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by nom 10y ago
Most people were not aware of it at that time. It's comforting to know that devices like the Nokia 3310 had the serial port, called "F-Bus" or "M-Bus", located _below_ the battery. It made it impossible to connect
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by nom 10y ago
Somewhat offtopic, but this article reminded me of the old times when every mobile phone came with a serial port and you could just talk to them direcly. The Nokia and Siemens devices always supported it by default and it was easy to access
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by nom 10y ago
Is the wear of the nozzle still relevant considering the wear of the pump? I can imagine that the historical problems are due to turbulence in the system and we can simulate that adequately these days. Or do the abrasions inside the system
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by nom 10y ago
Interesting. Is it still able to wake up regularly without an external source to trigger the interrupt? Or does it have a timer with a dedicated oscillator / clock for that purpose?
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by nom 10y ago
I agree, the CPU is probably the smallest problem. I'm curious with how little power you can get away with using a BLE radio. Especially if you constrain yourself to some kind of polling mode where the watch reaches out to the smartpho
546.
by nom 10y ago
There are CPUs out there with sleep currents well below 0.1 mA, for example the Microchip nanoWatt XLP. The product page advertises 9 nA in a best case sceneario.
547.
by nom 10y ago
5mW should be enough for a simple e-ink watch. CPU and display have to stay idle most of the time though and you can't communicate a lot over radio. It should be possible, even with that little power if you can accumulate the energy in
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by nom 10y ago
Only few people have contact with their product, but if you have to work with hardware description languages like VHDL or Verilog or want to design a chip, you will be very familiar with them. I think Mentor dominates the market together wi
549.
by nom 10y ago
I _am_ that poster. English is my second language and I wasn't aware that the word heavy is perceived as slang. I should've used "serious".
550.
by nom 10y ago
English is not my first language, so what exactly is the problem here? Please explain.
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by nom 10y ago
That has to be an artefact, air pollution is measured near ground level so it shows up on the charts. I can't imagine that crackers contribute much to the general problem. I heard that the air pollution is so extreme in some cities tha
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by nom 10y ago
Hmm maybe I'm wrong. I vividly remember an equation for the power consumption of a CPU, and it definitely had a f^2 in it. However, I currently can't derive it anymore (and it was definitely a simplification). I'll try to pul
553.
by nom 10y ago
Exactly. If you increase the clock frequency you will get more ops/s out of the CPU, everyone can see that easily. The only problem is that the anmount of electrons you have to push through the transistors has a quadratic* dependence o
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by nom 10y ago
Can someone please edit the title? And wow, this looks heavy. I hope everyone is well.
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by nom 10y ago
No, BASIC didn't do any damage to anyone, ever. You are so wrong here that I can't even express it. Your suggestions on the other hand are way off and may do even more damage than any BASIC dialect could. Lua, Python, Node.js, Rub
556.
by nom 10y ago
You made me curious and something like that already exists (who would've thought!). RetroPie [1] comes with the VICE [2] emulator. [1] https://retropie.org.uk [2] http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
557.
by nom 10y ago
Very few people are able to become friends with someone on command. It doesn't work that way, making friends is something that 'just happens'. I have to note that I'm everything but social. Social activities are so exhau
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by nom 10y ago
wow it sounds like you've been really lucky! Also: I'm now imagining a 3 year old, yelling 'Mama LOAD "*",8,1'
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by nom 10y ago
The fanbase may be old, but there is no reason not to like the C64. I'm not even 30 yet but the C64 was crucial for developing my interest in computers and software (see my other top level post). It's a great machine through and t
560.
by nom 10y ago
I'm only 29 and have memorable experiences playing with my father's C64. I consider myself lucky that he introduced me to C64+BASIC at an early age. I will never forget it. I think our family already owned a Gateway 2000 PC (66&#x
561.
by nom 10y ago
Also, for awesome actuators, check out flying probes. Here a video from 2008, I think it's not sped up but I can't confirm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHsZQ1WiojE edit: here a better impressions of flying pr
562.
by nom 10y ago
I want to see 1D snake. No inputs required and the player wins every time. edit: the player actually loses in all cases but one, with a random score
563.
by nom 10y ago
It should be possible with enough care. A touch sensitive space bar would really enhance a keyboard (I'm mostly using a desktop though, doesn't make sense on a laptop)
564.
by nom 10y ago
it could still work as a key :>
565.
by nom 10y ago
Or the spacebar!
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by nom 10y ago
I've only had contact to patients experiencing the calm phase. It must be hell slipping in and out of consciousness and realizing for a short moment what is happening until it vanishes again. It's stuff for nightmares.
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by nom 10y ago
I always felt that the human brain has some kind of maximum capacity and you can trade one skill for another (even across major domains like logic and social skills) and that brain structure / skills are mostly defined by your actions
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by nom 10y ago
The scary thing is that we can't understand what it feels like to have Alzheimer. Once progressed you become unable to judge the situation like you are used to. The world looks different from a patient's perspective.
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by nom 10y ago
Can someone here estimate how valuable modern video codecs are? Everybody needs them but development is super expensive and requires many bright minds.
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by nom 10y ago
Yeah it's definitely just a troll, looks like a whole scheme that works well because there really are many unexplained sounds and vibrations caused by e.g. heavy industry or geological events. It's surprisingly hard to separate th

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