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by flopsamjetsam 14d ago
My first computer was a Microbee, a Z80-based Australian computer made by Applied Technology. I loved that thing to death, and thank my Mum and Dad for buying it for me, and getting me started in a field that I loved. My school had a VIC-2
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by flopsamjetsam 21d ago
LLM to write it, then all the managers just use LLM to summarise it :)
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by flopsamjetsam 1mo ago
> Dan Bricklin's Demo There's a name I haven't heard in a while. During our undergrad (90s), we used it to mock up UI designs for one of our early courses.
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
> I'm guessing Google can't make money on them. The weights are free for non-commercial use. And Isomorphic are their commercial arm, and they partner with the big drug companies. Edit: after reading the article, I realise it&
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
Yes, it reminds me a lot of the ports between 8-bit computers in the 80s, and also console ports pre-Playstation.
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Should you use AI for a task? Here's a simple way to decide(theguardian.com)
4 points by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago|3 comments
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
An article by Bruce Schneier, on how he frames the question when evaluating his students.
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
That is excellent, and explains much!
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
> CLIC was awful (thankfully it has been abandoned) Could you expand a little on what made it a bad design? I'm not much up on RISC-V.
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
I re-took Computer Architecture recently, and we used their earlier book "Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM edition", and it was also excellent.
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by flopsamjetsam 2mo ago
From the GitHub page: > It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them.
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by flopsamjetsam 3mo ago
> We think it is highly likely that these LX2 chiplets are etched using SMIC 7 nanometer processes at the N+3 refinement, and we base that on the fact that the chip only runs at 1.55 GHz. That is nowhere near the 3 GHz that SMIC can push
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by flopsamjetsam 3mo ago
I was a programmer, and moved over to biology recently. I was very "wtf is R" when I started, but slowly its strengths are coming through. I found the combination of the REPL plus the IDE, and the language syntax, somehow give m
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by flopsamjetsam 3mo ago
I love this, it's like a grown-up PrintShop.
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by flopsamjetsam 3mo ago
That's fascinating, I remember my Dad telling me you would pay for something in guineas as a sort of tip, but I never knew it was for horses (this is in Australia).
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
I loved Swaine's Flames from DDJ. Shame I missed his revival.
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
Great map! No Opeth?
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
You'd think they'd just ban repeat offenders.
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
Yeah, you'd think they'd include that. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413 "Upon treatment with acid, that bond breaks to release more than a megajoule per kilogram of the compound,
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
From the Wikipedia article: > However, it is possible to implement saturating addition and subtraction in software without branches, using only modular arithmetic and bitwise logical operations that are available on all modern CPUs and t
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by flopsamjetsam 4mo ago
Do you mean for a teaching job, or just any job? Certainly in fields like biology, you can only be taken seriously by others in the field by having an advanced degree (which is really only the beginning). In computing, in the commercial fi
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
> And for sports, the level at which you have to be competitive is getting younger and younger. So much more sports science/nutrition going in at the middle school/high school level. For endurance-based sports, online coaching
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
> Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files. That's fascinating. I came in during the Amiga era, and everything was SoundTracker etc. files. I had no idea that music was hand-coded like this.
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
I loved the Circuit Cellar columns. It was all very over my head, but I loved the descriptions and the writing, and the process.
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
BYTE mag and Creative Computing were the first computing magazines I read, and really kick-started my excitement with computers, even though everything was out of my reach (either too expensive as a kid, or running on computers that were to
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
I don't know much about him, only that he was in the same party. I have heard that he is pro-EU and anti-Russia though, is that true?
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
I clicked on this fearing it was a "256 bytes of JS" (plus X GB of browser), and was pleasantly surprised it was actually 256 bytes.
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by flopsamjetsam 5mo ago
I checked out some subreddits on the mission, and left pretty quickly for that reason. It's nice to find some positivity and wonder at it. I love what Artemis II is doing, found the launch very exciting and a little nerve wracking, a
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by flopsamjetsam 6mo ago
Game making is like film making in this regard: it's often a "passion job."

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