mallets

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by mallets 21d ago
It's breaking EXISTING free trade deals that's angering people. And also using them as geopolitical cudgels against allies. Every country has protectionist measures in various sectors, trade deals are decades-long work to chip awa
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by mallets 21d ago
Political pressure works? The immediate pain from tariffs is quite different from the long-term loss.
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by mallets 1mo ago
I don't know about all that, but I use Marsaglias for generating noise samples in MCUs like Pico. It's the fastest option there is for such devices.
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by mallets 2mo ago
Being a tyrant has little to do with term limits or office duration.
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by mallets 2mo ago
Oh wow, the AD936x series was impressive for its I/Q calibration. Still is I guess, because there's been no compelling alternative even a decade later. As I mostly deal with single channel applications, I get to use double superhe
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by mallets 2mo ago
Yeah, jitter doesn't matter too much at low frequency IF. I/Q calibration is more likely to be the bottleneck. That and close-in spurs from the fractional PLLs. I have very little experience with MIMO / phased-arrays, this ap
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by mallets 2mo ago
The really intriguing part is the "Custom ADC" here, seems like some kind of 1-bit ΣΔ oversampling ADC (704 MSPS?). Single differential transistor, and captured by FPGAs LVDS RX. Neat way to reduce cost and pin-count? But I think
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by mallets 4mo ago
Only if the difference in signal power is high (>40 dB). It’s like saying collisions aren’t a problem in situations where no collision actually occurs.
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by mallets 8mo ago
Wish the proponents of stricter immigration would push for a proper national ID first. Right now you have all the cons anyway, with none of the pros. A stitched-up database that has no laws attached to prevent its misuse. Just like with gun
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by mallets 8mo ago
For the established players, it's the battery supply chain that's the main issue. Rest can be locally-sourced or manufactured. Makes them very nervous, having to import when tariffs and rules change everyday. My city in South Indi
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by mallets 8mo ago
The explanation is that the trusted brands (in 2Ws) are just now rolling-out EVs, the market is very conservative and home charging likely isn't an option if one's renting. The cheaper variants now have enough range to relieve (ur
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by mallets 8mo ago
It's the opposite IME, most petrol two-wheelers are massive money sinks past 5 years of ownership. You will likely spend close to original price in maintenance and repairs, with most models developing "unfixable" issues that
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by mallets 9mo ago
Leasing land for solar pays very little. The only reason people do it is because the land has no better use and solar doesn’t permanently damage it the way mining or farming could. Other industries aren’t being priced out.
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by mallets 10mo ago
Talking more about some unrelated function taking down the whole system, not advocating for "offline" credit card transactions (is this even a thing these days?). Ex: If the transaction needs to be logged somewhere, it can be buil
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by mallets 10mo ago
Those are examples where they shouldn't be using public cloud in the first place. Should build those services to be local-first. Using a different, smaller cloud provider doesn't improve reliability (likely makes it worse) if the
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by mallets 10mo ago
It's "legal" at first glance but it's effectively banned in most cases. No monetary compensation, only direct relatives, only traditional pregnancy, etc. It's outright banned (commercial) in most of EU. In most coun
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by mallets 10mo ago
Being gay isn't the choice here, choosing not to act on your attraction/desires is. Might feel nitpicky but a very important distinction.
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by mallets 10mo ago
Having kids is half the reason (or more) for such marriages, nothing completes the nuclear family picture quite like it. And not like it's easy for gay couples in accepting environments to have kids either, surrogacy is banned in most
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by mallets 10mo ago
I'm guessing India, and it's dowry part of it that complicates things a lot. And once either party goes into legal proceedings, it becomes a shit slinging mess of he-said she-said. Hence why most people try to "settle" t
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by mallets 10mo ago
Grace and Frankie (tv show) deals with some of this, don't think I'm the target audience but I enjoyed it as 20-30 year old.
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by mallets 10mo ago
Yup. All the inconvenience of unmanaged, just to get worse uptime and performance? Who wouldn't want that.
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by mallets 10mo ago
The "omg centralized infra" cries after every such event kind of misses the point. Hosting with smaller companies (shared, vps, dedi, colo whatever) will likely result in far worse downtimes, individually. Ofc the bigger perceptio
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by mallets 10mo ago
People who don't need that, also don't care much for an hour or two of service disruption. Most users will have far worse disruptions with the alternatives.
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by mallets 10mo ago
Might be the first time I have ever seen that. Though in my case the "Host" is Cloudflare's own Pages service.
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by mallets 11mo ago
Have the family plan prepaid for 2 years, mostly for the 1TB OneDrive. The new plans are almost double the cost here, hope this AI bundling dies a painful death by then. Though that doesn't guarantee price cuts I guess.
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by mallets 1y ago
A bit unrelated, but are there any recent benchmarks comparing it with native perf? Hard to believe it can compete with V8 JIT anytime soon. Might be easier to integrate fast vector libraries within javascript engines.
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by mallets 1y ago
No mention of the actual weight here but a quick search says 165 grams. Not as light as I expected.
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by mallets 1y ago
It's more the public postal services with very cheap international shipping, they typically can't or won't handle import customs/tariffs and operate under the assumption that the packages aren't valuable enough. Man
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by mallets 1y ago
If you can print the money required with no bad consequences, go right ahead and build all the redundancies. The problem with bleeding-edge fab is it's a (fast) moving target. It's not a solved problem. And customers can't si
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by mallets 1y ago
Trillions of dollars spent just for redundancy? Most wouldn't even succeed in building a working process, forget profitable.

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