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by scrlk 4y ago
Keysight and their distributors will not sell to you if you are a hobbyist, they require that you show proof that you are a business: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/keysight-officially-l...
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Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video](youtube.com)
176 points by scrlk 4y ago|46 comments
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by scrlk 4y ago
Hopefully this means that GNOME will have the resources to finally implement image thumbnails in the file picker dialog.
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by scrlk 4y ago
This reminds me of my path: wanted to study EE because I thought that designing chips, working in a fab etc. would be cool, started studying EE and realised I would need to get a PhD to do the more interesting work (frankly I'm not sma
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by scrlk 4y ago
Using percentages rather than basis points can be ambiguous. E.g. "1% increase from a 1% rate". Does this mean 1.01% (relative increase) or 2% (absolute increase)?
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by scrlk 4y ago
USDT minimum tick size is $0.0001 ( https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027668832 )
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by scrlk 4y ago
I found the "pots and pans" thing back in 2020 to be eery. It was once said "Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country"; the UK is not a country with a health service, but a health service with a
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by scrlk 4y ago
Signals & Systems by Oppenheim is a classic introductory textbook.
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by scrlk 4y ago
Sadly over the last ~10 years, a lot of good tech journalists have left the space: Anand went to Apple; David Kanter no longer posts to RWT (though the forums remain a goldmine); Andrei Frumusanu and Ian Cutress left Anandtech - they are bo
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by scrlk 4y ago
I prefer the convenience of always having a reasonably large screen to hand. Physical footprint doesn't matter for me; my Osprey backpack can easily take a 16" laptop. It's the weight that's the factor for me.
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by scrlk 4y ago
If Apple announced a 16" MBA, I'd buy one and ditch my ThinkPad. 13" is just a bit too limiting for my tastes, and I don't need the power or the extra expense of the 16" MBP.
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by scrlk 4y ago
>The most highly radioactive waste, mainly spent fuel, will have to be isolated in deep-mined geologic repositories for hundreds of thousands of years. At present, the U.S. has no program to develop a geologic repository, after spending
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by scrlk 4y ago
There were plans under British Rail [0] and Railtrack [1] to push running above 125 mph via realignments & resignalling. Virgin Trains proposed running at 135 mph via the Tilt Authorisation and Speed Supervision system [2]. [0] https:&
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by scrlk 4y ago
>Firstly, more capacity is needed on the rail network and this is a key arterial route that is already running at/over capacity. I always found it bizarre that most of the press around HS2 never really mentions the capacity issues o
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by scrlk 4y ago
If she (or any future monarch) were to exercise that power unilaterally, the monarchy would be finished. So in a roundabout way, they'd be sacked.
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by scrlk 4y ago
For comparison, here's an Anandtech article from 2015 talking about falling DDR4 prices at roughly the same point in the adoption cycle: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-dro...
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by scrlk 4y ago
To think that HP was once a well respected company making quality products (test equipment, ICs, medical devices etc.) & known for good management ("HP Way"). All flushed down the toilet in a span of ~10 years in the 00s, now
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by scrlk 4y ago
>You have to look for simple and well-build machines I ended up buying an entry level 8 kg Miele - just washes with no smart features & extremely well built. FYI: the 7 kg entry level models now come with a plastic wash tub, you need
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by scrlk 4y ago
You can't renew a patent. Utility patents get a 20 year term, design patents get 15 years.
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by scrlk 4y ago
I should have been clearer. HP's mainstream business laptops never had the middle mouse button whilst their workstation laptops (such as your 8560W) have always had them.
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by scrlk 4y ago
Do you have a ZBook? Those have always had the middle mouse button (probably for people who use CAD etc). EliteBook trackpoints never had a middle button.
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by scrlk 4y ago
Apparently with BlackRock and BNY Mellon: https://decrypt.co/97795/blackrock-handle-circle-usdc-cash-r...
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by scrlk 4y ago
The reason why they went down the slot route was for packaging reasons. Cache was still external at that point. There would be performance benefits from brining it on die, but larger chips are more expensive to make & using two smaller
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by scrlk 4y ago
A different twist on the Itanium: technically bad but ended up as a strategic win for Intel. SGI, Compaq and HP mothballed development of their own CPUs (MIPS/Alpha/PA-RISC) as they all settled on Itanium for future products. Afte
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by scrlk 4y ago
I'd also add that a lot of excellent ex-Alpha engineers (e.g. Jim Keller, Dan Dobberpuhl off the top of my head) ended up designing great chips at other companies.
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by scrlk 4y ago
What CPU and GPU do you have in each machine? Low powered laptops without HEVC hardware decoding will probably struggle.
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by scrlk 4y ago
There was a one off 25th anniversary model (T25), which was a T470 with a T420 keyboard. If you bought a T470 + T25 parts, you could FrankenPad it: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/t25-frankenpad/
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by scrlk 4y ago
I'll give HP some credit for being the last out of the 3 major business laptop manufacturers to put 2 SO-DIMM slots on their flagship laptops (EliteBook 8xx series). Everyone else has moved to soldered RAM or 1 slot with soldered RAM.
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by scrlk 4y ago
Re: "proper" ThinkPads - Lenovo has made a mess of the model line up and I don't think it's easy for the non-ThinkPad aficionado figure it out (e.g. T series being the entry point in to the classic magnesium alloy roll c
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by scrlk 4y ago
I will never understand the fetishisation of metal as a "premium" feeling material - if anything, it's impractical for a laptop. (conducts heat so can be uncomfortable to use on your lap if the thermal solution is poorly desi

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