partial_accumen

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

For others looking at this, the damaged IC is silkscreened as IC7 (red square in my edit of OPs pic). OP, the fuse on this board is the green SMT device (that I put a green square around). Here's the sales sheet for that fuse.

OP you gave a part number for the blown IC as HVS004, but from what little I can see in the picture I'm wondering if its something else. I've put a BLUE square around another IC8. I'm guessing thats in the same family, from where it is in the board. However, I can't see what the part number is on that one. Can you share that one?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This may come as a shock to you, but most of the people in the western world have an energy surplus which creates other health risks. The most logical way to address this is to consume less energy, but here we are with other people being upset by my choice to not eat something.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Even better, you can have the card expire off-cycle from the book. Since both last 10 years, if you renew one at the 5 year mark, it means you'll always have an active document that can get you to Canada or Mexico even while the other is in the renewal cycle.

I recently learned this after renewing both at the same time missing my opportunity. I'll renew the card early in 5 years or so to get this off-cycle expiry benefit.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren’t getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.

A passport card is only $30 (plus the $10 or so dollars for the required photo), but everything else in your post is spot on.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done.

That large tortilla adds another 300 calories by itself, which is about 25% of the calories of a large burrito. I like to skip those extra tortilla calories. A bowl does that.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

How would an instance block an IP without storing IPs?

They could be blocking entire IP ranges. So they wouldn't have to store specific IPs. I'm not in the hosting industry but I would imagine there are groups tracking the CIDR blocks (IP ranges) that VPN providers use for their exit nodes. If such a list exists, a host could simply subscribe to accept whatever updates occur to those lists and implement the block for them.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've got a coworker that works in the Bay Area but lives in the Midwest. Another I know works in New Jersey but lives in the Midwest. Corporate RTO initiatives in High COL areas with a salary differential coupled with lower Midwest COL and housing costs make strange things viable.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The results of this study will undoubtedly produce a sea change in corporate culture while simultaneously creating opportunities for cross functional collaboration resulting from this paradigm shift. /s

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Marketing is a different kind of hard. Coding has logic. Clear inputs, clear outputs. Marketing? It’s storytelling, psychology, timing, luck — and most of it feels like shouting into a void.

There actually is a bit more science behind marketing than your statement suggests. The Marketing Mix starts with the "four Ps":

  • Price - How is it packaged/tiered/price? Is it a one-time fee? Is it a subscription? Where does it fit in the price compared to other products you're competing with in the same space?
  • Product - What is it? What are its claims (things it delivers on)?
  • Place - Where can your customers get it? Console only? Steam? Played in a web browser? What regions of the world?
  • Promotion - How do people find out about it? This is mostly the part you're talking about which include advertising, PR, influences, etc.

For those you're trying to reach, be able to answer the first 3 "Ps". If your game is sold only on Steam, then you don't care about console players. You've now eliminated a huge chunk of customers you don't have to try to reach. What kind of game is it, perhaps an RTS? Then you've eliminated all players that only play FPV shooters and you don't need to reach those folks. Are you going to charge $40 for the game? Then you don't need to worry about appealing to gamers that only spend under $40 for games.

All of this is a narrowing exercise to find where your customers are which lets you focus on streams or channels of communication specifically targeting those that would consider buying your game.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

Oops, my mistake

Apology accepted. Have a great day!

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Read my prior post, I specifically SAID it was a model number.

You're embarrassing yourself with your pedantry. You said 80486 didn't exist. It did. Seriously, quit while you're behind here.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Such a confident answer! And so incorrect too!

 

Don't forget this product for those really stubborn ones.

 

This text description is mine, not from the article. The article linked goes into much more detail.

This is an anti-scam/anti-fraud protection measure. This is apparently a method folks are getting their accounts cleaned out by thieves. They get your SSN, name, and account number from one of the many data breaches that happen today, they open an another account at another brokerage in your name, then transfer your funds out to the new brokerage they control. The system used to do this is called ACATS which is designed to easily let customers transfer funds from other accounts, but it is apparently easy to abuse.

Fidelity makes turning on the block crazy easy just by logging into your account and setting the "Money Transfer Lock" to "on". If you ever do want to use the ACATS to legitimately move your money to another broker, you just need to go back in here and set it to "off", complete your transfer, and turn it back "on" if you still have funds remaining.

Vanguard has this feature too, but its super sketchy to get it turned on. You have to call the vanguard agent, pass an OTP code, try to get them to understand what you're asking for as the agent I talked to did, get transferred around again a few times, do another OTP to a different department and finally they enable it. However they say it takes 5-7 days to take effect. Better than nothing I suppose.

Currently Schwab doesn't have a feature to block ACATS transfers at all in any capacity.

 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/66094

It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone.

The argument started over UNIX file directories, in a post about Redox OS on smartphones— which was a [Paul Sanja] hack as well. [Paul] had everything he needed to pick up the gauntlet, and evidently did so promptly. The drive is a classic Commodore 1541, which means you’ll want to watch the demo video at 2x speed or better. (If you thought loading times felt slow in the old days, they’re positively glacial by modern standards.) The old floppy drive is plugged into a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS. Sure, you could do this on Android, but a fully open Linux system is obviously the hacker’s choice. As a bonus, it makes the whole endeavor almost trivial.

Between the seven-year-old phone and the forty-year-old disk drive is an Arduino Pro Micro, configured with the XUM1541 firmware by [OpenBCM] to act as a translator. On the phone, the VICE emulator pretends to be a C64, and successfully loads Impossible Mission from an original disk. Arguably, the phone doesn’t “sport” the disk drive–if anything, it’s the other way around, given the size difference–but we think [Paul Sanja] has proven the point regardless. Bravo, [Paul].

Thanks to [Joseph Eoff], who accidentally issued the challenge and submitted the tip. If you’ve vexed someone into hacking (or been so vexed yourself), don’t hesitate to drop us a line!

We wish more people would try hacking their way through disagreements. It really, really beats a flame war.


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So wholesome!

 

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“I’m just devastated,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.”

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