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by nrp 7y ago
Both were likely a response to Arduino presumably increasing the adoption of AVR without Atmel having to do anything. I recall the MSP430 kits being pitched that way in any case.
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by nrp 7y ago
The shape of MicroSD cards are presumably also covered by design patents from the SD Association. The design and dimensions are similar out of an intent to enable UFS/MicroSD combo receptacles (which all UFS receptacles currently avail
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by nrp 7y ago
There are two other possible factors. 1. Qualcomm has invested in Xiaomi. It’s possible that influences the prices they can negotiate. 2. Like Samsung, Xiaomi has their own in-house SoC development program. Just the threat of an alternati
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by nrp 7y ago
Bidets are nowhere near that expensive. Really nice, automated, integrated Totos are <$2,000. Replacement toilet seats to retrofit bidet and heating functionality are normally $200-300 (outside of pandemic times).
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by nrp 7y ago
Framework | Burlingame, CA (flexibility for WFH) | Senior Backend Developer | Full time Framework’s mission is to fix consumer electronics. We believe products can be better both for users and the environment by building them to have long
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by nrp 7y ago
Other commenters mentioned SARS, but specifically for Korea, they faced a MERS outbreak in 2015 that resulted in deliberate policy changes that made their response to COVID-19 rapid and effective.
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by nrp 7y ago
Patagonia did try harnessing advertising to push a cultural shift in consumption: https://www.patagonia.com/stories/dont-buy-this-jacket-black... It helped establish Patagonia's brand, but doesn't seem to hav
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by nrp 7y ago
For those unfamiliar with baking, the shared recipe is pretty much the standard crusty white bread recipe, and one that has a great effort/payoff ratio. One thing to note is that unlike most cooking where you can just sort of eyeball
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by nrp 7y ago
To be clear, I'm not affiliated in any way with them. I just like to keep track of asset disposition auctions to pick up equipment.
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by nrp 7y ago
If anyone else wants to start a bootleg test lab, there's a disposition auction next week for a defunct biotech startup with most of what you'll need: https://svdisposition.com/auction-detail?id=281
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by nrp 7y ago
I think in the end the author's only complaint was that it was difficult to figure out what bitrate the Chromecast was streaming at, is a pretty minor problem. It reads like a complaint post, but that seems to just be the author'
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by nrp 7y ago
On universal paid sick leave, the intent is to enable people to not go into their workplace when they could be contagious. The choice between risking getting others sick or going broke and getting evicted isn't one people should be fo
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by nrp 7y ago
The way these typically work (and how I am doing it) is that the first Friday is 8 hours, the second Friday is 0 hours, and all other days are 9 hours. I’ve found it to be extremely useful for the reasons mentioned in the article. It give
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by nrp 7y ago
The YIMBY argument mentioned in the article is that expensive new housing today becomes mid-range and eventually lower-end housing over decades as it ages. If you don’t put units into the front of that pipeline now, nothing comes out of th
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by nrp 7y ago
OLED phones, TVs, and other OLED products do this kind of uniformity correction with factory calibration. On some, the calibration data is stored on Flash or EEPROM on the panel itself and applied in the Display Driver IC. In others its s
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by nrp 7y ago
That was me. It’s great to see that the light engine and electronics have been miniaturized to be almost glasses sized. It’s annoying that they are still stuck with the tiny exit pupil I saw in 2012 and HITLab had in the 90’s. I hoped th
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by nrp 7y ago
I should rephrase. From my experience in consumer electronics, the vast majority of instances of consumers stopping using a device are not from unknown failures. They are from visible failures (including reduced battery life), software&#x
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by nrp 7y ago
Link’s Awakening was from 1993. It aged so well that the highly successful 2019 remake for Switch is basically just new stylized artwork.
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by nrp 7y ago
Ideally, we would be building devices that don't suffer from tin whiskers in the long term. Pragmatically, the vast majority of e-waste is being generated from simpler failures than tin whiskers (degraded batteries, simple mechanical
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s worth reading the source material “Roadside Picnic” if you haven’t yet. It’s very different from the film in a way that I think lets you appreciate what Tarkovsky did with it even more. Roadside Picnic is also the incredibly rare exam
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by nrp 7y ago
USB-C hubs are on their way. A couple of IC makers now have parts supporting that, so products using them are in the development pipeline: http://www.genesyslogic.com/en/product_view.php?show=69 I'm actually curr
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by nrp 7y ago
That doesn’t sound illegal or especially unethical, and probably in itself isn’t even a violation of his employment contract (though solicitation probably was). If he was deliberately depressing bonuses or promotions to get people to leave
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by nrp 7y ago
It doesn't seem Apple is even claiming he stole IP. Apple's complaints seem to be [0]: 1. "Breach of Contract" in starting a competing business while employed there, which was apparently prohibited in his employment con
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by nrp 7y ago
From Tesla's latest Vehicle Safety Report: > In the 4th quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.07 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety f
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by nrp 7y ago
CES is the key one. It occupies all of LVCC and Sands, with spillover and unofficial meeting rooms taking up basically all of the strip. It's not clear what CES is going to do with another full hall though. The show is already kind
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by nrp 7y ago
Most/all law firms have templates they hold internally and modify slightly for their clients. Very few billable hours are going into handing you your standard agreements like NDAs, offer letters, CIIAA, and so on. Your lawyers are re
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s worth noting that neither AMD nor Intel’s latest notebook CPUs support PCIe 4.0. I imagine that won’t be coming until the next generation. Also, you can configure the Surface Laptop 3 being referred to with up to 32GB of RAM: https:
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by nrp 7y ago
Per zuhayeer’s comments elsewhere in the thread, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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by nrp 7y ago
Assuming this is the levels.fyi dataset, it is “what I’m getting paid now” rather than offers. Levels.fyi doesn’t seem to filter based on offer vs ongoing salary, and the submission form doesn’t include flagged offer vs ongoing.
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by nrp 7y ago
It’s worth nothing that most of these numbers are inflated from share price increases boosting the value of RSUs vesting over 4 years. New offers at the higher levels from those companies are unlikely to be that high unless you are coming

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