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by hakfoo 3y ago
I built my own keyboard firmware ( https://gitlab.com/hakfoo1/ch32v-keyboard ) because I wanted to use a specific controller QMK didn't support, and the actual keyboard stuff isn't that complex (like 1k lines o
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Rather than sharding the company, and getting stuck in endless discussions of where exactly to draw lines and what business units are unsustainable, why not nationalize it? The "projecty" things like Chrome and Android and Waymo a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
My keyboard has an OLED display, and I built a calculator mode into it in emulation of the old Focus FK-9000. Mine is RPN though.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Wasn't part of this a fault of deregulation? In a 1975-era model, where AT&T owned all the physical plant, there was no point of interface where information would be lost. Presumably all the necessary information to monitor abuse
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's not just the tracking concern. The disruption to traditional media economics is socially toxic. In the Before Times of 1993, if you're in situation #1, you call the advertisement department of the local newspaper, who is in
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if the "central personality" aspect is the key. Even the promise of massive wealth and clout has failed to unmask Satoshi, so it's largely seen as a self-managing system. There's no real figurehead you can say
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always figured physical SIMs were still preferrable for travel. You can largely handle them unattended-- buy it from a kiosk or even a vending machine, and swap it without worry about having to bootstrap connectivity to a provisioning web
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I just don't see what problem eSIM solves aside from the "must be thinner/more seamless" non-problem. I suppose there might be some corner-cases-- super-travelers, spammers, certain types of devs and network engineers, w
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think the formal term is "Banner Blindness"
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by hakfoo 3y ago
This is a "have your cake and eat it" problem. You can make devices around being unbreachable and self-attesting. Go build a SBC and sink in a block of epoxy. But they also want the appeal of the open, hackable world-- cheap kit
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd love to see someone explain the WeChat mystique for people who aren't in its target ecosystem. It seems like, if you're making something flexible enough to handle payments, various social and interactive services, and yet
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The other thing is that there's no meaningful leaderboard or PVP situations. Some gamers will whale to acquire or preserve a position as #1-on-the-charts, so hyperoptimizing for single player doesn't scratch that itch, unless you
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by hakfoo 3y ago
As I understand it, there was a time when people would buy expensive luxury European cars in their countries of manufacture, and import them for their own use, which cut out the local wing of the manufacturer, local dealers, etc. This prob
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem is that even if you have a perfectly preserved box of modern cell phones, they're intentionally not really hacker friendly. Half the time, you have a locked bootloader, and even if you don't, you probably need a bigg
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The window of possible actual creativity may be limited and variable. There are a lot of pretty complex prompts, where if you asked a group of reasonably skilled programmers to implement, they'd produce code that was "reformatted
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think this actually had to with the specific legal framework some of those banks were chartered under. "National banks" were established under a specific charter type, which included the authority to issue paper currency under c
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Perhaps that's because the people driven by tiling window management are evangelical enough about it that they'll build entire new software stacks to support it, and the people who want floating windows are just... sufficiently sa
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Our feature flags tend to be "staged deploy" feature flags, and it hits an internal Slack channel when they hit 100% available. This usually triggers someone to queue up a ticket for "rip out the old code".
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I can get behind this. Having dropped a 10+ year Reddit account for Lemmy, I'm still very much in the phase of finding new content sources, so I spend much more time in firehose modes than "stuff I've explicitly selected to f
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The trend of "drive unit advertises unrealistic capacity" seems to be unique to flash memory. It's interesting that there wasn't very much of this in the spinning rust days[1] I wonder if part of it is that SSDs and fla
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The local power company (a psuedo-governmental co-op, I think) has a website with a big interactive outage map. When the power goes out, the icon is usually on the map by the time I've pulled up the site on my phone, describing the ou
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Except it is (at least for the use-case of 16-bit apps that are unsupported by a 64-bit Windows) https://github.com/otya128/winevdm although no updates since 2021, but maybe it was "good enough" for whatever
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by hakfoo 3y ago
What is the meaningful purpose of "Windows Update" for versions no longer recieving active patches. (I imagine there's some bigcorp or biggov that will pay whatever price is necessary to get a patch for XP, but anything earl
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I suspect the problem is how you can reasonably write a general spec for that which doesn't systematically doom some teachers, especially during the bootstrap phase (arguably quite a few years). In an ideal world, our perfectly spheric
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Much more than with many other media, anime/manga collections are a signal of personal allegiance and preference. For example, I can still recall the bitterness in the early US One Piece fandom when it seemed like Naruto and Bleach go
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That makes sense if we're looking at broad-scope advertising. I always figured there are some verticals where the value per acquisition was high enough, and the product narrowly-scoped enough, where it might make sense to microtarget i
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by hakfoo 3y ago
To me, the argument is sort of backwards. Sony is only as good as their third-party licenses. I'm can't think of a signature exclusive title for the Playstation franchise with a brand value anywhere near that of Halo, Sonic, Mari
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by hakfoo 3y ago
For sixty grand, I suspect you are supposed to call someone when you need it opened or closed.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The PC could go there somewhat too; you have the interrupt vector table at the bottom of memory, nominally in control of the BIOS. If you invent a new disc controller, for example, you can change the vector for Interrupt 0x19 to point to yo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I know mechanics in particular can be quite chauvinistic. In the US, for a very long time, you had to find an "import specialist" mechanic, even long past the point where Japanese brands had gone mainstream. Part of this might ha

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