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> I suppose it's possible the important bits of a high end cassete player aren't any better. Audiophile equipment is sometimes funny that way.

It's a different problem domain too. A non-linear tape head/amplifier may help with recovering pulses but have unpleasant distortion for audio.

The IRS?

Presumably they had a brain scan machine (scanner?) nearby, ready to go. Everyone likes a joke with a prop.

This seems to the same text as the author's Reverse Engineering for Beginners (https://beginners.re/)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re

Another old chestnut - learning some assembly allows you to read it, even if you don't ever need to write any. There is real value in understanding which instructions your compiler is emitting.

Beating the compiler is made easier if you can look at the compiler's answers.

Semiconductor manufacturing is very planar - it's made up of many layers on top of each other, with some interconnecting features or vias between layers. It's a best-case scenario for reverse engineering with photography.

The very popular 858D temperature controlled hot air stations only run about 50usd. Performance is much better than a hardware store heat gun.

> a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around

There's the AvE influence.

Not sure about you but I keep breathing 24 hours a day.

Personally, I would be surprised to read about well-documented theft committed by ancient Pharaohs in tomorrow's newspapers.

I find the 20 minute on/5 minutes off Pomodoro cycle is great for getting me started into a problem. After 1 or 2 of these cycles I find I'm skipping the breaks and sustaining focused work for longer.

They are not trying to record high speed video. A camera may take a picture every millisecond, but it doesn't have to be one camera. They could be using multiple cameras interleaved in time...

I loved this series when I was around that age. I'm surprised to read it was written when you were 17!

memtest86 can do functional tests.

> they require virtually no maintenance in comparison.

Not sure I agree - your circular saw might need a new blade but your handsaw will (eventually) need a sharpening and the teeth set.

Traditional contracts aren't immutable in the same sense though, right? They can be appealed, annulled, ignored...

Also the segment for VGA video memory on PCs IIRC

Congrats (and thanks) for the amazing prod :)

An opportunity to opt out? If I need to be near the unit for whatever reason I would be more comfortable if I could switch it off.

Out of curiosity, what kind of logic analyzer are you using that can see events that fast?

Posting to another site first is very common, many are just using Patreon instead of Vimeo.

Big entities buying in bulk are part of the demand for the backdoors.

>an accelerometer in a Wii Remote

I don't think this is the best example, accelerometers were not a cheap common part at the time. The Wii predates the iPhone, MEMS accelerometers were not anywhere near as widely deployed as they are now and they cost an order of magnitude or two more.

I can remember hobbyists buying Wii Remotes after launch just to rip out the sensors :)

IMO, perfect example is the B&W LCD on the original DMG Gameboy. A generation behind the competition, but cheap and low-power for the time.

How would they know that they have higher salaries?

Hah, I haven't thought of Eircom hosting in a while.

The counterargument is a well-intentioned but clueless volunteer should not be in charge of directing millions of dollars in donations. I imagine it's hard to find someone with skills to efficiently run a large organization without paying them an industry wage.

SomethingAwful still has an e/n forum for personal problems

Hi Jason. I am wishing you well (Rachel too) from Ireland.

I have no data to support it but I suspect the level of optimisation in modern compilers adds a lot of overhead.

Depletion MOSFETs seem to have availability problems. My local distributors only have a dozen or so models, mostly SOT-23. I can see why DIYers are not all over them.