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by nibnib 10y ago
It's frustrating sending fixes to Spotify when you come across something incorrect. It takes so long for any action to be taken that I've given up.
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by nibnib 10y ago
That was a graphics driver IIRC
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by nibnib 10y ago
I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.
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by nibnib 10y ago
Non-expandable storage is the big miss for the 1st gen Moto G.
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by nibnib 10y ago
There could be some lag involved. The children of 3 decades ago are now having their own children and are deciding their freedoms. I think crime was lower in the US 6 decades ago than 3, so each generation may be reacting slowly to a perc
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by nibnib 10y ago
>Can you trust any of the advice from her book? This is pretty much the norm for business books. This time it just isn't backed by survivorship bias.
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by nibnib 10y ago
The support contracts on these tools runs into huge figures, there can be 100s of engineers keeping a small number in production. Each sale is essentially a huge contract, not a one-time payment.
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by nibnib 10y ago
> Its all just different levels of discrimination. Aren't some of those levels enforced legally?
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by nibnib 10y ago
Modern BGAs will often need that many layers just to break out all the signals.
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by nibnib 10y ago
That's not quite the same usage as Reagan though.
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by nibnib 10y ago
You also need to allow for failure conditions. If a power tube fails as a short or low impedance, which will vaporise first: your thin tracks, or your fuse?
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by nibnib 10y ago
>algorithms were invented on paper first This I can see, but the parent seems to be talking about commercially viable software. I think people should be careful when discussing imprisonment as some kind of distraction-free vacation for i
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by nibnib 10y ago
Has anyone ever done this? There have been successful books written in prison but not many, and that translates much better to pen and paper than software does. It sounds like something of a fantasy to be honest.
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by nibnib 10y ago
>Forget finding a new set of DTL transistors for a PDP-1 Is this true? I would've thought we have millions of equivalent devices available
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by nibnib 10y ago
Anything with critical timing that runs over a parallel port can be very tricky to get working in a VM. It means running a realtime OS on top of a non-realtime OS, with some abstraction layers added. A C64 is very deterministic in compariso
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by nibnib 10y ago
>You'd have to imagine that actual graphics artists during the 8-bit era viewed low resolution as a limitation to overcome, not a purposeful feature of their artwork. Well yeah, but it's a feature nonetheless. People aren'
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by nibnib 10y ago
The homeless are likely to be reliant on support systems in cities beyond just housing. Moving them further out means they have to travel further.
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by nibnib 10y ago
It's the largest Spanish-speaking population, maybe that's why?
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by nibnib 10y ago
>1. Buy a $5000 car up-front, which is an expensive up-front cost for me (and more than most people my age have in savings). If I've been careful in investigating the car, it will work most of the time and only cost me $500/yea
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by nibnib 10y ago
There's also the problem of working within technical limitations. Even with standard file formats there can be much more involved than just dumping files into a project. I would imagine artists need to be involved in technical discussi
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by nibnib 10y ago
With hardware you don't always have a reproducible known good state. Many changes aren't reversible. Certain tests can irreparably damage things.
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by nibnib 10y ago
>I'd say a vast majority would take their phone to Apple, who say it can't be fixed and to buy a new phone. How many would then try a 3rd party repair place?
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by nibnib 10y ago
It's very common in Ireland.
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by nibnib 10y ago
Anything manufactured with some process control should follow a bathtub curve for failures. It's the width of the tub that matters. I don't know if LCDs have been on the market long enough to have much data for end-of-life failure
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by nibnib 10y ago
>If you were OK with a TV for 18 years you would be OK with another TV for 18 years. A TV manufactured today is very unlikely to last 18 years without some kind of hardware failure. There is a big difference in complexity/points of
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by nibnib 10y ago
The argument that new graduates will know Python and have an easier time with embedded systems never sits well with me. If they graduated in something to do with embedded systems then they will know C. If they have a general programming bac
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by nibnib 10y ago
You can easily combine techniques. Send rescue dogs and handlers wherever phone signals are traced.
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by nibnib 10y ago
The obvious case is architecture support. A lot of embedded devices are not targeted by gcc and LLVM.
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by nibnib 10y ago
do you mind going into why you have written so many assemblers?
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by nibnib 10y ago
>We've turned sleep schedules into a morality play, where waking up at 4am is somehow impressive and virtuous while waking up at 10/11am is slothful (even if you spent all night getting lots of work done). This is nothing new,

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