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by rektide 3y ago
There's Greenfield, a web based Wayland compositor. It has a shim on your machines that uses webrtc or websockets to stream Wayland to the browser. Awesome fricking project. Been around for a while & author @zubnix keeps slowly hon
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by rektide 3y ago
I'm so close to having zero usb-a in my everyday carry. But this is still a good suggestion & I often can do this already.
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by rektide 3y ago
I can definitely see some shifts happening. I dunno, I see that both ways. No super strong feelings. In general though I just think the fear is way overblown. The damage to society of everyone selling Fear Uncertainty and Doubt is real &a
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by rektide 3y ago
There's also an optional usb-pd PPS (programmable power supply) where the device can ask for a specific voltage with 20mV granularity & adjust the ask on the fly. This let's devices just pass through power directly to battery
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by rektide 3y ago
There's so much discussion about deleting yourself. There should be some words online encouraging people not to jump into black holes. I hope people consider & think on the loss that self-deleting causes, when considering.
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by rektide 3y ago
> The reason some cheep chineese electronics with USB-C connectors can only charge with USB-A to USB-C cables, not with USB-C to USB-C cables is that they skipped the CC pins entirely. If anyone has a usb-c pass through adapter that ca
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by rektide 3y ago
I agree. The fear mongering & sending yourself to /dev/null is out of hand. To me a particularly virulent new pattern that is super anti-social. I think most of ya'll are enduringly good humans & we're better as
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by rektide 3y ago
We could invent other signaling strategies too. Maybe we lower the voltage by 5% as a "low" signal. Now we can yell at the device in binary, and more explicitly spell out the conditions. Maybe the source sends S-O-S in Morse code.
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by rektide 3y ago
I genuinely don't think it's that complicated. There's a perception about that, but look at the wire protocol for a couple devices & it starts to feel extremely rote extremely quick. There's a very old very extensive
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by rektide 3y ago
Yes!
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by rektide 3y ago
The usb-c connector is rated to 5 Amps (A). Usb-c went up to 20V already. 5A * 20V = 100W (where we are). We didn't want to change the connector. So we are stuck at 5A. But we can raise voltage & still have some margin. So voltage
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by rektide 3y ago
Absolutely. I think it's also super important that there is now a market of competing products too. Until recently, devices were sort of stuck using whatever the manufacturer provided. Almost no one shopped for power density. Now we ha
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by rektide 3y ago
That's not really how electricity works. Wall power is a stable supply. 120v going up & down in a sine wave. If someone is drawing 120w - 1 amp - your only control as a power source is to try to lower the voltage (voltage potential
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by rektide 3y ago
Great ask. There's no reason devices couldn't negotiate lower power. With USB-PD, power sources offer Power Delivery Objects: different charge modes they can do. It's up to devices to pick. Right now most devices pick the hig
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by rektide 3y ago
The exciting thing about CXL is we can start to find out if peripheral or hopefully close-networked computing fabrics can be useful & interesting, beyond the small circumstances Nvidia will offer. Having an ecosystem that everyone can p
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by rektide 3y ago
Because their scales of what are important things are so often entirely unintelligible to the rest of the planet.
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by rektide 3y ago
'If you want to go fast, go it alone. If you want to go far, go it together.' some African originated principle called Ubuntu. I generally agree with your assessment but I think socializing the effort, being the change more collec
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by rektide 3y ago
It'd all fit barely. But gee it's getting tight. It just feels to me not worth fighting. And I'd want a couple small apps running too, & maybe not small native C things but like some smallish node.js things. Wifi routers
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by rektide 3y ago
I don't know how I messed this up but the actual bandwidth gain is much less. 288GBps vsow 200's? My bad sorry. And yikes.
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by rektide 3y ago
To reinforce, regardless of the offering, it just doesn't have much ability to strongly differentiate & drive loyalty. It's a checkbox on the must haves of today, but it doesn't integrate hardly at all with the rest of co
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by rektide 3y ago
Circling back just to say this was really fun & interesting stuff. Appreciate you responding with these cases!
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by rektide 3y ago
I'm very interested in whether there's any actual risk here or not. This potential hazard both reeks of fear mongering horseshit crap & also seems feasible. I tend to expect that in 90+ AQI environments the net benefit is colo
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by rektide 3y ago
It'll be interesting to see which companies rotate people through & how. Most orgs are trying to get people in on the same days, to synergize & that shit. Will that be the path forward? Who will rotate shifts more? Shout out to
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by rektide 3y ago
It's sub $300 msrp and doubles a bunch of the numbers on the previous generation at a lower price. Tom's was a dismissive review, and the challenge is real, but it sure looks like a solid value oriented offering to me. Not a ton o
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by rektide 3y ago
I agree. It was bad. It still has significant rough edges, yes. But holy shit the team has done such an amazing job & the numbers & stability are sooo much better, but for a card that was already in so many cases competitive with ca
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by rektide 3y ago
Went to where but my gods could it be any more obvious that We need “good jobs” to restore trust and save capitalism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229357 (1d ago, only my one comment & upvote) Society is fall
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by rektide 3y ago
I 100% am a believer that Apple's most pernicious & deepest rooted & most malignant form of control is iMessages and I still think this is overplaying & overhyping the hand. It's not all to ruin Android.
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by rektide 3y ago
Yet here they are doing the saintly work of adding real trustless privacy.
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by rektide 3y ago
Newer NV cards are better value at msrp. On sale, previous gens are better value (everywhere. Sick 6800xt deals). Intel is killing it in providing value. The launch was basically generally competitive but with caveats, and Intel's kick
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by rektide 3y ago
> The theory focuses on player interaction rather than statistics, encompassing game design beyond role-playing games. Analysis centers on how player behavior fits the above parameters of engagement and how these preferences shape the c

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