unwiredben

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by unwiredben 1y ago
I got to hang with him a little in the early 2010s when I was doing JavaScript work and found him nice and personable. I'm so sorry for his early passing.
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by unwiredben 2y ago
I was at Palm when the iPhone launched, and one note from this analysis summed up Apple's new power in the market and how they really changed the landscape. "Cingular has allowed Apple to launch a device with WLAN and inbuilt serv
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by unwiredben 2y ago
and also its Voja4, not Voya (my mistake in remembering name spellings)
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by unwiredben 2y ago
At Hackaday Supercon in 2002, the badge for attendees ( https://hackaday.com/2022/10/12/the-2022-supercon-badge-is-a... ) implemented a fictional 4-bit CPU along with control panel for directly entering instruc
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Apple Arcade (again): late payments, stonewalled studios, terrible tech support(mobilegamer.biz)
3 points by unwiredben 2y ago|0 comments
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Opus (audio codec) Patent Pool(opuspool.com)
4 points by unwiredben 2y ago|2 comments
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Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year's STAAR tests(texastribune.org)
3 points by unwiredben 2y ago|0 comments
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Trying to Decode Lev-1(destevez.net)
39 points by unwiredben 3y ago|4 comments
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Trying to decode LEV-1(destevez.net)
1 points by unwiredben 3y ago|0 comments
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by unwiredben 3y ago
That's often a recently launched StarLink formation -- the bunch up in a line when deployed, and have to be maneuvered over several weeks to spread out and take different orbits.
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The Radio Station That Bridge Built(nutsvolts.com)
38 points by unwiredben 3y ago|9 comments
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On Alchemy(scopeofwork.net)
1 points by unwiredben 3y ago|1 comments
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by unwiredben 3y ago
a visit to the research reactor in Hamilton, Canada
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by unwiredben 3y ago
I grew up reading his "Ask the Guru" columns in Computer Shopper and loves all the creative ways he came up to use PostScript. His hardware hacker articles were also great. He will be missed.
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by unwiredben 3y ago
Jerry Pournelle isn't up to much anymore, as he died in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
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How the Intel 8088 Got Its Bus (2022)(eejournal.com)
1 points by unwiredben 3y ago|0 comments
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by unwiredben 3y ago
I've got USB-powered desk fans at home and the office. I've tried a fair number, and typically get ones that have a couple of different speed settings and good bearing that are mostly silent.
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by unwiredben 3y ago
As soon as it prompted for number, I was out of there. Kinda reminded me of the Dianetics commercials, though.
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by unwiredben 4y ago
Cobalt is the primary engine that's used for running YouTube and YouTube TV on set-top boxes and smart TVs. If you notice that it looks the same on a Roku device or a Fire TV stick or a Samsung TV, that's because all of those are
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Modern Network Transport Protocols(engineering.roku.com)
2 points by unwiredben 4y ago|0 comments
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by unwiredben 4y ago
Effectively an ATM-style interface?
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by unwiredben 4y ago
The CPU isn't the only user of power. The CPU may be 20% more efficient, but the screen and radio probably aren't.
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by unwiredben 4y ago
Here in Austin, Texas, there's a cooperatively-owned software development and design business called Vulk Coop. They've hosted a series of meetups and happy hours for people to talk about the co-op model and how it relates. Howev
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by unwiredben 4y ago
I worked at Palm during the development of webOS, both before the Pre was launched, then again in developer relations and framework development after it came out. I'm very happy to see this archive of the great work the community creat
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by unwiredben 4y ago
It was coming... the WindsorNot design was just a slab with no keyboard, IIRC. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...
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by unwiredben 4y ago
If you like this, check out the 4am collection on archive.org ( https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am ) - the Apple II hacker posts detailed logs of their cracking techniques for each title. Here's an exa
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by unwiredben 4y ago
I looked at several logos and saw that they were missing the registered trademark or trademark symbols. Those shouldn't be removed when making the vector versions, as they're part of the logo.
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by unwiredben 4y ago
From what I've seen, the tiny Palm Phone (from TCL) didn't do very well, but there's still some inventory on Amazon: https://palm.com/pages/product . There's also the Cyrcle Phone ( https:/&#x2F
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Many powered USB-C hubs with Ethernet kill networks when disconnected from host(twitter.com)
20 points by unwiredben 4y ago|4 comments
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by unwiredben 4y ago
Also in play is that some parties have patents on certain kinds of control systems using CEC, so just implementing something that seems useful can get a device manufacturer in legal trouble :(

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