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by oakwhiz 7y ago
I've used Logic Friday once to make a wired remote controller device that operated on 74-logic. I haven't really seen any tools that offer more user-friendly ergonomics for that type of problem, except maybe a curve-fitting tool c
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Is there any software outside of point-of-sale terminals that would actually normally use the F24 key?
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
I think they call this cable an RJ50 cable, although I'm not sure if it's the same one that you're referring to.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Another way to think of it is, a memory-mapped set of wires that are made too thin, and when read, correspond to ones. If ones are written to that region, they become zeroes every time they are read afterward. This is kind of the reverse of
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
I think I disagree somewhat with the premise of this article. Computers are more efficient in general when they are fully loaded. A home server is rarely fully utilized and doesn't realize the full potential of multitasking/virtua
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Tire dust and brake dust is still generated by electric vehicles.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
USB-C connectors also accumulate dust in a way that prevents the connector from staying fully plugged in. They are very hard to clean out if the dust clumps together. The original USB-A and USB-B connectors did not have this problem and the
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Based on this and the iPhone helium problem, it seems like the security and durability of MEMS devices needs to be examined carefully for their intended use case.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
It has been my experience that outdated, overly specific, or incorrect terminology tends to make its way into computer science and IT-related learning material and its corresponding test question banks. This learning material often happens
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Regular PoE can in some cases get as high as 56 volts... Some PD equipment is overspec'd to deal with regulation issues on PSEs.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Could it be possible to use this mechanism to create a type of X-ray or gamma ray camera? Perhaps using a lead disc.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
Commercial activity is usually banned as well. Interpretation of this varies by jurisdiction but is often thought to include advertisements in web pages.
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by oakwhiz 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336505
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
The behavior they describe reminds me of Stuxnet: only certain machines seem to be executing a specific payload.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
I'm surprised they didn't cross or dot the zero. Surely differentiating O from 0 is important when eye fatigue is a problem?
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
“Is FT8 damaging amateur radio?” It seems to be achieving the goal of global communications while making better use of limited spectrum to do so. I can't see that as being damaging as it really is an advancement in the state-of-the-art
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
I suppose that this gives Google the opportunity to redefine what "good" means.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
I guess you could have a higher "spot price" in peanuts for particular types of litter that recover the most value or cause the most trouble.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
Nothing would seem to stop the crows from throwing rocks into the machine instead of the pieces of garbage that we want them to pick up.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
I personally stick with Silicon Labs CP210x devices ever since I had bad luck with Prolific. I avoid FTDI chips as well because of the aggressive anti-consumer behavior of FTDI in regards to their drivers.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
In my experience, those keys are usually made of incredibly cheap metal.
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
A switch wouldn't work on a serial EEPROM or serial Flash chip, you'd need a microcontroller-in-the-middle that proxies or virtualizes the EEPROM and ignores writes. This sort of thing would also break partitioned storage, where p
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by oakwhiz 8y ago
I think part of the problem there was that more courses were taught with CUDA than OpenCL. That put a dent in OpenCL's popularity
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
I have a few ideas about this: It should be possible to also bake a UV map alongside the impostors, based on the relative angles between the ray cast from every impostor pixel and the surface normals of the triangles of the model being bake
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
There is definitely an asymmetry between the entity that posts a bug bounty and the hunter of that bounty. It's the principal-agent problem: The entity that posts the bounty is also the same agent that decides whether to hand out the b
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
In addition, it may be possible to put surplus energy into atmospheric greenhouse gas fixation, if such technologies are fruitful. In essence spending more watts to reduce future retention of solar thermal joules.
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
>how often did i read a piece of journalism outside my area of expertise with equally lazy mistakes, without noticing them? This is often referred to as the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect": "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesi
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
Cellular providers are already feature-gating users based on whether their crapware is installed on user devices or not. Certain providers are also basing it off of whether or not you bought the phone from them, via the IMEI number. Updates
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
"Ours goes up to eleven."
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by oakwhiz 9y ago
That's odd, Gboard doesn't do that for me.

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