photojosh

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by photojosh 5y ago
As someone who only has an uncanny memory for the powers of 2... what's important about 12 and 16 in house drafting?
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by photojosh 5y ago
Context here is embedded: I wrote an entire I2C driver on AVR using protothreads. This was so I could just call a single update function in my main loop and it would handle all the various delays. Do not recommend. If I had my time again, I
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by photojosh 5y ago
Ha! I remembered commenting in that old thread (it was a good one) and was going to go digging too when I read your "but I can't remember", but you found it. :)
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by photojosh 5y ago
Very late reply so you might never see this... but I have a full complement of RB and GH hardware, and a long-term project I'm investigating is ensuring those rhythm games can always be played via Dolphin even once all the 'toy&#x
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by photojosh 5y ago
The current to move the seat with someone sitting on it is likely not all that different from the stall current as it starts pushing into someone's knees, particularly given it's likely geared down a significant amount so it can m
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by photojosh 5y ago
This comment is the winner for me. Co-generation for the win! I so wish combined-cycle gas turbines could be miniaturised enough to run one at home and still have the same efficiencies.
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by photojosh 5y ago
But if the room remains at 19° even when the thermostat is set lower, then the heating will provide the same energy output* regardless of whether it's set at 9° or 19°; that is, zero. The heat flux through the walls with the neighbours
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by photojosh 5y ago
I've been harping on this for years . If Apple released a micro-43rds camera (as a starter) with a A-series CPU and it's image processor, they would clean up . The beauty would be that they already have all the APIs to support d
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by photojosh 5y ago
I've been pairing the Wii Remotes to my laptop, and playing the old games that way via Dolphin!
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by photojosh 5y ago
Oh I enjoyed that, thanks. Shared around at work. Likely controversial, but I really like how Django does its settings. I think because Python code can start off just looking like a .ini file with variables and assignments, and get more com
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by photojosh 5y ago
A friend of mine wrote this paper, 'A Wicked Sense of Humor'. [0] From the abstract: "It [research] therefore proposes that many of the sayings of Jesus, which have traditionally been taken "seriously" might be bett
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by photojosh 5y ago
What compounds the problem is that the bike lanes are often built where it is easy and non-controversial to do so... and so the actually difficult spots get left until last... which are often the key points that dissuade people. Key exa
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by photojosh 5y ago
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning is another good Girard intro point, and 2/5ths of the length of Things Hidden. It was written 22 years later, and reflects the evolution of Girard's thinking in that time.
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by photojosh 5y ago
I'm still using one I bought probably 10 years ago; it's a Belkin with 2x2.1A outputs. But I'd look at Anker too (have been happy with their wall chargers and headphones). If I were buying new I'd probably get USB-C now.
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by photojosh 5y ago
The cinematic mode is done by recording a depth map (calculated using the ISP and Neural Engine?) alongside the regular video. On older phones you could do this using the SDK, but iirc it was a much lower resolution depth map (like 480p o
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by photojosh 5y ago
> Even Apple and Google have both figured out that screwing around with UX every release is a recipe for making your customers HATE you. No they haven't. I hate Windows and love my Mac, but being forced into an upgrade from High Sie
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by photojosh 5y ago
And the boosted battery life is a big deal for you Mini owners yeah? (I'm a Max guy myself, but totally get ppl who want the smallest phone.)
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by photojosh 5y ago
Totally agree with all of this except "unstable current due to the way car alternator work"... as an electronics designer, if this is an issue then it's a really poorly designed car charger. CarPlay alleviates a lot of these
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by photojosh 5y ago
Seems there's an extra GPU core only enabled in some models and new video encoder/decoder (to support ProRes?), but beside that most of the work this year went into lowering power consumption. They made a big deal of the additiona
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by photojosh 5y ago
I read Don Quixote as a teen, in Spanish, and reading this now makes me think I very definitely read an abridged version! It was one of the novels behind René Girard's early development of his theory of mimetic desire+, in Deceit, Desi
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by photojosh 5y ago
I too don't consider myself knowledgeable enough, even though I've tried to learn as much about how both covid and the vaccines work as possible. And I was wiped out for a full 36 hours (all the nasty flu symptoms except respirato
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by photojosh 5y ago
I'm chuckling to myself now because I'm thinking that you could do maximum power point tracking automatically if you used one of the electronic derailleur systems like Shimano Di2.
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by photojosh 5y ago
Fair enough, although I'm not sure this is true at our scale or our product type. When designing products for a 20 year industrial product life you really don't want to gamble on chips staying in production. Definitely shortages o
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by photojosh 5y ago
> This is a golden opportunity for the smaller players in the industry. How giants like ST, TI and NXP will deal with this long term - I'm not quite sure. Many companies in 2021 and possibly well into 2022 who would normally design
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by photojosh 5y ago
Yep! The microcontroller reference manual is full of warnings to ensure clock rates are compatible by being within a certain range of each other.
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by photojosh 5y ago
Yep, can definitely do OOP in C. Except over here in embedded land those structs don't live in the heap... but as globals (still referenced via pointers tho). Was demonstrating the difference between inheritance and composition in OOP
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by photojosh 5y ago
a vote for Postgres here!
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by photojosh 5y ago
I couldn't resist searching for 'kibi', and yep! [0] [0] https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/search?q=kibi
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by photojosh 5y ago
> But I'm just not convinced chemistry is fast enough for thought to happen any other way than quantum. How fast do you think? I know my reaction time to unexpected external stimulus is up in the 200ms+ range, and sometimes even bas
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by photojosh 5y ago
Still out there, but only used in special situations. The ARM microcontroller I'm working with has an asynchronous prescaler on the real-time clock crystal input before it gets fed into a second synchronous prescaler which you can then

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