at most 10 percent of the population, and most of them have neither the time ("day jobs") nor inclination to spend their time in that effort. And that is discounting the fact
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by greyhair 7y ago
Hey, Eve is my main squeeze. I gave her an Apple.
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by greyhair 7y ago
That first line is key to so much. All of hardware is tradeoffs. There is no magic.
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by greyhair 7y ago
The problem is, these leaky cache issues come from 'performant' hardware. It is the pipeline optimization that leads to the side channel. There are cache architectures (such as pseudo random replacement) that are much more difficu
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by greyhair 7y ago
I have a mint account. Have not used it in three years. It kept failing to sync to my accounts and I got sick of correcting it all the time. It ended up being a huge burden compared to the value added.
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by greyhair 7y ago
From the tail end of the article: It’s been an active week for layoffs among tech startups. Mozilla laid off 70 employees this week; What is the cutoff age for an organization to be a "startup"?
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by greyhair 7y ago
Plus Squeeze Network (still free, still working) for Pandora, Spotify, or other network services. Have you tried squeezeplayer on a RPi with a DAC? It works great. I have one alongside my original Squuezebox. They sync perfectly for multiro
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by greyhair 7y ago
Logitech Squeeze players also had Squeeze network, which cost nothing, and is still in service today. You can put a DAC on a RPi, install squeezeplayer, and attach to the squeeze network for free today. I have done that exact thing in the l
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by greyhair 7y ago
I wish they would sell them at a reduced price just as powered speakers, to people that would just like to use them as powered speakers. No support provided, just a website where you could click and order. There are a number of people that
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by greyhair 7y ago
The hardware is far from open, but the issue of the interface being 'licensed' was cleared by SiLabs, which was very nice.
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by greyhair 7y ago
Once Windows 98 hit though, USB was well supported on the platform. During a brief stint in late 98 through 99 I worked at a consumer electronics chip manufacturer (56K modems and DSL) and we had good support for USB on Windows 98 and Windo
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by greyhair 7y ago
Like ZWave has done for the last several years. I know it has other issues, but particularly since ZWave2, the security model on ZWave far surpasses bluetooth or zigbee
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by greyhair 7y ago
No. It is a closed secure box with ssl backhaul to the provider. I was involved in the chip architecture for the silicon that is used in the box as well as the software engineer involved in the secure boot path for the cellular modems. It i
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by greyhair 7y ago
I have a femtocell in my home, because my small neighborhood sits in a dead zone. Not a repeater, a full femtocell. To the casual security conscious user, that is probably going to look like a 'stingray', since you will be walking
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by greyhair 7y ago
Have been a contributor for years. They fight the good fight.
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by greyhair 7y ago
mmWave 5G is shorter range. 5G runs also on sub-6. The spec defines the modulation and the network, it doesn't hard-spec the frequency. So the coverage on low band 5G will be the same as 4G
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by greyhair 7y ago
Also learn about opportunity cost when spending and saving. It is tied to compound interest in many ways, but also deals with addressing wants vs. needs, and also scoring your wants.
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by greyhair 7y ago
Thirded. I worked as a farm hand on a nearby dairy farm through high school, then six years as a mechanic before going to college. As a farm hand, you learn early how to arc weld, or cut steel with an acetylene torch, along simple carpentry
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by greyhair 7y ago
How old are you? My father was thin until he turned 27. He was never huge, but at 27 he was 170lbs (6'2") and at his peak, around age 65, he was a little over 200. He warned me about that. At 27, I was also 170 lbs (6'2"
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by greyhair 7y ago
That is wonderful phrasing on the idea. Thank you.
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by greyhair 7y ago
My first engineering job, 1984. All source code was in version control (SCCS wrapped in some tracking tools) and all bugs were tracked. By 1989 we were doing root cause analysis on all defects.
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by greyhair 7y ago
That boggles my mind. Maybe it is just where I have worked all of my 35 years, but source and bug tracking were always at the forefront of every engineering effort. Hardware and software, didn't matter. Code and documents. Requirements
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by greyhair 7y ago
Incomplete response received from application That is what I got from the link. I haven't read that book in fifteen years. Are there any interesting changes since the first edition?

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