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by sq_ 6y ago
IIRC, the mods will periodically boost interesting links that didn’t get very far when originally submitted back up. I’d guess that’s it?
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by sq_ 6y ago
Does that still hold for the reMarkable 2?
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by sq_ 6y ago
Is this likely to help lower the cost of SSDs in the ~1TB range? After watching the price of 1TB drop from the stratosphere to $100, I'd love to see them make it down towards $75...
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by sq_ 6y ago
Doubt Taiwan is unhappy about that. The more TSMC provides the world with compute, the more incentive the US and other countries have to keep the island out of China’s hands.
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by sq_ 6y ago
Wish someone would do teardowns/testing of these cables/chargers on a wide basis (or that I had the skills to do it myself). I've seen a few people doing such things for computer PSUs, multimeters, and the like, but not for c
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by sq_ 6y ago
Now that has some potential to cause pain to my wallet. Gonna have to force myself to forget about it now...
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by sq_ 6y ago
I mean, at least in the US, you can buy utter crap in the store at crazy prices. Plenty of stuff that just barely hits the regulatory requirements but doesn't do any good engineering work beyond that.
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by sq_ 6y ago
I generally agree, but with charging especially it seems to be hard to figure out what exactly "name brand" means. Obviously you've got companies like Anker that've been around for a good while, but, in my opinion at lea
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by sq_ 6y ago
Same here. Seems like there's a subreddit for just about everything (for instance, I consulted r/backpacks recently). Good advice, but unreliable in terms of finding an active community.
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by sq_ 6y ago
One thing I'll tack onto this in case someone with the right knowledge comes by: anyone know a site for good reviews of charging accessories? We ask a lot of our chargers these days (e.g. 100w USB-C PD), and the price-quality curve see
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by sq_ 6y ago
My (highly imperfect) solution to that problem is usually to go find the niche internet forum/subreddit for whatever thing I'm looking to buy and try to see what people there are interested in in my price range. I'm sure I en
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by sq_ 6y ago
IIRC Guy Fieri did a Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives episode with a guy who was using aquafaba in making vegan deli "meats" with textures pretty darn close to the real thing. There's some really awesome wizardry going on in vega
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by sq_ 6y ago
Far-fetched projects like the ones discussed in the article have always piqued my imagination. As the article semi-mentions, we may at some point be forced into geoengineering and other "megascale" projects (see [0] for supercondu
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by sq_ 6y ago
Seems like the clock, RAM, and GPU differences there may have had an effect? Comparing between systems that different seems unusual.
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by sq_ 6y ago
> AMD is horribly slow Not sure where you're getting that these days? Absolutely in the days of Bulldozer, but AMD's Zen 3 architecture has taken even the single core lead from Intel, not to mention the multi core lead they&#x2
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by sq_ 6y ago
Wonder if there's a chance some of the router projects and Pine64 could collaborate somehow to make a fully open router. Pine64 seems to be quickly developing some production chops and the various router projects also seem to be doing
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by sq_ 6y ago
As annoying as it is, especially when docks/hubs come into play, part of me feels like having one solution that at least semi-works for maybe 80-90% of use cases is worth having to debug silly issues sometimes. Have a feeling we'l
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by sq_ 6y ago
Hopefully we'll see more Thunderbolt 4 silicon from different manufacturers as USB4 rolls out. Seems like we'll probably see that over the next year or two if it's going to happen.
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by sq_ 6y ago
The popup cards when you mouse over an internal link that they added semi-recently are an awesome addition, though. Great melding of the old interface with a highly useful newer feature, in my opinion.
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by sq_ 6y ago
Even more annoyingly, if you get fed up with their crappy hardware and get your own, any and all future flakiness will be attributed by ISP support to using nonstandard hardware.
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by sq_ 6y ago
I would assume something like one of the RTOSes like what's listed for the PineTime? Seems like it'd be easier to get power consumption low and keep the watch speedy that way, then just interface with a phone, etc., over bluetooth
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by sq_ 6y ago
NFC would've been great for "my watch is also my keycard" type stuff. Hopefully some future version will include it!
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by sq_ 6y ago
> It should be possible to just buy one of those smartwatches and crack them open? Could the way that they're sealed become a problem? Description says waterproof glue will be involved in the final version and seem a bit unclear abo
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by sq_ 6y ago
Yeah, with the amount they talked about extra sauce absorption in the article, I now have a very strong desire to try it myself...
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by sq_ 6y ago
Just in the last few weeks, I’ve had two instances where I let Windows update and a whole bunch of system stuff (including Windows Update itself, once) proceeded to break, even through a few reboots. Anecdote, of course, and theoretically I
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by sq_ 6y ago
IIRC, the conclusion at the time was that that particular image was taken by an NRO KH-11 satellite - roughly equivalent to a Hubble Space Telescope pointed at earth and definitely not SAR.
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by sq_ 6y ago
100% wasn't trying to knock the project; it's amazing so far. They seem to be working through things very quickly, so I definitely believe they'll have things looking good for AVM2 pretty soon.
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by sq_ 6y ago
One thing to note, they're still in the early stages of supporting AVM2/ActionScript 3.0 [0], so if you've got a pile of newish .swf's you'd like to try, they may not work yet. [0] https://github.com&#x2F
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by sq_ 6y ago
> it's really already able to play a large amount of content well Can confirm. I've gone through and downloaded the .swf's for some games I had nostalgia for, and ruffle has played a significant chunk of them quite well. F
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by sq_ 6y ago
Not at all sure, but some of the Falcon 9/Heavy failures seem to suggest that SpaceX's thinking on landing is "don't give up, fly it all the way to the ground," when there's an issue. Especially with the fact t

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