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voxadam

11,075karma·1,697submissions·February 6, 2014
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Well, the lawsuit is absolutely a joke, just not the funny kind.
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There was a nice Sonos enabled Pi based music player with a NFC card UI written up last year.[1] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/who-needs-vinyl-records-whe... …
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I'm willing to bet that all you would have to do is supply AC power to the system while you pop the old battery from its socket and replace it with a fresh one. I can't imagine a design in w…
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And, if I'm not mistaken, the site is single threaded.
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> Intel doesn't do contract manufacturing What about Intel Custom Foundry?
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I suppose the most simple explanation is that it's not profitable.
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My favorite example is 33 Thomas Street in NYC.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street …
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FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates @ Red Hat[0] Q: What does this mean for users of CentOS Linux? The creation of CentOS Stream provides a new mechanism for partners and community members to add innovation to…
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The problem with such adapters is that being USB based they're timing is far from deterministic. One very common use case for ISA based interfaces is industrial automation where realtime determin…
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Original Article (de-paywalled): https://sci-hub.se/10.1098/rspa.2020.0469
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Maybe, but only if they don't include uplink bandwidth in their cap calculations.
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That's something I'd enjoy reading.
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The biggest application is probably closed-loop PID temperature control. Such a control loop doesn't take much of a CPU but it definitely exceeds the capabilities of something like a 555 timer.
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I'd love to know why Intel chose to buy Altera instead of the industry leader Xilinx.
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While I'm neither an expert in data backup or an archivist I'm willing to guess that it would highly recommended that anyone using a method such as this to use high quality acid-free archiva…
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Related: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16073/arm-announces-neoverse-... …
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HPE announced the end of the hobbyist program. IIRC the licenses expire at the end of 2021.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289
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DSPs as well.
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Is there any way that the breaking of the Xlinix bitstream encryption opens the door to documenting and reverse engineering that bitstream in the same way that was done with Project IceStorm[0] for th…
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Portland doesn't flouridate its water it is far larger than Eugene.
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
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https://stuff-things.net/2016/04/06/that-one-stupid-dd-trick... …
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While not specifically about the exponential growth of pandemics I've always liked the lecture "Exponential Growth, Population and Energy" by Dr. Albert Bartlett. https://you…
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Oregon announcement expected Monday: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregon-gov-ka... …
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