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I have recently begun phasing out Python in favour of Julia for all of my new projects. Unfortunately, Julia is unsupported on 32-bit ARM, unless you use a really old version; the latest builds are 64-bit only. Maybe someday, with an updated CPU board...

It's true in Greece, where EvilDragon wants to visit, and in a couple days it'll even be true in Germany, where he lives. Source: https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=Germany;Greece&byPopulation=yes&logScale=yes&cumulative=no&smooth=yes

That's a timescale measured in years. We're already nearly a year in to the pandemic and it's worse than ever. I hope there's an alternative plan! Video conference?

A proprietary fork of Chrome? No thanks!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ You're welcome.

A real DAC, configured to reproduce a sampled, bandlimited signal (as in audio) will bandlimit its output, exactly as if it *did* add all of the sinewaves below the Nyquist frequency of its sampling rate. If you sample a 20khz sinewave at 44.1 khz, you'll get a pointy zigzag - most pairs of...

I second bubblebee. Respectfully, I disagree here. The Pyra is an investment device, not a shitty one-shot Chinese Android handheld. "Make the software work so we can ship it, no matter how crappy the code is and no matter if we fork the kernel" should not be on the radar. I expect this thing...

Nice, Amish earbuds! Woo aside, that is quite a neat product. I wonder if it has a practical use? And how it sounds? --- I'm loling at their "3-piece / 4-piece ultimate radiation protection package". Surely you don't need the pneumatic earbud AND the ferrite bead? And how on earth can you...

You don't want to do this anyway, at least not without a lowpass filter on your antenna. It's a neat demo, but because you're modulating a square wave (pin on/off) it vomits harmonics all over the spectrum. If the power is large enough to be practically useful in the frequency you want, it's...

AKSHUALLY from Wiki: In other words it's exactly the same.

If the frequency is 2.5 GHz, as ED suggests, then you needn't worry about it. Ultrasound caps out at about 1MHz - beyond that, it simply doesn't propagate. Even if energy were imparted to the air (unlikely), it wouldn't leave the case. I'd be more worried about wifi interference in that...

Somewhat counterintuitively, glossy screens are actually better for direct sunlight - because they preserve incident angles and the sun subtends a small angle, you get a single viewing angle with tons of glare, which can be avoided by moving slightly. On a matte screen, all that light is spread...

I'm not bothered about this. I'd rather have the hardware as soon as it's finished, so I can help polish the user experience! Besides, there's no such thing as a "final OS image" - it will continue to be improved as time goes on. I appreciate that maybe some preorderers expect a fully polished...

I wouldn't worry too much. ARM is the best supported architecture for Rust after x86, and Firefox does after all have an Android version (that uses Rust and targets ARM). Firefox 52 is LTS, so there's plenty of time for any issues to be resolved. ARM is too important a platform for Firefox to...

What's the practical upshot of this? What happens if, in direct opposition to the documentation, you actually use the power cutoff? Will the module be damaged? Seems like it must be pretty important given that EMERG_OFF even exists. Doesn't really seem like it would take too many extra...

Perhaps we should define "pocketability". I'm taking it to mean a likelihood index of fitting (at all) in an arbitrary pocket. Neglecting depth, circumference is the appropriate metric for this. Notably, a pint glass has a circumference identical to a Pyra - and "fits" nicely, if uncomfortably...

The 901 is my waifu. The last and best sub-10 inch netbook. Still use one; didn't think anything could unseat it until the Pyra came along. But the Pocket looks pretty sexy - I've been waiting for someone to make essentially this product (a Macbook-esque EeePC) for ages. I have to say that I'm...

"Placed on 05/1/2016 00:37:26" Dunno where that puts me, though I think it was somewhere around 60. Here's hoping for #256. Or #255, if there's a #0 out there.

With heavy web browsing, more RAM could easily yeild better battery life due to cache. More data in RAM = less data paged off disk cache and less data reloaded from the network.

For me, a big appeal of a clear case is the potential to put temporary colored inserts in. I think the effect will be snazzy, and I like the idea of being able to change the color whenever I want. If the inserts eventually became official merch, so much the better. Just thought, I wonder what...