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by mng2 12y ago
Japanese characters can have multiple readings. For most words and phrases, there is a standard correct reading, but for names, things get more complicated. Presumably 'Kanda' is the most common reading. http://jisho.or
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by mng2 12y ago
What are you guys doing for physical verification, static timing analysis, stuff like that? As far as I know those tools still cost big bucks.
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by mng2 12y ago
Modifying the masks struck me as a fairly farfetched scenario. I don't know how many spare gates a processor ships with but you would have to know the design pretty intimately to be able to include something malicious by remapping, bot
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by mng2 12y ago
There's no substitute for actually working through the equations and math, but working with simulations can help drive concepts home. For example, PhET has a virtual capacitor lab (it's a Java applet). http://phet.color
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by mng2 12y ago
I wouldn't call it 'scary', myself, but it doesn't strike me as a particularly useful feature. In software, a single slow subroutine can simply take up more cycles. But in hardware, a slow path becomes your critical path
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by mng2 12y ago
If you're talking about the 1400x900 screen, I agree, the viewing sweet spot is nearly nonexistent. I actually swapped out the top shell of my X200s and so I could put in an AFFS panel. (Running Mint 17.1, which broke the display popup
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by mng2 12y ago
Doubtful. As a reference point, typical guidelines for baking out moisture (prior to assembly) are 24 hours at 150C.
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by mng2 12y ago
I've heard, perhaps apocryphally, that binary blobs are one roadblock IC makers set up to keep rivals from going through their implementations and finding stuff to base patent-infringement lawsuits on. (Just as in software, there are d
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by mng2 12y ago
The journal article says that they even set the brightness of the "LE-eBook" (iPad) to maximum. I guess we'll have to wait for more detailed studies.
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by mng2 12y ago
They were definitely out of stock this summer, when I was looking at updating my BB project to BBB.
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by mng2 12y ago
I've been using the highlighting feature on errors in order to appease my OCD. The fact that Amazon has added error reporting seems like a hopeful sign and an admission that there is a widespread problem. The question is, are they actu
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by mng2 12y ago
I think the GP is basically saying, how would you propose to run an internet survey asking anonymous audiophiles to blindly A/B (no peeking at the bits) full and truncated files? The dithering is probably the least questionable part of
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by mng2 12y ago
What costs money is the spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, and Microwave Studio license.
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by mng2 12y ago
For tokamaks, there's an idea that we can take all the relevant size and plasma parameters for a bunch of different experiments, run a fit on them, and come up with a set of scaling factors that will tell us how well a reactor of size
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by mng2 12y ago
The grandparent is responding to the article, which is talking about general purpose computation. There's no question that your application is a prime use case for an FPGA.
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by mng2 12y ago
Wouldn't an ASIC have hard macros anyway? It sounds to me more like the author is annoyed that "it's 2014 and we are still using HDL", and also that FPGAs are somehow supposed to be readily exploitable for general-purpos
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by mng2 12y ago
Going over 50 cm of Twinax is great and all, but that's the ideal environment. When you guys put 16 of these things on a board, routing that PCB and getting good signal integrity is not going to be fun, even after you throw in pre-emph
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by mng2 12y ago
I was expecting this to be about Silego products since that's what was featured in a recent newsletter. All of these parts seem pretty niche though.
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by mng2 12y ago
X-series tablet models have a 'T' at the end.
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by mng2 12y ago
The Letter Spirit project (a Douglas Hofstadter thing) is sort of in that vein, but less prosaic in its objectives.
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by mng2 12y ago
Count your blessings -- I would be quite happy to pay $30 for 10/1. Where I live, $30 with AT&T gets you 3 Mbps down, and that's the promo price.
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by mng2 12y ago
I am curious but skeptical. Curious as in, what kind of bus architecture are they running? PCIe with aggressive power management is my guess. Modularity is cool but the infrastructure always adds to the cost. The more I think about it, Ara
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by mng2 12y ago
A photomultiplier is a special kind of vacuum tube, but it's a pretty niche market. Plus avalanche photodiodes are making inroads.
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by mng2 12y ago
Let me add: another important part of soldering is understanding flux. Most spools of solder are not just lead/tin/etc, they include some chemicals that eat away the oxide layer on metals so that the solder can better adhere. When
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by mng2 12y ago
The question is, what did they simulate and how? A full-on dynamical plasma simulation of the entire machine is intractable, and every approximation technique has its blind spots.
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by mng2 12y ago
JT-60 in Japan has done about half a minute, actually. There is less of an issue with sustaining reactions (since there has been steady progress over the years) than with coming up with materials that would stand up under a commercial fusio
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by mng2 12y ago
The DOE actually provides research funding for most 'hard' sciences. Particle physics and supercomputing are primarily funded by DOE, for example. Unless it's classified, the research is open.
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by mng2 12y ago
Having worked with Roomba SCI a while back, a few things come to mind. First is a lack of integrity checking. The default baud rate of 57600 is too high (at least for the 6-ft mini-DIN cables we could find), and it's really annoying wh
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by mng2 12y ago
I went ECC a couple months ago and managed to find some parts that didn't break the bank, mostly because I held back and stayed a generation behind: GA-6UASL3, E3-1230V2. There are other sacrifices: the motherboard is rather no-frills,
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by mng2 12y ago
Yeah, I've also found that the abstract approach is what pays the most dividends. When I taught electronics lab, the physics students would get wrapped up in trying to think from the point of view of fields and charges, which honestly

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