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Show HN: Maya Calendar(mcal.qt.ax)
2 points by quantum5 24d ago|0 comments
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by quantum5 1mo ago
Author here. I am not even sure how much damage I can actually claim given that I spent $20 on tools to fix the laptop. If I bought a new board, I might be able to claim that, but filing small claims over $20 is likely not worth anyone&#x27
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by quantum5 1mo ago
I checked the pictures of my board, and there are 3 unpopulated headers that I can see. There's also the unpopulated BIOS chip socket, which is similarly cheap. I think I would pay the extra $3 per laptop for better repairability, whic
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by quantum5 1mo ago
Original author here: Thanks for linking the documentation! To be clear, when I wrote "header", I meant something with a connector that can be easily used for this purpose. Soldering on the connector is probably more difficult tha
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by quantum5 1mo ago
> Any other laptop is going to have the same risk of a failed BIOS flash, and will likely require the same degree of manual intervention to fix. What I found from my research while writing the post is that both Dell and HP have BIOS reco
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by quantum5 1mo ago
Original author here. I have a Raspberry Pi, but I still recommend the CH347 instead of the Pi since it's $5 on AliExpress and you can buy it at the same time as the pogo pins probe, which you need. The advantage of the CH347 is that y
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by quantum5 1mo ago
But the problem isn't buying the specific broken part here? I would have gladly replaced the BIOS chip if they made it socketed or something, but what Framework support told me is to throw away the perfectly working CPU and buy a new o
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by quantum5 1mo ago
Original author here: > This is only true anecdotally. I have installed this BIOS version just fine on my 7040 series unit. It's not broken, works on my machine, my anecdote is worth exactly the same as theirs. I linked an entire th
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by quantum5 1mo ago
It's not a gimmick when the serious overclocking people do custom VBIOSes. Similarly for miners. That's when you need the recovery switch if things go wrong.
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by quantum5 1mo ago
> I would bet that this story of a failed BIOS update reaches the support anytime soon and they provide a repair guide or maybe a replaceable BIOS chip. Stories like this are somehow sad but at least they help to improve. Original author
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by quantum5 1mo ago
Original author here, and I agree. When overclocking, the most important feature is probably resetting the CMOS with one easy to reach button. I was testing ECC previously in https://qt.ax/ecc and was trying to overclock th
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Show HN: TOTP.fyi – debugging tool for app-based 2FA(totp.fyi)
2 points by quantum5 2y ago|0 comments
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Passkeys, a faster more secure way to log in to the Stripe Dashboard(stripe.com)
2 points by quantum5 2y ago|0 comments
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On BGP Route Selection and High Availability via Anycast(quantum5.ca)
1 points by quantum5 3y ago|0 comments
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by quantum5 3y ago
> BGP is the protocol that gives the Internet its shape, and you can’t directly speak it yourself. It's actually surprisingly easy to get an ASN for yourself and speak BGP. If you find building something like this tool interesting,
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by quantum5 3y ago
The whole BGP process with a private ASN that the ISP strips out and replace with their own ASN on the Internet is how "BYOIP" (bring your own IP) usually works.
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by quantum5 3y ago
You don't actually need an ASN to get PI though? You can use PI just fine with BYOIP. Actually... I don't think you are even required to announce them on the Internet.
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by quantum5 3y ago
(original author here) Note that ARIN NRPM 4.10 now requires the requested range to be used exclusively for IPv6 transition and not anything else. As for full table, several providers I recommended in the original post are able to do a fu
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by quantum5 3y ago
I am curious which leap day system you use for the French Republican calendar. Most popular versions of the calendar I see floating around just use the Gregorian leap year system, which I don't like because it yields the wrong results
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Journey and lessons from running a mirroring service at home(quantum5.ca)
27 points by quantum5 3y ago|1 comments
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ARM Assembly: ∞ Ways to Return (2017)(quantum5.ca)
66 points by quantum5 4y ago|20 comments
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Microsecond Accurate Time Synchronization on LAN with PTP(quantum5.ca)
2 points by quantum5 4y ago|0 comments
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DIY a Stratum 1 NTP Server with a Serial Port(quantum5.ca)
3 points by quantum5 4y ago|0 comments
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by quantum5 5y ago
It's actually using setTimeout. Every time the callback fires, it calculates exactly how many milliseconds it would take before the next second arrives, and schedules another timeout exactly that many milliseconds later. This is done s
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by quantum5 5y ago
Thanks for reporting! I didn't notice since I always navigated directly to the page while testing, but it is rather annoying when linked. I just pushed a fix.
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by quantum5 5y ago
The original French Republican Calendar determined the start of the year with the date of the autumnal equinox at the Paris Observatory. This made the calendar somewhat unpredictable, as it required a lot of astronomy to figure out the star
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Show HN: French Republican Calendar based on equinoxes(frcal.qt.ax)
50 points by quantum5 5y ago|10 comments
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Using astronomy to calculate the French Republican Calendar(quantum5.ca)
4 points by quantum5 5y ago|0 comments
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The Astronomy Behind Equinoxes and Solstices(quantum5.ca)
1 points by quantum5 5y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Time-Keeping, Part 2: Time(quantum5.ca)
3 points by quantum5 5y ago|0 comments

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