Putting a collar on a wild animal to protect it from being shot is a pretty pathetic attempt at protecting something you care about.
I’d put a high vis jacket on my kids, but I wouldn’t then send them off to play in traffic.
I think the most made-in-America gaming hardware is probably the mac pro
Sorry, by precise I mean “specific timing requirements with respect to each other” not “parts per million”
I think ever my clock has a few dozen nanoseconds of slop, but the whole clock pattern is difficult to create without a bunch of discrete logic.
Yeah definitely outdated and flat racist at parts (especially when you learn how little of it actually happened), but it's an incredible looking film especially when you realize the time it was made.
Check out hackaday maybe? It’s primarily hobbyist stuff, but they’ve been peppering in some original pieces about tech innovations and trends.
At the very least, nobody is trying to sell you anything.
Over the past few weeks, I realized that I wasn’t reading the news to “stay informed,” I was reading it because I was bored. As a form of entertainment, it’s pretty awful. 99% of what I read will have no direct impact on me or my family, and just sitting there and worrying about it without doing anything to fix it serves nobody.
Also, I’ve learned to be skeptical of basically every headline good or bad. I saw a headline this week about how upset Trump supporters were with his cabinet picks. Comments in the thread were talking about leopards eating faces. The article was a collection of 8 tweets from supporters showing disapproval.
This news site was just preying on people’s hopes and making a story out of absolutely nothing.
So I started focusing on some personal hobbies and have tried to re-teach myself how to focus by reading some long form fiction.
It’s far too fast to do it in software. Thus the FPGA.
But yes, it needs a very specific set of six clock signals. Not something easy to achieve with discrete logic if that’s what you’re suggesting. data sheet
Yeah the reference design uses a display driver from Epson that’s eol.
Haven’t looked at integrated display controllers. That’s certainly interesting. It’s a pretty unconventional display. Sharp memory LCD with 64 colors data sheet. I’ll have to see how configurable the integrated controllers are.
Looked at the max10. Still too pricey. Hoping for something in the <$1 range.
cheap low-profile way to generate six precise clocks
I’m working on driving a very finicky lcd. I have it working now with an FPGA dev kit. I had to use an FPGA because some of the timing requirements are in the tens of nanoseconds.
At the end of the day, I wrote a block for a one shot/continuous clock with a programmable duty cycle and initial delay. This block was repeated six times for the various clocks with their specific values.
Moving to the final product, this feels like overkill. In the past, I’ve managed to make this kind of thing work with a Rube Goldberg collection of on-board timer/counters on the microcontroller.
I’d like to avoid that mess this time around. If I can generate the clocks externally, I can have the host MCU send the data quickly using DMA.
An FPGA works great, but they’re expensive and there’s the issue of licensing for FPGA and and CPLD software.
I’ve seen this problem solved with a lookup table, but there aren’t a lot of cheap/small rom/ram options for what I’m trying to do.
Basically, what I’m asking is is there a component that can be easily programmed to generate a number of clocks, doesn’t need any costly software licensing, and comes in a very small package? (Like wlcsp)
Some carriers specifically cater to unbanked people.
When I worked at Radio Shack back in the day, Sprint had a card you could just hand to the cashier with cash. Didn’t even need to speak any English. The card had all your details on it.
Of course they charged a $5 fee per transaction because fuck poor people.
You do understand that there are thousands of comments on these posts and they're selecting 10 or so to write an article, right? Do you think cherry picking 10 people who are upset illustrates any kind of trend? Can't you see how this article is disingenuous ?
But the sample size is 15 people. Do you trust cherry picking 15 people out of thousands a good way to judge national trends?
one Trump-supporting Truth Social user wrote in response to Trump's announcement.
but numerous commenters spoke out
One user, identified as @thompmark78,
A user with "Patriot. America First" in their bio
@Dbn281977, another user who frequently shares Trump's content
Another user, who posts in favor of Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and is identified as @Omi17,
A self-proclaimed Trump voter identified as @lutherbh1 complained about another aspect of Trump's transition.
So we're talking about maybe 15 people tops? I used to read these kinds of stories and tell myself that we were reaching the "find out" stage or whatever, but this is absolutely not a story. If it referenced any kind of poll data or wider reaching metric than reading a handful of tweets, there might be reason to hope, but as it stands, this is a nothingburger story that just gives you 15 minutes of feeling like there's justice in the world.
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
No. All of these comics are satire. Note the lady liberty crying in the background. There’s one in every comic.
Also the “Onion Syndicate” in the top right.
I got a free iPod with my laptop with a student discount heading into freshman year of college in 2007.
I went to school in Boston, so I had the iPod engraved with “attention Boston police, this is not a bomb.”
I was so edgy
Definitely been on my list. Just never got around to it.
looking for story-based moderate puzzle games that can be played from the couch
Just finished 12 Minutes and Indika with my wife. Enjoyed the tight 5-ish hour gameplay with decent not-too-challenging puzzles and great story.
Basically 5-hour date night that’s more engaging than a movie.
Any other games that you can recommend in this category?
XKCD from 2009
Given the amount of pull individual influencers have managed to amass over the last decade, it looks like the original 1985 prediction aged better than this 2009 rebuttal.
What’s the easiest way to pull ~30mA from a USB 3 port without getting a warning from Windows?
Back in my day, you could usually sip a few mA from a USB2 port without any trouble.
When I try that now, Windows pops up with a “device not recognized” error. I know you can draw up to 150mA before enumeration, but it looks like after some time, Windows will complain that you haven’t enumerated yet.
Is there an easy way to keep from getting this error without having to actually make the device smart?
I’m hoping for something dumb along the lines of USB-PD but facing the other direction. For the record, it has to work on a USB-A port, so USB-C hacks won’t work.
People under 25, how many of you are aware that you can get 1080p HD TV programming (and many live sports) for free over the air with no app sign-in or susbscription fee?
Just curious because I don’t see people talk about it a lot.
Is there an easy way to switch back and forth between an eSim iPhone and a dumb phone?
I've been dumbphoning since March 2023, but my wife isn't 100% on board. She has shown some interest in going dumb for certain outings though.
Unfortunately, she has an iPhone 14 Pro which (in the US at least) is eSIM only. I looked into Verizon's numbershare, and picked up a Palm phone, but in addition to being a complete piece of trash, it's also not entirely dumb.
Is there a method for switching Verizon accounts from eSIM to physical SIM or temporarily forwarding all calls/texts to a new number easily? Like the kind of thing that might be as quick as physically swapping a SIM?
New York City is the only city in America (or maybe the world) where people are expected to have a general understanding of the geography in casual conversation.
Like why do I feel like I’m supposed to be able to name the seven boroughs? I can’t tell you anything about L.A., Chicago, Boston, etc.
Edit: to clarify: I mean that everyone in America are expected to know NYC. Not just New Yorkers. Obviously everyone should know the layout of where they live.
What's a good method for a non-technical person to short the terminals of two 0402 resistors ~1mm apart?
I'm working on a mod kit for a popular item, but my target audience isn't likely to have a soldering iron. The majority of the project connects to an exposed ribbon connector, but I need to short two terminals to force a power supply on.
Any ideas on a method I could provide for people who can't solder? Maybe a strip of copper tape?
What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering?
I dumped the ROM out of a piece of retro-tech and have been working through the code in Ghidra. Unfortunately, I can’t exactly decompile it because I don’t think it was originally written in a higher level language.
For example, the stack is rarely used and most functions either deal entirely in global variables, or binary values are passed back using the carry or other low-level bits. Trying to turn it into C would just make spaghetti code with a different sauce.
So my current plan is to just comment every subroutine as best I can, but that still leaves a few massive lookup tables that should be dropped into a spreadsheet of some sort to add context. Not to mention schematics.
My question is what’s the best way to present all of this? I’d like to open-source the result, so a simple PDF is not ideal. I guess I should make a GitHub project? Are there any good examples or templates I can draw on?
Anybody tried one of these RPi based N64 cart dumpers off Aliexpress?
Looking to ROM dump just a handful of games, so I’m trying not to spend hundreds on a Sanni or Retrode. I saw this on AliExpress for $15.
I’ve personally had good luck with Alibaba and Aliexpress, but I recognize that this could just straight not work. There’s no documentation, but it claims the game data will show up like files on a USB flash drive.
Anybody know where this design came from?
Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order.
Edit: turns out these are all bootleg and I’m a moron. Only two Zelda games were officially released for GBA.
Just kicked off a return.
In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.
Has anybody here actually maintained a conversation with a stranger?
I’m now at a point where I can detect 152 nodes in my city. 25 are listed as “online.”
Yet the only contact I’ve gotten is the occasional “hello world” and once or twice a response to my own “hello world.”
It’s possible that nobody has anything to say, but I also suspect the network isn’t robust enough to maintain contact and facilitate a real conversation between random strangers.
Has anybody else here managed to actual chat with someone they don’t know?
Got my router up and running! (and some questions)
Rak wireless module with battery/solar.
My question is…now what? I’m in Seattle, I can pick up 121 nodes, but there no traffic.
Is everybody using private channels? Or is nobody talking? I don’t see many messages and got one reply to a general CQ I sent out, but no response to the follow up.
I guess I was kind of hoping for what I get over ham radio, occasional chats, evening nets, etc.
Am I running into a technical limitation? Or is that the gist of Meshtastic?
As a follow-up, can I easily see if my router is handling other people’s traffic? I’d like to know if I’m helping.
New Router! (and questions)
So just installed a rooftop relay based on a Rak wireless module. I can now reach over 120 nodes (around 20 “online”).
I guess my question now is…now what?
I come from ham radio, so I was hoping to make come connections and maybe have some conversations, but the best I got was a single reply to a CQ, but I got no response from my follow-up.
Does anybody actually have conversations over the general Meshtastic channel? Is it all encrypted channels? Or is nobody talking at all?
Is there any way to determine how much traffic my router is handling?
This is in Seattle, BTW.
Ticketmaster offers no alternative to your smartphonw
This might not be news to everyone, but since 2021, they stopped offering an alternative to the app. You can no longer print or screenshot the barcodes because they roll.
Super lame.