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901.
by Taniwha 5y ago
There are also ESP32 variants that are native RISC-V (but not with MMUs)
902.
by Taniwha 5y ago
China? already done https://riscv.org/news/2021/10/alibaba-announces-open-source... New Zealand too ..... https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/vroom
903.
by Taniwha 5y ago
There's a similar image that's essentially "what if it were Mt St Helens?" .... it covers WA and OR
904.
by Taniwha 5y ago
There are probably 1000s of logic designers kicking around Silicon Valley, probably not 10s of thousands. These days little semiconductor engineering is happening there, all the new fabs have been built elsewhere for decades now
905.
by Taniwha 5y ago
They are waves in a density gradient caused by gravity - it's unfortunate, but essentially there are two things with the same name - English is like that some times
906.
by Taniwha 5y ago
errno and malloc() not that surpsising
907.
by Taniwha 5y ago
I was around Apple pre Next and people there were already afraid of Steve
908.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Maytag used to have an advert running with a bored repairman complaining that they never failed .... either they were tempting fate, or they fired that repairman
909.
by Taniwha 5y ago
It's very much not modern, it's one of the oldest religions around - there's some evidence that the (younger) Abrahamic religions have inherited ideas from it, so maybe not so 'pagan' either
910.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Yes there are 10^157 possibilities but I suspect it's not a factorial process to solve it - let's pick a random page, we compare it with the 99 others and find the one that follows it and the one that precedes it (198 tests) - now
911.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Well mostly I guess that the first part has to do with checking that the end of one page matches the beginning of the next, and makes sense (the "makes sense" bit probably can't be brute forced) - 100! is probably not easily
912.
by Taniwha 5y ago
And yet I can flash an LED that fast, then turn my head from side to side and see the modulation ....
913.
by Taniwha 5y ago
There was one yesterday and a bigger one 3-4 hours ago
914.
by Taniwha 5y ago
This is a real tsunami, just not really really big, they are partially protected by a reef. It's not a slow eruption (check out the shockwave in one of the videos, heard in New Zealand). There was a smaller bang yesterday.
915.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Actual tsunamis have been reported in Fiji, and of course Tongatapu
916.
by Taniwha 5y ago
It's worth noting that that cloud is (very) roughly 150km across
917.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Pictures and videos here https://twitter.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/148221531738882458... https://twitter.com/sakakimoana/status/1482218193619865600 https://twitter.com/_T
918.
by Taniwha 5y ago
To be fair much of rocket science is essentially extreme plumbing
919.
by Taniwha 5y ago
I think that these days there's a lot of convergence going on - everything is essentially serdes in some form - some chips just have N serdes lanes and let you config them for PCIe/ether/data/USB/etc as you need the
920.
by Taniwha 5y ago
reading the articles I think that FEC is being used to protect link integrity - it's different from ECC on DRAM which is also protecting the contents (against things like row-hammer and cosmic rays)
921.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Also remember that Polynesian navigation is a synthesis of sun/stars and wind/waves/currents - being able to sit at the bottom of a boat and looking at the subtle ways that it's rocking around you is an important part of
922.
by Taniwha 5y ago
The whole astrology crap is bunk - but yeah "daughter of Enron" definitely
923.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Yeah, that was my thought too
924.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Nah I'm convinced that all the nations should get together, build a big quantum CPU and mine the rest of the bitcoin in one shot - that will help save the planet
925.
by Taniwha 5y ago
The mouse theory is interesting .... because omicron is more benign - one of the problems we have with covid is that because of all this modern medicine saving lots of lives (not enough though sadly) there's not a lot of evolutionary p
926.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Sure - the original 'bargain' around copyright (between printers and the King) was that copyright, an unnatural monopoly right, would be granted for a fixed period of time and then would revert to the public domain (remember this
927.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Surely one of the lessons here is that the big push to have languages detect arithmetic overflow are largely moot unless you actually do something useful when it happens (because here's a case where yes they did detect it but ....)
928.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Pity about the name, those of us who were around when the internet took off out of it's original walled garden will likely remember a "portmaster" as one of the first affordable SLIP routers for those trying to create what we
929.
by Taniwha 5y ago
For the record 2201010001 (ie today's date) is greater than the largest 32-bit signed int (while 2112310001 wasn't)
930.
by Taniwha 5y ago
IMHO this is largely a political storm in a teacup. There has been limited space in quarantine (MIQ) for returning residents over the past year, though this month there is space going free. A vocal group of people stuck overseas by this bot

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