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https://www.waterstones.com/book/digital-design-and-computer...
The need for speed in sea turtle telemetry – SnapperGPS vs. Assisted GPS
MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera
"Unlike Hubble, Webb isn't designed to be fixed by astronauts. But it can be refueled robotically. Zurbuchen says that 'once this telescope is deployed, I'm going to put all the effort towards developing that technology, and so within the 10-year lifespan, we can go refuel it'"
https://nitter.42l.fr/marinakoren/status/1474367236244750345...
https://nitter.42l.fr/Dr_ThomasZ/status/1474398711505580032#...
Humble Bundle to limit charity split to 15%
True, 128kbps wasn't anything that'd compare with 4G, but this was 1999. It wasn't great at handoffs either, but still, I was able to use it on BART regardless. Imagine, connected to the net - on the move!
CHIRP Radio (Chicago): https://chirpradio.org 4ZZZ (Brisbane): https://www.4zzzfm.org.au
Both are ad-free, other than local community orgs and the occasional local independent business plug, and funded by listener donations. Big bonus: huge variety in their playlists, with the DJs playing whatever they feel like.
There, we had about an hour of video - on CD, it should be noted, not a cartridge - at 288x320 (using an interlaced display mode, which virtually nobody used beyond splash screens), with a perfectly solid 30fps. Left unregulated, the decoder yielded around 40-70fps. All ARM assembly, and a huge amount of fun to write. ^_^
No hardware acceleration, needless to say, other than page blitting to copy the previous frame to the current buffer.
(And without the BBC Micro, would Acorn have eventually designed the Acorn RISC Machine, itself having since proven quite influential?)
Cheap zinc/manganese battery being developed commercially
There may have been other edits, but that's the one which tripped my memory when watching the laserdisc copy I bought soon afterward.
Recovery of Lost Indigenous Languages by Optical Scanning of Old Wax Cylinders
"01/29/18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment."
So, just the House, for now.
The Light L16 – brilliant and braindead
ie Does it matter much, beyond notifying them, and if so, is it better to perform that change before/during/after the processing?
https://i.imgur.com/S1Luizd.jpg
The company being as cheap as it was, I simply began using the microwave as a deliberate noise source for testing the device's operation under adverse conditions, placing a few mugs of water in the microwave for a few minutes, and deliberately setting my channel to collide with the microwave.
World’s tiniest Mac Plus has ESP32 inside
All C, up to Media Cleaner Pro 4, migrating to C++ with Cleaner 5, with some Altivec (oh, what a joyous SIMD ISA) on the Mac side.
AMD Stock Craters on Morgan-Stanley Report, but Is the Report Accurate?
Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
The ability to target specific subs has multiple benefits:
- the advertiser knows precisely where the ad's appearing. Useful for them and their notion of where it'll be most useful, and indeed, knowing it won't be running anywhere else. Reddit appears to be deliberately diluting this benefit.
- the reader had previously been assured of ads relevant to the sub. As has been noted elsewhere, it's not always welcome for ads from professionally relevant subs to bleed outside the work day. Then there are subs which people might not want ads targeted for them appearing elsewhere - I'm not entirely confident someone who'd visited a sub on the basis of tentatively exploring a possible element of their sexuality, for example, might want that highlighted the next day when visiting some other sub entirely.
As a nice bonus, every day, they make one title available free - a good means to dip into new technologies just out of curiosity: