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.
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.
https://www.analog.com/en/lp/001/machine-health-sensing.html
