thesmok

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by thesmok 9y ago
No, it's still a general purpose ARM CPU. A good example of ASIC would be a bitcoin mining device.
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by thesmok 9y ago
If you only need to backup power 12/24/48V devices, then you can skip the mains voltage inverter and use a battery-backed power supply. MeanWell comes to mind — they make these power supplies for security and telecom systems.
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by thesmok 9y ago
They do actually have a "delete" switch, but it's harder to find than the "deactivate" one. I've made this mistake before, then with a quick google for "deactivate vs delete facebook" I learned how to
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by thesmok 9y ago
I've tried to use Numbers for technical stuff and found it too unreliable. A big surprise was when I filtered the spreadsheet by column values so only a subset of rows were visible, then selected a range of rows in that subset and dele
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by thesmok 9y ago
If it takes more than an hour to place the components, your solder paste will likely flow all over the board and it will be pointless to reflow it.
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by thesmok 9y ago
I'm using word "dunno" for that.
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by thesmok 9y ago
Patagonia does that, they call it "worn wear".
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by thesmok 9y ago
Videos embedded into a webpage have a "muted" boolean attribute, so the nice behavior would be to not pause the music player when muted video starts playing.
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by thesmok 9y ago
MCUs have a low power sleep mode in which their timer still runs so they can be waken up periodically.
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by thesmok 9y ago
My iPhone 6S CPU freq is now capped at 911 MHz, which is half the nominal freq. Battery settings say nothing about that.
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by thesmok 9y ago
These things you are talking about are usually called _voltage regulators_. DC/DC converter usually refers to the switching converter, they are very efficient.
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by thesmok 9y ago
My friend's chinese motorcycle had this light built in on the gas tank. It's really helpful because you can't hear your phone ringing/vibrating while riding. AFAIK, this stopped working after transition to 3G.
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by thesmok 9y ago
You wouldn't want to use a $100 monitor after that Retina display.
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by thesmok 9y ago
You can't recover the private key but you can still check the balance if you got the wallet address somewhere in chat logs ;)
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by thesmok 9y ago
Sliding it back-and-forth would create too large accelerating/braking forces. Easier approach would be to put camera on a rim of continuously rotating wheel and take shots when it reaches positions of 90° and 270°.
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by thesmok 9y ago
Use IKEv2 instead -- it's natively supported in iOS/macOS. I'm using [this]( https://github.com/gaomd/docker-ikev2-vpn-server ) Docker recipe on the $5 Digital Ocean instance and it works great. Also setup
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by thesmok 9y ago
true, but adding another link (microcontroller) in the chain is going to add delay anyway. I think the original suggestion was pointless: instead of adding more microcontrollers you can just replace the main uC with the one that has enough
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by thesmok 9y ago
Another layer of serial interfaces would make it even slower.
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by thesmok 9y ago
No it shouldn't. Sometimes videos like this one are a source of unique information.
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by thesmok 9y ago
The iPad and Raspberry Pi have demonstrated how much overrated x86 compatibility is.
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by thesmok 9y ago
That's done while the boards are already populated, but not de-panelized yet. All boards in the panel are connected to the JTAG bus, that connection will be broken when you remove them from the panel. JTAG traces run in the "frame
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by thesmok 9y ago
> Will people be able to buy it as a separate part? Eventually, yes. I'm not sure there'll be a cloned part on Aliexpress next year, but there will be parts from broken phones for sure.
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by thesmok 9y ago
They never show the back panel with all the connectors, but on this blurry image https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/2194981... it looks like the device is powered by an external power brick, whic
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by thesmok 9y ago
I have alias wow='git status' in my .profile because it's more fun (to me).
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by thesmok 9y ago
I would add that there exists another standard method for stress relief http://we.easyelectronics.ru/Tools/formovka-opornogo-ziga.ht... (link in russian).
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by thesmok 9y ago
There are websites created by enthusiasts of different categories of equipment: audio amplifiers, radio receivers, home computers, synthesizers. Easy to google "device_name схема".
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by thesmok 9y ago
They have a torrent download link, so if you want to help just start seeding.
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by thesmok 9y ago
Yes, but there's an off the shelf solution for Raspberry Pi battery http://lifepo4wered.com I love that it's open source hardware: https://hackaday.io/project/9461-lifepo4weredpi
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by thesmok 9y ago
> doesn't work with my monitors for some reason. They are non-Apple and thus not supported. I've got a 2012 Mac Mini with Dell display connected over DP, and night shift just works. So at least some non-Apple displays are suppo
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by thesmok 9y ago
I carry two contactless cards: the metro pass and an office key. They are just taped together (because I want to make sure I always have both) and still reliably work, so I doubt you are protected.

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