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by emh68 6y ago
I've been working on something like that (actually with a Pentium), but the biggest problem is finding an FPGA with enough pins to connect to the CPU, RAM, peripherals, etc. Maybe I need to use a cheaper FPGA to mux down the 64-bit-wi
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by emh68 8y ago
I recommend Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics [Stan Gibilisco]
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by emh68 8y ago
I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer.
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by emh68 8y ago
Can’t blame this on Microsoft. Legal department probably said “these disks look visually similar to Dell disks, therefore we must press charges or everyone will start stamping out lookalike CDs and they’ll be able to get away with it by poi
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by emh68 8y ago
People definitely misuse PRs though, and while it's common for engineers to go "well that's their problem, I'M logically correct!", I think that's the wrong approach. One very common thing that I've seen i
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by emh68 8y ago
It’s a VM language and therefore “pass by value” and “pass by reference” don’t make sense in this context. But people love to subdivide everything into two groups so have at it, who am I to rain on your party.
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by emh68 8y ago
‘at which point someone complained I was reviewing his PR before it was ready for review (it had WIP in the title)... but I'd always thought that you just don't make a PR before you want someone to have a look at it!! Why would yo
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by emh68 8y ago
I was lucky enough to get to go to weirdstuff a few times over the past year, and it’s sad to see it go. I have witnessed the fall of surplus stores over the last decade or so. It seems like they lost touch with what hobbyists want. You’d s
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by emh68 8y ago
Some people enjoy that. Just look at Arch Linux.
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by emh68 9y ago
Why would the government push an backdoor that would expose their own citizens to more hacking? Almost seems like they’re just trying to look tough on crime but won’t actually do it.
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by emh68 9y ago
The sequence of letters which makes up the book is an innate fact about itself. Although we’re in philosophy territory now and that usually goes nowhere.
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by emh68 9y ago
Way to twist what “information wants to be free” means. Since when is copyrighted entertainment “information”? The phrase is obviously about real information, which is an innate fact about the universe which can’t be copyrighted. Like 09F9
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by emh68 9y ago
This will be an interesting experiment. The EU keeps coming up with ways to essentially destroy the internet as we know it. But I theorize that the internet is the only reason the economy continued to grow after the 90s. I think they may re
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by emh68 9y ago
This is cool and all, but coming from the emacs world, all I want is a keyboard with four meta keys. Ctrl/alt/command/option maybe. All in a row to the left/right of the spacebar. That would be ideal.
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by emh68 9y ago
I did RTFA, but you were saying the OpenGL dream has been dead for a long time, which I took to mean pre-2014 ;) Uou have convinced me that Metal might not be so bad... at least is all the consoles have custom APIs then it’s not as unusual
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by emh68 9y ago
Apple doesn’t count, they just recently moved to Metal from standard OpenGL. Do consoles use something custom? Not OpenGL?
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by emh68 9y ago
It’ll be interesting to see if this helps the lack of games on Mac in the long run.
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by emh68 9y ago
What do you mean by “the OpenGL dream died”? It seems to me that we were slowly moving toward a unified API across all operating systems, then Apple did what they always do and invented their own closed API.
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by emh68 9y ago
Dear VP of engineering, as a programmer, I sometimes need to stare off into space to visualize a complex system. <my boss> should have explained this, but didn’t, which I think is a failure to do their job.
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by emh68 9y ago
I like how they threw “makers” (or “pro makers”, whatever that means, on the actual page) into the title. Uhhh... Yeah I’m going to spend $50 and then probably at least another $50-$100 for the breakout board, which I’ll need as a (pro|) ma
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by emh68 9y ago
Laws affecting websites, such as accessibility laws and GDPR-like privacy laws need to be made very carefully, and I feel like they haven't been. They cover every website, from the largest Fortune 500 website to the smallest Little Joh
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by emh68 9y ago
I remember distinctly being a kid, finding a book on programming in a thrift store. It was all in COBOL. Previously I had only seen snippets of C++ and... perl I think. Anyway, I saw the COBOL syntax, all-caps, everything spaced out evenly
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by emh68 9y ago
Seems like the system is working as intended. The Copyright Office is powerless or unwilling to stand up to the copyright holders, and as a result they can only give us hollow concessions like "You can jailbreak this, but you can'
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by emh68 9y ago
If Visa weren’t at fault they would put out a statement about it and then probably sue. Why are there so many posts asking this same question? Feels concerted
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by emh68 9y ago
If you look at what actually happened, it’s pretty obvious that it was Visa... they were trying to retroactively change how they applied cash advance fees for the past month, and something went wrong.
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by emh68 9y ago
I’ve read about tin whiskers extensively, and the consensus seems to be that while conformal coatings will stop tin whiskers from falling accross two leads, they won’t stop a whisker that’s growing from one lead toward another - they will j
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by emh68 9y ago
Elon was probably having a beer with some Air Force brass and they were like “hey you really want to pay for disposal of that thing? Or... I’m sure some of our boys would love to use that for target practice.”
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by emh68 9y ago
Wow, that's it? Googling around a bit, it seems that Google's attempt to include everything under the sun into your YouTube Red subscription is to blame... They could just give you ad-free youtube. But instead, they want YTR to
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by emh68 9y ago
YouTube Red?
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by emh68 9y ago
It’s fine - as long as I can write in “Darth Vader”.

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