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by LarsDu88 1y ago
It didn't come off as self-deprecating at all, although I see that he had a grandmother from Ireland (unclear if she was ethnically Irish or English) How could it possibly be self-deprecating if he was specifically shitting on "Ir
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Watson is one of the most openly racist and sexist public figures I've ever seen in person. Also he devoted the last 15 years of his life obsessed with longevity. Dude took anti-oxidants, tennis, and Vitamin C up the wazoo to keep livi
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
In 2013, I sat in on one of his talks at the Salk Institute. This guy was one of the most openly racist and sexist people I've ever seen. He spent 5 minutes shitting on the former NIH head for not funding him because she was a "Ho
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Years ago I had the pleasure of sitting in on one of his talks on longevity. Other than the casual racism and sexism (Watson is the only person in my entire life I've seen say racist things about Irish people), he made a big comment on
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Damn, you got to this before I did! The pigmentation of the morpho butterfly is a result of the microscopic shape of the scales which refract and diffract light. The actual pigmentation of those scales is not blue. If you took the DNA for t
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
It was so much easier to do hardware shenanigans with these old-school chips where the pins on these breadboardable chips actually corresponded to memory address bits.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
They called their language "R"??? Robert Gentleman will throw a hissy fit.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I read clean slate architecture and "no baggage" and thought someone was designing a non Von Neuman architecture machine with a novel clockless asynchronous cpu, but nope, it's a custom OS running on RISC-V
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I found out his mom directed the movies "Monsoon Wedding" and "Mississipi Masala" with Denzel Washington. Allegedly she was tapped to direct "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", but her then 14 year old
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I think Steve Jobs said something along these lines once. That when he was young he thought "the man" was spoonfeeding idiocy to the masses through television to keep them complacent, but as he grew older he realized that the mass
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
At best they will manufacture masks. But that was already the "easy" part right?
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Bill Gates and Paul Allen were virtually the the only high school students in the entire USA programming on microcomputers when they were in high school. Bill Gates mom regularly sat on IBM boards and advised him regularly in Microsoft&#x27
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Its not just the subsidies. JLPCB is literally physically connected to LCSC electronics. This makes their margins for pick and place add-ons really good. And most of their sales are loss-leaders. Even without subsidies this company would ha
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I got a PCB from JLPCB and I was shocked at the quality. I even put a little silkscreen graphic of a silly cartoon on my PCB, and it was amazingly detailed in the final print.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft were a product of very good timing, but I think we should not undersell how high the barrier to entry for Amazon and Microsoft were in the 90s and 70s specifically. Amazon basically started at the dawn of the
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Your idea of what would "make the user experience better" can be very different from what actually makes the experience more profitable to Meta. As far as I can tell, the things that actually drives engagement are ragebait politic
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I think Zuckerberg understands something that most people on this forum seem to not understand at all. Facebook, Instagram, etc... these are all only valuable as network effect monopolies. Investment into AI can torch billions of dollars an
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
It's a shame there aren't US manufacturers who can manufacture custom PCBs as cheaply as JLPCB or PCBWay. These types of lasers might be a stopgap if tariffs make buying from those companies inordinately expensive, however the ext
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I've been reading up on this. The differences are indeed minimal. Still not zero, but not the explainer for why M series macs outperform intel x86 on power consumption https://chipsandcheese.com/p/why-x86-doesnt-n
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
cough gaming device
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
You say its irrelevant, but that's not the same as being necessary. These decode components are simply not necessary whereas a branch prediction actually makes the processor faster
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
X86 feels painful. So many instructions that wind up being decoded by physical hardware, eating up unnecessary die space and electricity, all to save ram and storage space which is now abundant and cheap compared to when x86 was designed
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Reading this on my brand new M5 Mac :)
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I like the pixelated look, but that's probably nostalgia. Presumably this effect was achieved using a shader rather than an old school software renderer like old-school Quake and Half-Life (the last games I remember where you could swi
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Great work! I was wondering about this after trying out Easy6502. It would be nice to have a more visual component like Easy6502 which has a draw buffer and snake game tho :)
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I was thinking more about the sharp sm83 chip. Gameboy Advanced is just too modern by comparison...
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
This reminds me of a trick from the world of "competitive memorization" illustrated in the wonderful book "Moonwalking with Einstein". To improve your memory recall on any task, like say memorizing the order of an entire
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Why VGA? I thought that protocol was particularly complicated
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
So now we can do timeshare Nintendo Gameboy? /s
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Its obvious this was greenlit in response to Apple Vision Pro, which means is about 1 year away from being killed as soon as Apple pulls back on Vision Pro in favor of some sort of AR smart glass technology

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