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kingosticks··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
The code formatting is so badly broken now. It simply cannot have been tested. i just can't believe they want it to work like that. i also really hate that copy and pasting into a chat preserves the styling/formatting of the original. why would i want that? and the search... oh the search!
kingosticks··on Event-driven access to my home after a run
If you are taking an NFC fob out with you just take a spare key. It doesn't even need power.
kingosticks··on Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max
OK, yes there's often correlation but that's it. A longer pipeline doesn't affect max circuit frequency.

The other sibling comment regarding distance isn't true. regardless of how insane your feedbacks are. Physical placement tools have always handled this in my experience (as a chip designer for 10+ years).

kingosticks··on Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max
How is pipeline length related to max frequency?
kingosticks··on No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption
> let's assume it's accurate.

This article tries to understand where that number comes from (and fails to do so): https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902

kingosticks··on Make an internet radio station with one line of bash
I don't see why latency matters here.
kingosticks··on Make an internet radio station with one line of bash
Doesn't an icecast server already do what broadcast-server does? You post an audio stream to it and it relays that to clients. What am I missing?
kingosticks··on Give me /events, not webhooks
In terms of GDPR/privacy, is there any issue when posting private data to a 3rd-party server (i.e. webhooks) vs having that 3rd-party query your server? Or can you just say that once a secure webhook subscription is established you are off the hook (pun not intentional)?
kingosticks··on Give me /events, not webhooks
Strava has an API like that but combines it with an insanely low daily rate-limit which makes retrieving the changed data difficult for anything other than personal apps. But that's totally an issue with their brain-dead policy rather than the idea.
kingosticks··on Airbus Beluga
Thanks so much for the tip. I looked at it but it's all folded on the mobile view and I totally missed it. However, the beluga xl article holds no information regarding this that I can see.

Other than other vehicles and containers, this is pretty cool:

> In 1999, a Beluga carried a large painting, Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix,[20] which had hung in the Louvre in Paris since 1874

kingosticks··on Airbus Beluga
There are also now 6 Beluga XLs with approx 30% larger cargo hold than original Beluga.

I'm curious if Airbus ever lease them out to others for transporting big things other than wings.

kingosticks··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
Looks like I did misunderstand, I thought they actually meant the silicon technology itself which is now available to the others and they all have designs coming using it.
kingosticks··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
That would make sense in the context of Intel but anyone with money has access to TSMC 5nm (in 2021-2022). Do I misunderstand?
kingosticks··on Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
Do these community supported SDK/APIs ever work? In my experience (Strava and Spotify APIs) it's an excuse for the company to release a load of half-baked crap and then wash their hands of supporting it. Allowing them to tick the box that they offer a public API and make themselves look better. Despite members of the public donating their time to help each other, without participation from the company itself it's all trial and error development with everyone running into the same bugs that never get fixed.

It's great that some companies have finally recognised the value in providing public SDK/APIs but they should be investing in supporting them also.

kingosticks··on Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis
Will the airflow "work" with all the gaps?
kingosticks··on Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
Sure, but that's normally the sort of adverting that goes along with a big advertising spend. I had imagined almost all their advertising exposure is from giving product away for people to review, and of course the charity aspect got headlines originally. I suppose you might say the silly low price of the pi zero was a form of advertising. I don't think they'll do a stunt like that again.
kingosticks··on Rust on Espressif chips
i agree it can be done but it's a fragile balancing act. What I don't agree with is that Rust provides anything particularly special allowing you to do this.
kingosticks··on Rust on Espressif chips
"low-latency processing of IO input" may well be talking about hard realtime stuff, for which threads/async on a single core doesn't help you.
kingosticks··on Rust on Espressif chips
They asked for dual core. The C3 is single core.

> ESP32-C3 is a single-core, 32-bit, RISC-V-based MCU with 400KB of SRAM, which is capable of running at 160MHz

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_C3

kingosticks··on Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
I wish I could transfer my incredible raspberry pi luck to the actual lottery. I'd have won so many times.

In reality, fully working raspberry pi boards are normal. I must have at least 10. I admit I no longer use the original model (so slow) but last time I tried it worked just fine. I think that's pretty great for the money, especially considering the state of the market before they came along which I think you might be forgetting.

kingosticks··on Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
Out of interest, where do you see their adverts?
kingosticks··on Intel Shows Off Multi-Chiplet Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM
This is for a supercomputer, right? Do AMD have something for Intel to compete against here?
kingosticks··on Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors
The "Prime" set they reference in the article looks awesome but it's over £300! A motor alone seems to be about £50.For schools maybe this is reasonable, not so much for individuals.
kingosticks··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
And the price would be even higher.
kingosticks··on The last days of Silicon Roundabout
You dont want to live in the UK because the media obsession with the Royal Family?! That's hardly in the same category as the GP's concerns.
kingosticks··on Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]
There are some numbers at https://www.lightreading.com/carrier-security/security-strat...
kingosticks··on Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
And audio?
kingosticks··on TSMC’s Speciality Technologies
Broadcom have been busy but there's still choice: https://elegantnetwork.github.io/posts/A-Summary-of-Network-...
kingosticks··on Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz
Who do you think is learning from who in this situation?
kingosticks··on Planning for Servers in 2022 and Beyond
Do you have coax connections in each room? If so, is ethernet over coax an option?
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