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by utensil4778 2y ago
I think a lot of people are surprised to learn just how old the field of electronics is. It's an easy mistake to make with the relative novelty of digital electronics, but the science has been around for a good long time
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by utensil4778 2y ago
The package is the power rating ;)
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by utensil4778 2y ago
My husband is a normal layperson who treats his computer like an appliance. It's just there to do word processing and web browsing. He's been asking me to buy him a new laptop and specifically wants Windows on it. I've been s
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I'm really annoyed that AI types are just stealing well established vocabulary from everywhere and assigning new arbitrary definitions to them. You have countless LLMs, use one of them to generate new names that don't require te
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Sure, in the way that you program your dog to play fetch.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Those statements are not mutually exclusive. Whether or not the magic was real, people at the time believed it was real. Some practitioners clearly were successful in some manner, be it with magical or practical means
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Clippy: I see you keep your #2 Phillips screwdriver in a dedicated slot on your workbench. We've replaced that slot with an ad and moved your screwdriver into a box in a drawer in a closet in the shed. Aren't we so helpful?
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Wayland doesn't support network display like X does. You pretty much just have to use a third party VNC/RDP server on top of Wayland.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
The most you could possibly get out of the screen is maybe contact patch size of the finger, as a proxy for pulse rate. Maybe . It's almost certainly complete bupkis.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
You'd be shocked how cheap you can get a Bluetooth headset chipset. They're so simple and made in such high quantities that they're nearly free. I don't know what apple charged for lightning licenses, but it has to have
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Yeah, I think it is very explicitly a bad thing for all devices to be directly exposed to the entire internet- firewall or no. NAT is a pain, sure, but it does have the benefit of forcing you to have a network isolated from the internet
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by utensil4778 2y ago
A nonce is a token specifically meant to prevent replay attacks. There's no sane reason to assume TPM is deterministic, as that would defeat the purpose of all the security.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Generally the way this works is you have two partitions in your flash chip. One contains the current firmware and the second is a place to drop new firmware. Then the bootloader twiddles a bit somewhere and boots to one partition or the oth
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by utensil4778 2y ago
My elected representative is presently busy trying to rig the presidential ballot for my state, I'm not sure he cares -at all- about e-waste
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by utensil4778 2y ago
We had essentially a computer club in middle school. The teacher introduced us to QBasic. Later in high school I took a programming course which was Java. I found the C64 at a flea market around the same time and found it much more intere
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Very, very old faxes used to be purely analog. Since dial-up was invented, however, faxes are fully digital. If you've ever used a fax machine, you'll notice the classic dial-up handshake noises. Faxes are modems and vice-versa:
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Intel sells the chipset that goes along with the processor, as well as selling their own motherboards. I think the profit incentive here is obvious. Why sell just a CPU when you can sell a CPU and a chipset and a motherboard?
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Honestly, default behavior should be to at least share package files on the local network. But sharing to the wider internet should be fairly trivial in <current year>, we have no shortage of technologies that accomplish this. I wis
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by utensil4778 2y ago
My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. But I don't count any of that, I never really built anything, just plugged in examples. I consider my
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Honestly, I'd keep doing what I'm doing now, I'm a research engineer. I kind of stumbled into this career path and it turns out to be just exactly the thing I was built to do. I'd likely go work for someplace better with
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by utensil4778 2y ago
For me, reading isNotEqual() introduces an extra mental variable. I have to spend extra effort to keep track of the bar over the statement that doesn't exist in the text. But that said, I see no reason that someone couldn't learn
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by utensil4778 2y ago
No, and you don't want that in the first place. With an ESP32 you'd be pretty lucky to get more than 10 or 20mbps in ideal conditions. It's also 2.4GHz only.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Try this one: we observe complex instinctual behaviors in most animals on this planet. Therefore it follows that humans are special and have no complex instinctual behaviors.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
C# was my first language so I am biased, but it continues to be my favorite language out of any I've tried.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Making the power button a dedicated physical hotkey for Bixby is one of the most egregious things I've ever seen on a phone.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Powering and cooling tens, hundreds of gaming PCs in orbit is beyond infeasible right now. RTGs can't produce that much power even if we had the plutonium. Solar panels are too big and heavy and don't work on the dark side of the
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by utensil4778 2y ago
You can use Steam to stream over the internet. You have to enter a pairing code once on the remote machine, but after that you can play anything, you can even add a "non-steam game" to stream any application you want. I do this al
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Kagi has been the only search engine worth any of my time over the last year. Very, very occasionally I'll switch to startpage (google proxy) for queries that I think should have pulled a result that Kagi didn't show me. 90% o
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by utensil4778 2y ago
As any LibreOffice user will tell you, LibreOffice is hot wet trash compared to earlier versions of MS Office. LibreOffice suffers badly from a very dated and unfriendly UI. It's an iconic example of large FOSS applications having te
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Is that why I see so many comments that are just a paragraph or two pulled directly from TFA with no commentary or even indication that it's a quote?

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