This, combined with an assessment how much of the environment the user currently hears (i.e. maybe he is watching a movie), could provide a lot of headroom for additional cooling without bothering the user.
> Spread spectrum clocking is a technique used in electronics design to intentionally modulate the ideal position of the clock edge such that the resulting signal’s spectrum is “spread”, around the ideal frequency of the clock. In timing circuits, this has the advantage of reducing Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) associated with the fundamental frequency of the signal.
https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_view/135439-wh...
Noisy environment: turn the fans all the way as the user -> more cooling -> processor doesn't throttle
Quiet environment: turn the fans down -> processor throttles
I think that's an interesting idea, even if not everyone might be happy with the tradeoff (comes down to how much you care about noise vs getting throttled), especially for a vr device.
To avoid the imperfection of a bit of fan noise, throttle the entire experience. Great.
https://www.analog.com/en/lp/001/machine-health-sensing.html
The reason proposed is that if the environment is loud, you won't be bothered by additional noise from the fans.
Twitter doesn’t show threads to people who are not logged in (e.g. if you don’t have an account). Shaming people for not reading what they can’t see (or even know exists) is unfair. Using archival sites doesn’t work as a bypass like on newspaper sites.
Not to mention people on Firefox, which from what I have read on HN might not even have access to it at all.
Twitter links should probably be downranked on HN until (if/when) they return to being more accessible.
I guess it makes you more likely to experience interference, but the interference you'll experience, on average, will be much less severe.
I've designed a lot of radio systems, built a lot of demodulators, and calculated a lot of link budgets. It's best to assume that people know a fair bit, here, instead of tossing out the simplistic dismissal.
I'm also an amateur radio operator, and I know that strong carriers are often far worse for me down in HF than the same energy spread out over tens of thousands of cycles; though I can often notch carriers, I only have so much dynamic range.
However - I find that less onerous than a paywall and HN is mostly fine about those.
With a paywall you know what you’re missing or not. With Twitter that’s harder to determine, which I’d argue is worse. But I wouldn’t say either of our opinions is objectively correct.
> and HN is mostly fine about those.
It is explicitely fine with paywalls which have workarounds.
But they're a trillion dollar company because of their relentless focus on the end-user experience which you happen to dislike, but which most people love.
Profits or valuation can't be a measure of whether a company is doing right to their users or their UX quality.
I maintain, bringing market cap to explain whether a company is good at or cares about UX is just irrelevant.
I understand the threshold for heating up should be lower than with integrated chips, but we're talking about fan speeds, about when that threshold is still reached and cooling is needed.