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by operator-name 5y ago
RISC-V is not only looking interesting but promising.
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by operator-name 5y ago
Smartphones are an interesting market. They've only been around 14 years and their rate of growth and improvements have been staggering. Just a few years ago every new generation brought a leap in performance, battery, features or desi
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by operator-name 5y ago
But also look at the AirPods Pro vs Galaxy Buds+: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Pro+Teardown/127551 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds++Teardow... One has a zero wh
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by operator-name 5y ago
For independent repair shops newer devices aren't inhenrantly more ddifcult to repair. It's just more difficult to source the parts or get around the "security features".
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by operator-name 5y ago
Apart from costs and size there's could be good reasons to do this - power, inteferance, placement and cooling. Hardware specialisation (doesn't always but) can reduce energy by allowing for more efficient designs. Just think of t
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by operator-name 5y ago
Speakers and computer components are great examples of where companies provide less tangible benifits in quality control and customer support.
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by operator-name 5y ago
This article is a great example of how the market niche exists and there are plenty of other markets (motor vehicles, industrial equipment, the maker scene) where right to repair is the norm. I'd argue the maker scene is bigger than it
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by operator-name 5y ago
Firstly repairability and the right to repair are distinct issues. Surface Pro X and Galaxy Buds are great examples that show just compactness and relative repairability can coexist.
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by operator-name 5y ago
I'd highly reccomended his video "What is right to repair? An introduction for curious people." as it clears up many misconceptions about right to repair: https://youtu.be/Npd_xDuNi9k
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by operator-name 5y ago
The right to repair doesn't mandate any of that - you could have a product that has glued internal batteries and internal seals yet still release the schematics and allow your suppliers to sell the components to consumers. Just look at
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by operator-name 5y ago
Although the iPhone is a more popular device it doesn't fill the accessability needs of all users. Just as many countries have disabilities acts for manufacturing and civil engineering, shouldn't technology and platforms have some
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by operator-name 5y ago
Rust and other languages with strong type systems don't magically make your code bug free but their type systems are more expressive. If used correctly this can make all sorts of states unwanted program states unrepresentable. Rust&#x2
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by operator-name 5y ago
In a previous thread a user suggested the following: Get consent from the project leaders and announce publicly their intentions and a time window of a few months. Then randomly submit the patches as originally outlined. Although this would
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by operator-name 5y ago
> McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network. Very interesting, at least the first command line tool I've seen that does this. I wonder how it compares to just fzf.
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by operator-name 5y ago
I believe last time I used Last Pass they had something similar - a list of "equivalent domains". I believe most password managers come with such a feature and their own default lists.
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by operator-name 6y ago
This certainly looks like a very interesting approach! As I'm not in the field of graphics would you be able to comment how this compares to cone marching and how well it can render fractal like surfaces?