joe_bleau

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by joe_bleau 12y ago
Better customer support than DO? Maybe some customers just like dealing with Luke, a fellow HN member?
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Big Payoffs in HP Suit, for Lawyers(nytimes.com)
6 points by joe_bleau 12y ago|0 comments
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by joe_bleau 12y ago
I ran across this while researching a way to OCR data from a video of a frequency counter and digital multimeter. I didn't use his exact workflow, but it got me pointed in the right direction. Much better than manually typing in data e
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How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (2011)(waldo.jaquith.org)
125 points by joe_bleau 12y ago|17 comments
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by joe_bleau 12y ago
$2 sounds really cheap--did I miss the laser on the bill of materials? Anyone else hoping for a modern and inexpensive replacement for the legendary classic EG&G microflash?
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Your Metal Azide Worries Are Over(pipeline.corante.com)
2 points by joe_bleau 12y ago|0 comments
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Friendly, Welcoming Triazides(pipeline.corante.com)
29 points by joe_bleau 12y ago|3 comments
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Estimate of inducatance and capacitance?
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
The handful of cars I've checked (after Bob Pease wrote about it) won't lock the column unless you remove the key. Some might lock, but only when the tranny is in park. Worth checking out. Do you even want/need power steering
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
In my case it was the paypal/larger size restriction. And to be fair to DO, once I had opened a ticket (and provided links to the company website, twitter, facebook, and reason for wanting larger droplets) they explained that adding a
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
I too have been bit by the droplet limit. $60 credit (but no credit card) in my account, wanted to spin up a fast box to build a kernel, but I was locked out of the larger droplets. Never did get a straight answer as to why, just a suggesti
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
You'd think, right? Luckily the ARM dudes came up with Thumb-2, so most (all but 6) of the Cortex-M0+ instructions are actually 16 bit, not 32. (Nice chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M .) But what&
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
If the code hasn't been linted, expect lots of false positives. I usually have to disable entire classes of less serious warnings to notice the errors, then slowly work through to the less serious stuff.
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Yep, PC-lint from Gimpel catches it: Error -> Warning 527 Unreachable code at token 'ret' (col 12)
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Building a Magnetic Tape Recorder from Scratch (1949-1952)(relwin.hackhut.com)
2 points by joe_bleau 13y ago|0 comments
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Back in the day, there was a windows based IDE/simulator for the PIC 8-bit microcontrollers. The simulation ran much (2-5 times?) faster if you wiggled the mouse. Someone wrote an app to send fake mouse events to the simulator window.
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
We use them to add ethernet and new comm protocols to regulated legacy embedded devices that only have serial ports.
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Qué romántico (Fake ON-semi chip with fun marking)(bunniestudios.com)
1 points by joe_bleau 13y ago|0 comments
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Quick comment about the signup procedure; just finished the sign up and phone number verification, and I'm wondering why I have to enter the '+' in front of the country code and area code. Your signup form is smart enough to
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
"restarts required once daily"? Do you mean restarting the crashed application (Chrome), or an actual daily reboot of the OS?
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
I still run XP and 2k. I need it to support hardware that does not have a 64 bit driver. (It might be possible to run under win7 32 bit, but I've not tried.)
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
I use them for snapshots.
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Why not? Even if it doesn't use JTAG for debug, it almost certainly would need it for boundary scan. I just checked volume 1 of the Intel i7 processor family datasheet, and it does show a JTAG port.
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Are they available to a JTAG probe? I've not looked at a modern motherboard in ages, but I wouldn't be too surprised to find unpopulated JTAG pads near the CPU.
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Annoying, isn't it? Every time Frontline or one of the major networks runs a scare story about how much money people are losing due to high fee 401k plans, I get angry. Not so much at the lost money, but that the 'in-depth journal
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DNSSEC patches for DJB's tinydns(tinydnssec.org)
1 points by joe_bleau 13y ago|0 comments
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Sub-threshold (extremely low power) ARM chip on track at Ambiq(eetimes.com)
1 points by joe_bleau 13y ago|0 comments
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
Time for a kickstarter for an e-ink license plate? Tie it to a GPS with known locations of cameras, and change your tag for each picture?
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What Does A Song That Costs $5 Sound Like?(npr.org)
26 points by joe_bleau 13y ago|48 comments
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by joe_bleau 13y ago
The 1% series has an extra value band, which throws off their multiplier. Example: 1k 5% is brown black red (gold), but 1k 1% is brown black black brown (brown). We do use a few 0.1% values in some cal equipment--about $1 each!

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