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Being a tyrant has little to do with term limits or office duration.

Oh wow, the AD936x series was impressive for its I/Q calibration. Still is I guess, because there's been no compelling alternative even a decade later. As I mostly deal with single…

Yeah, jitter doesn't matter too much at low frequency IF. I/Q calibration is more likely to be the bottleneck. That and close-in spurs from the fractional PLLs. I have very little …

The really intriguing part is the "Custom ADC" here, seems like some kind of 1-bit ΣΔ oversampling ADC (704 MSPS?). Single differential transistor, and captured by FPGAs LVDS RX. N…

Only if the difference in signal power is high (>40 dB). It’s like saying collisions aren’t a problem in situations where no collision actually occurs.

Wish the proponents of stricter immigration would push for a proper national ID first. Right now you have all the cons anyway, with none of the pros. A stitched-up database that ha…

For the established players, it's the battery supply chain that's the main issue. Rest can be locally-sourced or manufactured. Makes them very nervous, having to import when tariff…

The explanation is that the trusted brands (in 2Ws) are just now rolling-out EVs, the market is very conservative and home charging likely isn't an option if one's renting. The che…

It's the opposite IME, most petrol two-wheelers are massive money sinks past 5 years of ownership. You will likely spend close to original price in maintenance and repairs, with mo…

Leasing land for solar pays very little. The only reason people do it is because the land has no better use and solar doesn’t permanently damage it the way mining or farming could.…

Talking more about some unrelated function taking down the whole system, not advocating for "offline" credit card transactions (is this even a thing these days?). Ex: If the transa…

Those are examples where they shouldn't be using public cloud in the first place. Should build those services to be local-first. Using a different, smaller cloud provider doesn't i…

It's "legal" at first glance but it's effectively banned in most cases. No monetary compensation, only direct relatives, only traditional pregnancy, etc. It's outright banned (comm…

Being gay isn't the choice here, choosing not to act on your attraction/desires is. Might feel nitpicky but a very important distinction.

Having kids is half the reason (or more) for such marriages, nothing completes the nuclear family picture quite like it. And not like it's easy for gay couples in accepting environ…

I'm guessing India, and it's dowry part of it that complicates things a lot. And once either party goes into legal proceedings, it becomes a shit slinging mess of he-said she-said.…

Grace and Frankie (tv show) deals with some of this, don't think I'm the target audience but I enjoyed it as 20-30 year old.

Yup. All the inconvenience of unmanaged, just to get worse uptime and performance? Who wouldn't want that.

The "omg centralized infra" cries after every such event kind of misses the point. Hosting with smaller companies (shared, vps, dedi, colo whatever) will likely result in far worse…

People who don't need that, also don't care much for an hour or two of service disruption. Most users will have far worse disruptions with the alternatives.

Might be the first time I have ever seen that. Though in my case the "Host" is Cloudflare's own Pages service.

Have the family plan prepaid for 2 years, mostly for the 1TB OneDrive. The new plans are almost double the cost here, hope this AI bundling dies a painful death by then. Though tha…

A bit unrelated, but are there any recent benchmarks comparing it with native perf? Hard to believe it can compete with V8 JIT anytime soon. Might be easier to integrate fast vecto…

No mention of the actual weight here but a quick search says 165 grams. Not as light as I expected.

It's more the public postal services with very cheap international shipping, they typically can't or won't handle import customs/tariffs and operate under the assumption that the p…