SoSoRoCoCo

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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I don't think it was... maybe? I've seen people hack circuits they way they hack code: keep trying small tweaks until it works. Then when they connect two circuits and it doesn't work, they go back to the fundamental RTFM. It
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
For the last 5~7 years, thousands of software-only programmers have been discovering Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and have been learning about the real-world consequences of interfacing to hardware. I help out at a local hackerspace and the ex
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Thanks for the tip! I need a good holiday game. (I just tried Baldur's Gate 3 and my system isn't good enough because it crashed three times in 30 minutes... got a refund tho) > The game is much more solo friendly Music to my e
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I recall that sentiment. I think those of us who avoided MMORPGs (either because of poor internet, or general fear of playing with other people << me) we weren't corrupted. I also recall a devoted following to UO also complaining
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
That's a good summary. There's something elitist about this paper that I couldn't quite put my finger on, and I think you got it. Perhaps obsessing too much about twitter polls and what constitutes "stupidity" is wh
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
World of Warcraft. Blizzard mentioned development of a MMORG in the late 1990's and started teasing in the early 2000's, and really ramped it up prior to launch. And when it landed, holy hell: it devastated worker's and stude
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I don't think this impacts the BBC trustworthyness one lick. They reported a story objectively, stating each side, without their own opinion. Even though one side was acting in bad faith. Is the BBC out of their element here, absolutel
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> "I have no reason to believe this, but it clearly must exist" Except I never said that, whereas the previous post had a congruent summary of OP. Strike one. > You cannot rationally make decisions based on anything other th
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I distrust most media sources because I've not once seen one present rigorous, transparent, verifiable research about a current event of interest to me. "Because I've never seen it, clearly it does not exist."
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I feel like a lot of today’s mistrust of news stems from publications not verifying sources First, a nitpick: that is a thought not a feeling: you didn't state how it made you feel, you stated an idea. Moving on... That's not
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Ted Lasso, is that you?
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
As a rockhound, I find the names of minerals quite laughable. It's like some consortium just picked a random word and added "-ite" ... and presto ... new mineral! Eager to see the new taxonomy and naming convention. Hopef
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
This whole MSG thing has irked me for decades, and despite many articles dispelling the myth it still persists. But why are Americans suprised? Anti-vax. Anti-5G. Anti-round Earth. Anti-2020-Election. MSG is the least of your worries. N.B.:
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I wrote a raytracer in 1996, and then a year later used Intel's VTune to speed it up. Just removing unused "return" statements gave me 3x speed increase. Apparently Borland C/C++ wasn't very smart back then. A fun p
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
At the time the validation models were not very mature so they moved everything up to higher metal layers with big-ass drivers and designed for worst-case. I'm sure Intel has a much better handle on it now (they ain't dummies!), b
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I recently started outfitting my lab with DIN rails, and now everything has to be retrofitted (just cuz, ok!), so this is pretty cool. FWIW: the official RPi cooling fan is awful. Noisy and a crazy tight fit. Canakit is better.
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I didn't like this article because it picked two examples out of two 400+ page books just to gatekeep C++. I don't know the author, but I don't see the purpose of this article. There is so much more to C++, and so much more t
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I thought they cancelled years ago and switched to HPC. Something recent?
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I'm really glad for these guys, they made a phenomenal product that made life easier for me to develop on. I'm glad Google picked them for Android, it's a dream come true for a hacker.
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
This is a serious problem. On-die interconnect requires insane bandwidth and lots of caches. We're talking TB/s to keep cores fed. This is significant challenge (source: I worked on Intel Xeon Phi) and at the time I worked on it i
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I'm just blown away that Apple gets the credit for the Arm switch, but I'll take it.
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
I can't wait to see if the engineering teams from Cavium push Marvel back into the ring. Cavium was designing an Arm server to compete with Intel for years before they switched to HPC. The market is primed. Intel is in serious trouble
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> I suspect having "Sat on Google Committee" is a pretty nice résumé item Absolutely. I'd take it. I'd probably try to undermine the effort, but I'd still take the position! I think the era of subversive engineer
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> This just smacks of so much ignorance as to be disgraceful. This is a wildly uninformed, reactionary statement, Michael Pollan is literally an expert in this field in multiple domains (professor, journalist, consultant). If you stop an
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Can't believe no one has quoted Michael Pollan yet, but his 7 rules still ring true (see #4 for your question): 1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of porta
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
All aboaaaard! We recently removed Google Analytics and switched to apache server logs. It was the only 3rd party cookie our site was using, and the apache logs are far more transparent. (No one understands or trusts the analytics from goog
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Have you ever owned an RX-7? It was pretty dang solid.
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> "life begins at 40" As someone who is mid-50's, everything turned around at 40. Health, physique (was at the gym 4 days a week), job (quit a loathed job and found one I liked), relationship (got a well-needed divorce). I
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
Yes, thank you, I assumed it was obvious: I meant playing against a computer while keeping stockfish running, figuring out my next move, and then seeing what stockfish recommends, then trying to follow that line to see if it makes sense. Li
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by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> There are ways to punish their moves, but I would've needed to memorized that. So, I have to come up with changes to the memorized opening on the spot. This is a good way to put it. I don't yet understand what makes an openin

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