GeorgeTirebiter

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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Not only that, the single FP and double FP were provided as optimized subroutines. I was never hampered by inadequate FP performance for simple control tasks.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
yes, piqued. English, so weird! ;-) (Although, interest peaking is possible!)
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
What is the process node used? Who is fabbing this for them? Given that the new chip is bigger, my guess is the same (old) process node is being used. RP2040 is manufactured on a 40nm process node. Whoops, I read the fine print: RP2350
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
A 2-input TTL NAND gate usually consists of 5 transistors: Two multi-emitter transistors (counted as two separate transistors here) One phase splitter transistor. One pull-down transistor. One output transistor. The multi-emitter transistor
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
No True Scotsman fallacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman?useskin=vecto...
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
SSI technically. Super-Sized, you know?
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
C'mon. This one-pager is a recruiting document. One wants 'true believers' (intrinsically motivated) employees to execute the mission. Give Ilya some slack here.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
These efficiency limits are true for P-N junction solar cells. There are other solar cell types which can ultimately achieve higher efficiencies, but they are currently lab curiosities with low efficiencies.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
When I made the proposal to restore the CHM's pdp-1, the reason was "Spacewar!"
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Unfortunately, the poor ADC performance is due to a design / simulation error; at least you have to give them credit that they 'came clean' on the crappy performance, and explained it in the official documentation: https:&#
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Quite simply, the VAX group won. Marketing believed two product lines competing in the same space with incompatible software would not be in DEC's best interests. As I worked in the -10 group as a coop, I was bummed to hear that decis
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
My first experience was when I was a coop student at DEC/Marlboro. First summer, I learned the -10 and wrote sysdpy in BLISS-10. Next summer, I wrote the KL-10 spooler - in assembly language. Folks these days don't appreciate t
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Well.... I really liked the pdp-11; for years I had a pdp-11/45 in my living room, but eventually sold it to downsize to a couple of H-11 LSI-11/2 machines with dual 8" floppies. Why? Well, the pdp-11, besides being the unix
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Me too. I'm not sure I would have clicked if the tagline weren't, effectively, clickbait.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
They are not this simple; if so, an RLS (Rain / Light Sensor) assembly would cost 50 cents. To do a proper job, you need an array of IR emitters, and an array of detectors; and they need to be properly integrated into your windshield
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
This precisely correct. The board hires & fires the CEO. End of story. When the board is unhappy how the company is being run, their recourse is to...fire the CEO. What is unusual here is the wellspring of support from "the tr
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Maybe you've found the solution: RV32 must have the C extension. RV64 and RV128 must NOT have the C extension. Problem solved?
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Couldn't Google (who after all does Android) simply declare that the 'official' RV64 is IMAFD (aka 'G') CJQTVPBHLNSUX ? (or whatever makes sense, given the android roadmap). https://en.wikichip.org&#x2
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
Thank you. As for SI, I have never liked the 'non-thousands' submultiples e.g. centimeters. I think it's confusing. You have km, m, and mm. factors of 1,000. Seems reasonable. Just like we have F, mF, uF, nF, pF for capac
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2y ago
do you know why "mm" (which to me means "millimeters") is used with $ values? I mean, a house can be $ 250K, a mansion might be $ 1.1M, and our national debt might be $ 34.4T. OK, I understand those. How does 'mm&
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
The OP says the machine was 'slow' -- however, getting the 2x clock upgrade, the machine's dhrystone performance is 1.5 VAX MIPS. That's not 'terrible'. It's like having a VAX-11/785 in your pocket
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
I think of it more as a continuum. At MIT under Jack Dennis, a pdp-1 was converted to timesharing. https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/timesharing/ John McCarthy discusses his memories of early timesharing sys
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
Soylent Green was set in 2022/2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green?useskin=vector
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
There's newLISP http://www.newlisp.org/ which takes a fresh look at lisp and has plenty of libraries. Lately, I'm going back to what I used years ago: Common Lisp. There are great books describing it, and implem
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
Yes, that's true. Until local municipalities consider wifi a service they provide their communities, like parks and libraries. Until then, yes, probably some spectrum should be devoted to OTA; maybe in SD, mainly PBS, I dunno, because
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
When I finally got my own set of Gage Block, I finally deeply realized how important they were/are to worldwide precision product design. I would like to add "measurement" to high precision as well to these lists. Our abilit
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
GHWB also lied during the presidential debates. Afterward, his staff said, basically 'oops, sorry for the error'. That is, they were relying on Brandolini's Law to hold - and for people to believe the lie. https:/&#x2
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
Whenever I think of "I, Pencil", for some reason, I think of John Wick.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
I was going to post this but decided not to, because it's a nice story until the end, where it devolves into capitalist propaganda. And, if there were ONE economist 'responsible' for the current economic inequalities, it is U
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
In the USA, bolts can come in plenty of sizes, but 2-56, 4-40, and 6-32 are common small bolts. You want metric? You would think 2mm, 3mm, 4mm would be enough, but no! There are 2.5 mm, 3.5 mm, 4.5 mm etc. Are these 'necessary&#x2

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