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by wtallis 10mo ago
> Can you give me an example of a change in todays UI that was motivated by change in display quality? There are a lot of places where I now see a miniature thumbnail preview of a file's contents, where in the 1990s you would only h
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by wtallis 10mo ago
It's an IP block that Xilinx can provide for use on their FPGAs, but as implemented on the Ryzen parts it's synthesized into a hard IP block, not an FPGA block plus bitstream.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
Most likely, it's just a matter of time and the NVIDIA DGX Spark is partly serving as a pipe cleaner product. They clearly need to work on power management, and solid Windows support may be more work than the Linux support they've
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by wtallis 10mo ago
That's what `uv tool install` does: it creates the wrapper and puts a symlink to it into ~/.local/bin (which you can add to PATH with `uv tool update-shell` if you don't want to do it manually). I don't recall pip d
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by wtallis 10mo ago
AMD's cores have SMT, allowing them to run two threads at a time and appear to the OS and its scheduler as two logical cores despite being implemented as a single physical core.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
Nah, if you actually read into what's available there, it's clear that the compilers have never implemented features to make this broadly usable. You only get runtime instruction selection if you've manually tagged each in
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> it also doesn't say they acquired "commodity hardware"; I took it to suggest the opposite, presumably for good reason. This seems entirely like wishful thinking. They were using a 12 year old server that was increasingl
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by wtallis 10mo ago
They quite notably haven't been running fine for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709 Their recent public embarrassment resulting from having such an outdated build server is likely what triggered the
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> What does make a "good look" for a volunteer project? It's an open-source project. It should be... open . Not mysterious or secretive about overdue replacements of critical infrastructure.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-moving-to-state-data-center/ mentions several major, famous services/projects that OSUOSL either has hosted in the past or is still hosting: kernel.org, Debian, Gentoo, Drupal, Ope
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by wtallis 10mo ago
While it looks like Meshtastic devs probably made at least some mistakes relating to that underlying complaint, I think that thread provides thorough evidence that banning that particular user was a reasonable choice.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
They're building all the software on a single server, and at best their fallback is a 12 year old server they might be able to put back in production. I'm not making any unreasonable assumptions, and they're not being forthco
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by wtallis 10mo ago
At the very least, it's reasonable to expect the maintainers of such a project to be open about their situation when it's that precarious. Why wouldn't you take every opportunity to let your users and downstream projects kn
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by wtallis 10mo ago
This isn't about a server for hosting the website or package repo, it's about the server building all the packages.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
I still don't see how your suggestions amount to anything other than telling people to spend a lot more money on completely different hardware and use it in a completely different manner. FT-8 doesn't seem usefully relevant here.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> Now, for the hobbyist these solutions are harder to implement and that's not nothing, I'd argue it's everything . A network architecture that requires serious fixed infrastructure should probably be an entirely separate
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> Remember, legally you can only transmit at something like 10% of time In Europe . See the duty cycle limits summarized at https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/lora/#region
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by wtallis 10mo ago
That's a reasonable take to an extent, but underlying all of that is the assumption that Meshtastic should be trying to scale up to support hundreds or thousands of active nodes on a single mesh. Since that's clearly almost impo
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by wtallis 10mo ago
I think both the Meshcore and Meshtastic communities have a problem with people being passive aggressive instead of being direct and upfront about the different tradeoffs chosen by those projects, and their consequences for various use case
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by wtallis 10mo ago
How about you make an actual argument here in this thread, instead of vaguely gesturing at an excessively long newsletter and claiming there's relevant substance in there somewhere? Or at least tell me if I've incorrectly interp
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The mesh isn't doing MQTT or TCP. They're using MQTT to bridge between meshes, with mesh nodes that have an internet connection or are paired to a smartphone with an internet connection relaying mesh traffic with an MQTT server.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
It's not clear to me which portions of that very long newsletter are responding specifically to Meshtastic, but it seems like the most relevant section starts by listing some challenges but offers nothing in the way of solutions except
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The sensor outputs a single value per pixel. A later processing step is needed to interpret that data given knowledge about the color filter (usually Bayer pattern) in front of the sensor.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
IDE SSDs have been a niche but readily-available product for as long as consumer SSDs have been mainstream. CompactFlash cards ensured that the necessary controller chips were available.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
That's kind of a pathetic excuse, because it means that the "something" the story teaches is highly limited and there's nothing concrete for the reader to use as the basis for a deeper investigation.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
Not weird at all. This problem manifested only with some model of 5400RPM laptop hard drive (2.5"), but a recording studio would likely have been using 7200RPM 3.5" desktop drives. Different resonant frequencies, more sturdy mount
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by wtallis 10mo ago
I feel like maybe you didn't understand the meaning of that last bit you quoted from Tom's Hardware. To be clear: the standard for consumer SSDs is 1 year of unpowered data retention after the drive's full write endurance rat
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The claim you're responding to is that hard drives lose "magnetic charge" at a rate of 1% per year, not that bits get corrupted at a rate of 1% per year. The error correction in hard drives is far simpler and weaker than what
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by wtallis 10mo ago
From a supply perspective, 256GB seems ridiculous because you can get way more capacity for not very much money, and because 256GB is now nowhere close to enough flash chips operating in parallel to reach what is now considered high perform
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by wtallis 10mo ago
In the US, Walmart is still selling the M1 MacBook Air new, for $599 (and has been discounted to $549 or better at times, such as Black Friday). In general, I don't think it's reasonable to worry that Apple's products aren&#x

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