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by nrp 6y ago
You can actually place components at arbitrary angles, and even do so programmatically through the scripting interface.
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by nrp 6y ago
For what it it’s worth, I was part of the founding team and led the hardware development of Rift, but also kicked off the hardware architecture of Quest 2 (and the original Quest). As much as many of us were and are PC people, by the time
843.
by nrp 6y ago
Those are 까치, Korean Magpie. It's a somewhat common and culturally important bird in Korea.
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by nrp 6y ago
Pine64 announced last year that they will be doing exactly that: https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-store-community-prici...
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by nrp 6y ago
This may sound insane, but machine learning in the power button may be a thing already. Fingerprinter readers (often built into the power button) have moved from “match on host” to “match on chip”, and it’s possible some of them use ML-bas
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by nrp 6y ago
Apple patents are an evergreen topic for tech journalists, but Apple never announces features or products through patent filings. If you're seeing a public filing for a patent from Apple on a thing that they aren't currently ship
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by nrp 6y ago
Sure, that is fair. In that sense, Samsung could plausibly build a console and software tools around it as a reference design to encourage a gaming platform company to adopt Exynos.
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by nrp 6y ago
Game consoles are about building a functioning content platform. The hardware is only a small part of it. You can see that with Nvidia's half-hearted attempts with Shield.
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by nrp 6y ago
Cars in 1920 were still relatively new and were undergoing massive architectural change as infrastructure, technology, and consumer behaviors developed. On the flip side of that, in areas where the technology and behaviors are mature, it i
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by nrp 6y ago
Imperial. In any case, this is helps visualize how incredibly modern IC fabrication and packaging is. The biggest CPUs have up to 40 billion transistors and the biggest flash chips have 2 trillion! Following our naive 3.2mm by 1.4mm by 5
851.
by nrp 6y ago
Time to be pedantic: A 0603 footprint is about 3.2mm by 1.4mm with extremely dense spacing. A two sided board with nothing but 1,000,000 0603s would be 2.24 square meters. Stacking those boards at 10mm height intervals, that would be a 10
852.
by nrp 6y ago
The folks at Pine64 are amazingly transparent about what they are working on and the state of their products, but you have to follow their monthly blog posts to see that. I believe they have been having massive issues around display sourci
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by nrp 6y ago
It's an interesting challenge, but MIPI DSI is sort of the right interface for small size displays too high resolution to drive with SPI. There are a range of Cortex-M4 and M7 MCUs that have DSI output (e.g. https://wiki.st
854.
by nrp 6y ago
Agreed on MacroFab, though I think CircuitHub takes that concept to the next level by having project cloning and forking built in.
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by nrp 6y ago
My other reference point for big tech companies is Facebook, which is mostly open internally. There were many times over the years where I was able to search around and find someone who had worked with a specific external partner or tool I
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by nrp 6y ago
Actually, Apple is siloed internally as well. I worked there for a little over three years and had friends there in other departments with whom we could mutually not share what we were working on. It both makes for a worse working culture
857.
by nrp 6y ago
Yes, it is genuinely a good policy. It results in happy employees not being penalized for not shopping around for offers.
858.
by nrp 6y ago
Do you have a recommended English translation?
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by nrp 6y ago
To clarify, if you're employed at Facebook and get an offer from another company, Facebook won't attempt to counter that offer to keep you. The initial offer to get employed at Facebook is of course negotiable.
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by nrp 6y ago
I spent five years golden handcuffed at Facebook and hired a large number of brilliant, driven people there. Most of them are still there because of the obscenely large sums of money Facebook pays to keep them there. Note that Facebook do
861.
by nrp 6y ago
They do. The majority of San Francisco’s budget around homelessness actually goes into keeping people housed, not to services for people who are unhoused. Mission Local has consistently interesting (though highly opinionated) reporting ar
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by nrp 6y ago
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is a desirable feature. You're not getting a 60W CPU in a 13" form factor, but you can get a 28W CPU that will run at 28W indefinitely while also being able to temporarily boost to 60
863.
by nrp 6y ago
Bouffalo apparently has been giving Pine64 the necessary documentation access to make their initiative for a full open software stack workable: https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/28/nutcracker-challenge-blob-...
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by nrp 6y ago
Espressif is no longer alone in the ultra low cost hobby WiFi SoC space. Pine has started working with the Bouffalo BL602 which seems to be a fairly similar RISC-V powered part: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10&#x2
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by nrp 6y ago
It’s unclear if the writer actually watched “Street Food” before lumping it into the Ambient category. On the surface, it’s beautiful cinematography of interesting cities and food, but the actual content goes deep into peoples’ personal st
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by nrp 6y ago
At Apple's volume and level of system integration, it doesn't make sense to do assembly sharing at that level between different models. Presumably the SoC package is the same between the different products, but binned differently
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by nrp 6y ago
Making devices more repairable also has interesting ways of connecting into the informal economy. If only inexpensive hand tools are required, an individual can set up shop to serve their neighborhood with basically no initial capital.
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by nrp 6y ago
I started Framework to build an fourth option, which is to monetize the longevity of consumer hardware through a marketplace for repair parts, upgrades, and used product/part re-sale. In this way, we align incentives between the OEM,
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by nrp 6y ago
Interestingly, the "visible homeless" population has decreased substantially over the course of the pandemic, and is now below pre-pandemic levels: https://missionlocal.org/2020/10/citys-homeless-tent-cou
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by nrp 6y ago
It has actually happened before in San Francisco. 100 Van Ness was reskinned and renovated into a 400+ unit apartment building from its previous use as an office tower: https://socketsite.com/archives/tag/100-van-

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