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by m0xte 6y ago
There’s still plenty of innovation left to do. Low bandwidth, low power, long distance signalling is interesting. As are ridiculously high frequencies. Also new modes and repurposing some of the modern radio ICs you can get. But the issue I
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by m0xte 6y ago
iPad Pro. An absolute mile beyond anything. Best computer I have ever owned on the side as well.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yes they’re terrible for gaming. I’d buy an Xbox instead.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I’ve seen the same ones that do 3GB of reads to return ten rows. The point I was inelegantly making is that it is terrible doing this processing on every read rather than once at write.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I entirely disagree with the first point on the basis that most enterprise applications are CRUD with a poorly contrived search interface. Both of which are somewhat better serviced by anything other than SQL. The second one however is on t
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by m0xte 6y ago
Usually they scale infinitely well until someone opens a PO for a Cray sized database cluster that burns kilowatts of power.
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by m0xte 6y ago
It’s not a myth. In the trite examples provided with tiny datasets they scale. In stark reality when you’ve got 5000+ qps of dog shit queries of several joins each and buggered table statistics (thanks optimiser!) coming in on realistic dat
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by m0xte 6y ago
Just annoying little issues like the six months it wouldn’t power up first time. Turned out to be a GPU initialisation problem. But when you only have one type of each component and the only way of debugging is swapping parts until you find
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by m0xte 6y ago
Average gamer doesn’t need and cant afford that stuff. Some have just got used to having every bell and whistle. Average gamer is playing fortnite which works perfectly nicely on an A12Z. I tried it. Plugged my monitor into my iPad Pro and
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by m0xte 6y ago
Best to buy gold plated wire off the shelf for your design. Solders nicely as well! I played with gold electroplating pens but they are nasty.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Those contacts will oxidise almost instantly. From running morse keys for years, you need gold or phosphor bronze.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I think we lose a screen every 12 months here across 5 phones. People make mistakes. It’s a reasonable hedge on repair costs. As for a sibling comment’s lifespan estimation, that’s why it’s economical to dump the thing instantly after Apple
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by m0xte 6y ago
If you buy it with AppleCare ($79) and sell it after 2 years when that expires the total cost of ownership and the associated risk of owning it is unbeatable. Works out at around $12 a month.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yeah it’s awful. Window terminal default key bindings buggers up touch as well. I have moved to macOS since wsl2 came out.
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by m0xte 6y ago
This. Mine is eternally used as a console for some bit of network gubbins that still has a usb serial port in it (Cisco etc)
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by m0xte 6y ago
Not so lucky here. hated minidiscs from the moment I bought a recorder. I got an imported MZ-R90, fairly late into the cycle expecting maturity, which would persistently overheat when recording for some reason. Playback was reliable however
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by m0xte 6y ago
Interesting but I got eternal salvation or double my money back plus more hedonism with the subgenius’.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Next step ordained church of the subgenius minister!
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by m0xte 6y ago
I've had to do this on much newer thinkpads. The fan on my T470 was on constantly until I went in there and found that the manufacturer applied paste was done badly. Grr.
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by m0xte 6y ago
You tend to have to buy 2-3 times as many SoC boards in the same lifetime as the other item from experience. Thus the savings up front are artificial. I’ve got two dead pi’s here ceased to function while in unattended operation.
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by m0xte 6y ago
They were on this machine. 4 through hole anchors. The shell deformed and ripped the other pins out. The issue is the mechanical leverage vs an 8 layer board vs connector sizing.
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by m0xte 6y ago
My wife broke the USB C port on my T470 when she threw a cushion at me (i was winding her up over something). It tore the connector shell off the board and lifted traces when the cushion landed fairly lightly on it after hitting me. Fortuna
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yes but the amount of time you’re not wasting is worth it.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Worth looking at NUC and second hand Lenovo M600 fanless units as well. 900% less crap and I reckon 90% of users don’t plug anything directly into IO ports on their Pi.
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by m0xte 6y ago
They have some good stuff on YouTube as well.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Nailed it. The other problem cycle is “we’ll get JIRA right this time”. This is followed by happy clicky people immediately shafting it, at least two years of suffering and then some PM selling some new clothes to the emperor. Everything de
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by m0xte 6y ago
Agreed. I’m going to wait for someone else to find out that before me. My mac is mostly a terminal emulator though so I’m quite happy to lose some watts and not gain much for it.
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by m0xte 6y ago
See my comment at the same level as yours. 2020 iPad Pro is about the same as an i7-7700k. It’s insanely fast at a much much much lower TDP.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yes and no. It’s a confidence builder. A better comparison is an A12Z in an iPad Pro has similar synthetic benchmark result as an i7-7700k. And it feels like it in daily use. So when Apple drop desktops out with this class of CPU we’re not
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by m0xte 6y ago
This is underground programming. Perhaps it's 1?

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