> This article over and over describes inflation as a tax or destruction, without backing those claims up...
C'mon. Whether you agree or not, any time spent in the field will expose you to this philosophy. If you disagree, ignore. There's no need to go through implicit ideas.
I disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long time, plus its guts served in the also-long-lived first gen iPad mini. It was a giant improvement over the original iPad, with a crazy-long support life and outstanding performance characteristics.
I think others are ranking it not that way because of the hardware, but because of the concept and how it dramatically changed the market for tablet computers.
These subjective evals are why community reviews are garbage.
Personally I think the 3GS is a better product. I know a few folk who returned their original iPhone because the headphone jack didn’t allow their headphones to connect, and there were obvious limitations that weren’t addressed until the 3GS
The iPhone was revolutionary no argument. But that doesn’t mean later revs were not better products for their time.
I think the 4 was really where it took off. It’s remembered for the antenna PR mess, but it was the first mix of speed and features that made me and many many colleagues say “this could be better than my BlackBerry.” And it was!
No, it said more than that, the full prompt on the page is:
> Rank Your Top 50
> Help us pick the best Apple products of the last 50 years! Just choose which of the two randomly paired options you prefer.
This is explicitly invoking a context of historical importance. Some of these products are 50 years old, not available, and completely obsolete. A reader would be silly to interpret this as a survey to construct a buyers guide.
> Turns out that actual cars don’t have individual cables. Instead they have these big “looms”, which bundle many cables from a nearby area into a single harness. This is the reason why I could not find the individual cable earlier. They simply don’t manufacture it.
Typical setup for cars (and lawn mowers). As a software guy my first instinct is, computing power is cheap enough, seems like a CAT5-like thing running between all components would do it. Speaking as a software guy - meaning I'm probably missing a lot of the big picture. On the other hand, it's a lot easier to safety-check a mechanical lockout that physically opens a circuit, than something running on software.
I read somewhere that the reason they don't typically use IT networking cables / tech is because normal IT infrastructure is a lot less strict with things like packet loss. It's actually not a huge deal to drop packets here and there, especially if any given component is at capacity. But in a car, some devices are super chatty and you can't be dropping packets much at all.
That said, I'm sure there's gotta be a better way to solve it with less copper. And I think they did something like that with CyberTruck.
> ...in a car, some devices are super chatty and you can't be dropping packets much at all....there's gotta be a better way to solve it with less copper.
I know CAN is a thing for a while now, and in the aviation world they have ethernet-derived standards like AFDX etc. But for some reason cables abound.
> We ordered the chip and took the board to a local PCB repair shop, where they successfully replaced it and fixed the MCU.
What is a "local PCB repair shop"? All the guys who used to fix TVs and radios are gone. Anyone else (not living in China) having trouble locating such an outfit in their neighborhood?
When I’ve brought atypical stuff in to be repaired at one of those shops they have been absolutely willing to solder whatever, however they did have just one “soldering guy” for every shop in the metro area who only came as needed. So just keep that in mind if you’re in a hurry or want to talk an atypical task through with someone. Probably call ahead.
Are there any with backlit keypads (that are truly purpose-built calculators)?
I see this as a nice feature but not a must-have. Not sure if the industry agrees, or if the industry just doesn't know how many people would spring for backlit keypads because none have existed so far.
From teardown [0] at 3:50 you can see an ARM7 Cortex M4 @ 240MHz, so BASIC or MicroPython should both be speedy enough for most tasks.
But from both the teardown and from another review [1] there are some concerns about the bugs and lack of features in Zero's BASIC and MicroPython. The firmware is updatable, so hopefully Zero irons things out, but still not a good look to have this present in a release.
I see your point, but I can't resist a bit of pedantry here.
Since the phrase "the wild west" originally referred to the level of development rather than lawlessness (the modern idea of "the wild west" never actually existed), the usage of the phrase here may be more appropriate than it seems.
I haven't contributed, but this is what first drew me to the page: the 1040 instructions [0] on pg.82 has "How Do You Make a Gift To Reduce Debt Held By the Public?" and I was intrigued enough to read the details, which contain the link in the OP.
C'mon. Whether you agree or not, any time spent in the field will expose you to this philosophy. If you disagree, ignore. There's no need to go through implicit ideas.
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