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dcan

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About dcan

Canadian Electrical Engineer in Training

Comments are my own and do not represent my employer

Buisness: dbristow (at) ontrackcontrols.ca

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48704602

    Does closing the M-series laptop lid no longer throttle the CPU like it did on the Intel ones?

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    Comment #48668770

    https://xcancel.com/emot/status/2069932384770777090

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    Comment #47903784

    I will agree - async rust on an operating system isn’t all that impressive - it’s a lot easier to just have well defined tasks and manually spawn threads to do the work. However, i…

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    Comment #45724598

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    Comment #45275921

    Patents and licensing, usually https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543291

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    Comment #44409065

    Austin, Texas: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

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    Comment #44343599

    I see 15g CO2(eq)/km in the bottom left-hand corner

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    Comment #44283621

    Terminating HDCP is difficult, you’d have to downgrade it to HDCP 1.4 and then have a 1.4 ‘compliant’ (see: device on the end for it to be a dummy monitor. If you need anything new…

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    Comment #43852592

    Try reading a 40+ page document with track changes enabled (and 100+ changes) - it pins a full CPU core for 5 seconds when you go to the next page!

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    Comment #43411473

    Gray text on a black background is an awful colour choice for this website

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    Comment #43399746

    I tried Portal RTX on a 9070 XT and got 20 FPS at full resolution (no frame generation). There’s no driver limitations, but I have no idea what the expected FPS is

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    Comment #43380702

    To be more precise, four CPUs - two ARM and two RISC. There is just a mux for the instruction and data buses - see chapter 3 of the [datasheet]( https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/…

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    Comment #43013229

    They already do - most of the components buck the 12V down to the 1.3ish volts that the GPU core needs

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    Comment #42419639

    I would argue the opposite - DisplayPort has won the computing format war, especially on laptops. Most laptops will have at least two USB-C ports with DisplayPort tunneling. Most b…

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    Comment #42153190

    Does Half Life Alyx not come with the headset anymore?

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    Comment #41691680

    That github link gives a 404 - is the repo private?

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    Comment #41310117

    Ah. I ran into this last weekend when installing Linux to a secondary partition. I just disabled secure boot, good to know there is a proper workaround

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    Comment #41211433

    > "The plane had been cruising at 17,000 feet until 1:21 p.m., when it dropped approximately 250 feet in 10 seconds. It then climbed approximately 400 feet in about eight seconds."…

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    Comment #41115301

    For your first point, does ../../user/repo.git not work? I have a self hosted GitLab and that’s how I’ve specified all my submodules and it survived a top-level url change (with a …

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    Comment #40646259

    I think you misunderstand the whole concept of P2P payment apps - it’s meant to be digital cash and replace physical money. Credit cards can afford to protect you from fraud becaus…

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    Comment #40604946

    It was rolled out through Windows update, so I'm not confident the end users authorized it.

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    Comment #40485172

    I wrote a USB host driver for the STM32F4 a couple months ago, and the most difficult part was the lack of good documentation - the peripheral had r/w registers mapped as read-only…

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    Comment #40457948

    Any plans to sell just the display?

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    Comment #40080164

    I wouldn’t consider passport, social security, or bank account numbers “public records”.

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    Comment #39887774

    Nope, parking brakes are usually a separate (and traditionally mechanical) system on automatics. Electronic parking brakes are still rare