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by bArray 5mo ago
> Your laptop should be fully functional with a working power supply and either an ethernet port or USB port for connectivity. Age isn't a factor. We might modify your laptop to remove or power down the battery, wireless radios, etc
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by bArray 5mo ago
I had a similar problem for a Thinkpad, except there is more than one cell at different capacities that are switched between. The existing battery manager would not tell me which battery was actually being used, and whether there was still
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by bArray 6mo ago
What I'm looking for is a differential signal tester, where you can breakout any arbitrary cable or traces and test the properties of the wire with different frequencies. It should be able to measure interesting properties such as resi
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by bArray 6mo ago
So a little out of the budget of a hobbyist! Is there a service to get on a FOUP with a group of people? I know for example of Tiny Tape Out [1], but I'm wondering where you might explore for larger designs. [1] https://tiny
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by bArray 6mo ago
> Those with a bit of silicon savvy would note that it’s not cheap to produce such a chip, yet, I have not raised a dollar of venture capital. I’m also not independently wealthy. So how is this possible? What kind of order of magnitude o
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by bArray 6mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260312130613/https://www.marke... ^ Encase the link also responds with this for you: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http:/&#x2F
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by bArray 6mo ago
Exactly this. You calm down, take a cup of coffee, marvel at your beautiful design, and then spot something out of place. The actual review has saved me a few times too, for example: "are you sure there are no copper layers in your PCB
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by bArray 6mo ago
To build a Gigawatt AI data center in 2025 is reported to cost $35bn [1]. If you're not going to build it to top specs, why even bother. Given that this is the UK, once all the bureaucracy is done, it'll be at least 50% more expen
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by bArray 6mo ago
Yesterday - The start (rendering) of a basic voxel editor for generating OBJ and STL files with just the keyboard. To solve 95% of my 3D modelling needs it turns out I likely just need cubes. Today - Parsing a website's HTML (lots of p
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by bArray 6mo ago
> A Bayesian decision-theoretic agent needs explicit utility functions, cost models, prior distributions, and a formal description of the action space. Every assumption must be stated. Every trade-off must be quantified. This is intellec
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by bArray 6mo ago
It was either PCBWay or JLCPCB, but they had a "review window" where it was possible to make changes or cancel an order. They recently switched this to be an automated review, so there was no opportunity for corrections. It could
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by bArray 7mo ago
> In the last week we received ~470000 crash reports, these do not represent all crashes because it's an opt-in system, the real number of crashes will be several times larger. 470k crashes in a single week, and this is under-report
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by bArray 7mo ago
That was kind of the point.
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by bArray 7mo ago
> That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness. This is truly crazy. Random companies interacting on this level with children is far from
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by bArray 7mo ago
I was sitting in a room the other day with a young adult, we were searching for additional algorithm learning materials. They searched in Google, and accept the cookies. They clicked on a website, and accepted those cookies too. They then s
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by bArray 7mo ago
For anyone using this terminal that hates != (and others) being turned into a single character, I have the following to turn off ligatures: font-feature = -dlig font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt This can be updated
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by bArray 7mo ago
Does anybody know of a 3D generation model that can be run locally? I would be very interested to try this. There's quite a few models out there [1] and (to me) it is unclear which is the most suitable and in what scenario. [1] https:
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by bArray 7mo ago
I can read back to 1500, but 1400 reads like a different language. To be fair this quite remarkable, given: > Before the mid 1700s, there was no such thing as standardized spelling. It felt like it was become more Germanic, and that appe
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by bArray 7mo ago
> The UK is bracketing "intimate images shared without a victim's consent" along with terror and child sexual abuse material, and demanding that online platforms remove them within two days. Bare in mind, this would have b
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by bArray 7mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260213135614/https://www.kyled... Seems to be getting the hug of death.
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by bArray 7mo ago
No worries. You would be right to be concerned about an NTP server being polled so regularly.
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by bArray 7mo ago
> The ESP8266 reconnects to the NTP server every 15 minutes which keeps the clock accurate. It doesn't seem to be hammering the NTP server 30 times a second.
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by bArray 8mo ago
I think that poorly optimised software is killing small VPS hosts... We used to have very usable systems with less than 1MB of RAM. I've personally built a smart watch that connects to the internet, helps me perform organisation duties
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by bArray 8mo ago
> It's is the latest symptom of a long preoccupation with these beautiuful mathematical objects. It's not just a beautiful concept, they have other uses too. It turns out some patterns can be pretty efficient for search if ther
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by bArray 8mo ago
> I don’t personally do things that require dynamic memory management in C often, so I don’t have many practices for it. I know that wellons & co. Have been really liking the arena, and I’d probably like it too if I actually used the
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by bArray 8mo ago
Yes and no. This was the IT of a school, most likely low-paid College/University graduates trying to patch together a working system on a shoe-string budget 20 years ago. Maybe they were fully aware of the issues and struggled to get t
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by bArray 8mo ago
Maybe 20 years ago... As a student, the school had an email server that allowed rules to be set. You could set an email to be sent as a result of another email. IT were not stupid though, and set a series of rules: 1. You cannot have a rule
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by bArray 8mo ago
Forgetting Haskell, technically speaking, everything could be expressed as a function. I thought about writing a type of shell script that reflected everything as a function to clean up the likes of bash. Take the command `ls` for example,
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by bArray 8mo ago
> I got a final project feedback from them that was clearly done by an LLM I've heard of this and have been offered "pre-prepared written feedback banks" for questions, but I write all of my feedback from scratch every tim
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by bArray 8mo ago
I personally don't believe that terrible handwriting should have any hold over a computer science student.

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