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As best as I could understand, the hardware wasn't dead. It was "soft bricked" due to no fault of my own. And they wouldn't stand behind their product and instead insisted I upgrad…

Six years ago my box shit the fan. Synology could have recovered it for me, but they insisted I "upgraded" to their newest box. That was when I realized that I would never buy from…

They did not come (directly) out of Intel Labs. They left because they were working on a moonshot project that lost corporate support. Just like Ampere computing, just a few years …

Photonics and copper both travel at about the speed of light. Photonics requires special circuitry to do the conversion to/from light. And don't get me started on how PCIe just isn…

If I recall correctly, they started with doing a screen overlay, and migrated to using the hardware gamma tables (I think I might have pointed them to it?). Android apps that do sc…

I got a payout back in the day for something low-level on iOS... http://thebigboss.org/dimmer-quit-blinding-yourself

Wow, that looks like what I may be after!

I found OpenSCAD to be very friendly for parametric designs, but after a while I switched to the SolidPython wrapper as it was more flexible. However, I'm hunting for a better way …

There are some claims out there that engines run better without lead (it eats away at seals and whatnot).

Aren't those engines rather difficult to overhaul? As in, you have to send them to Europe?

With a photo from a pre-COVID world...

Did you write apps for PalmOS? I think I might have cracked them when I was less mature...

This was my dad. This very last weekend. Though to be fair, he would not have been able to rescue the said individual.

Hilariously enough, that's why it was called a Pentium and not a 586.

LEDs are better modeled as constant current because it's the I part of the curve which is typically more unreliable. The junction voltage is largely consistent, but due to the expo…

That is one of the key things which empowered the jailbreak/tweak community. It becomes quite simple to understand (as well as manipulate) interfaces between software components.

We sure didn't. I think one guy got hired by Apple because he came out with an innovative app switcher, and I know a few others who got internships there, but largely speaking, App…

Nah, Tomasulo and all that jazz (microarchitecture) is about improving performance once you've got a defined instruction set. Microcode (which is one of those highly confidential t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode

It really is just a threat though. These companies use the appearance of a competitor to extract cheaper pricing from their suppliers. If anyone is expecting better than Netbook pe…

It's just greed. They're likely to do the reverse.

They were scaling vertically because the GHz game was a marketing strategy and not an engineering strategy. But when the pipeline got so deep that it didn't make sense (branch miss…