tawayway

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by tawayway 8y ago
> I suppose it's possible the important bits of a high end cassete player aren't any better. Audiophile equipment is sometimes funny that way. It's a different problem domain too. A non-linear tape head/amplifier may
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by tawayway 8y ago
The IRS?
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by tawayway 8y ago
Presumably they had a brain scan machine (scanner?) nearby, ready to go. Everyone likes a joke with a prop.
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by tawayway 8y ago
This seems to the same text as the author's Reverse Engineering for Beginners ( https://beginners.re/ ) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re
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by tawayway 8y ago
Another old chestnut - learning some assembly allows you to read it, even if you don't ever need to write any. There is real value in understanding which instructions your compiler is emitting. Beating the compiler is made easier if yo
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by tawayway 8y ago
Semiconductor manufacturing is very planar - it's made up of many layers on top of each other, with some interconnecting features or vias between layers. It's a best-case scenario for reverse engineering with photography.
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by tawayway 8y ago
The very popular 858D temperature controlled hot air stations only run about 50usd. Performance is much better than a hardware store heat gun.
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by tawayway 9y ago
> a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around There's the AvE influence.
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by tawayway 9y ago
Not sure about you but I keep breathing 24 hours a day.
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by tawayway 9y ago
Personally, I would be surprised to read about well-documented theft committed by ancient Pharaohs in tomorrow's newspapers.
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by tawayway 9y ago
I find the 20 minute on/5 minutes off Pomodoro cycle is great for getting me started into a problem. After 1 or 2 of these cycles I find I'm skipping the breaks and sustaining focused work for longer.
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by tawayway 9y ago
They are not trying to record high speed video. A camera may take a picture every millisecond, but it doesn't have to be one camera. They could be using multiple cameras interleaved in time...
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by tawayway 9y ago
I loved this series when I was around that age. I'm surprised to read it was written when you were 17!
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by tawayway 9y ago
memtest86 can do functional tests.
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by tawayway 9y ago
> they require virtually no maintenance in comparison. Not sure I agree - your circular saw might need a new blade but your handsaw will (eventually) need a sharpening and the teeth set.
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by tawayway 9y ago
Traditional contracts aren't immutable in the same sense though, right? They can be appealed, annulled, ignored...
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by tawayway 9y ago
Also the segment for VGA video memory on PCs IIRC
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by tawayway 9y ago
Congrats (and thanks) for the amazing prod :)
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by tawayway 9y ago
An opportunity to opt out? If I need to be near the unit for whatever reason I would be more comfortable if I could switch it off.
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by tawayway 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of logic analyzer are you using that can see events that fast?
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by tawayway 9y ago
Posting to another site first is very common, many are just using Patreon instead of Vimeo.
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by tawayway 9y ago
Big entities buying in bulk are part of the demand for the backdoors.
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by tawayway 9y ago
>an accelerometer in a Wii Remote I don't think this is the best example, accelerometers were not a cheap common part at the time. The Wii predates the iPhone, MEMS accelerometers were not anywhere near as widely deployed as they ar
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by tawayway 9y ago
How would they know that they have higher salaries?
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by tawayway 9y ago
Hah, I haven't thought of Eircom hosting in a while.
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by tawayway 10y ago
The counterargument is a well-intentioned but clueless volunteer should not be in charge of directing millions of dollars in donations. I imagine it's hard to find someone with skills to efficiently run a large organization without pay
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by tawayway 10y ago
SomethingAwful still has an e/n forum for personal problems
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by tawayway 10y ago
Hi Jason. I am wishing you well (Rachel too) from Ireland.
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by tawayway 10y ago
I have no data to support it but I suspect the level of optimisation in modern compilers adds a lot of overhead.
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by tawayway 10y ago
Depletion MOSFETs seem to have availability problems. My local distributors only have a dozen or so models, mostly SOT-23. I can see why DIYers are not all over them.

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