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by negative_zero 1mo ago
Obligatory link to an interview with three of the Goldeneye developers about the development of the game. I found it very fascinating. https://youtube.com/watch?v=bNN9XhGZ3Yw (Also The Centre for Computing History YouTube c
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by negative_zero 2mo ago
As usual for these posts. No certifications. No proper markings. Probably non compliant. Will probably go unpunished.
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by negative_zero 2mo ago
Modular Approval is an FCC thing only. CE doesn't have it.
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by negative_zero 3mo ago
It always seems wild to me how, in the US, something like the grid is just a wild west. "ERCOT said it is reviewing the test failures and drawing up plans to protect the grid from disruptions." Why are they even allowed to connec
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by negative_zero 7mo ago
Any chance of having a finger print scanner on the back of the phone? I personally really dislike the screen ones. They're slower, less reliable and the location is unnatural.
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by negative_zero 11mo ago
So if I am a small open source developer or run small website, this could be added to my AI scraping defences? If something like Nepenthes added poisoned pages to it's tarpit then a small number of users can just poison all LLMs?
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by negative_zero 1y ago
Network people: Do we even need MAC addresses anymore? Can we not just have a UUID that the device generates? They seem to get more abuse over time i.e. MACs are how a car is uniquely identified and authenticated with fast charging CCS netw
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by negative_zero 1y ago
I've also had APN issues with physical SIMs, they are definitely not perfect. But I have never had an unusable "bricked" physical SIM. My eSIMs gripes are from being unable to use the eSIM at all. It's essentially a bric
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by negative_zero 1y ago
I did not know that. It's amazing how the usability and utility has taken such a big hit.
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by negative_zero 1y ago
Calling it "eSIM" is BS marketing. Every time I've used them it's been painful. I don't know the details but it absolutely is not "SIM technology". "eSIM" is something completely different. A reg
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by negative_zero 1y ago
Well I can say that the update is not going 100% smoothly. I have a pending KEK update in Fedora but it's a test key (bug filed but no progress as of yet).
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Why would I use this over PlugShare?
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by negative_zero 2y ago
The limitation is both ISS scheduling (it's very busy now and has been for a while) and number of available docking ports. It's part of why the next crew dragon mission is being delayed, it needs to use the docking port currently
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by negative_zero 2y ago
I would add PFASs to the suspect list.
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by negative_zero 2y ago
100% agree. IMO, these days it seems like FPTP is more actually a source of instability (than stability it is often claimed is one of it's benefits).
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Just want to add some nuance: STV is used for the Australian Federal Senate. The federal lower chamber (House of Representatives) uses optional preferential voting for candidates in a federal electorate. I'm not sure if NZ is a fair co
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Excellent additions. Sadly for Canada, some companies I worked with didn't bother because of these differences. "US market is big enough for launching. Maybe we'll come back to Canada later." They rarely did.
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by negative_zero 2y ago
One company I have worked with had an internal rule for "radiated emissions": You had to be 10dB (1 order of magnitude) underneath the limits before going for a formal cert. Non-negotiable. Part of the reason for this rule was tha
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by negative_zero 2y ago
There used to be. But they've been almost completely stripped away because of rampant abuse.
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Hard agree that pricing for standards is generally insane. IMO if the law requires it, it should be free + maybe a $10 admin. Anything else is BS. Standards bodies already make a killing off their membership fees. There are alternatives and
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by negative_zero 2y ago
As someone who has built relationships with labs to the point where I had "special privileges" the most important thing you can do is: Make your test setup as easy as possible. To expand on that: 1) Realise that you're most
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Ethics approval for a medical device is a completely different thing from EMC regulations (which is what normally people mean when talking about FCC and CE for a device). "I can't imagine having to have each hardware iteration ce
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by negative_zero 2y ago
See my response to a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926103
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by negative_zero 2y ago
EMC compliance rules are needed so that all our electronic devices (running software mind you) can continue to function. Part of the rules are about squeezing as much "performance" as possible out of the "thing" that is
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by negative_zero 2y ago
You are correct on the spread spectrum clocks. Outside of military, they really soley exist for compliance (specifically unintended electromagnetic emissions) and are increasingly everywhere out of necessity. If an integrator needs spread s
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by negative_zero 2y ago
No problems. You are very welcome :) It sounds like you are actually doing some things right :) FCC, for example, have scope for "modular approval". Order a radio module (with modular approval), do exactly as the datasheet tells
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by negative_zero 2y ago
Then it's on you as the importer. This is part of why lots of stuff on AliExpress and dodgy Amazon 3rd party supplies is cheap. It's non compliant stuff that is not even sold in China. It's export only, and for the wrong reas
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by negative_zero 2y ago
In the purest theoretical sense yes, in practice no. So that you don't have to recert everytime, you 1) test and exercise your product to extremes so that you can say with high certainty that: no matter what the customer loads, it won&
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by negative_zero 2y ago
That was not my read on it. My interpretation was that they wanted to sell a product, but didn't want to pay for an engineer who understands all this, labs for testing and doing all the paper work that it entails. So the plan became: &
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by negative_zero 2y ago
EEE here with 16 years experience and having to deal with compliance from day 1 of my career. I now consult on product compliance. Author you are welcome to contact me. Disclaimer: Nothing below is meant as legally relevant compliance advic

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