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Ballas

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    Comment #49155688

    Could you go into more detail - how is the half-bridge less capable? (I'm not familiar with ether device, but the ultimate solution seems like a sub-optimal solution to me?)

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    Comment #49119468

    And then what happens if someone accidentally pushes the saucer firmware to the cup update? https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...

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    Comment #48366646

    Well, Mooress original statement coupled transistor density to cost. With the current RAM pricing, it looks to me like Moore's law is not only dead, but in fact reversed - the cost…

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    Comment #48366604

    Well, they changed that rule as well. If the float is less than a set percentage, then it is weighted as a much higher percentage. Something like the minimum for weighting is 12% w…

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    Comment #48355937

    Technically it's connected via 8 PCIe gen 5 lanes (two 4x connections), allowing ~100Gbps per port.

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    Comment #48319964

    Well, currently if you want to run the last version of Xilinx ISE 14.7* in Windows, Xilinx will have you download a linux VM to do so (14.7 was originally supported on Windows, but…

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    Comment #47931707

    That page compares models that easily fit inside the ram on either GPU. The biggest difference comes when one card can fit a model and the other cannot.

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    Comment #47931486

    Then he'll rebrand SpaceX to " X" (a space followed by an X).

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    Comment #47831751

    Your Movements May Vary?

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    Comment #47713907

    Yes, in that case I completely agree. Using it everywhere is a mistake IMHO. I know there might be a stylistic reason for using it everywhere, but I believe less code is better, un…

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    Comment #47702655

    Why would anybody think more words more better? int main() {

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    Comment #46675737

    That gold rating was last tested with wine 5.0 in 2020. I have tried many times to install Office 2016 after that, and failed because Microsoft keeps changing their login/activatio…

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    Comment #45742985

    Even the unnecessary microcontrollers in modern devices irk me. A fridge does not need a microcontroller. (My issue is primarily repairability - discrete components can be sourced …

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    Comment #45369979

    The wifi devices are cheaper IME, so I created a IOT VLAN that does not have internet access, nor access to my normal network unless it was initiated from the trusted side.

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    Comment #45113588

    > Can't understand why manufacturers make this hard as it sells hardware. Because a lot of features that cost a lot of money are only software limitations. With many of the cheaper…

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    Comment #44981367

    There is definitely a divide in users - those for which it works and those for which it doesn't. I suspect it comes down to what language and what tooling you use. People doing web…

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    Comment #44783428

    Where I'm from moonlight on it's own will disrupt my sleep frequently enough that even if my neighbor did not forget his back light on, I would still sleep with my blockout curtain…

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    Comment #44782720

    > Counter fact: In our city district, which is the richest and biggest district of our 600k developed city, we decided to turn off the street lights at night on purpose to help wit…

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    Comment #44782441

    >The rest of us are dealing with old code that is a hodgepodge of older standards and toolchains, that has to run in multiple environments, mostly old ones. It's like yeah, this C+…

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    Comment #44753880

    In my experience they are often confused and sometimes insulted. Generally I found tipping to add friction to the transaction.

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    Comment #44753486

    > But, the convention in the US is that people see their houses as a form of savings. And that is a big part of the problem. You cannot have it both ways, if housing is an investme…

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    Comment #44658275

    Well, you can have the same functionality with find if you want it: find -type f -exec grep -Hn "_content_" {} \;

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    Comment #44373994

    Wow, when did that happen? A couple of years ago I could not get anything OpenGL working over ssh, no matter how hard I tried. Ever since I just accepted that as fact. But I tested…