mrlambchop

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by mrlambchop 4y ago
Only electric vehicles that support unlock via BLE proximity. However, it will impact all electric locks that support this very same functionality as its a fundamental limitation of how BLE is implemented on cell phones. Trying to be more p
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
A late, but potentially still well timed event that will tie up the deal through to next summer when the exclusivity period expires and SoftBank gets a 1.25B breakup fee.
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
Very interested in the design of the SWire interface. I wonder if the inventors were specifically trying to work around some patent issues or if the design focused on being the very bare minimum of transistors to save money.
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
#2cents - its an oversight that if reported, I imagine would get mopped up. Optics are not great however - whatever phrase list they pulled together clearly is incomplete.
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
I'm curious if the use of little add on MCUs to cellphone designs like this opens up the opportunity to back door into the OS (such as reprogramming the MCU and sending malformed data into the kernel). (re: weird bug where calling __ae
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
(Not me, but someone I worked with) My first job out of school, working away from home and learning the ropes of embedded software. The office was using on promise databases, email servers and the like, as was somewhat common at the time, b
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by mrlambchop 5y ago
A long time ago when I had younger ears, I heard these at an audio show in London, in a "sound proof room" and I will never forget the experience. I was working for TagMclaren at the time, having just left dCS Audio and I thought
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Realtek RTL872X - it has 5Ghz!
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Whilst they also use a lot of Broadcom silicon, the stack they use is written 100% in house.
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Well, I was completely wrong! So the new Pi strategy is selling chips. Curious old world!
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Come in Arduino, your time is up! The VSCode environment is a huge upgrade from the stock Arduino UI and the piggybacking on the Pi as a development platform makes a ton of sense.
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
YES! This is so irritating - I assumed I was just being blind to some amazing UX as I fat finger the smallest fields know to human kind trying to eek out a few more minutes before my first zoom call.
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
I didn't realize that I needed half an hour therapy from playing minesweeper, yet I feel so much better now. Nice work ShizukuIchi!
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Shared404 nailed one of the issues. I think the top three problems from a time sink perspective were: - unlocking the laptop (knowing an existing password, Apple ID or firmware password). Probably 3 in 10 laptops are non-trivial. I have 5 l
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Please send me a mail at hackernews@lamb-chop.co.uk and I'll hook your wife up with something more powerful. I've still got 20 laptops or so to distribute.
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Having refurbished ~200 donated Apple devices, the vast majority of time was spent chasing down peoples Apple IDs and having them remove the device from their account so I could reset it. Very time consuming and painful to keep track of. At
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
After I stopped working this July, I collected as many old Mac's as I could from SF startups and refurbished them in my house, then distributed them to schools in the Bay Area who were most in need of IT equipment for their educators.
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
I caught COVID-19 back in Aug from helping out the local schools with their bumpy start into remote learning. 6 weeks later, I am suffering from occasional severe fatigue still - these days, it manifests itself after 8-9 hours or so and res
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
1996 - Neil Banfield was working on windows blinds whilst on the same set of courses at the university we both went to. Sold to stardock soon after. Just looked it up and things are still going strong! A lot to be said for the OG windows ho
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
The BCM2835 was originally a high volume shipping cell phone GPU for Nokia with a different part number (BCM2708) and the ARM core enabled internally. It was also stacked with DDR memory. It shipped first in a STB for Roku, but that was hap
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
I have been looking for a low cost, programable thermometer now for several years. A a handful of bucks? Wow. Just ordered a bucket of them from AliExpress - fantastic stuff!
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
A couple of examples of hard problems might be the best approach. - loss of ground A vehicle OBD connector can at times, loose its GND pin. There are actually two GND pins - chassis and electrical that can sometimes disagree. Its possible f
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Vehicle compatibility was really the key - building a cross bar that allowed any pin to be mapped for any function (i.e. CAN on any combo of pins). We included a hardware protocol decoder and a ton of electrical safety items as well as secu
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
The devices just collected bread crumbs of data (for example, GPS points or 1 second samples of the vehicles speed). You need some horse power to process these into higher level objects like trips. In theory, it could be done on a cellphone
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
If you manage to hack this, let me know (retiring VP Eng here)! The latest device contains a custom ASIC with hardware security :)
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Sorry - the servers are overloaded right now with everyone grabbing their data. And yes, we did scale things up! Hitting RDS limitations :(
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by mrlambchop 6y ago
Former VP Eng @ Automatic here :( There is an auth component needed for that BT connectivity to work - once the token expires, the BT connection won't authenticate anymore. i.e. if you uninstall the BT apps, change phone etc...
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by mrlambchop 7y ago
Yup - this exactly. The JTAG fuses should be blown on all devices that need to secure their flash (or secrets). Working on these specific processors around 5 years ago, we implemented a serial port based "unlock" that would genera
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by mrlambchop 7y ago
For "light" shenanigans, install: http://camtwiststudio.com/ On the mac, Version 3.4.3 is working fine with Catalina (10.15.4). It adds in a virtual camera interface and you can configure a pipeline of sources or
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by mrlambchop 7y ago
For the purposes of pranking people on zoom calls, I setup a OBS / Syphon / Camtwist flow that works great for my alternative conference requirements (ranging from matrix style graphics, playing videos of me on the green screen do

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