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by kryten 13y ago
Make it cheap and no one will care any more. Make it shiny and the tech pundits will slobber all over it. It concerns me for reference. The device is dangerous to say the least. I wish Stallman would write about them as people might start p
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by kryten 13y ago
You can't get a decent general purpose computer for $250. You might get a laptop shaped kiosk device, but not a computer.
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by kryten 13y ago
Sorry but Chromebooks are a crap prospect for 99% of people and after about a week, any consumer will realise that. That happens post-sale which means the sales figures are good. They are lured in by the price and get screwed. That's a
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by kryten 13y ago
My father in law is a security guard for a private company. He watches DVDs for 7 hours a day on a laptop and goes for an amble the other hour. That is the entire job. If only he put some of that time to better use like that kid did. It&#x2
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by kryten 13y ago
Sounds exactly like my EE degree. I left knowing absolutely fuck all other than how to pass a test through cramming yet got a 1st. I didn't deserve it. I spent 5 years the moment I hit industry relearning everything and fudging what I
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by kryten 13y ago
Lots more energy is lost during power conversion than this. Scary numbers though even if they are ballpark figures.
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by kryten 13y ago
Yet Linux 3.6 still lasts only 1h15m on idle compared to windows 7 at 4h45m on my laptop. Linux has all powertop optimisations on as well. YMMV
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by kryten 13y ago
Looks reasonable. However you'll have to prize my HP 50g calculator out of my cold dead hands before I'll mix mathematics and a touch screen.
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by kryten 13y ago
I've been through about a hundred books on the subject over the years. They are all pretty crappy to be honest so far. There is a great opening here. The problem with electronics is that bar the simplest things, it's pretty maths
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by kryten 13y ago
For reference, Vala looks like a bastardised C# which compiles down to C which then compiles to native. The whole thing is built on top of Glib and GObject, the latter being akin to gouging your eyes out with a fork. IMHO: use something els
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by kryten 13y ago
PowerShell is ok until you actually have to use it for something non-trivial, at which point it's the usual "layers-of-pain" that you get with anything Microsoft these days.
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by kryten 13y ago
I can afford twice as powerful kit when I write in Java as it takes less time :)
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by kryten 13y ago
It is a joke but the context is actually very valid and is a criticism that is widely echoed everywhere regarding OpenBSD. It deserves a strong defense whether or not it is a joke :)
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by kryten 13y ago
Whilst Theo is an asshat to people, he's usually right. I've been on the end of it and took it as education. In fact, I wish more people would take the attitude of derision as there are too many people who make excuses for people
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by kryten 13y ago
I wouldn't dare put my data anywhere near Gmail or Streak. The opportunity for something to go wrong is too high for my liking having dealt with Google "support" before. Considering Streak seems to be a hacked on extension as
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by kryten 13y ago
I've worked in the sector in question as a consultant. Without breaking anything I've signed I can say the following: The employees don't have any context either. They are strictly partitioned and assigned tasks. Most of the
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by kryten 13y ago
Had this a couple of times in the UK. It's a new tactic here. I think they learned it from some naff US cop reality show. Neither time was I actually speeding. It was an estimate on their part and both were in an area with a good proba
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by kryten 13y ago
I left when they turned up as well and I'm no artist. There was a reasonable tech community around there before it went all trendy as most of us found it pretty cheap and convenient whilst raping the corporations around E1/Docklan
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by kryten 13y ago
This was back before we had videos :)
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by kryten 13y ago
Great work. This is exactly what I want. Thank you so much for putting your time into making this. The syntax diagram is wonderful!
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by kryten 13y ago
Golang seems to fit that bill for me. I'm using it more every day now.
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by kryten 13y ago
Agree with that so much it's unreal. I actually used vc++6 until about 2005. Eclipse kind of took over for C/C++ after that.
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by kryten 13y ago
http://www.addsimplicity.com/downloads/eBaySDForum2006-11-29...
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by kryten 13y ago
It's usually one of two things: 1/ An electromagnetic/mechanical effect in the transformer in the inverter. You can usually stop it by carefully undoing the tape around the transformer and giving it a squeeze. 2/ The aud
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by kryten 13y ago
Half of eBay used to be a massive ISAPI dll plugged into the back of IIS. It did a fine job at the time!
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by kryten 13y ago
Probably right. Be careful! I had a Chinese clone Lenovo charger a while ago. There was 50v floating AC on the chassis when supposedly open circuit (!). Zapped myself on any metal part I touched. Fake one was dismantled for study and appear
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by kryten 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. Much better than adblock plus I.e. Much faster and more moral.
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by kryten 13y ago
50hz is pretty easy to knock our with a simple RC low pass filter. That should make a difference but it will probably attenuate the signal so you will need an instrumentation amp. 2 hours later... Ahh commercial grade design and massive BOM
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by kryten 13y ago
Great work! This is why I come here :) I built a pulse oximeter as my final year project at university and have been rather obsessed with medical electronics since. I've always wondered if it's possible to build your own ultrasoun
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by kryten 13y ago
To be honest, Borders was like a library with built in coffee shop in the UK. People just went in there, checked out the book and bought it on amazon whilst sitting in the shop eating blueberry cheesecake and drinking a nice cappuccino...

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