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by ohazi 6y ago
There have been rumors for years that Taiwan has arrangements to quickly destroy critical TSMC technology/equipment in the event of a mainland invasion. No doubt these whispers are spread deliberately to serve as a disincentive for att
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by ohazi 6y ago
Maybe not, but you can probably write a python script to parse the (open, documented, text-based) file format of an open-source tool and perform some important action that the tool doesn't support. Or maybe someone already wrote a libr
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by ohazi 6y ago
Nothing! I was just caught off guard.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Totally unrelated, but I'm surprised to see pacman being used on Windows. Really? Windows, btw?
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by ohazi 6y ago
So we've known about this for years, but does anyone actually rely on this behavior in production, or are we all still pretending that this clever hack could be patched out of existence any day now? It clearly works. It's worked
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by ohazi 6y ago
> I'd say you absolutely cannot do any manufacturing in serious commercial volumes without at least 10 engineers hired just to do supply chain management full time. This is why the sole EE at your hardware startup practices Digi-Key
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by ohazi 6y ago
One interesting challenge I assume they faced here is that the properties of Silicon that are relevant for transistors can be (significantly?) affected by stress/strain. So while it seems reasonable that you could thin down a digital c
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by ohazi 6y ago
For appliances as they're currently developed (completely locked down, firmware infrastructure owned and operated by the manufacturer), this definitely seems like a good idea. I do think there's a fine line to walk between these d
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by ohazi 6y ago
The internet didn't fix these things, fuel injection, electronic ignition, and digital signal processing / denser silicon integration did.
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by ohazi 6y ago
If you have a chance to listen to / watch some of the interviews with Michael Collins that have been recorded over the years, you owe it to yourself to do so. The man is an absolute class act.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Unless I've misunderstood what you're suggesting, I think you would need a (20? 40? Gbps) Thunderbolt 3 switch for this to work, because the dock only has one host port (the dock's topology looks more like a USB hub than a ne
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by ohazi 6y ago
That is one chonky serial cable... :-P Your monitor must listen to DDC commands from inactive inputs. I think mine doesn't, because this whole problem came about when I realized that my desktop could ask the monitor to switch to the ot
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by ohazi 6y ago
Yeah, this is almost certainly the same bug. Some more info here [1] [2] [3]. In my case, using the second direct HDMI cable like you did was a non-starter because my Thinkpad only supports 4k at 30 Hz via the built-in HDMI port (!), vs. 4k
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by ohazi 6y ago
I'm sharing the display as well. The USB switch electrically disconnects and reconnects any attached USB devices, moving them between a USB port on my desktop and a USB port on my docking station. I have a keyboard and a Logitech recei
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by ohazi 6y ago
Ha! This is more or less how my shell script works, but it looks way less kludgey. Thanks!
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by ohazi 6y ago
I use a USB host-side switch [0] to quickly move my keyboard and mouse between my desktop and my laptop's docking station, since my 4k monitor already supports multiple inputs, and 4k capable KVMs are expensive and buggy. In order to m
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by ohazi 6y ago
Look, I think Yarvin is a psychopath as much as the next reasonable human, but let's be clear - Urbit is garbage on technical grounds. The terminology is a shell game of confusion and deliberate obfuscation. They pretend that it's
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by ohazi 6y ago
Maybe, but Ubuntu does have drama like the Amazon search link thing and now uncontrollable auto-updating snap packages, which arguably seem like an absolutely terrible idea for any sort of server. For almost everything, Debian works just as
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by ohazi 6y ago
Apparently even this is not always the case(!) https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-b...
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by ohazi 6y ago
Your IDE parser will be unusable if it goes bananas while you're typing the characters needed to get from one fully, correctly parseable state to the next. It needs to be able to handle: printf("hello"); and also:
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by ohazi 6y ago
Maybe enough of my friends have already left, but facebook has seemed like an empty husk for at least the last year, and the ratio of ads (which ublock origin doesn't seem to filter) to content seems higher there than any other website
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by ohazi 6y ago
It needs to act as both a tank wall for cryogenic liquids that won't crack and as a backing for a heat shield that won't melt. Tough trade-off. Melting point of aluminum is too low. Burning point of epoxy/carbon fiber is al
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by ohazi 6y ago
> I own a [car] > and I've been concerned its value will tank A car is a depreciating asset.
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by ohazi 6y ago
> for people working on a SV salary Most Californians don't get to keep their SV salary when they move to Texas.
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by ohazi 6y ago
It's not a fucking monolith if it's hollow / made out of folded sheet metal.
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by ohazi 6y ago
You're right. For all of Google's other flaws, their hardware has been surprisingly good about this. The Chromebook write-protect screw is a good example of a thoughtful feature here. However, Google's approach is so uncommon
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by ohazi 6y ago
This argument doesn't work when PCs are essentially the only widely available hardware platform that ended up with an open standard for modifying the software running on the device. Even here, the fact that we ended up with this mode
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by ohazi 6y ago
This was a toy project that was never mainlined
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Ordinarily WLCSP packaging costs a fortune Compared to what, a bare die? WLCSP is usually cheaper than plastic packages... Edit: Maybe that's only true in volume? I guess throwing a handful of dies on a wirebonder is easy compared
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by ohazi 6y ago
It's a "let's see where this takes us" kind of project. The big microprocessors and SoCs that you'd find in a laptop or smartphone have completely escaped anybody's ability to scrutinize the design. Performance

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