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Engineers who do mechanical CAD work using a specialized input device like a SpaceMouse [1] or similar. [1] https://3dconnexion.com/uk/spacemouse/
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I wasn't complaining about the process. Use 10 micron for all I care. This particular process was perfected in the late '80s, and the costs reflect that. From TFA: > Die manufacturing cost is roughly the same for both dies (~10
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If they had a case, it would have been against the Chinese manufacturers of the copycat chips, or against product manufacturers who (often inadvertently) used the mislabeled, fraudulently sold chips in designs that called for real FTDI chip
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From the first link: > 8. During this time, however, Plaintiffs became concerned with Lee's mental wellbeing and his ability to lead LTM and PIA. Plaintiffs noticed that Lee was a habitual user of marijuana and cocaine, and would fr
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TIL FTDI converters use a 600-800 nm node... that's almost a micron! The fact that they sell their chips for five fucking dollars a pop has always been kind of obscene, but on such an old node, they really shouldn't cost more than
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by ohazi 5y ago
Why does a trust like this not run afoul of the rule against perpetuities? [1] Is it because as long as there are living directors, they can technically vote to change the rules? Who would these directors for the Crown Estate be? The Queen?
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Also, the way the smallpox vaccine is administered is mildly gruesome: > A droplet of ACAM2000 is administered by the percutaneous route (scarification) using 15 jabs of a bifurcated needle . ACAM2000 should not be injected by the intra
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Because turning off cars and trucks would be a quality of life disaster for most people on the planet. Turning off bitcoin would immediately remove a sizable developed nation sized chunk of annual co2 production, and would negatively impact
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> but it’s the situation we have to deal with. We're not going to deal with it. We're going to continue partying for another 200 years. Then we're all going to get woozy and stupid. Then the population will crater. I don&#
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The T480 was the last T-series model with dual batteries. The newer ones all have only the embedded battery.
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There are ways to hornswoggle a trained machine learning model into generating new outputs that "kinda sorta" look like bits and pieces of an input that was used for training. It's tricky, and not always reliable, but it woul
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I'm okay with companies charging money for tools that are genuinely clever and innovative, but when the world eventually builds enough critical work on top of those tools, we inevitably end up in a hostage situation like this one. The
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There are other options as well: nMigen (python), Chisel (Scala), SpinalHDL (Scala), Bluespec (Haskell). It's worth taking a quick glance at all of them (maybe making a toy or two) to see if any of them strike your fancy. Being able to
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> One idea I had is to separate the unique component into its own library then give my own project the right to license/distribute the library, but I do not know if there are any off the shelf licenses that support that. > I know
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Tangentially related anecdote: I went from always ordering a soft drink at restaurants to only drinking water. The swich occurred almost overnight, and I ended up losing about 25 lbs. The reason I did this was entirely social, and it happ
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I agree that it's bullshit, but a boycott is not going to accomplish anything. To many devices work like this (phone home else brick), and too few people care enough to allow this failure mode to influence their behavior. Most people j
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Why not? People use "neighbors paint their house pink" as some sort of canonical example here, but I've lived in neighborhoods with pink houses and ugly houses and unkempt lawns and so-over-the-top-it-borders-on-creepy Christ
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I just drove through Phoenix and Tucson. Arizona is a big hot pile of rocks, and humans really have no business living there.
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But if the comparison is with C++, then they would both rank equally poorly here, because C++ doesn't want to behave differently. If you write code like that in C frequently (e.g. working with system registers on embedded CPUs), you
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> Our firmware is open source. We will be transparent about bug fixes. No longer will you be gaslit by vendors about bugs being fixed but not see results or proof. There are lots of reasons to be enthusiastic about Oxide but for me, this
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Indicator recommendations are routinely ignored. There are already color codes for type-A ports, and there's the "lightning bolt" indicator for Thunderbolt USB-C ports, but PC manufacturers ignore them when they want their la
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m1racle-mutex: https://twitter.com/LunaFoxgirlVT/status/1397441284487401478...
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Preroll and midroll ads can't be skipped. You can scrub past sponsor segments.
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Yes, uBlock origin blocks preroll and midroll ads on YouTube.
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Just take some good pictures and sell it on eBay yourself... Even the original trade-in value estimates look low for Apple laptops, which generally hold their value quite well.
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> The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs. Have you ever worked for a large company, that's flush with cash, that likes to offer borderline ridiculous perks to employees (e.g.
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Yes, exactly. There's some theoretical minimum amount of energy per non-reversible operation that a perfectly efficient CPU wouldn't be able to beat. > or even in developing more advanced computer chips, which may be approachin
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I use Debian testing as my daily driver at home and at work, and have found it to be plenty stable over the decade or so that I've been using it. I've also been using Arch on a "for messing around; I don't care if it bre
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Interesting. I didn't realize this was a supported option, but the Gentoo wiki also seems to agree with you [1], so I may need to walk back some of my frustration around this. I still have concerns that having a shared codebase makes i
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I realize that I don't really have any right to complain about this. I don't contribute to either project, and I think that maintainers should feel free to do whatever they think is best for their projects, including things that h

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