Meh, they messed up and put CRT in the press release so this is DOA for most of the South.

AR = Arkansas. AK = Alaska. While the nature parts might be similar, I'm sure Alaskans don't want any association with this nonsense.

Ha! I have been to your blog before back when I was first getting started with Expressif and Arduino. Looking forward to SHARK!

Considering all the low-level work on these devices to get them performing well, it makes sense that you'd be in the IOT space. Replacing all the external calls to the SDK for something that could be abstracted and spec'd would be beneficial to generating cross-platform libraries that could be interfaced (this is how Google clean-roomed Android compatibility with Java). I just couldn't find anything on the original calls' documentation wise to see what the inputs and expected outputs would be in the 30sec glance I gave the code. At this point, we'd be writing an embedded game engine. :-D I've always thought about something that could help micro developers easy ways to develop rich media applications, but considering that every schematic change would resort in re-writing the drivers for the hardware, it seemed silly. I think what you've done here changes that as it gives people a chance to get really creative with embedded sensors that interact without having to squeeze it over Bluetooth or wifi protocols for mobile devices or complicated drivers for PC interaction. Much obliged for the spark of inspiration!

You'd need to find the source code of their libraries as well. Looking through the code, it heavily relies on device/os specific libraries like VgaGetScreenMode which I can only find pointing to other PalmOS software made by Handera (which still exists somehow). Converting this to anything useful for other embedded devices would be easier to rewrite from scratch. Some of the frequency conversion stuff for the audio might be useful, but otherwise this might be best suited for emulating the PalmOS and hardware more than trying to convert it to Arduino/ARM/RISC platforms.

This is a very good point that I've of the articles listed made: consumers have changed away from needing such setup. For the most part, there's little need for high count cable management as consumers aren't holding on to that many devices. You see this TVs too, they're including fewer video ports as well. You have maybe a console or two with the hope you'll use the "Smart" features on the TV that they plan on abandoning support for once the warranty expires. The last two generations lacked the financial resources to be able to support such setups so they've moved on to cheap earbuds and the allure of "upgrading" to over the ear headphones that come with cheap amplifiers and mics passed off as high end. Routing through walls and hiding wires that carry high quality signals is quickly being replaced with low quality wireless compression. There's even pushes to use those cheap Bluetooth speakers in conjunction to attempt to provide surround sound vs a dedicated decoder with discrete channels of amplification. Soundbars are pretty much where all this will land and rightfully so since that's all the newer generations of consumers can afford. Onkyo long sold off it's operations to Sharp, so what we're seeing filling for bankruptcy is the leftover husk that's holding on to the debt. The brand will love in but don't be surprised when you see Onkyo branded soundbars and Bluetooth speakers start flooding stores and online. Sad really.

Great, you reinvented sails. I guess the problem was the mast?

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing if it's basic research which tends to be expensive and leads to a lot of dead ends. As long as the results of the research don't get exclusivity, we might be better off letting government (e.g public schools and research only organizations) do that heavy lifting. There likely needs to be some definition around what constitutes as basic. In the AI field, if argue that things like GPT are basic since it's sorry of useless in it's own, and products like chat boxes and personal assistants that can utilize NLP are not. Narrowing down that definition is probably going to be the hard part since the last evolution of basic research only happened as a means to an end than for the greater good if society.

Feel better? Must have been a very long day at the office. Glad to see you got it off your chest.

What stops GPU manufacturers from replicating this tech if all the difference is the wafer wasn't broken up into literal chips? Haven't Nvidia and AMD been doing this for over a decade with crossfire/SLI over a serial bus? Seems like a cakewalk to simply integrate the discrete GPUs over that same bus on a single wafer.

17 comments before someone has some sensible discussion that doesn't blame ideology or some crazy hypothesis about a political party. This site has gone to crap.

They don't understand the complexity, that's why this case is being brought up in the first place. And this has huge ramifications for languages that require definition order for compilation and it won't be long before we see claims like "int b before char a is just like our int c before int b"! This is just dumb but maybe it'll finally end the debate of curly braces on new lines vs in line.

Looks like an investor figured out what they bought and how that purchased was about to blow away like a fart in the wind.

This is incorrect thinking by someone who's clearly never been to Bentonville. The entire town might as well be the corporate office as you can't throw a rock and not hit a Walmart office building, and the new campus being built, designed to consolidate a lot of those scattered buildings, rivals Apple's spaceship campus. Not to mention there are secondary campuses that are considered HQs in New York, California, and a few other places (along with several international headquarters). While the HO associate count is paltry compared to the store workforce, you have to remember that the stores already have several incentives in place for getting vaccinated that are mostly effective. Once the home office is vaccinated they'll likely roll the requirements out to the stores and take away the incentives. The company is NOT above dog fooding the corporate associates and by the time something has rolled out to all the stores, those at HQ have been enduring it months if not longer.

Source: I work across the street in that highrise that's not a parking garage.

I've always wanted to be the first to say dup. Bet I'm still not. Lol