phoenix3200

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by phoenix3200 11mo ago
As best as I could understand, the hardware wasn't dead. It was "soft bricked" due to no fault of my own. And they wouldn't stand behind their product and instead insisted I upgrade to a newer and less capable product.
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by phoenix3200 11mo ago
Six years ago my box shit the fan. Synology could have recovered it for me, but they insisted I "upgraded" to their newest box. That was when I realized that I would never buy from them again. Thank goodness their hybrid raid i
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by phoenix3200 1y ago
They did not come (directly) out of Intel Labs. They left because they were working on a moonshot project that lost corporate support. Just like Ampere computing, just a few years later.
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by phoenix3200 4y ago
Photonics and copper both travel at about the speed of light. Photonics requires special circuitry to do the conversion to/from light. And don't get me started on how PCIe just isn't designed for optics, or really any kind
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
If I recall correctly, they started with doing a screen overlay, and migrated to using the hardware gamma tables (I think I might have pointed them to it?). Android apps that do screen dimming use overlays, which ends up causing flickering
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
I got a payout back in the day for something low-level on iOS... http://thebigboss.org/dimmer-quit-blinding-yourself
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
Wow, that looks like what I may be after!
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
I found OpenSCAD to be very friendly for parametric designs, but after a while I switched to the SolidPython wrapper as it was more flexible. However, I'm hunting for a better way to create 3d models via code (Blender Python?) because
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
There are some claims out there that engines run better without lead (it eats away at seals and whatnot).
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
Aren't those engines rather difficult to overhaul? As in, you have to send them to Europe?
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
With a photo from a pre-COVID world...
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
Did you write apps for PalmOS? I think I might have cracked them when I was less mature...
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by phoenix3200 5y ago
This was my dad. This very last weekend. Though to be fair, he would not have been able to rescue the said individual.
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by phoenix3200 7y ago
Hilariously enough, that's why it was called a Pentium and not a 586.
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by phoenix3200 8y ago
LEDs are better modeled as constant current because it's the I part of the curve which is typically more unreliable. The junction voltage is largely consistent, but due to the exponential increase in current, to balance the amount of
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
That is one of the key things which empowered the jailbreak/tweak community. It becomes quite simple to understand (as well as manipulate) interfaces between software components.
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
We sure didn't. I think one guy got hired by Apple because he came out with an innovative app switcher, and I know a few others who got internships there, but largely speaking, Apple took over a lot of features we put into play. P.S.
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
Nah, Tomasulo and all that jazz (microarchitecture) is about improving performance once you've got a defined instruction set. Microcode (which is one of those highly confidential things that both Intel and AMD hold close and dear) is a
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
It really is just a threat though. These companies use the appearance of a competitor to extract cheaper pricing from their suppliers. If anyone is expecting better than Netbook performance, they're probably out of their mind.
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by phoenix3200 9y ago
It's just greed. They're likely to do the reverse.
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by phoenix3200 10y ago
They were scaling vertically because the GHz game was a marketing strategy and not an engineering strategy. But when the pipeline got so deep that it didn't make sense (branch misses would incur huge penalties) and AMD stole the spotl