robotjosh

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by robotjosh 10y ago
This type of design isn't useful. Round things don't fit neatly anywhere on a desk. Air cooling makes no sense when your design goal is high performance in a small space. What would really be useful is something 2.5" thick an
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I loved the magic trackpad 2, the main thing that held me back from switching away from osx. Now I love the logitech mx master. It has a thumb button that lets you do window management stuff that is 4 finger gestures on the mac trackpad.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I was all in with apple and went there for pc building help after the weak macbook update. I can get all the pcie ssds and ram upgrades I want now. Skylake integrated graphics somehow drives a 4k display snappier than a max 2015 macbook p
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by robotjosh 10y ago
Apple products are immune from criticism. You can be a life long mac owner and buy all the latest releases. But if you have a problem with the 2016 macbook pro well then, "you're just a hater". OK mac community. I'm
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by robotjosh 10y ago
Yes. Every firmware engineer works with assembly but barely any x86 devs ever touch assembly.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
Most of the microcontrollers being used in new designs today are arm-cortex. Everybody who does microcontroller work except some pic weirdos is familiar with arm-cortex.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
We could talk about the same problem in terms of why they still teach HC11 assembly in engineering school instead of teaching the industry standard arm-cortex. It is because most people in higher education are out of touch.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
Yeah, I was told the game had to be shitty because some players still had pentium 3s. This argument was ridiculous as I was playing on a eee-pc (single core intel atom) with an external 19" monitor. My hardware was too good it wasn&#
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I played a little bit years ago. I didn't like how the map was zoomed in so far, I wanted to zoom out more. I messed with the source code to let me zoom out more and shared how to do it. They told me I was cheating so I never played
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I thought the macbook with amd was fine on 4k especially after getting the right cable for 60hz. The i5 with intel 530 is better. Maybe it is because graphics cards are designed more for 3d processing than for general 4k performance. I tr
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by robotjosh 10y ago
It is the stuff around the cpu that is improving. Those 2013 chips cannot properly drive a 4k display. Even a 2014 macbook pro with amd graphics is sluggish on 4k. But, a modern skylake with intel 530 integrated graphics can drive a 4k s
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by robotjosh 10y ago
It actually makes publications LESS credible if they were to publish chinese government propaganda.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
You can tell this is routine and they have memorized the steps of making this part.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
Bluetooth drivers in both ios and android never work right. You might get random undocumented error codes on some devices. Some of your connection/transmit functions will just get lost never activating a callback so every single thing
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I remember my 1 year old birthday party and plenty of stuff before that. I remember finding an unprotected outlet and putting a butter knife in it. It made me involuntarily fling the knife across the room. My mom came in and got mad at m
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by robotjosh 10y ago
It depends on if your state machine scheme is concise and makes human sense. Too many flags and state machines can become difficult to debug or work with.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
I did some verilog in college. For many years I worked with a guy who only knew verilog and hardware design until he started coding late in his career. It was very interesting to work with his code. He used bitfields everywhere like in ver
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by robotjosh 10y ago
With most of her email statements proven to be lies, how many other lies is she knitting at us?
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by robotjosh 10y ago
The record correctors are quick to point out that you aren't allowed to identify them, its part of the script they get whether or not its really a rule here.
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by robotjosh 10y ago
This story shows how clinton is a liar. The lies started with "the personal server was only used for personal communications", when that was found to be a lie it changed to "no classified info was ever on the server", an
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by robotjosh 10y ago
This loss stings because its not possible for the NPR of today to come out with shows like car talk and phc anymore.
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by robotjosh 11y ago
The link times out but based on the title, I like what they are saying.
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by robotjosh 11y ago
Apple should stick the magic mouse surface onto keyboard keys. Imagine being able to use a home row key as a tiny trackpad. You could also scroll by swiping down on a key. Never have to move your hands from home row. Come on apple!
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by robotjosh 11y ago
The same people with a life long interest in computer science are very likely going to major in computer science or computer engineering. Its not that the programs are great its that the people who would be good at it anyway end up going t
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by robotjosh 11y ago
I got to stay in a house that had a nest thermometer. The AC compressor happened to be broken and the nest perpetually said 1 hour until cool. Nest isn't smart enough to detect a broken AC.
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by robotjosh 11y ago
Arm vendors lately have arduino form factor dev kits for around $15-30 with onboard jtag. I don't notice better performance using a jlink over an onboard debugger. I've never tried but it looks like you could use the onboard debu
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by robotjosh 11y ago
Reddit was supposed to be an autonomous system free of arbitrary intervention. Volunteer mods had complete power over their subreddits with all the benefits and drawbacks that brings. Suddenly a new CEO has introduced arbitrary censorship
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by robotjosh 11y ago
"Voat.co servers right now" https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/06/15/silicon-valley-servers.jpg I lost it when I recognized those $5 ikea dish racks
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by robotjosh 11y ago
Someone should make a version of reddit where your upvote/downvote record is what shapes the ordering for you. There should be a global rank and an individual rank that is calculated for each user something like the netflix 5 star sys
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by robotjosh 12y ago
I've seen a lot more hardware problems involving i2c than involving spi. If an i2c device fails its a pain because it is not apparent which chip on the bus failed. If I do have to use an i2c device I try to avoid having more than one

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