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russdill··on HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
Dunno, I have a 15c limited edition (earlier run) and it's been great. My understanding is these are basically the same build as the modern 12c's
russdill··on Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
It certainly doesn't look like they've publicly released anything. My guess is they found a problem and have been following reasonable responsible disclosure guidelines. However, the 90 days (or whatever time limit was given) is likely expiring and to head off publication, flux.ai is getting lawyers involved.

This is all 100% speculation, just based on checking the archive sites and search sites historical data and finding nothing.

russdill··on Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV
Yes, this tech has long been used to great effect for flight sims. It might seem odd if you've never used it, but it turns out it's very intuitive.
russdill··on OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing
It was discovered and completely reimplemented independently without knowledge that Opentrack exists? That's the only thing I can figure. Except they actually mention TrackIR as that's the input method they are using.
russdill··on A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law
The amount of current that can be pushed through a thin silicon die is just wild.
russdill··on Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange
You're them moving and storing a lot of repetitive instruction data.
russdill··on IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
They do! The command is, cross your eyes a little bit
russdill··on IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
That's the beauty of eye tracking. The two adjustments are orthogonal. You don't cross and uncross your eyes to adjust focus.
russdill··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Might not be that bad for the environment but holy hell does it turn air quality to shit the next day.
russdill··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
I mean, there was that one static fire recently where the rocket broken loose and started flying. This was not for from a populated area. Ok, maybe that was pretty criminally negligent.
russdill··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
Really wish mobile browsers were better liars when it comes to "desktop mode"
russdill··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
The final issue that led to the scrub was that a pin that held back the QD arm got bound and would not release.
russdill··on Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
That's when the video was released, https://fixupx.com/DJSnM/status/2057199414633283833
russdill··on Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
Was actually almost a year ago https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1947293757612994886
russdill··on Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
Small edit, 2 V2 (not V3) successes (flights 10 and 11).
russdill··on Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
SN1 was a test engine, the flight engines are even cleaner https://fixupx.com/interstellargw/status/2057165036196409820
russdill··on SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death
The fatality occurred at a construction site, not an aerospace manufacturing facility.
russdill··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
Voters are well aware that elections have consequences that have real impacts on their lives.

If you elect someone who crashes your economy, who suffers those consequences? Maybe this isn't so much of a "who should suffer the consequences" but maybe more of a "who does (logically) suffer the consequences".

russdill··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
So the taxpayers should not face accountability for who they elect?
russdill··on Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
It's a planned event at a specific time that requires training, planning, and coordination between multiple organizations.
russdill··on I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
Cool project

Really hoping that ghidra can add support for non-byte aligned memory regions some day. So many cool 4-bit architectures out there and attempting to shoehorn them into ghidra produces not great results

russdill··on I hate soldering
The only place I've noticed a difference is for very large components with a lot of thermal mass.
russdill··on The Serial TTL connector we deserve
I mean, sure there are still rough edges, but it's not like rs232 over Juliet is some widely supported standard.

There are Android apps that support serial over ble

russdill··on The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Microcontrollers that support BLE are getting so cheap this really is becoming an option. Hopefully with some button that activates it.
russdill··on Humanoid Robot Actuators
The first video I clicked was an ai generated human reading an ai generated script describing why pulleys are important.
russdill··on Humanoid Robot Actuators
The YouTube channel linked is more of the same. Just the absolute worst slop
russdill··on Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
Seriously, we have a country where a large fraction of our ad spend is for services that promise to remove your private data from data brokers. We could literally just pass laws so companies could not do this.
russdill··on Air is full of DNA
The world of the very small is a very strange place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

We can't make a certain HIV drug anymore because after 2 years, a lower energy crystal state formed, and that state isn't as effective. Now anytime we try to form synthesize the drug it finds a molecule of the lower energy crystal state which causes the crystal to also form in the lower energy state.

russdill··on The RAM shortage could last years
Right, that's where the major push is right now. Not with shrinking down some code libraries.
russdill··on The RAM shortage could last years
The demand is being driven by inference though. I really don't think there will be much motivation.
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