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by mastax 4y ago
Except for semiconductors and tariffs?
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by mastax 4y ago
Interesting, I see a fair number of French-named cities around Wisconsin but I didn't expect them as far west as Idaho.
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by mastax 4y ago
The criticism about the folly of merging into one super program to rule them all (F35ABC) was proven at least partially correct. It caused lots of problems, delays, cost overruns. The Navy doesn't seem to like the F35C much anyway. But
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by mastax 4y ago
How do airships fare in bad weather?
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by mastax 4y ago
I bought one of the DIY Pro kits and put it together. I liked it overall. I think the kit is a good value, it's convenient to get everything all together, and the injection molded case is nice. The included software and cloud dashboard
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by mastax 4y ago
Commercial in this context is referring to "Commercial Off The Shelf" (COTS). Something that is available on the public market, rather than being produced specially for the government. Budgets, bids, etc. often specify whether som
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by mastax 4y ago
Hydrogen is a much smaller molecule, so it leaks out of much smaller holes. It leeches into metals and causes hydrogen embrittlement. It is about 1/3 the energy density per volume of natural gas.
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by mastax 4y ago
I recently set up huge pages on my database server (MariaDB and Postgres) the recommended way, which required way too much rigamarole IMO. Add to the kernel command line to statically allocate a number of huge pages of a certain size. Creat
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by mastax 4y ago
You can tell the engineers who lived through this time period because they still scrutinize electrolytic caps. E.g. Dave from EEVBlog always goes straight to the caps in whatever he takes apart. It doesn't seem to be much of an issue n
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by mastax 4y ago
I keep seeing new tools written by Microsoft that store settings in dot files in my user directory or my documents rather than AppData.
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by mastax 4y ago
Yeah, phones seem to have really good GPS receivers, even when you turn off all the network assists. Even with their tiny antennas they're at least comparable and sometimes better than my expensive uBlox GPS with a large active antenna
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by mastax 4y ago
No, it says XDNA .
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by mastax 4y ago
TrueNAS. Has a jail running InfluxDB, Grafana, and Mosquito to monitor the TrueNAS metrics and my IoT sensors. Has a Ubuntu VM for the TP-Link Omada management software. (It's not terrible but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it)
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by mastax 4y ago
The H7 in particular had some bug which made debugging difficult, though I forget the details. I think it was fixed after a few months.
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by mastax 4y ago
Looks broadly similar to the stm32h7 series that I'm familiar with. Of course all of those are out of stock and cost up to $25. Presumably these are cheaper, though don't have onboard flash memory. The documentation for the STM32s
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by mastax 4y ago
Point taken but I would not be confident that a human cleaner would evaluate whether or not to throw away a piece of paper left on the floor.
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by mastax 4y ago
A lot of services don't let you change your email address. Could cause some pain if this service doesn't exist in 20 years.
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by mastax 4y ago
They probably will. It usually takes a while because they prioritize shipping the chip in laptops, then OEM systems. Maybe they skip the second part this time because now they have the basic igpu for the office PC market. Also with the down
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by mastax 4y ago
CCX or core complex is a lower level grouping of cores. On Zen 2/3 the CCX would have 4 cores on a little ring bus. A full 8-core CCD would then have two of those 4-core CCXs connected via infinity fabric. The inter-CCD connections wer
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by mastax 4y ago
I usually avoid things like this because they're usually not this well written. Worth the time.
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by mastax 4y ago
> The world's biggest companies are building trillion-dollar businesses on top of the Arm architecture, and the realities of product design mean all these plans are two to five years out. So for Arm, giving off a vibe of "insta
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by mastax 4y ago
In my experience MSIX is the typical MS Windows project where it sounds really cool and looks well documented and supported until you actually try to use it. If you're on the beaten path, like a mobile app port for the windows store, i
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by mastax 4y ago
I don't think they have a moral obligation to, necessarily. But in exchange for $1000 of hardware (at retail price, mind) they would easily get >>$1000 of value for them and their customers. It doesn't make sense not to do i
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by mastax 4y ago
I have very similar memories from my time in the computer labs at school. We also discovered `net send` and got it disabled a few weeks later. The computers were really locked down to the point that they were annoying to use. Right click wa
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by mastax 4y ago
Big software projects inevitably become expensive boondoggles that get everyone fired so nobody wants to do them until they're absolutely necessary.
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by mastax 4y ago
I agree that this blog is not very good at clearly arguing it's conclusion, though I do agree with it for three reasons. First intentional discomfort encourages you to pay attention to what your body is saying, and trains your willpowe
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by mastax 4y ago
(from memory) more than twice the FLOPS, 60% more RAM bandwidth, but only 20% more FPS at best. There's something strange going on.
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by mastax 4y ago
Okay but that sounds more like a principal agent problem as noted in the root comment rather than the "punishment is smaller than the crime" problem I was questioning.
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by mastax 4y ago
> the penalties are never greater than the profit that triggered the penalties Are you sure? In the most recent case they had to return all $2B taken from customers and pay a $1.7B fine. I'd be willing to look at evidence to the con
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by mastax 4y ago
He wasn't forced to buy Twitter. He bought Twitter and then was indirectly forced to follow through with the purchase contract that he already made.

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