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The article provides a technical overview of the "Geode" mode for the Just Friends Eurorack module, explaining how different modes (cycle, sustain, transient) control rhythmic relations and envelope levels through RUN vo…
This article is a personal compilation of notes from various FPV drone experts, intended as a compressed cheat sheet for tuning and setting up a quadcopter, specifically for freestyle flying. It explains the basics of th…
The article is a technical writeup of a CTF challenge involving a PlayStation 1 executable. The author explains how they used dynamic analysis and emulation to reverse-engineer the program, discovering that pressing spec…
This article explains that iPhone region codes, found in part numbers, indicate significant feature differences between models sold in various countries, such as FaceTime support, dual SIM capabilities, and specific 5G b…
The article describes the process of extracting and disassembling the microcode ROMs from high-resolution photographs of the Intel 8086 and 8088 dies, revealing the internal instruction sequences of these processors. Key…
This article provides instructions for creating a bootable USB stick to update a Lenovo laptop's BIOS using a Mac or Linux system. It explains how to download the BIOS update as an ISO file, extract it using the `getelto…
This article describes a 4x4 pixel font stored in a C++ header file called `half_font.h`. The font is defined as a 95-character array of byte values, where each character is represented by four bytes that encode its pixe…
This article documents the process of installing Linux on 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar, focusing on Fedora 27 with kernel 4.14.x. It provides detailed instructions for partitioning, booting, and driver…
This article provides a curated list of computer science resources, including books and PDFs, covering topics from basic computer hardware and software principles to advanced subjects like compilers, operating systems, a…
The article discusses the potential benefits of hardware support for "ravioli memory," a concept where data is stored in fixed-size blocks called ravioli. It explores how hardware could accelerate operations like pointer…
This document is a list that maps Apple's internal hardware model identifiers (machine IDs), such as `iPhone1,1` and `iPad2,1`, to their corresponding commercial product names (e.g., "iPhone" and "2nd Gen iPad"). It cove…
The article presents a table of approximate latency times for common computer operations, ranging from L1 cache references (0.5 ns) to transcontinental network round trips (150 ms). Compiled by Jeff Dean and originally b…