Comment Safety! (Score 1) 222
Not as long as stab-happy animals released 79 times by idiot judges are allowed on trains, while good sanitarians are prosecuted for stopping them. But you are not ready for that conversation yet.
Comment Re:The takeaway (Score 4, Informative) 56
Notable point: If you are a US citizen they might seize the device but you WILL be admitted into the country - a citizen cannot be denied entry. Additionally thanks to the 4th and 5th amendments, you will not be required to provide the passcode. If you are NOT a US citizen, you may be denied entry into the country (and the device might still be seized)
Comment "AI" (Score 2) 11
> AI will be necessary for full-scale error correction
"Cheese will be necessary for supersonic airplanes to fly underground"
Comment Re:My last corvette (Score 1) 218
I do recommend the C8. Love mine. And current models still have CarPlay. Get it while you can.
Comment Re:Note Android users, no big change. (Score 3, Informative) 218
What are you blathering on about? I am on my third corvette and CarPlay has been working perfectly in each car.
Comment My last corvette (Score 5, Interesting) 218
I guess my current 2022 corvette will be my last one. I will not buy a car without CarPlay. That they already talk about "monetizing" this, confirms to me the correctness of my choice.
Submission + - I ordered vintage tech. Ebay deliberately destroyed it (ebay.com)
ayjaym writes: The HP65. The world's first hand-held programmable calculator. One flew on the Apollo-Soyuz missions as a backup to the main computer system.
So when I saw one listed on eBay, I immediately purchased it from the US seller. It was to be dispatched via ebay's Global Fulfilment Program. From previous experience I knew this was a tortuous process; items can take a month to travel from the US to the UK.
What I didn't know is that there was a random chance of my item being deliberately destroyed by eBay. One moment it was at the 'inspection' stage, prior to being shipped, and then, just like that — like the 'lifesystems terminated' chilling message in 2001 — it was gone. "Item failed inspection". "Item liquidated".
I contacted eBay support. No, we can't tell you why. No, both parties will be refunded. No, the item won't be returned to the seller. It will be destroyed.
Why?. Well — who knows. There were no batteries, no toxic chemicals. Just a calculator. An irreplaceable piece of vintage tech, deliberately destroyed for reasons utterly unknown.
And this isn't an isolated incident. The opaque 'inspection' step apparently quite often triggers random rejection, usually with the destruction of the item. Antiques, coins, you name it. Nobody knows and few care because both parties get their money back. Except — an irreplaceable piece of tech history has now been destroyed, and I feel responsible. All I wanted to do was restore it, and now I've been the agent of its destruction. It's heartbreaking.
So when I saw one listed on eBay, I immediately purchased it from the US seller. It was to be dispatched via ebay's Global Fulfilment Program. From previous experience I knew this was a tortuous process; items can take a month to travel from the US to the UK.
What I didn't know is that there was a random chance of my item being deliberately destroyed by eBay. One moment it was at the 'inspection' stage, prior to being shipped, and then, just like that — like the 'lifesystems terminated' chilling message in 2001 — it was gone. "Item failed inspection". "Item liquidated".
I contacted eBay support. No, we can't tell you why. No, both parties will be refunded. No, the item won't be returned to the seller. It will be destroyed.
Why?. Well — who knows. There were no batteries, no toxic chemicals. Just a calculator. An irreplaceable piece of vintage tech, deliberately destroyed for reasons utterly unknown.
And this isn't an isolated incident. The opaque 'inspection' step apparently quite often triggers random rejection, usually with the destruction of the item. Antiques, coins, you name it. Nobody knows and few care because both parties get their money back. Except — an irreplaceable piece of tech history has now been destroyed, and I feel responsible. All I wanted to do was restore it, and now I've been the agent of its destruction. It's heartbreaking.
Comment Re:Just Say No (Score 1) 59
> try to find a game for your smartphone that is ad-free and doesn't nag about in-app purchases.
https://dmitry.gr/chess/
add to home screen, enjoy. no ads, no cost.
https://dmitry.gr/chess/
add to home screen, enjoy. no ads, no cost.
Comment Re:HEADLINE IS WRONG. So was the pilot (Score 1) 85
>Those require it to be CHARGING
Nope. Go poke a charged but not-currently-charging not-connected-to-anything-at-all lithium battery with a pin, see how that goes
Comment Re: "Hundreds of chips"? (Score 1) 35
You would very likely be wrong. Youâ(TM)re not thinking of all the small glue logic, power, management chips, BMS, audio, amplifiers, all sorts of stuff really
Comment Re: Why emulate MIPS? Why not just native ARM or (Score 5, Informative) 35
I published the source code. You can look at how I did it. In fact youâ(TM)ll find TWO implementations. One in c and one in assembly.
Comment Re: Why emulate MIPS? Why not just native ARM or M (Score 4, Informative) 35
Linux kernel doesnâ(TM)t is built for nommu. Debian does require MMU.
And not magically at all. I emulated it.
Comment Re: Whar wifi? (Score 4, Informative) 35
And on many other things. But none of them are 8-pin chips.
Comment Re: Why emulate MIPS? Why not just native ARM or M (Score 5, Informative) 35
Same guy :)
Submission + - An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips (dmitry.gr)
dmitrygr writes: There was a time when one could order a kit and assemble a computer at home. It would do just about what a contemporary store-bought computer could do. This time is long gone. Modern computers are made of hundreds of huge complex chips, with no public datasheets, with many hundreds of watts of power supplied to them over complex power delivery topologies. It does not help that modern operating systems require gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of storage, and always-on internet connectivity to properly spy on you. But, what if one tried to fit a modern computer into a kit that one could easily assemble at home? What if the kit only had three chips, each with only 8 pins? Can it be done? Yes
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