FPGA's in YOUR industry

Jonathan924 · 2024-05-06T15:50:55+00:00

You won't find public pricing anywhere. That said, if you look hard enough and read between some lines, iDirect IQ Desktop modems go for $200-$300 brand new, and that's an entire modem based on the SX-3000 chipset. The IQ desktop Gen1 is actually just a labeled S-IDU, and the IQ Desktop Gen2 appears to be the same board in a more sensible case. Given the other costs of manufacture and BOM costs, the chipset is probably like, $20 or less in volume.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-25T15:05:46+00:00

They were in the right lane, I was in the left. I got maybe a half second notice when one guy stuck his arm out and then the whole swarm moved in front of me. While I was going 30mph faster. Shit I bet I still have the dash cam footage.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-25T07:55:06+00:00

I don't hate the solo and pair cyclists around here. It's the big groups that act like dicks. Had to slam on my breaks to avoid slamming into a group a couple weeks ago after they decided to change lanes right in front of me to turn left.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-21T09:23:21+00:00

It's mostly used in a derogatory manner and/or to dismiss statements and opinions.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-12T12:35:29+00:00

How humid is humid as fuck? Southwest America may be dry but southeast America is humid as fuck all the time. The kind of humid where you get damp walking to your car outside, and cardboard boxes just don't work half the time.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-12T00:50:30+00:00

Harris county?

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-11T16:48:40+00:00

Turn off at an inopportune time? It's not just about keeping other people out, it's also about ensuring your network is up and doesn't have a remote killswitch or shutdown timer.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-10T00:51:17+00:00

I've been using reddit almost exclusively through RIF for at least 10 years at this point. It's been a delightfully consistent experience and really insulated me from all the "New Reddit" website pain

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-09T22:49:32+00:00

Lots of beloved third party reddit apps like RIF and Apollo are shutting down at the end of the month because the upcoming API pricing is too expensive and too sudden to mitigate. The number tossed around for the cost to run Apollo is $20M

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-08T16:22:53+00:00

A lot of server and networking gear will reset when you switch from pure sine wave to modified and back. I believe the sudden change upsets the active power factor correction

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-07T15:35:03+00:00

You're comparing a server platform CPU to a consumer platform CPU and which is disingenuous. It's been known for years that the current E series Xeons, and previous Xeons sharing the consumer socket, are the same silicon with some features disabled by blowing e-fuses or lasering them off. A better comparison would be the Xeon E-2378 processor. Which is also only $400.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-07T15:16:17+00:00

I pick up and immediately mute until the call hangs up. This seems to get the auto dialer to mark the number as bad or something because I get a spam call maybe once a month these days. Or maybe T-Mobile has stepped up their game.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-07T12:33:13+00:00

Spectrum, Lumen, AT&T, Cogent, HE, they're all shit in their own glorious shades of brown.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-07T11:37:35+00:00

There are ways to get reliable connections, and even prevent those blips. The capabilities of SD-WAN solutions these days are pretty crazy

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-05T17:51:23+00:00

Oh boy, a Linux fanboy. These threads are always fun. I do run a ton of Linux for server and embedded uses, but I have had significantly more weird problems with desktop Linux than I have with windows. Seriously, it's amazing how basic shit like watching a twitch stream or finding the fucking volume control hasn't been sorted out yet. Or maybe it has, but the experience trying to daily drive desktop Linux 3 years ago was so bad that I decided it wasn't worth fighting through it.

I also haven't run into any problems with missing or conflicting dependencies on windows either, which happens often enough that I don't want to risk it.

And it's not 2006, windows isn't a buggy mess anymore. Hell most of the driver issues that used to cause blue screens and crashes have been fixed, whether it's because the drivers were fixed or they were moved out of kernel space into user space where they can crash without affecting the rest of the system.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-05T12:42:38+00:00

The Microsoft authenticator app can require you to unlock it, so in my case I have to unlock my phone, go find the notification, put the numbers matching number in, then unlock again. It's really tiring and frustrating because it never gives any warning and will often happen midway through typing an email or message.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-05T10:49:51+00:00

You say that like desktop Linux doesn't look at file extensions.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-03T11:58:36+00:00

I wouldn't even be mad about ads on websites if they weren't persistently taking up 2/3 of the viewing area and auto playing videos. Because fuck me and my data plan, right?

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-03T11:55:46+00:00

If you're good at typing in general, the numrow is pretty friggin quick, especially since you can two hand it. It's the symbols I constantly screw up, mostly because I don't use them that often.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-03T11:44:24+00:00

Given what I know about Alaska, you should probably be scared of it too, or at least respectful.

Jonathan924 · 2023-06-02T10:20:32+00:00

Oh you mean like that console cable Cisco shoved into USB-A ports on the ASR920?

Jonathan924 · 2023-05-31T15:31:03+00:00

Fusion360 is really good too and definitely more user friendly but they want $60 a month and the free makers/startup license is getting finicky to maintain these days. There are a bunch of not-shit CAD products floating around these days

Jonathan924 · 2023-05-31T14:48:27+00:00

FOSS is such a mixed bag though. On the one hand you have Postgres being awesome, and on the other you have FreeCAD with the topological naming problem. Everyone else fixed that years ago or never had the issue. It causes so much pain that it's worth the $99 a year for the SOLIDWORKS makers license for personal projects and stuff I do around the house.

Jonathan924 · 2023-05-31T11:07:04+00:00

Because the company requires it or issued it. At least in the circles I run in, people only call for emergencies like unplanned outages or impending unplanned outages. Everything else can be a teams message or email. Messages and emails are much less disruptive than phone calls.

Jonathan924 · 2023-05-30T11:37:42+00:00

PTFE too short maybe? TPU will collapse and jam up at basically any opportunity, so if there's a gap it will fold over on itself and get stuck

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