Recent content by Aluvus

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    Back of PCB

    Just to point out: these are not components that just fall off randomly. So if you are finding them randomly on the floor of the case, that suggests either physical damage (maybe during install), or pretty severe overheating.
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    Sound Quality: MP3 ripped from a CD vs a non-ripped MP3

    As you say, this is quite analogous to storing your photos in JPEG rather than RAW. It's fundamentally an issue of balancing costs (more primary and backup storage, slower transfers for backups, time and energy spent converting formats) and benefits (lossless transfer to some hypothetical...
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    Sound Quality: MP3 ripped from a CD vs a non-ripped MP3

    The difference in audio quality will be likely negligible. The MP3s produced by the vendor may even be better in quality, because they have the option of using audio that is closer to the original source (i.e. they can skip over the step of converting the audio for CD). But again, this is...
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    i want to study software engineer

    What country do you live in?
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    Help me build an Ikea desk

    The monitor shelf is not a "real" product, but rather a combination of an Ekby Jarpen shelf and Capita legs. They're both available in a few different sizes; I stumbled across the blog post your images are from, and he used the 4 inch legs. The doo-dad to hang a computer under the desk was...
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    I'm having trouble distinguishing these majors, help? (Engineering/Physics/Applied)

    How old are you? I'm guessing high school or earlier? It's certainly possible to get a bachelor's in multiple different engineering fields, but it's significantly harder than just picking one and the pay-off tends to be limited. And having a whole slew can backfire, as people handling hiring...
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    Ai fud

    I think it is useful to think of a single AI as a single "intelligence", in the sense of an individual human. That AI may spawn "children", either using identical code to itself or not, which may or may not run on the same hardware. In effect, an AI is like a human but: * Potentially able to...
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    Why cant it run .exe?

    "uarch" is generally used as an abbreviation for microarchitecture, which is not the same thing as an instruction set architecture (ISA). x86 and ARM are ISAs. A microarchitecture is the architecture of a particular implementation of an ISA. In essence, the ISA is an interface specification...
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    Why Reveal Personal Details Of Your Life On The Net?

    ATOT is an online support group for the socially incompetent. Did you not get the flyer?
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    Why cant it run .exe?

    The CPU in the Nokia Lumia Icon is a Qualcomm Krait 400, which uses a 32-bit ARMv7 instruction set. The limiting factor in porting code is not how many bits wide the addresses used by the CPU are (16-/32-/64-/whatever-bit), but the CPU architecture and instructions that it supports. The two...
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    Can a mobile website function/look like a mobile app?

    A lot of mobile apps are just wrappers for a website, so the obvious answer would be "yes". The limiting factors are going to be that some things are difficult or, less often, impossible to do with standard Web technologies, and some things may be difficult or impossible to do with reasonable...
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    Why do I keep needing to provide administrator access to do anything?

    Windows will nag you when performing certain actions, regardless of whether your account has administrator rights, to: * Prevent you from accidentally doing something you'll regret * Prevent installed software (mostly malware) from doing these things without user interaction As noted above...
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    Undervolting LED damage?

    How many terminals does your switch have? I'm guessing 2? My guess is that the LED (and an internal resistor) is wired in series with the switch. The LED probably drops 1.8 V or so (if it's red; generally more for other colors). 3.3 - 1.8 = 1.5 V, which is going to be pretty close to the...
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    Undervolting LED damage?

    This is a little misleading. LEDs, like other diodes, behave like a fixed voltage drop. Current through the LED will be governed by the resistance of the circuit (resistors in series, wires, internal resistance of the LED, etc.). Without a current-limiting resistor they will often pop and...
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    How much power is needed to communicate with a geostationary satellite?

    Iridium is the name of both a satellite constellation and the company that manages it. Iridium satellites orbit at 781 km (485 mi), which is low Earth orbit (LEO). LEO has the advantage of cutting down distance from transmitter to receiver, and (in their case at least) the disadvantage that...