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by hakfoo 12d ago
It probably makes sense with a silent linear keyswitch for users who are used to the obvious acoustic feedback of a typewriter. Since cheap modern MCUs have programmable ADCs, you can wiggle an output pin and experiment with different soun
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by hakfoo 12d ago
There's probably a better take on this in the "non-sold" software market. I feel like there's an optimistic story there, in that AI could lead back towards an era of user-directed computing. We've had a long trend
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by hakfoo 14d ago
This seems like a new spin on the "wealth fades after 3 generations" narrative. You built the killbots that prevent anyone from ever reallocating your wealth and holed up in your compound. But will your daughter and granddaughter
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by hakfoo 14d ago
Phone batteries have relatively little margin. If it lasts barely a full day at full capacity, going down to 80% means you can no longer reliably say "I'll charge it overnight". A car battery that lasted 300km new but now on
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by hakfoo 16d ago
Western manufacturers really shot themselves in the crotch with this one. Foot isn't strong enough here. Had CXMT hit a normal functioning market, they would be a much harder sell-- existing vendors could spread FUD about performance
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by hakfoo 28d ago
The billing address "bull" is part of a basic fraud due-diligence feature (AVS - Address Verification System). You can get back different match levels (matched the house number only, the zip code only, or both) which provide some
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by hakfoo 28d ago
"Donate to a different charity" is in no way a viable alternative. Charities are anything but interchangeable. You might not want to sponsor one on ideological grounds, or concerns about how effectively they use the money, or jus
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
"probably still requires a lot of GPU compute" is something that would be very desirable to undercut. There's a galaxy of potential AI markets that are local-only for compliance/privacy/deployment environment reason
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
I guess I don't understand the sales argument for a 'smart monitor'. For the "smart TV" the argument to the consumer is either 1) to access OTT services if you don't have a device for it already or 2) that the
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
Different arguments for different audiences. Some people respond to moral arguments directly. But even if you're all about extractive imperialism, you can make a case for "starting fires in your own backyard is going to be costly
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
It's interesting to see their intent to make an explicit drop-in replacement. I'm surprised there aren't really high-quality drop-ins for most of the classic "name brand" commercial fonts at this point, built solely
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
Bread and Circuses was the old answer to social unrest. The new bet is on surveiliance and security tech, the more autonomous the better. The owner class no longer needs to provide bread and circuses when they can constantly monitor for an
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
It's a very pretty benchmark. Everyone has the same basic objective and measurement norm, so we can see how performance improves year over year, and how different manufacturers handle a specific known goal, even if it's not super-
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
There's a good chance that most humanoid robots are not going to look particularly hunan. You might have different proportions due to different weight distribution or use cases (maybe the legs are made less flexible if the workspace ha
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
The hard part is knowing where to draw the line between relatively stable infrastructure items that don't benefit from duplication, and flexible items that are likely to benefit from specialization and competition. X11 made the right c
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
I've always figured the dream would be to be able to advertise a low price without ever having to deliver it. Some particularly skeevy car dealers were skewered many years ago for saying "Advertised price is less tax, title, and a
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
A big part of the numbers game is on variants though. There's what, eight or ten total RP2040/2350/2354 parts to choose from? So all the volume is split between those. Conversely, there are a lot more variations within othe
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
More so than the em-dash, I'm disappointed about "It's not X, it's Y" becoming a slop barometer I'm a fan of that phrasing because it used to have real punch if you delivered it with the right timing. "It&
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
I think it presses a few buttons we probably recognize (if subconsciously) and find distasteful. The verbosity makes me think of two things in particular: - The classic essay written by someone who has 125 words worth of actual content but
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
I feel like the Raspberry Pi products are inherently a special case. They're probably produced in far greater numbers than most off-the-shelf STM32 or CH32V chips. You've got a huge ready market in hobbyist/educational produ
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
What's weird is that they did an open-source release of GWBASIC, but it seemed to be in a worse state than the DOS 1/2/4 releases. I don't think there's a turnkey distribution out there outside of digging up your o
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by hakfoo 1mo ago
I guess you could line-for-line duplicate functionality, but that's just like running the binary in an emulator with extra steps. Part of the value of a migration would be the opportunity to to unwind some of the details that are contr
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
If you go far back enough "x86-64" was the original unbranded name. I wrote to AMD back at the time and they sent me a 5-volume set of programmer's reference manuals labelled x86-64, dated 2002.
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
There's a many, many post thread here https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/isa-usb-board.7697... where a lot of the discussion took place, both my efforts and some other devs working on a DOS-based driver. h
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
I did a lot of work on a custom option ROM for the ISA USB card type you mention. It exposes an INT 13h interface, so systems that access discs through the BIOS will work (DOS, probably CP/M-86 or ELKS, Minix might require you to spec
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
Discounted stamps do exist. Stamp collectors end up stuck with sheets and sheets of unpopular designs, and since the hobby (like many hobbies) has imploded, the dealers will pay less than face value for it; they in turn will sell it for a s
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
It's possible that the demands on the model are growing faster than it gets efficient though. A lot of the improvement in output quality/metrics come from more churning and passes. You could argue that a RTX5090 needs less power
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
It seems like the FCC is a convenient source of rubber stamps for the administration.
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
Property values going up is only appealing if you own property. For renters, it means they're going to try to increase rents. For everyone, it presents a pressure on favourite local businesses-- higher costs, and an influx of well-bank
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
What's interesting is that there's really nothing about a Win95 or Motif style theme that doesn't scale well. If you pair it with modern antialiased/high-DPI typography, it still looks clean and legible. Some later busie

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