Taniwha

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by Taniwha 2y ago
The terrorist who shot 100 people in the mosque came to NZ because we used to allow semi-automatics, and his home country didn't, he bought them here, it's why we banned them - to make it harder for terrorists
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Our populace is pretty heavily armed, hunting is pretty ingrained in the national psyche. No one's arguing for getting rid of hunting rifles. Pistols and semiautomatics, things designed to kill people are illegal and most of us are qui
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by Taniwha 2y ago
There's a minister who still has to approve/deny it
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by Taniwha 2y ago
He fought it all the way and ran out of options, we have a more right leaning government now who want to suck up to the US
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by Taniwha 2y ago
My guess is it's essentially free to knock up a RISC-V core (there have been a couple in tiny tapeout) while ARM are getting aggressive and raising the price of their cores - by building a part than can run with 2 ARM cores or 2 RISCV
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by Taniwha 2y ago
New BusPirate 5XL&6 also dropping today - use the 3250 https://buspirate.com/
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Dual core (4 cores - 2 RISC-V, 2 ARM - pick any 2) - more pins more RAM, optional stacked ROM
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RP2350(raspberrypi.com)
27 points by Taniwha 2y ago|12 comments
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yes exactly, core cycle times were ~1uS so around 1Mhz clock for our old B6700
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Back in my mainframe days (late 70s) we ran a large mainframe, the only one in the local uni - way slower than your phone, a couple of Mb of core, ran payroll and 30 terminals. We had a dedicated local engineer who had his own onsite office
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by Taniwha 2y ago
This was a drum printer, the other common fast printed from the same era was a chain printer, essentially the same mechanism with a row of hammers one for each column and a chain of characters that would get whacked on as it sped past the h
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I think it depends on the subspecies, they are certainly endangered on the North Island, and in decline on the South - but happy on the Chatams (and allowed to be hunted, they are reputedly tasty)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Actually New Zealand even more shocked by American reality TV people snacking on endangered birds: https://x.com/nzpolkermit/status/1815983072182976875
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by Taniwha 2y ago
She writes the Murderbot Diaries (though that's not what her current nomination is for)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
My theory is that this is the first year that the AIs have tried to stuff the ballot for their favourite author, they're just not very good at it yet (and that Finalist A is likely Martha Wells)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I've built VLIW hardware, virtualisation is not an issue, cache usage is not different than other CPUs - in fact modern superscalar, out-of-order CPUs effectively do what the compiler for VLIWs do dynamically on the fly. The big issue
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by Taniwha 2y ago
The other issue is that they push to everyone - as someone who at my last job had a million boxes in the wild, and was very aware that bricking them all would kill the company we would NEVER push them all at once, we'd push a few &#x27
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Really the underlying problem here is that their software is loading external data into their kernel driver and not correctly sanitising their inputs
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by Taniwha 2y ago
But they're are literally trying to get jobs at evil marketing companies, surely they need to out-evil them to break into that industry?
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by Taniwha 2y ago
HN discussion here - needs to be on the front page - here in NZ ATMs, supermarkets, satellite TV channels are all down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Satellite TV channels too
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by Taniwha 2y ago
It's worth noting that the often quoted "50,000 hour" LED bulb lifetime largely comes from the data sheets for the LEDs themselves, it's the time it takes for the light output to drop by 50% - how long the rest of the li
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing - as a 1st time new parent you're famously not well plugged into the names currently being chosen by other parents, which is why our son Max was one of 3 in his class
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Of course doing that you get far far more sodium .....
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Main reason is probably just that x86s have so very few registers. Most C++s have a pointer to the current object (bp), virtual objects then contain a pointer to a vtable (to save space) so it's a double indirect load - also I suspect
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I was working on an x86 clone back in the 90s (sadly never saw the light of day), one of the things I did early on was to write code to emulate various potential microarchitectural designs by capturing long streams of real world instruction
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by Taniwha 2y ago
a tunnel is supporting some downward pressure above it while a pip is resisting an outwards pressure from inside - a brick/stone arch might work for downwards pressure, but will just come apart if pushed from the inside - unlike the il
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by Taniwha 2y ago
It's really more a pipe than a tunnel, the whole pipe needs to be able to support the weight of the boat and all the water to the top of each step
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Spent some time around Linotype machines in the 70s, my Dad left school to operate them at 15 (to support his family in the 30s), they were still in use at the local paper until the 80s when everything was computerised. So give some love to
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by Taniwha 2y ago
We rented one of these for a trade show (MacWorld), at the time there were reputedly 3 in the US, was brought in on a forklift, had to build a specially strong bench to put it on - people would come around just to see it (and the digital vi

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