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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Interestingly my sister is intolerant of MSG and also allergic to lidocaine.
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Good points. Embedded systems deal with many of those. It made me think of a funny story that causes me to pay closer attention to things like this: Some time ago I shipped a product running an RTOS which unfortunately had a subtle schedule
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
CRM is also being adopted by emergency responders (EMTs) and so on. I've started to use it whenever possible in important or high stress situations dealing with people. Stuff like repeating peoples questions to them so they hear your i
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Almost all of the "custom" chips on these arcade systems through the 90s were not fully custom, they were gate arrays, sort of a fixed form of FPGA. You'd select from a few templates depending on how big a die you needed, or
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Post-viral sequelae have been poorly understood for many years. 1. It's hard to tie together the cause and later effects/symptoms. Did someone get a viral infection? Common cold? Flu? A bacterial infection? People who aren't
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Personally, having been led on wild goose chases by the medical system before in life led me to also be wary of any magic solution with no long term testing. Pretty much everything has side effects - even the most safe drug or supplement h
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
My parents joined in 1998 after my school district started to threaten legal action against family friends, and we knew we were next. It worked, and the school backed off. Might be a good idea for anyone thinking of teaching their kids at h
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Same here, the FOMO led me to finding a film theater, luckily I found a 70mm non-IMAX showing in driving distance. Honestly looking forward to not seeing pixelated digital screendoor for this one. Most IMAX locations are just gonna be 2048x
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
IMAX 70mm is still the absolute benchmark for film quality, and has been so for decades. A really rough estimate is you'd need a 15-20k digital projector to approach the resolution of the film. However, IMAX tried to go mass-market aro
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
The previous generation of the lockout chip on the NES is also a Sharp 4-bit MCU, but even more ancient. To save gates, the chip designers made it use an LFSR program counter. So, execution didn't go 00, 01, 02 at all. Had to be a real
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
It's a production test suite, designed for use with a custom jig that plugs into all the various ports to fully test everything, not just the cartridge. The custom test jig named 'zaru' which if I recall is Japanese for a ric
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
JTAG doesn't really exist on the N64 hardware, it's only present on the CPU and the pins are hardwired to VCC/gnd. Even if it did work, it wouldn't be sufficient to test the rest of the system, which doesn't have an
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
My greatest fear is when they decide they don't know what to do with FPGAs anymore and get rid of Altera (please do this, Intel, your website doc format is awful compared to good old Altera's) Funnily enough, Intel did used to mak
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Years ago I set up a business PayPal account after selling through my personal for years. After taking orders, I pulled in $13k in a few days and went to pay my suppliers, only to find PayPal had frozen my account for suspected fraud. I had
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
That's pretty neat. I enjoy seeing first-gen designs like this, before everything gets integrated down to one chip. No shortage of PLDs and dual port ram on there. And not one but two CL4040 encoders from C-Cube. What was the reason fo
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Seems Twitter has had a culture of rolling out changes straight into production without incremental testing, at least since well before Musk took over. Mudge was hired there in 2020 and what he found was a complete mess.
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Was just on his website last month to see that he was up to his usual activities and read a couple papers. (His explanation of bicubic pixel resampling is on of the more intuitive ones) It appears he knew something might have gone wrong aro
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Every day just after 5pm, sitting in my college's Engineering atrium, I would start to see a veritable army (dozens and dozens) of youngish, well-dressed people walk out to the parking lot and leave. They weren't faculty, because
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
Typically commercial RAM has a temp range of 0 to 85degC. In the olden days, you constrained your IO timing on the device/chip that drove the ram so that it worked at all temperatures at the rated speed. (Well, unless you were a 90s gr
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by mips_r4300i 3y ago
This is also true for all venues through Ticketmaster (which is probably over 2/3 of them). A couple years ago, they moved from static barcodes to live, rolling 2d barcodes that expire every 30 seconds. It does work pretty well to prev