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> Be aware that you'll be forced to share your GPS location with Google during the set-up I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of the location permission: it's probably requesting that to connect to the Chromecast vi
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5y ago
I think this one actually escaped from video games, specifically this video from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ
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6y ago
> I've been following this project for a while. It's pretty awesome. I estimate about $10 per character (as opposed to the $180/character (!!) another poster mentioned through Alibaba), with a large portion of the cost bei
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6y ago
> CORRECTION: The smog caused by the volcano caused temperatures across Eurasia to cool by 2.7 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit, not 36 degrees Fahrenheit as a previous version of this story stated. The error was the result of a conversion mist
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6y ago
Do they get coronavirus vaccines?
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6y ago
> It led to a very awkward meeting which started with him saying "I think we both know why you're here" and me having no idea why I was there. I had this happen once, except it was because someone else in one of his other
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6y ago
Data in and of itself cannot be copyrighted under U.S. copyright law: "creative arrangement" of it can be, but given that the data in question was generated from XML file, I don't think you could make a claim that the arrange
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6y ago
They saw the writing on the wall that MIPS was already dead .
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6y ago
> You can see a similar dynamic taking place in South Korea where unification is broadly supported by the younger population in the face of titanic security and economic concerns. German unification has been supported for hundreds of yea
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6y ago
A useful memory_order_consume is essentially unimplementable, to the point where the C++ standard itself says to not use it: https://eel.is/c++draft/atomics.order#1.3
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6y ago
Checking my fridge drawer: I've used leaded mechanic paste, and SAC-305 mechanic, SRA, and MG chemicals (plus chipquik low temperature bismuth paste, but it was terrible: I had parts literally falling off the board). They're all s
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6y ago
If you're using stencils (and as long as your boards are relatively small, there's almost no reason not to with how cheap they are from jlcpcb/oshstencils), I highly recommend buying a jar of Loctite GC-10: it's the best
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6y ago
The thing that confuses me is that this obviously happened as part of PCB production (there's solder mask under where the trace should be). However, the assembly looks like it was done by hand: tons of solder on D1, and R5 is facing th
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6y ago
> Given tantalum is a rare earth metal, it might be nice to replace it with a ceramic and maybe a 4 Ω resistor in series. I’d love any input here. USB allows for 10uF of capacitance, and you don't seem to have an LDO on your board,
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6y ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/addresssanitizer-asan...
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6y ago
No. Arguments that are trivial types can still depend on other objects not being destroyed. void foo(const char* str) { if (*str == '\0') return; printf("%c", str[0]); std::string x = str + 1; return
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6y ago
That doesn't help, the parameter might be invalidated by a destructor (e.g. passing foo.c_str(), where foo is a std::string on the stack)
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6y ago
Corsair is worse, they install a driver that frequently blue screens.
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6y ago
restrict and strict aliasing have to do with the same general concept, but aren't the same. They both have to do with allowing the compiler to optimize around assuming that writes to one pointer won't be visible while reading from
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6y ago
I find it hilarious that someone running a "fintech studio" doesn't understand this.
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You trust the secure element, and if you think that's not enough, you reconcile spending logs and bring the wrath of the federal government on whoever was dumb enough to try.
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6y ago
Why would it result in undefined behavior? Overflow behavior is only defined on unsigned types. Also, why should people care about your special snowflake OS? The C standard doesn't even specify that time_t has to be an integral type,
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6y ago
200kg of steam takes up 340,000L at 1 atmosphere of pressure: you've just turned your battery fire into a car shaped bomb.
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6y ago
Unlikely. Most CAD users are on Windows.
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6y ago
The "gold standard" just happened to be the last one to be abolished: it was only really predominant around the 1800s. Silver was by far the most prevalent metal used in currency for millenia, to the point where almost every singl
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6y ago
Why not try this with other commodities? Silver was used as currency for longer than gold, and was still legal tender in the time of Henry Ford. Let's see what happens if you do the same analysis with silver instead. Silver was 1/
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6y ago
But that wasn't your argument!
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> If the judicial system determines that the appropriate punishment for a crime is X years, then at the end of that time they should be given a chance at a fresh start. This is a poor argument: the judicial system has also determined, by
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6y ago
Only in the sense that the instruction to enter Jazelle mode exists, and will always return failure.
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6y ago
NVIDIA had a much funnier (infuriating) one, where Tegra X1 had caches between the big and little cores that weren't always coherent. Their solution was to just turn off the little cores while continuing to spew marketing bullshit abou
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