justaaron

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by justaaron 7y ago
I've posted exactly one post in the past months, this one. Perhaps you are referring to my comments on other posts?
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by justaaron 7y ago
I post this as I saw a basic humanitarian essay "flagged" by one of our less enlightened fellow readers. The humanitarian essay that was "flagged" is the following link: https://joelx.com/american-immigr
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by justaaron 7y ago
Criminalizing basic humane behaviors (such as saving drowning people, or giving water to a dehydrated person at risk of death) is making things worse and strips us of our very humanity. We wring our hands and move on, preferring to not know
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Pictures of dead migrants inspire our sympathy. But what use is that to them?(theguardian.com)
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by justaaron 7y ago
Play around. Make things. Try things. Sit down with a rough plan and a few hours and see what ends up slowing you down, then surpass it.
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by justaaron 7y ago
be prepared for rich nations/people to aid poor ones. there can be no winners in such a disaster, let's stop jostling for position. (We, the USA, are literally the only unilateralist nation with regards to this issue. We are an ou
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by justaaron 7y ago
Lead by example. Time for global solidarity. Time for international accords, accords that are much more ambitious than the Paris agreement that the USA unilaterally pulled-out of under Trump. "but mom, he's doing it worse/als
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by justaaron 7y ago
Indeed. There are still plenty of people spreading doubt and nonsense about the climate emergency not being real or not being caused by our industrial-scale burning of stuff for "energy". We unequivocally NEED to stand behind a si
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by justaaron 7y ago
Why anyone uses this glorified "hello world" app, let alone bases anything serious on it, is beyond me.
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by justaaron 7y ago
not to mention that we openly support regimes that will cut their own peoples legs and pollute their own lands for our business.
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by justaaron 7y ago
making our stuff, and disposing of our waste.
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by justaaron 7y ago
double bonus for being witty as all get-up. well written. scroll to the bottom.
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by justaaron 7y ago
Bonus points for not being on Medium!
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by justaaron 7y ago
I tend to think that Google is rather bigger than any one nation-states ability to contain it, at this point, which makes comparisons to Apple somewhat funny. Amazon appears to be desperately seeking to connect with the funding channels thi
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by justaaron 7y ago
Mongo itself, per-se? Never. (single write master = scaling bottleneck) A document database? Whenever I wanted to lump certain "tables" worth of data together literally ALWAYS (as in modeling many real-world entities) in my CRUD o
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by justaaron 7y ago
<insert high-availability joke> (was going to insert tcp joke but didn't know if everyone would get it...) this makes me ponder about whom you check do see if THIS is down... https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/
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by justaaron 7y ago
haha! was just gonna ask who they are going to search for solutions lol
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by justaaron 7y ago
https://www.w3schools.com will get you started on making a static html page that you can open in your web browser. A web server responds to a web browsers request for a document at a url. Learn about HTTP. Then, you can begin se
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by justaaron 7y ago
I agree. I've seen System-Verilog used for simulating such propagation delays, but it's not exactly a language-abstractable concept yet (precisely as it involves the actual hardware gate implementation) in that such black-box simu
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by justaaron 7y ago
point being: Control. Precise control over timing is required for deterministic temporal activities. Removing precise control over timing from the language stack one uses to program FPGA's with is removing a desirable feature for many
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by justaaron 7y ago
Thanks, that's interesting and very new to me. I appreciate the links
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by justaaron 7y ago
I DO want access to timing as most of what I want to use an FPGA to implement directly relates to timing. Think: real-time audio.
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by justaaron 7y ago
implementing in a non-garbage collected lower-level language, of course. Even FORTH's stack requires some ASM words to set it up... or am I missing something here?
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by justaaron 7y ago
Well, is any of this actual bare-metal environments for coding? It's more of a HAL meets RTOS, and it's certainly not self-bootstrapping in Go, which is impossible on real hardware, or?
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by justaaron 7y ago
More clear to write "mainstreet-mom-n-pop-store-killers-dumping-cheap-junk-for-ever-lower-prices-who-cares-about-any-future.com"
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by justaaron 7y ago
The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 kilometers (4,000 miles) from the Amazon's headwaters high in the Andes
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by justaaron 7y ago
*representing concrete metaphor. I have zero evidence on Amazon's business practices being directly related to deforestation. having said that, Bezos, as the worlds richest man, is in a huge position to do something about the environme
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by justaaron 7y ago
The company representing that which is destroying the river-basins ecosystem. (unfettered capitalism with-regards-to what are effectively planetary lungs.) 200,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest are burned every day circa 2019, but hey: next
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by justaaron 7y ago
Go is garbage collected, and thus not remotely suitable for bare-metal work. C, C++, Rust, possibly Ocaml, FORTH, FreePascal, etc... or else you are actually on about a virtual machine, not bare metal. Learning how to create your own heap.
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by justaaron 7y ago
This is going to end up somewhat specific, as most low-level initialization routines are. ARM vs x86 vs RISC-V vs MIPS vs a BASIC stamp or propeller etc... I will suggest studying some general Assembly language concepts, memory locations,

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