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by vvanders 6y ago
The NRE on consoles is pretty high, for the Nvidia tablets all the upfront costs of the OS have been fronted by Google and Nvidia hasn't been able to position their SoCs as a competitive processor given there have been almost no design
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by vvanders 6y ago
You're missing the fact that the lower costs of consoles(and support surrounding them) are subsidized by the restrictions that you're railing against. Take the switch, if you wanted to sell it as an "open" platform my gu
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by vvanders 6y ago
You should do this in both GC'd and non-GC'd languages. Obviously C/C++/etc give you more options for arenas and the like. If you have a well bounded upper limit there's a while lot of good reasons to preallocate(lo
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by vvanders 6y ago
The implicit opposite of natural is unnatural, which implies some sort of deviance from normal. Should we call all right-handed people "natural" and left-handed people something else? Convention since far back as I can remember(&#
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by vvanders 6y ago
Shame on the Surface Book 3 using Intel, after seeing what the new Ryzen 4800 looks like I don't think anyone serious about performance would be looking at Intel.
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by vvanders 6y ago
> As a response to this, Theo asked rhetorically "Where's ls, where's cat, where's grep, and ... For my money ripgrep knocks the socks off of grep. I can't recall if it's perfectly posix compliant but it&#x2
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by vvanders 6y ago
C++ isn't even 40 years old but if you've got some secret technique that has eluded modern software engineering then by all means feel free to share it with the class.
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by vvanders 6y ago
> I do not remember when was the last time my products had memory leak, overrun etc ... That you know of. Stack and heap corruption have this nasty habit of surviving for weeks/months/years until the layout of something complet
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by vvanders 6y ago
Eeeeh, still seeing signs of this in the NUC and Laptop space. For instance you can find a laptop with anything faster than a RTX 2060 despite 4800/4900HS completely thrashing the Intel line of laptop chips.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah, as I've heard it described from other private pilots is that you should never have a hard requirement be in place X at Y time. In other words you should always be willing(and able) to cancel a flight under any circumstances or ar
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah, complacency and heavy machinery are a really bad combination. Even a smaller CUT can do an incredible amount of damage in a short period of time.
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by vvanders 6y ago
You alluded to it but the other difference is MoCA is shielded, EoP turns your house wires into a ton of radiating antennas across the frequency bands. I still have no idea how the FCC even approved the damn things after seeing what they do
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by vvanders 6y ago
Honestly if I'm running a cable I'd rather run PoE over RJ45 and just have a second AP. PoE powered APs are cheap enough these days.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Well if you want one difference this won't throw RF hash all over the spectrum like ethernet over powerline does.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah but you also can't build a car without seatbelts/airbags/backup cameras.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Isn't that kinda the point of a uniform code of building? At least here the county code requires larger studs and windload due to the weather we get.
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by vvanders 6y ago
I can hear my coworker's i7 macbooks across the room, they are hardly quiet when under moderate load.
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by vvanders 6y ago
That's not even the real benefit you get. What you really get is the ability to specify memory locality which easily has a 10-30x performance impact.
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by vvanders 6y ago
How is this different than shouting fire in a crowded theatre?
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by vvanders 6y ago
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revival-red... is the page you really want to look at along with the battery life at https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revi
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by vvanders 6y ago
You had the option of heading back down the mountain at any time. Respiratory infection do not behave the same way.
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by vvanders 6y ago
These days of SMT chips the trend is towards more QFN and QFP so columns make less sense as well.
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by vvanders 6y ago
I have the opposite problem, spent most of my early career in win32 and x360. Having been on Linux derivatives for the last ~10 years I've yet to see debugging tools as good as Pix or Visual Studio.
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by vvanders 7y ago
It's a tool to verify the software runs correctly and doesn't double free, write over the heap and a while bunch of failure. Unless you never run simulation and always trust the router? Not everything gets verified 100% in HW, oth
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by vvanders 7y ago
Valgrind is pretty robust and I've seen it integrated into many projects with little fanfare. Unit tests are just simulation runs. I've done VHDL/Verilog and tons of software, the HW tools do lag significantly in my experienc
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by vvanders 7y ago
FT8 syncs everyone's clock on 15s intervals, you can also send well known sequences at the start of a transmission and search for those.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Not suspending federal support for testing would go a long way.
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by vvanders 7y ago
The term you're looking for is Forward Error Correction, send extra bits so you can lose a few along the way.
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by vvanders 7y ago
https://elecraft.com/products/kx2-ssb-cw-data-80-10-m-transc... is the de-facto backpacking HF rig, usually the inreach[1] and similar are good enough for most people and doesn't require a license (just subscripti
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by vvanders 7y ago
Power roughly correlates to amplitude. On the transmitter side keeping the signal linear means you generally don't see great efficiency in terms of power in -> power radiated.

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