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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Not sure what products your experience comes from, but I am talking explicitly about keyfobs. This is generally produced by Tier 1 suppliers, not the OEMs themselves, and not too many players in the field. With the MCU suppliers it shrinks
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
There are 2 limiting factors taken into account during design - regulations and peak current that the battery can supply. The battery thing (usually a coin cell CR2032 that can supply ~13mA per spec) can be a bit mitigated with a beefy capa
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Not really - antenna is tuned to the maximum allowed emission power per local regulations (e.g. big differences between EU, US and JPN regulations). Certification tests do not include any human handling, since it's really unpredictabl
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
The list of caught ones is immensely longer. It’s a cat and mouse game, it doesn’t really stop. Big pharma spends a lot of money on training the employees on how not to get caught. I worked 5 years in big pharma and it took me almost a year
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
> I assume that you are referring to the soft device blob? Has that been abandoned in nRF Connect? Quite, yes. They took the ZephyrOS approach, but it comes with a learning curve penalty, unless you go the easy route of nRF Connect GUI.
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
nRF5 is indeed inferior SDK of the 2 (thus abandoned). Also I dislike that a big chunk of the stack there is a binary blob. Regarding the code organization, not sure what toolchain you used, but the latest recommendation for nRF5 (Segger st
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
GDB options for debugging/flashing can be had for sub 10eur, Segger is not mandatory. Moreover, the onboard Segger of the devkit can be used externally on Nordic MCUs in custom products and is covered by the licensing agreement between
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
There are actually 2 Nordic SDKs, nRF5 (now in maintenance, but still in many supported products in the field) and nRF Connect (bundled with Zephyr). Later gives a lot of access to both Host and Controller part of the stack and for commerci
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Important to note that some shops in the Netherlands do not accept credit cards, and some even debit cards from Visa/Mastercard due to high processing fees (few %, varies from market to market and business to business). What made digit
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
My initial reaction was completely opposite to yours: - Oh this is going to burn google's money, especially if the phone becomes popular. Unless you want to charge a subscription for a feature it really isn't smart for Apple to tr
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
That is not the case with Aliexpress and EU countries for some time now (since July 1 2021). There's been a deal at EU level with Ali that it includes local VAT at checkout, for items of lower value.
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
You can repeat that comment here as many times as you want but it will not make it a valid one. Amazon is practically a monopoly, and they have reached that position by often selling goods below COG prices, incurring losses but outliving th
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Same could be said for Android. Moreover, exploit brokers are paying more for Android exploits than iOS ones [1], and that could be used as a good counter argument against Apple's security and privacy fearmongering. [1] https:/&#
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Porn
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Yes, move out of the left lane.
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
CCP has been doing the opposite for the past year, letting the big construction companies go out of business and not bail them out and letting the housing bubble deflate, with housing becoming more affordable. That is actually the biggest r
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
I guess this is what you get when you train it on data from the chip shortage (high prices) period
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
My guess is simply to deter people from using it as their more permanent option. Nevertheless, the phrase "I owe my soul to the company store" starts ringing in the back of my head.
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
After racing with each other to fuel political extremism or push the corporate narratives like how working from home is terrible for the worker or how good it is for us that the rich don’t pay the taxes, how unaffordable housing is good for
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
>This article (edited multiple times!) is not evidence of anything, let alone Nord co-operating with law enforcement to log customer data. Not sure what is not clear from this: “We will comply with lawful requests as long as they are del
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Here is a general text on that: https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-actually-we-do-comply-wit... Exact examples are hard to find in the press. One that comes to mind is from a Belgian Telco company that was internally h
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Countless examples of Nord supplying logs. They all have to keep logs or would be banned from offering services to US citizens.
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Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer(reuters.com)
17 points by wallaBBB 3y ago|7 comments
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
This looks like a plan B, after the spinoff was blocked. Also could have future impact on deterring this type of studies.
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Quite a few in the Netherlands
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
Your response does zero to address (absolutely rightful) negative comments on your original comment, nor is it related to your original comment that sounds like a parody of a Wall Street liberals before they start crying for government bail
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by wallaBBB 3y ago
It's a CAN injection, has nothing to do with the immobilizer feature (between the fob and the car) that has a random SK exchanged on fob-car pairing and is mandated (by insurance companies to prevent hot wiring a car) for more than a d
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by wallaBBB 4y ago
Definitely not as some grim prognosis of AI ruling or something like that. More in a sense of seeing many of these startups popping up to take advantage of the AI hype, although most of theme being quite late to the party. And market tradit
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by wallaBBB 4y ago
This is not going to end well.
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by wallaBBB 4y ago
Not really, this is how they got in the current situation with justified existential fears. Branching out into popular fields and spending a shit load of resources (in relative terms to Mozilla size) although they're late to the party.

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