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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction(righto.com)
130 points by pwg 4d ago|52 comments
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by pwg 16d ago
My the "Times" has fallen. This op-ed writer totally missed the forest for the trees. Not six months or so ago we had multiple different AI CEO's, and other big company CEO's, publicly exclaiming how many jobs AI was go
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer(righto.com)
132 points by pwg 17d ago|24 comments
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by pwg 19d ago
Sadly, the whole article reads as AI generated slop.
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by pwg 21d ago
> Then they ignored tons and tons of warning signs that this was having a negative effect especially on children and the elderly. So long as the changes produced (to their belief) increases in advertising revenue, they didn't care.
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by pwg 22d ago
It is, but you'd be surprised at the number of folks who will DIY stuff, but won't DIY anything electrical.
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by pwg 22d ago
For the home inspections I've been a "walkthrough witness" to, the "electrical inspection" portion involved the inspector opening the normal access door to the breaker panel levers, and plugging in one of those $5 H
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by pwg 22d ago
Unless your state is very unusual that is the requirement for installing them for other people as a tradesman. In most states if you are DIY for yourself all you legally need are the electrical permits for the wiring hookup (which for DIY
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by pwg 1mo ago
With Firefox you can set to false the about:config setting "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" and websites can no longer block paste.
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by pwg 1mo ago
With UblockOrigin blocking all Javascript by default there was no cookie banner, just the article and photographs.
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by pwg 1mo ago
> However that still doesn't explain who would want things like auto-focus fine tuning or assignable buttons in the lens rather than the camera body where it already exists. 1) not all camera bodies include those fine tuning options
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by pwg 1mo ago
Modern DSLR camera lenses are full blown embedded computers controlling mechanical actuators (focus motor, aperture blades, etc.) and communicating lens information to the camera's CPU (aberration corrections, vignetting corrections, e
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by pwg 1mo ago
The problem is not that the originator can be found. The current, existing, legacy, phone system already can find the exact originator. The problem is that enforcement of breaking the regulation is so non-existent that the criminals just p
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by pwg 1mo ago
These bills all suddenly appeared , as if by magic, in multiple state houses only a very short time after Zuck was on the stand in the Facebook trial early in the year testifying that "the right place to do age verification is in the
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by pwg 1mo ago
> Content providers, like MPAA films, should have to identify what sort of content they are providing. Then I can give my kids a device configured to allow some or all of that at my discretion. If the intent were to actually protect chil
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by pwg 1mo ago
> These days I see people throwing around the term DevOps in contexts that strike me as odd. > Maybe the term has evolved to the point where I’ve been left behind, but I think it’s more likely that the term has been adopted by people
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by pwg 2mo ago
It also does not load if Javascript is blocked.
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by pwg 2mo ago
And set the stage for "Space 1999"'s lunar escape from earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999
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by pwg 2mo ago
For the old mechanical machines (whether powered by a crank or powered by an electric motor) yes, the term "adding machine" was because, for most, all they could do is add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adding
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by pwg 2mo ago
Then, after researching amperage and wire gauge, pay attention to the fact that power losses in wires from the inherent resistance thereof is proportional to the square of the current passing through those wires: https://en.wikip
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by pwg 2mo ago
> This is a very shady dark pattern by Alphabet corporation. Advertising company (Doubleclick [1]) wants phone numbers to better target ads. No surprise there. [1] The company currently calling itself Google is not the same Google as ye
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by pwg 2mo ago
> which can pose a significant (and growing, as standards improve) obstacle for older cars. At least for my state, the emissions test a car has to pass is whatever it was supposed to have passed when it was fresh off the assembly line.
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by pwg 2mo ago
> Most buyers get title insurance, This is because all lenders require title insurance as a requirement for receiving the loan monies. So for almost all buyers they have no choice, their bank/credit union that is actually putting
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by pwg 2mo ago
Local governments that very much want to get their tax monies, even if receiving them is delayed by a few years before someone buys the property.
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by pwg 2mo ago
> so I didn't understand why automakers kept shoving them in. The article explained why. Since 2018 in the US, due to the proliferation of giant trucks being used as passenger vehicles (SUV's) backup cameras have been mandator
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by pwg 2mo ago
Likely because, in space, reflective items don't heat up as much from sunlight as would a dark, energy absorbing, material. Shedding heat in space is a difficult enough endeavor already without also painting your satellite black so it
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by pwg 3mo ago
Archive version: https://archive.ph/E5YZK
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by pwg 3mo ago
> Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading. The term for when the press "gets it wrong" is Gell-Mann Amnesia ( https://en.wiktionary.org&#x2F
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by pwg 3mo ago
> very low density (relatively speaking to today) make them more robust against gamma-rays and other radiation problems once outside the atmosphere? Yes. Large size transistors (and other IC components) are less impacted by the radiatio
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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor(righto.com)
133 points by pwg 3mo ago|25 comments

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