Posibyte

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by Posibyte 8y ago
The author takes this into consideration: * yes, I know ‘low-level’ is a subjective term I used to work in the embedded world, and there C has historically been considered a "high-level" language for many platforms. Howeve
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Thank you!
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by Posibyte 8y ago
This seems like a ham-fisted solution does it not? Channels like ChadTronic play on the nostalgia of being a kid back in the '80s and '90s, yet AFAIK has been unable to enable comments on any of his videos. The weird, funny commen
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by Posibyte 8y ago
The capstone project and little pacman game look pretty interesting. Think you can spare a short portion of the book to show what the writing is like? I find them to be some of the best litmus tests of what I'm about to get myself into
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Another one that's been around for decades at this point is the Inform[1] platform. There's still an active group of people who produce all sorts of interactive fiction books in the vein of CYOA books that are of surprisingly grea
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Choose your own adventure books, notably the RL Stein "Give Yourself Goosebumps" variety were the books that swept my imagination away and really lit the spark for reading as a young kid. There's an art to driving curiosity t
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by Posibyte 8y ago
This happened to me. I started on a journey of transitioning to a woman and gathered a group of friends at work composed of women. They supported me for a few years helping me through the process. Then recently (as of this year), a woman ca
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I recommend the 6502[1] if you're just starting. What you learn applies almost everywhere, and it's very much a what-you-write-is-what-happens sort of processor. No branch prediction, no caches, no fancy features. Its op-set is ve
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I always recommend the DE0-Nano. It's getting a little old, but it's basically all right there, open for use. I'm a fan of the Arrow DECA which has a complete assortment of neat odds and ends. Lastly Digilent's Arty and
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I get the idea, and I agree in general. However, I've always struggled with DE's like i3 because they were so barren with visual information up front. I respect the power they present, but I appreciate a nice balance. Animations,
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by Posibyte 8y ago
For me, it's pure nostalgia. It's getting to relive the past that I loved with all new hardware, getting to do things that nobody from the time period could have imagined given the limitations and pushing the limits of the softwar
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I think there's a glimmer of truth to this. And it's not that people are lazy because they're bad people. It's because the situation you're in is soul sucking. It's horrible. Imagine every day of your life livi
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Ah, ok I get it now. My eyes somehow completely skipped that paragraph.
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I will proudly confess I am not well versed on the history of EE :)
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Is there a reason a Silicon transistor/diode wouldn't work here? I'm assuming it either has something to do with voltage sensitivity or frequency, but older computers like this tended to use fairly high (TTL) logic for signal
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by Posibyte 8y ago
In my small town, we have a long street that's just a strip of restaurants. Google and Bing get it right, Apple Maps lists the entire mile-long strip as KFC's. If you select one, it's the same KFC. Been that way since launch.
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by Posibyte 8y ago
Did a search just to make sure this book is mentioned. It's a treasure of just-enough-of-everything to help you understand basic electronics and protocols, as well as little gotchas and things to look out for. I highly recommend it.
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by Posibyte 8y ago
I have this laptop. If you find that the spacebar does not respond well if struck in the center, I've found that a small pressing of hot glue and a quick dab of your thumb on it on the middle ring on the underside of the key does wonde
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by Posibyte 8y ago
There's also this weird dynamic of not having number on paper. I once took off three weeks for vacation, first in a very long time, several years. When I got back, there was definitely this air of "so and so is finally back, worki
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by Posibyte 8y ago
It's fairly dense nowadays by comparison. If you have the time, playing with DOSBOX or PCem with an emulation of the original IBM PC or XT is a less complex and more inviting introduction to ASM within the confines of the PC architectu
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by Posibyte 8y ago
My thoughts on why they failed, I feel, are a lot more simplistic. Maybe oversimplistic and based on my own anecdotal experiences, but I don't see myself as an outlier here, so I feel a connection to others that went this way. Simply,
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by Posibyte 9y ago
In this case, it was cheating to beat Amazon by duping customers and investors. Hurting people innocent to the situation is not okay, even if it is in a try to topple a behemoth.
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by Posibyte 9y ago
As kens said, and to expand, Xilinx's Vivado doesn't support the Spartan 6, however they _do_ still fully support the Spartan 6 and continue to produce new chips. To support this, they've released a Virtualbox compatible imag
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by Posibyte 9y ago
Sircmpwn is a user on this site. There are so many times I've opened a link to a piece of software, an article, or a tutorial and thought "Wow, this is cool" or "Hey, this is fun to read." And Sircmpwn has repeatedl
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by Posibyte 9y ago
Right now judging from Cloudflare's benchmarks, the win will be in TDP. [1] Heat is a very nasty issue to handle in large datacenters, and can end up costing quite a bit in cooling. Intel's been making some great strides in this a
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by Posibyte 9y ago
I use it for programming microcontrollers, FPGAs, and doing additional signal testing on those devices. I also use it to control some processes that keep some hobby IoT devices in sync. It's just a really handy way to do parallel jobs
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by Posibyte 9y ago
Are there any examples happening of this happening in recent years? (80's-now)
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by Posibyte 9y ago
I would like to see the impact mobile phones and had on health and safety against the two items you've put forward. Again, while I agree that it would eschew security for the sake of immersion, not wearing a seatbelt or not getting ant
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by Posibyte 9y ago
While I wholeheartedly agree, the devil's advocate within me likes to remind that we had been mobile phone-less for years with no major concern.
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by Posibyte 9y ago
Corruption doesn't necessarily have to be illegal.

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