robinsonb5

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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
If they were sending just one per month I might actually read them occasionally. It's the three a day from the likes of aliexpress that get deleted without a second glance. But yes, you're absolutely right - "no raindrop cons
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
I'm sorry you're being downvoted - for the record I've upvoted since it's interesting, even if we disagree in some aspects. Since I still have the machine in question here, and I'm now interested enough to try and g
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
I'm not sure why human reaction time is relevant here, since what I'm talking about isn't the time it takes me to respond to a stimulus but the time it takes the computer to respond to a stimulus. I do do still have both
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
Perhaps because the level of respect that Windows has for its users has dropped with each successive version? Not to mention bloat: I have a keyboard with a dedicated calculator button. On a machine with Core i5 something or other and SSD i
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
This, 100%. I've seen the same scenario - someone with limited vision, next to no feeling in his fingertips and an inability to build a mental model of the menu system on the TV (or actually the digi-box, since this was immediately aft
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
The low latency is the reason why the PiStorm (Amiga CPU accelerator) project works so well on a Pi 2, 3 or 4. (Pi 5 is no longer suitable since the GPIO is now the other side of a PCI-E bus and thus suffers significantly higher latency th
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by robinsonb5 9mo ago
Were you able to use the online activation system without a Microsoft account? I wasn't able to - though as you say, that account doesn't have to be tied to the license or an account on the machine being activated.
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by robinsonb5 11mo ago
And of course that's exactly what they did with Coldfire - rounding off the inconvenient corners of the ISA to produce CPUs with lower power requirements and able to run at higher clock speeds.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Unfortunately the choice isn't between sites with something like Anubis and sites with free and unencumbered access. The choice is between putting up with Anubis and the sites simply going away. A web forum I read regularly has been pl
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Web 2.0 was sites not having finished loading when you thought they had, buttons having a 1 in 20 chance of doing nothing when you click them, and the advent of "oops, something went wrong" being considered an acceptable error mes
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
It might be coincidence, but I've noticed the ads get slightly less obnoxious if I religiously abandon the video and close the browser tab any time the ad is more than 10 seconds long and unskippable. I'm sure they're monitor
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Maybe, but it seems to me that there's been a cultural shift away from GPL in recent years.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
People did indeed do that - and dynamic DNS didn't kill it, thanks to services like dyndns back when it was free.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
> The Windows software is generally rock solid You're saying this literally a few days after Microsoft pushed out a Win11 update that broke localhost.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
A month? Those are rookie numbers! Write an image to a smallish SD card using dd (to remove most of the blocks from wear-levelling circulation), mount without -noatime, and you should be able to get the lifespan down to a few hours!
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Shhhh - don't give Apple ideas.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Downvotes from people who've never seen a DeCSS T-shirt?
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
I have one of those 2FA code generators, and used to have a different one with a business account, too. In both cases the authorisation challenge/response involves part of the destination account number, so if the details are tampered
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
For me, Ubuntu / Gnome 2 came so close to being something tech-savvy people could recommend to non-technical friends and relatives at a time when people who were happy enough with WinXP and Win7 were being corralled into dealing with
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
> Some open source projects have also starting adopting Discord to manage their communities. And I've chosen not to engage with more than one such community because I'm not perpared even to give Discord my phone number, let alo
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
It wouldn't be a problem in the first place if we hadn't migrated away from 4:3 aspect monitors to these ridiculous widescreen things. ;) Maybe someone should invent a tiling tab manager for the web browser.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
I used a PSOC (4) for a project once, and while the chip itself was awesome the software was so bad that attempting to use the next version of the software "bricked" the devboard I was using. (Something to do with the new serial
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Vivado offers some embedded debugging and logic analyzer infrastructure, which allows you to tap into signals within the design and monitor them from the PC. (For instance, the Memory Interface Generator will report its initialisation statu
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
You'd think, wouldn't you? But in some regards they still feel less responsive than the desktop of a sub-10MHz machine from the 1980s. (I'm not kidding - the tight coupling of quadrature-based mouse counters and hardware spri
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Interestingly, gcc-amigaos-gcc 6.5 uses dbra without having to jump through any of those contortions, as long as the optimisation level is set to at least -O1: _clear_screen: move.w #28672,3932160 move.w #1,3932164
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
My own blog - which gets maybe a couple of posts a year these days, and almost no audience - had 59 spam comments so far today. It really is time I turned off comments.
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
Yosys doesn't do place-and-route - typically that part would be handled by nextpnr, and there's an experimental fork of that for Xilinx series 7 devices: https://github.com/openXC7/ (full toolchain) It works
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
One thing I will say in favour of the Gowin IDE - it does seem to be much more lightweight than the larger vendors' tools. For smaller designs it will often go from zero to bitstream in less time than Quartus or Vivado would have taken
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
The reverse engineering efforts are impressive (though as I understand it, limited to Xilinx series 7 and Cyclone V) but without robust and reliable timing data to go with the rest of the chip data, they can't give you the same level o
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by robinsonb5 1y ago
I can definitely relate - but I have noticed that the bursts have got longer and less intense as I've got older.

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