TreeRingCounter

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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
Notice that I used the word "should", not "does". And, in fact, I am deeply concerned about the war on general purpose computing.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
Governments hijacking infrastructure is not remotely the same as governments hijacking personal devices.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
My devices should absolutely work on my behalf, and only my behalf, i.e. "do the fighting for me".
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
My device should serve me, not the EU. If I choose to violate EU emergency alert laws, that's on me.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
> On-device scanning is desirable My own devices should not snitch on me to the government. Obviously this mandatory snooping of all private data is not going to stop at the single most politically salable application; that's just t
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
> The best place for tsmc to expand is actually china. The chinese are vastly worse at fab than americans. Why do you point out that american workers are worse than TW, but neglect to mention that Chinese are even worse? Not trying to ma
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
I'm not rich and I also want to reduce the amount of taxes I pay to university PMCs.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
> nobody really seems to care about locking you out of your own (non-mobile) device The "non-mobile" caveat is doing a lot of work in 2022. >90% of computer time is on mobile devices. > I ask that you care about republi
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
No, there is an asymmetry you are missing. The "well the dollar has an army behind it" is only extremely narrowly relevant to anything, in that the US can force dollar settlement with the military. This is only necessary because p
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
Bitcoin doesn't need petrodollar warfare like the dollar does.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
The majority of large institutions are effectively captured by the state, and to a large extent the converse is true as well. Despotic actions (censorship, surveillance, etc) performed on behalf of the state by megacorps cannot be meaningf
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
Absolutely not! Apple's hardware keeps getting better, but their software reliability has been quite bad over the last 10-ish years. A dive computer is a safety-critical machine - an apple watch is not suitable as a primary unit. Maybe
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
For those curious, 40m is a standard cutoff for rec diving because A) oxygen partial pressure with compressed air reaches 1.05atm, with 1.2-1.4atm posing a serious risk of oxygen-induced seizures (extremely dangerous) B) nitrogen partial pr
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
We've gotten to the point where a small 32-bit ARM core IC is cheaper than an 8-bit atmel core IC. I've stopped using 8-bit chips entirely in my designs.
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by TreeRingCounter 4y ago
> ISO is basically a linear gain that's done on the sensor. It's usually not done on the sensor - it's usually done by the ADC that performs sensor readout. Some cameras use a technology like Aptina-DRPix to dynamically ch