ch00f 9h ago • 100%
He melts down to just his bill which floats next to the ring and mutters “you’re despicable.”
ch00f 10h ago • 100%
Also enjoying that we have a method for reducing concussions by half, but it isn’t mandatory in games why?
ch00f 2d ago • 100%
Heh, I guess I should have phrased that differently.
But yeah, it's actually really courteous. Sometimes a little too much. It'll move over to the left side of the lane if it sees a cyclist or pedestrian on the shoulder to the right. Unfortunately, it doesn't understand when there's a 3 ft concrete barrier between me and the pedestrian and will do it anyway. Makes some narrow bridge crossings a little scarier than necessary.
ch00f 2d ago • 100%
The first Model X has Autopilot 1 which was a system designed by Mobileye. Tesla's relationship with Mobileye fell apart and they replaced it with an Nvidia based system in 2017(?). It was really really bad at the start as they were essentially starting from scratch. This system also used 8 cameras instead of the original 1.
Then Tesla released AP hardware 3 which was a custom-built silicon chip designed specifically for self-driving which also enabled proper navigation of surface streets in addition to the just highway lanekeeping offered in AP1. This broadened scope of actually dealing with turns and traffic from multiple angles is probably where the reputation of it being dangerous has come from.
My HW3 enabled Model 3 does make mistakes, though it's rarely anything like hitting a pedestrian or running off the road. Most of my issues are with navigational errors. If the GPS gets messed up in the tunnel, it'll suddenly decide to take an exit that it isn't supposed to, or it'll get in the left lane to pass someone 1/4 mile from a right-exit.
ch00f 3d ago • 100%
Yes, but you still need to install the cores developed by the community in order to play ROMs.
The necessary core for ROMs was released barely a day after OpenFPGA support was, but it wasn’t released by Analogue.
ch00f 3d ago • 66%
The console doesn't officially support ROMs. It must run games off the original hardware carts.
However, there's a fairly simple hack to get ROMs to play on the SD card slot of the Analogue Pocket that many suspect was unofficially developed by Analogue themselves.
ch00f 4d ago • 100%
Guess the Duracell rep lied to us. Sorry.
ch00f 4d ago • 53%
Fun Fact: batteries only do this when they're over-discharged. If you design your circuit right, this won't happen.
ch00f 4d ago • 100%
Yeah, I was fully expecting this thing to be like $400.
ch00f 4d ago • 100%
Emulators can’t always play every game. I know Pokémon Snap has always struggled to run.
This is identical to real hardware and upscales everything to 4K. Not to mention native support for Bluetooth controllers and other creature comforts.
xkcd.com
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.
ch00f 7d ago • 100%
There was an extensive amount of refurbishment required to re-use the SRBs. Not to mention they had to be physically recovered, and salt water certainly made the process more complicated.
The shuttle itself needed each of its heat shield tiles replaced, which due to the shape of the shuttle were all unique.
The fuel tank was not reused.
The shuttle was meant to be a leap forward in rocket reusability, but it didn’t really pan out that way. There’s good reason the program was scrapped and not replaced with another space plane.
The Starship booster has the potential to launch multiple times per day. The only refurbishment period is how long it takes to refuel it.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
I think that’s a Qualcomm proprietary thing that isn’t supported by standard USB downward facing ports.
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.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=200w*1 year *%240.14%2FkWh
$245/year assuming constant 200W load which is pretty reasonable for a small web server.
The trick is to have the server do other things like print, Plex, Piwigo, Samba, Shinobi, Frigate, Matrix, etc
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
Aw is that canon? I liked how they didn’t explain it in the show.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
It always bugged me how in Man of Steel, Superman has to deal with the moral quandary of breaking the bad guy’s neck at the cost of vaporizing a family.
Like they spent the previous 20 minutes punching each other through buildings. No way that was the first family they killed.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
Moore’s law factored in cost, not just what was physically possible.
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
Yes. Radio waves can pierce opaque objects.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
Ah. Well if your PC is static, a USB tuner isn't too much. Plus then you have a built-in DVR.
ch00f 2w ago • 100%
I hear that. We have an attic yagi aimed directly at Seattle from 10 miles away, and we still get the occasional dropout even on our strongest signals.
Still when it works, it works really well. We watch Nature and Nova on Sundays, and the wildlife footage looks incredible.
Just curious because I don’t see people talk about it a lot.
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?
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.
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?
 
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
…the correct answer on the crossword is wrong. “Earthrise” is not a natural phenomenon. The Earth doesn’t rise in the sky of the Moon. The Moon is tidally locked. It only appears to rise from orbit where it was observed by Apollo 8 in 1968. And pulsars were first discovered in 1968 (or at least that’s when they were named). So, it recognized that it was a crossword question, but it didn’t give the crossword answer. The answer it did give us technically more correct.
