ashleyn

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541.
by ashleyn 8y ago
There's been a sea change in America the past 25 years or so that made politics more important: the importance of nonwhite and nonchristian opinions and the political power to give them teeth. America is now a majority-minority country
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The WELL technically still exists.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
>If the egalitarian ethos of the early web was indeed born of the values of the 60s and 70s, then what values from the 90s created the web of today? Reckless, "greed-is-good" neoliberalism.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
>I think this is the root issue here. We have freedom of association, but there should be no expectation that there will be no social commentary when you exercise that freedom. Fair enough
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Except I justly compensate people for my electricity, food, and clothing. I do not steal it from them. For almost everything I am provided, I agree to pay a set amount to receive a desired service. It's not "society" I owe an
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by ashleyn 8y ago
>There is no way for everybody to have everything they want. We make compromises that hopefully allow us to live in a more globally optimized world. Perhaps not but the best we can do is uphold individual liberty and empower individuals
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I've had the experience of talking this point with someone and their argument essentially boiled down to "women are overgrown children who need men to guide them." This is why I don't entertain "family values"
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by ashleyn 8y ago
>I am not saying marriage is a panacea but it seems to be a reasonable compromise to channel human sexuality for the good of society. Or perhaps "society" shouldn't be so arrogantly entitled to intrude on the consensual re
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Not just "more often" but essential. We've been at four hardware threads for a decade now, and we're just entering a new era where increasing the number of CPU cores is becoming a marketing tactic.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Structured threads aren't that hard (e.g. task-based systems, thread pools). Unmaintanable raw-pthread messes are a nightmare sequel from the director of Endless GOTOs.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with this engineer's nostalgia for the kind of systems I first learned everything on. When Terry compares TempleOS's design inspirations to the C64, I know exactly where he's co
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Yeah but that was very rewarding in its own way. Every line of code you wrote was your own and you really learned more that way. I'm currently going through the theory on Scratchapixel to see how OpenGL actually works.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Cache coherence in application development is more important now than ever
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Heterogenous computing is picking up the slack. More dedicated ASICs for things like vision processing and deep learning. Today's floating-point unit is tomorrow's on-board media processor.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I bought a Sandy Bridge CPU in 2011. 4 cores, 8 threads, 3.0 ghz. Last year I went looking through consumer-class CPUs looking to upgrade. They are more or less all a very unimpressive 4 core, 8 thread, 3.0 ghz. Maybe they have a tiny bit m
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by ashleyn 8y ago
One day I decided to write a simple lexer-parser. It's really not black magic as it's commonly made out to be. You read in one character at a time to build "tokens" (e.g. one-to-n character sequences meaning something li
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by ashleyn 8y ago
That absolutely is ordered dithering. Not only does it have the characteristic cross-hatch pattern but ordered dithering is relatively efficient even on very limited resources. I can't picture the Game Boy's Z80 or even a toy-mark
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Kind of? SuperFX was essentially a second CPU paired with RAM that served as a framebuffer. You would set a pointer that contained code in its ISA format and it would asynchronously calculate graphics (almost like a second thread) and dump
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by ashleyn 8y ago
I test drove a Volvo S90 recently. The Pilot Assist feature almost feels like a gimmick due to the attention required. If you don't give steering input in five seconds, Pilot Assist disables itself. It basically requires enough of your
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by ashleyn 8y ago
The security of this feature depends on whether or not it runs from code in mask ROM.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
It'd be a lot better of a situation if router boards were designed to accept firmware upgrades at a low level. After an attack, you often need to use the software updater to reset it. That can no longer be trusted if it's compromi
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by ashleyn 8y ago
>implying Congress will do anything other than continue to line the pockets of rich cronies The federal government in the US is profoundly dysfunctional to the point where this isn't worth the time or money. However, it may be worth
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by ashleyn 8y ago
If you're infected, you need a new router. Period. Telling people that they can resecure their routers with just a reboot is irresponsible.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
In "science projects" like these, you pay in time to recieve experience. By day I do Javascript at work, but my work on a passion project resulted in a wealth of OpenGL and C++ experience. Enough that when I was tapped to do work
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by ashleyn 8y ago
By the time its descendant Firefox came out, it was a much safer, stable, standards-conformant browser. Still have memories of just how complacent MS got when IE6 was released.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Almost immediately, a joke about half my data disappearing came to mind.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
GC at the systems level is an idea that has had its chance. 40 something years out, and we all mostly use C, with Rust being the only contender to knock it off its perch. It's probably time to give up the dream; GC is only good if you&
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Also the processor the Sega Genesis uses, so you can learn to make your own Genesis game!
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by ashleyn 8y ago
Possible? Trivially. Doable? Not really, because cost margins are tight on cars. Remember, you're talking about the industry that once viewed it as cheaper to pay out lawsuits than to fix a dangerous fuel tank.
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by ashleyn 8y ago
That's cute, expecting the federal government to even barely function in this dysfunctional era. We don't get action on these things because Congress is fundamentally broken.

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