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by mafuyu 3y ago
I mean, zsync? Performing simple hashes of blocks of data isn’t exactly hard for the console. On the CDN side, just add a caching layer for the resulting chunks and it should sort itself out, since there are only so many variants of the sou
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by mafuyu 3y ago
It's very much doable. You see the big vendors upstream proactively, and they have whole teams supporting upstreaming efforts. But chip bring-up and driver support can be messy affairs. It's not just a matter of a driver working o
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by mafuyu 3y ago
This is a common story in ARM / embedded linux. SoC vendors’ main focus is to make the chip and give it enough BSP support for customers to buy it and build their products around it. The bare minimum for this is typically a set of hack
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by mafuyu 3y ago
The first couple AW gens didn’t really have much of a fitness angle, though. The hardware and software for health tracking was very lacking. It was only later on that they pivoted hard on fitness and did a big marketing push with the “three
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by mafuyu 3y ago
Years ago, I had the lovely opportunity to take the course associated with the student manual at Harvard Extension, taught by the author, Tom Hayes. I was a little high school brat, so Tom probably does not have fond memories of me, but I l
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by mafuyu 3y ago
A list of unactionable aphorisms without context?
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by mafuyu 3y ago
Bigme has been a player in the niche eink tablet market for a while now, so it's likely real, or at least not a complete scam. The fake marketing videos in the Kickstarter are atrocious, though. I would say Dasung and Onyx Mira are the
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by mafuyu 3y ago
Seriously? The grinder is the most important part, in my experience. When I first got into aeropress and pourovers, I was frustrated for years with bland and inconsistent brews. It was only after I upgraded to a decent burr grinder that eve
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by mafuyu 3y ago
This was my experience as well. On X11 + i3 (with no DE), latency and screen tearing was always an issue I had to fiddle with. Things came to a head when my 2021-release work Thinkpad started tearing driving an external 4K monitor over Thun
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by mafuyu 3y ago
You're not imagining it! The ads slow down webOS a lot, and blocking them with pi-hole made my TV much more usable. I highly recommend setting up pi-hole or similar, and blocking all the LG domains it tries to hit. I commented about it
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by mafuyu 3y ago
I should add my personal opinion, too. FPGAs and comp arch can be fun, but are largely academic, IMO. Unless it's your _thing_, it just provides you with lots of background knowledge when writing OS and systems level code. Messing arou
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by mafuyu 3y ago
Hi, embedded developer here. Learning electronics and lower-level computing concepts is very fun, and I'll always encourage it. But I also don't think you need to feel particularly anxious about it. For some perspective, web stuff
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by mafuyu 3y ago
This is such a tired argument nowadays. Yes, at some point it is about the directors style and artistic vision. Yes, film _still_ has some technical advantages over digital for cine, especially if the director is shooting at a larger format
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by mafuyu 3y ago
VCs want to feel good about investing in innovative and exciting startups that will give them massive returns, and the free market responds with founders who meet their emotional needs by selling personalities that are quirked up and coked
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Open-source hardware licensing is not as straightforward as software, and funding isn't really figured out yet either. Hardware has significant costs to develop, manufacture, and sell, and many projects are niche or passion projects th
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by mafuyu 4y ago
For my mono font, I converted the Atkinson Hyperlegible[0] font into mono, and have been using it as my terminal and editor font for over a year now. It's pretty janky, but it's surprisingly lasted longer than many of the other fo
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by mafuyu 4y ago
I think as a direct replacement for internet search, or even general knowledge queries, I definitely agree with you. When it does work though, it's hands-down a better experience. I imagine the 80/20 problem of making it work for
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Yeah, this effect is pretty strong. After staring at it a bit, the only way I found to 'break' it was by noticing that if I flicked my eyes towards a bird, there was a brief period before the illusion kicked in. By constantly flic
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by mafuyu 4y ago
I mean, it's no replacement for learning something rigorously, but I still find little snippets like this helpful for building intuition. Frankly, I'm not really great at rigor myself, and for areas that aren't my areas of ex
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by mafuyu 4y ago
I dug into this last night and got it working with this guide: https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-... I had issues with just DNAT following some ui forum posts, and I think it's becau
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Yeah, it's a real bummer. I posted my list in a sibling comment chain. Looks like others have also posted links to blocklists for smart TVs as well.
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by mafuyu 4y ago
This is in the US. If you search online, it seems to be a commonly reported issue, with some articles saying LG started ramping up the ads a year or two ago. Maybe older firmwares don't get the ads?
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by mafuyu 4y ago
I've got the LG G1. AFAIK, all the webOS models are affected.
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Here are the blacklist domains I've accrued (some rules might be redundant or out of date): ngfts.lge.com us.ad.lgsmartad.com lgad.cjpowercast.com us.info.lgsmartad.com aic.recommend.lgtvcommon.com aic.homeprv
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by mafuyu 4y ago
I've heard that the high end Sony Bravia TVs are better in this regard, but haven't confirmed it myself. They are quite a bit more expensive than the other OLED TVs on the market, however. One thing I've been feeling lately w
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Good point! I'll have to look into adding that.
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by mafuyu 4y ago
What finally got me to setup pi-hole on an old Raspberry Pi was getting an LG OLED TV. The webOS apps for YouTube and Plex are pretty convenient, but the TV was absolutely packed with ads via the home screen and pop-up toasts. To add insult
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Ironically, I've been feeling the opposite lately- my day job is embedded, and I was reminiscing about my childhood days when I was learning to code with Scheme and Processing. There's something beautiful about a single laptop bei
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by mafuyu 4y ago
The creator, Alexey Pajitnov, was eventually able to see some money from his creation after emigrating to the US and cofounding The Tetris Company. The Gaming Historian channel has a great documentary video on it here: https://ww
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by mafuyu 4y ago
Color neg has been incredibly hard to find all this year, and on top of Kodak's price increases last year, retailers were price gouging in relation to supply. Once I burned through my stockpile, I was basically just shooting B&W st

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