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zbrozek
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Folks don't want anything built near them ever. Even if it's as benign as housing.
zbrozek
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yes, though the fidelity offered by faithful CAD would be both easier to interpret correctly and might even hint at the CAD feature tree.

Kudos to them for releasing models useful for integration.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I do that. My slide decks these days are hand scribbled.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
This sounds great. I would've loved to have set my phone to charge up to only 60% or 80% of its design capacity to reduce wear. I do this on my laptop.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I bet you'd see natural market driven concentration around rail stations in Texas too, if they had a useful rail network.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
That's a big part of it. They also do zoning mostly at the federal level, meaning local opposition isn't relevant.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I use them like bookmarks.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
On a free Google plan the limits are comically low. On any paid One plan, they are high enough that I almost never hit them.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I tried the same, got a similar response, and complained to the AG. Nothing.
zbrozek
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I think Antigravity w/Gemini is a great product; it's been super useful on a bunch of my hobby projects. It's especially wonderful when writing firmware and needing to add support for a new chip. I can point it at a PDF datasheet and it'll do a much better job of reading it and parsing out all of the register fields than anything else. Saves me enormous amounts of time.
zbrozek
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I absolutely hate it. If you haven't heard a complaint about it, you haven't tried hard enough to get feedback.

There is no context which makes it OK.
zbrozek
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Scraping is almost always for obscurity to try and impede cloning. I don't really know why folks bother; it's not effective. Especially with LLMs, it's never been easier to vaguely describe a chip's connections and get plausible part numbers back. Add in traditional decapping / xray / other microscopy and it's really just not that hard to know what you're holding.
zbrozek
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
It's been many years since I implemented G.Hn hardware, but if memory serves the chipsets are typically able to split the available bandwidth into 1 or 2 MHz wide bins and choose different symbol densities and FEC levels for each bin. If you have a bin that has horrible reflections, you don't use it at all.

I also recall that the chipsets don't do toning automatically, and so it's up the the management device to decide when to re-probe the channel and reconfigure the bins.
zbrozek
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I want to avoid having a Google Search bar on my desktop, no gestures, no AI mode, no voice mode, etc. Is there a launcher for me?
zbrozek
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
It's coming up at the Los Altos Hills city council meeting next week. I would love to know what I should say to try and let our contract expire.
zbrozek
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm really hoping that the Linux gaming folks keep making progress on Windows-on-Linux compatibility so that I can transparently and with zero-fussing run any arbitrary Windows application. Unfortunately there's still plenty of professional software that has not been and will never be released for Linux.
zbrozek
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
A note to other folks. Don't bother asking customer service about this. They want you to record videos, as if that's a productive use of your time or required to support a product.

As soon as a CSR asks me to record a video, I write off the brand. Maybe Gen Z will tolerate that, but I'm too old for that nonsense.
zbrozek
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I dislike them not so much in my home area but everywhere else where I have no idea what I'm doing and worry that I'm going to come home to a ton of envelopes full of enormous fines. This is made worse as cash payment disappears.
zbrozek
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Thanks, I'll do that! I figured I've had the machine for a while and it was unlikely to be covered by warranty, so I didn't consider reaching out to support. Instead I assumed I'd buy a new keyboard if it ever annoyed me too much.

At some point I actually considered poking around the firmware and seeing about fixing up the PD behavior. But it never quite rose in priority above my many other projects.

I absolutely love that the embedded controller firmware and much of the motherboard schematics are available. It makes it possible to do these little projects should I gather the gumption. That, plus easy and reasonably priced replacement parts availability and easy OS compatibility, are why I got the Framework.
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·7 maanden geleden·discuss
The actual touch part of the FW touchpad, including tap to click, works just fine. I might be a weirdo for liking mechanical click for dragging (and I dislike the Macbook tactile fakery; it does not fool my finger).