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  • OneChipBook-12-A is a $215 mini laptop with an FPGA for retro computing - Liliputing

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  • I’m aware that’s true for complex multi chip systems like arcade boards. The Mister project for example. But a simple Z80? I expect it to emulate virtually perfectly. Maybe not? Hence why I’m curious.

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  • In this mode the aircraft has superior protection from all modern anti-air weapon systems.

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  • The Cello Suites and the Goldberg Variations for me.

  • Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier

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  • The buttery males greased the flight deck!

  • OneChipBook-12-A is a $215 mini laptop with an FPGA for retro computing - Liliputing

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  • Pretty neat. But why an FPGA? I would imagine if you want to run software targeting really old chips, like the Z80, you might as well run it on a modern x86/ARM/RISCV processor with an emulator on Linux.

  • Tesla’s European death spiral has no end in sight

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  • To quote an old car show: Oh no! Anyway.

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    Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]

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  • Lemmy .ml is partly why I switched to an instance which defederates them. The admin and mod behavior over there is gross. If it weren't run by the Lemmy devs it would be widely blocked.

  • Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

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  • "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year."

    A key part of Moore's law which is often omitted is that Moore was not just talking about transistor density but about cost. When people say we've reached the end of Moore's law this is not because we're no longer able to increase semiconductor transistor density (just look at TSMC's roadmap) but that the "complexity for minimum component costs" is no longer increasing. Chips are still getting faster but they're now also more expensive.

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • I recently switched to Linux and the latest KDE surprised me with how powerful it is. Scaling works. Fonts are rendered nicely. It's just easy to use. Most of the time I don't even think about the fact that I'm running Linux anymore.

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    A brutal message to Westerners who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it's ''unfair''

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  • I visited Europe recently and used a rideshare service, the guy was driving a new BYD compact SUV. I was surprised at how nice it was. The interior styling was still a little eccentric, which is something I noticed before with Chinese cars, but the build quality appeared to be very good. It was definitely a vehicle I would consider if they were for sale here in the US. American car manufacturers must be relieved to be protected by arbitrary trade barriers.

  • Labor wins Australian Federal election

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  • It's amazing, and disappointing, that the simple exercise of "Let me predict what the consequences of my vote will be" seems beyond so many people.

  • US House Republicans vote against blocking ICE from deporting US citizens

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  • Yeah, it's so unsurprising. It's why I believe the US Demoractic party of today is, at least to some degree, controlled opposition. I don't like this theory, but I cannot see a more rational explanation for their behavior. They've been letting the Republicans walk all over them for years. Why?

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • I’m just pointing out an issue with residential PV which, when I first heard about it, surprised me. I hope it does not surprise the people making these laws.

    Imagine if, some years from now, seasonal solar oversupply might become in the UK and the people with these by law mandated panels face the choice to either manually switch off their systems or pay to send their solar energy into the grid. It sounds stupid but this seems to be happening in places with high PV density.

    And btw you’re getting me wrong, I am a big fan of residential solar. I've got a small system. It’s just, at scale, apparently more complicated than covering every roof with panels…

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • People who install solar on their roofs usually expect to recoup some of the costs by sending energy to the grid. When, increasingly often, they have a choice of either shutting the system off and wasting this energy or sending it to the grid at low or even negative rates, this becomes a problem. The expectation of "my solar system will pay for itself in X years" might become "my solar system will never break even". At least that's an issue in some places with high PV density.

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • Of course, it depends on the conditions. But any (temporary) overcapacity becomes a problem for people with solar panels when they expect to pay off the cost of the panels not just with a reduction in drawing power from the grid but also with credits from sending power to the grid.

    However, there are problems, with some grid operators even charging customers for energy sent to the grid during peak times, such as in NL: https://innovationorigins.com/en/solar-feed-in-tariffs-climb-18-in-six-months/

    Solar without storage is less ideal than most people think.

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • Absolutely. But I also read about these concerns in The Netherlands and Belgium, which aren't quite California.

  • Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

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  • While solar power is great and possibly the future, I sure hope they fully thought this through. A lot of areas with large numbers of solar panels are struggling to manage overcapacity. Solar energy produced is not always sent to the grid but wasted, as there is often not enough grid-scale storage capacity to absorb it. I'm no expert, but I wonder if mandating smart in-home sodium-ion batteries which intelligently charge and discharge based on grid capacity wouldn't be more effective.

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • The same with Lightroom sadly. The open source alternatives are either too buggy or have UX designed by very "opinionated" people, making them painful and frustrating to use. I currently want to get rid of Lightroom but can't.

  • You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only

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  • Ah, thanks. That was entirely unclear from this article.