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Comment #48751807
Selecting parts of the code (in F7 mode or with SHIFT-LEFT/RIGHT) highlights which individual pixels corresponds to the actual letters.
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Comment #48265553
Some other examples: - ACPI configuration for power management and platform stuff [1] - Bitcoin transactions [2] - TrueType fonts [3] [1] https://wiki.osdev.org/AML [2] https://en.…
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Comment #46716962
No, I mean Visual Studio (the IDE), not Visual Studio Code (the editor).
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Comment #46716485
Is there a way to use this (or similar) model in Visual Studio? Extensions on Visual Studio Marketplace are clunky and sluggish at best, if they even work at all.
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Comment #46513693
Also: * Reverse polish notation * Chinese remainder theorem * Byzantine generals problem
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Comment #45694490
Did you, by any chance, play Outer Wilds recently?
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Comment #44948267
If one node kept transmitting non-stop, it could push data out at 3.5kbps and no one else in that range can transmit at the same time. However, in EU there is a legal limit of 1% d…
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Comment #44943569
Hard limit is 3.5kbps with 148dB link budget (Medium Fast preset in Meshtastic [1]). In practice - a packet worth of hundred bytes every half a second or so. [1] https://meshtastic…
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Comment #44941987
> LoRa can reach a range of up to 3 miles (4.8 km) in urban areas, and up to 10 miles (16 km) in rural areas In mountainous area LoRa on 868MHz band reaches over 100km. Last month …
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Comment #44921138
> I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience Which IDE do you use? JetBrains Rider?
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Comment #44816627
> if you run it at the full 262144 tokens of context youll need ~65gb of ram What is the relationship between context size and RAM required? Isn't the size of RAM related only to n…
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Comment #44770748
If RTL-SDR is a good reference - when demodulating FM it produces pretty much the same noise you'd expect from a mistuned oldschool radio.
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Comment #44769352
The separate noise source is a bit of surprise here. Why is it necessary? Wouldn't RF noise produce same results?
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Comment #44759355
Try SolidGoldMagikarp
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Comment #44568560
Mostly for I/O, e.g. mmap requires file offset to be multiple of the page size.
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Comment #44146629
It feels like an interpolated Street View imagery. There is one scene with two people between cars in a parking lot. It is the only one I have found that has objects you would expe…
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Comment #43468879
> The team also used a CMOS camera to capture visible-light emissions from the microplasmas (...) The CMOS imagers, however, had to be placed close to the measured radiation source…
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Comment #43306795
1. They might have used IP cores with license that forbids disclosing any technical details, including firmware implementation. 2. Manipulating RF registers could cause the device …
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Comment #43294792
If your data/leaf/heap pages hold indexed cells PostgreSQL-style [1], 16-bit in-page offset limits your page size to 64KB. On the other hand, physical memory frame size usually is …
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Comment #43193325
C-like equality (==), inequality (!=) and assignment (=) is such a missed opportunity here. One could go with "=", "=/=" and "<-" here while both preserving some sanity and shock f…
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Comment #42896104
We have tax forms available as interactive PDFs, which: * auto-computes formulas * enables and disables whole sections of the document depending of filled values * performs complex…
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Comment #42746622
Similar vibes to https://userinyerface.com/ Also, for some reason, hogs 100% CPU recursing like hell between two methods: o0 [https://games.productartistry.com/_next/static/chunks/…
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Comment #42566288
BetaFlight doesn't deal with over-the-air bits, it just receives PWM/PPM/S-Bus/whatever signals your receiver provides. There is no point to have encryption in firmware, because co…
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Comment #42565183
Lots of no-name or DIY drones use flight controller running a BetaFlight [1] firmware, which is open source and quite hackable. If you want low-level real-time programmatic control…