Taniwha

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by Taniwha 4y ago
Tiny tapeout - 2 weeks until the next one closes, plenty of time
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I was shown one of these built in minutes from found components at Noisebridge in SF a few years back, an old TV flyback transformer, a couple of resistors and caps and a pair of straight edges almost parallel for the spark gap (the lasing
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by Taniwha 4y ago
There are a whole lot of different imx8s some better some worse, FWIW I think they're using this module (4+1 core 1.8GHz): https://boundarydevices.com/product/nitrogen8m-plus-som/ It's a plug in module
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I'll add few people use the trick of extending LR grammars by resolving conflicts dynamically on the fly (you can do stuff like implementing languages that allow change of operator precedence) - because the usual tools don't suppo
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I guess the major downside of this approach is that your state is spread through a call stack rather than in a parse stack sitting in an array and a pointer somewhere. That makes error recovery really really difficult, because you have to u
456.
by Taniwha 4y ago
> Yeah. If you've ever had to deal with metastability ..... I believe that's Vonada's maxim #10 .....
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by Taniwha 4y ago
One reason why it's not (mostly) a bailout is that SVB's deposits are (as far as we know) still backed by bonds and mortgage backed securities, the problem is that those securities can't be easily sold right now (because peop
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Many banks offer ways to get around the $250k limit, sometimes it's as simple as to open an account in another version of the same bank chartered in a different state
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by Taniwha 4y ago
When I was a teenager I once got into my parent's Mini, started it up and pulled it out when I realised "we don't have a radio" .... pulled it back in, got into the other yellow Mini parked behind it and went home. What
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by Taniwha 4y ago
yeah exactly
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by Taniwha 4y ago
It doesn't really work that way, data in silicon is largely stored with charge - if the photons are fat enough to bounce off that charge they're also likely to erase it
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by Taniwha 4y ago
having said that in the 90s I was once on a design team that built a CPU with 8 9-bit bytes in a word and an 81-bit instruction (9 9-bit bytes). It was a DSP, memory was still relatively expensive and MPEG needed 9-bit delta frames, however
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by Taniwha 4y ago
yup - we bought 1.5Mb of core for our B6700 for ~US$1.25M (in 1976 dollars) - as a 48(+4) bit machine it either had 6 8-bit bytes or 8 6-bit bytes. In practice ASCII had 7-bit characters and EBCDIC 7-8 bit ones. Teletypes (6-bit) were still
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Is it really an employment miracle? or just the expected result of the baby boomers retiring
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I was designing Mac graphics accelerators in the early 90s, one thing I learned is that perceived performance follows a sort of S curve, there's an area where everything is terribly slow and any change is good but it's slow, then
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I was equally confused, it just needs a paragraph at the beginning explaining the context
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by Taniwha 4y ago
The original SCO wasn't particularly cool either, I worked for a competing company that got called in to help them when they couldn't get get the 286 MMU to work, the deal was that we would get a copy of the resulting code, we got
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I grew up on a street in a suburb that had originally been laid out by 'surveyors' in the colonising country on the other side of the world - it cut through a bunch of hillocks and a ravine and was chopped into 3 pieces ... we liv
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by Taniwha 4y ago
every subroutine return after that would be miss-predicted
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Occasional CPU architect here .... probably the worst thing you can do in your code is to load something from memory (the core of method dispatch) and then jump to it, it sort of breaks many of the things we do to optimise our hardware - it
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Hard to tell if you're trolling or not, the sort of solar mass ejections that drive today's Aurora strike both hemispheres
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Visible here in Southern New Zealand right now
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I kind of like "not asleep" as a definition, but also like the idea that every time you hear those on the right make up their own definition you simply replace it with "Ewok" in order to point out the distinction
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by Taniwha 4y ago
After living in the US for 20 years we moved our family home to New Zealand as the kids were starting high/middle schools (11/13) - largely so that the kids could be independent - take the bus to school, hang around down town with
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Since this is treatment of schizophrenia caused by a particular genetic mutation, surely the answer is "you get them by breeding them"
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Think about the medical system, people hate to be put onto waiting lists (queues), but empty queues means that extremely expensive resources (operating theatres, staff, surgeons) are sitting idle which is very inefficient. Ideally queues me
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by Taniwha 4y ago
yes, and normal weather balloons are launched daily by the 1000s, most also carry telemetry these days
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Intel sort of acted that way about RISCV last year, for about 2 months
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by Taniwha 4y ago
No not compared to Mars, more compared to where humans normally live
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by Taniwha 4y ago
My friend who wintered over claimed that the Pole doesn't have "plentiful oxygen and atmospheric pressure" - it's high above sea level, the earth's spin reduces the pressure at the poles and if a low pressure weathe

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