Taniwha

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by Taniwha 4y ago
Just about now Donald Trump is realising he's forgotten his twitter password, because he had people for that, and he can't remember which email account he used. Meanwhile president@whitehouse.gov is very carefully NOT clicking on
572.
by Taniwha 4y ago
completely ignores the reason why RISC architectures took over .... the L1 I-cache moved on chip, suddenly the main reason for complex instruction encodings went away
573.
by Taniwha 4y ago
You mean like 10 cent RISC-V cores? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302035
574.
by Taniwha 4y ago
No it doesn't, what's being done here is inserting a binary block into the middle of a binary file (or disk) without overwriting the data before or after it
575.
by Taniwha 4y ago
In my experience memristors have been just about to be huge every year for the past 30
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by Taniwha 4y ago
Their sun too
577.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Their moon is upside down too
578.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Other stuff too if you want to look around, I did a quick and dirty solar system a couple of decades ago, one with texture maps where possible, and quickly discovered that Pluto was all lumpy .... simply because tessellating a sphere that f
579.
by Taniwha 4y ago
51 days is slightly more than 2^32 milliseconds?
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by Taniwha 4y ago
exactly
581.
by Taniwha 4y ago
We all know how this ends: put your AI on to the internet and it becomes a nazi
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by Taniwha 4y ago
"Professional" is relative - compared with PC state of the art the Imagewriter was OK - laserprinters weren't really a thing yet for anyone
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by Taniwha 4y ago
It's worth remembering that before Linux (and to some extent Unix) we only had proprietary operating systems from hardware companies - who probably wouldn't have had the resources to find and fix a bug like this, and often custome
584.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Pretty sure it was the jury that decided that
585.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yes, I'm a native english speaker, I was pointing out exactly that
586.
by Taniwha 4y ago
People keep saying "it couldn't happen to a nicer person" when it literally wouldn't happen to a nicer person
587.
by Taniwha 4y ago
"CIVIL-RIGHTS LAWYER NARRATOR: But punitive-damages awards aren’t dischargeable in bankruptcy. So Alex Jones will be paying off these debts from wage garnishments, attachments, & sheriff’s sales of his stuff for the rest of his wre
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm kicking myself for not creating a large series of tulip NFTs a year ago
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by Taniwha 4y ago
What's even is a "hardware implementation"? does it include a PC consumer box the software?
590.
by Taniwha 4y ago
How very, um, 1990-something
591.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The Vietnam war is probably a better comparison, young men who knew it wasn't a good war streamed across the Canadian border
592.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It means that Russia will have to move it's war material to Crimea by boat
593.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The bridge was just finished a few years ago, Crimea has been getting food and medicine for centuries
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by Taniwha 4y ago
And in August there was this: https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1561775821257379840
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by Taniwha 4y ago
EBCDIC is very much IBM - on our old Burroughs machine we used to have to use cent signs (and something else that I forget) for square brackets and a 3-hole multipunch for ';'
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by Taniwha 4y ago
This is because IBM 029 card punches don't support these characters right?
597.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think that's fair - but then jump delay slots used in a lot of early riscs, including the 801 are very VLIWy too (the one I worked on could have up to 3 instructions in a delay slot)
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by Taniwha 4y ago
I think that how much calculus you get in highschool depends on which country you live in, I got 3 years (though the first one was minimal), I also got more in highschool physics classes. But we also have national exams for entrance into Un
599.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Possibly this isn't the wonder tool for busting through our current semiconductor supply chain problems that I hoped it was ...
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by Taniwha 4y ago
yeah you see I think that's the riscy-ish thing of it all, and why I nominated it: having bits in the instructions wired directly to gates in the ALU without any decode is RISC at its essence

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