nsteel

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by nsteel 2y ago
I'm a British-American hardware engineer, I've lived in the UK nearly all my life. I've a home, and a family with kids here, I'm very settled. I've had plenty opportunity to move to the US, even before I had a famil
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by nsteel 2y ago
What? Like Fujitsu? Still going strong bidding on gov contracts and providing garbage.
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by nsteel 2y ago
> To my knowledge, any switch OEM producing Broadcom-based gear will get their NDAs and silicon access revoked if they so much as dream about making devices with non-Broadcom silicon. Nokia use Broadcom silicon for low-end, in-house for
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by nsteel 2y ago
...and then to HMD, and then they gave up. The end (again)?
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by nsteel 2y ago
Ahhh that makes perfect sense, thank you. I'm so used to always having my phone this didn't even cross my mind.
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by nsteel 2y ago
But you can have Obsidian access from any device already if you easily setup syncing using the official method (and support the project by doing so) or one of the community plugins. Doing it this normal way avoids opening up a massive secur
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by nsteel 2y ago
> AI is already being used across the UK. It is being used in hospitals up and down the country to deliver better, faster, and smarter care: spotting pain levels for people who can’t speak, diagnosing breast cancer quicker, and getting p
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by nsteel 2y ago
More news just in: you and I won't see much/any difference because we've done this (playing with computers) before, many times I expect. But I appreciate some of you left your Pis in the sock drawer and are unaware of the see
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by nsteel 2y ago
Now I can't follow the thousands of guides and examples tailored exactly to Pi software and hardware. Maybe now you can see why "and you're good." isn't actually true?
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by nsteel 2y ago
The mini PC also comes with a PSU (I assume). But I think paying 50% more for the option of upgrading a low-power machine is daft. Or paying 50% more for an OS I don't want.
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by nsteel 2y ago
Yeh, just load the RPI software image on and follow all the guides and.. oh.. yeh it's slightly different in small ways that could trip you up. Great, I love making myself more work.
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by nsteel 2y ago
I think there was a RPi Zero project doing the round some years back that made use of this.
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by nsteel 2y ago
Maybe they wanted some thermal/power headroom. It's already pretty mad.
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by nsteel 2y ago
Yes, this. The Frida tools method to remove cert pinning is the only method that has worked for me. The mitmproxy docs for android (as referred to by another commenter) didn't work for any apps I tried.
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by nsteel 2y ago
I can see why someone looking to easily handle massive scale wants HLS, but why is it useful here?
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by nsteel 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying there, but in a discussion about being maximally productive, old laptops with 8GB of RAM just don't come into the equation.
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by nsteel 2y ago
Maybe not such a great fit for sqlite: > One of the challenges with binary fuse filters, is that they are immutable once populated, so data cannot be added incrementally, and they consume a significant amount of memory during the populat
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by nsteel 2y ago
It's not clear to me how successful they were with podcasts. They certainly attracted lots of podcasters but no idea how much profit that's generated
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by nsteel 2y ago
Classic Reddit. Comments such as this one provide an alternative take: > Car Thing was introduced in April 2021 and discontinued 5 months later. In May of this year, they announced support would end. Yes, it sucks to have your device bri
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by nsteel 2y ago
I think people need to appreciate that the number of developers interested in actually helping with free software maintenance is a subset of the number of developers. And when it comes to Python in particular, that subset is proportionally
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by nsteel 2y ago
I don't want to be harsh but suppliers killing the product you're trying to build around isn't that unusual. It's horrible, and you should 100% stop working with them next time, but it happens. I'm really not surpri
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by nsteel 2y ago
Recipe of the day Sriracha Maple Bacon Is this the North American version of "healthy"?
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by nsteel 2y ago
Free accounts can access the Spotify API, last time I checked. I've been also thinking this. They should have a tier for users that want to use 3rd-party integrations, and/or a tier for people who want to create such things. Strav
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by nsteel 2y ago
Could it just be they realised there's only a tiny market for such a chip? You can do a better job with a dedicated, more powerful chip, rather than sticking two lesser chips together. It's really expensive and compromises both de
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by nsteel 2y ago
As I already posted to the growing thread of discontent at https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Chan... this is Spotify's usual deprecation strategy and they've done this before to the
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by nsteel 2y ago
Even for those that want extended access, what's suppose to be a simple review process is absolutely broken. Their dev forum is full of people who have applied and been left waiting for months with no communication.
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by nsteel 2y ago
OK, but that's an ultra expensive chip, pretty much by definition. The suggestion was to burden other products with that big expense, and that doesn't make sense to me.
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by nsteel 2y ago
HBM has a very wide, relatively slow interface. A HBM phy is physically large and takes up a lot of beachfront, a massive waste of area (money) if you're not going to use it. It also (currently) requires you to use a silicon interposer
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by nsteel 2y ago
They'd be very expensive. Is there really a consumer market for large amounts (tens of GBs) of RAM with super high (800+GB/s) bandwidth? I guess you'll say AI applications but doing that amount of work on a mobile seems mad.
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by nsteel 2y ago
I agree with this comment but you really didn't need the first 4 words.

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