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by variaga 6d ago
Indeed. Some of the worst software interfaces I've ever dealt with were fully "dogfooded" and that was the cause; the people writing the software did use it every day but (a) in a very idiosyncratic way and (b) in a specific,
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by variaga 7d ago
A tiny thing about Asimov's laws of robotics is, most of his stories involve cases where they don't actually work . Spoilers for a 73 year old novel, but for instance the plot of Caves of Steel is centered on a robot with a per
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by variaga 7d ago
It's a little less dramatic than that. They did send a demand letter to automatic.css saying that since 'automatic' and 'automattic' differ by only one letter, are pronounced the same, and are marketed to similar gr
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by variaga 27d ago
Directly telling someone that you have a problem with something they did and why you think it's a problem is not "passive aggressive" by any stretch of the definition.
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by variaga 2mo ago
For the uninitiated https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgDPrhV8z5s
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by variaga 2mo ago
"God was knocking, and he wanted in bad "
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by variaga 3mo ago
I did the same (4-bit cpu, 11 instructions) in my Microprocessors class, out of 74-series logic, one GAL20V8 to handle the SLE instruction and an EPROM (not an EEPROM - one with the clear window you exposed to UV light to erase. That was al
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by variaga 3mo ago
One hypothetical outcome if FTX had not been shut down when it was might have been "there was never a mass withdrawl of funds from FTX that would trigger an FTX liquidity crisis and Alemeda switched its strategy to 100% HODL, waited
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by variaga 4mo ago
Ugh. Sudden flashbacks to having to switch analog output between Japanese NTSC (no pedestal) and US NTSC (with pedestal) without getting weird noise in the black regions. But IIRC the MPEG-2 standard had luma==235 -> 100IRE for all of th
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by variaga 4mo ago
Nit: a gourmand is the opposite of a gourmet
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by variaga 5mo ago
Permanently block this number? [yes] [no]
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by variaga 5mo ago
Companies with poor quality mobile websites also usually have poor quality apps. The website can be objectively bad, but still better than the app experience.
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by variaga 6mo ago
>Why doesn’t someone fork systemd Why don't you? It's open source. No one is stopping you. Your ideas on how init systems should work are obviously superior, so you'll easily win over a majority of developers, right?
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by variaga 6mo ago
I read the page and went through the "verify the cycles for yourself" sequence and I still have no earthly idea when defining the cycles, what is the rule that says "if you're currently on hexagram X, you can calculate t
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by variaga 6mo ago
Unless you say it as "a fak"
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by variaga 6mo ago
"Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to f---ing work the next morning
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by variaga 7mo ago
I am a native English speaker, and it's not just you.
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by variaga 8mo ago
This is the correct analysis. Not to go all Ian Malcolm, but half this comment section is spending so much time wondering if we could build a space data center, without stopping to ask if it made any goddamn sense whatsoever to do so.
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by variaga 8mo ago
Heat travels when there is a thermal gradient. What thermally superconducting material are you going to make your cube out of that the surface temperature is exactly the same as the core temperature? If you don't have one, then to keep
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by variaga 8mo ago
"Just shift back" is really underestimating how much effort it takes to port a design to a different foundry. Sure, you can target a new stdcell library and recompile your RTL (and re-floorplan, and re-do a bunch of other stuff) b
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by variaga 8mo ago
Some of us are old enough to remember the last time Intel was definitely, 100%, for-sure committed to offering foundry services, and then changed their mind and canceled the whole thing (it was in 2018) and want to see (a) someone else have
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by variaga 8mo ago
Big-endian matches the way we commonly write numbers, but if you have to deal with multiple word widths or greater than word-width math I find little-endian much more straightforward because LE has the invariant that bit value = 2^bit_index
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by variaga 9mo ago
>Do you just mean that we must assume something to get the ball rolling They're called "axioms"
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by variaga 10mo ago
On my phone keyboard (android) "×" is a long-press on "w"
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by variaga 10mo ago
That's correct, the Romans had March as the first month of the year, so leap day was the last day of the year and September, October, November and December were the 7th (sept), 8th (oct), ninth (nov) and 10th (dec) months.
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by variaga 11mo ago
Not one mention of the material's dialectric constant
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by variaga 11mo ago
You can isolate your ethernet over coax from your neighbor with a MoCA POE "point of entry" filter which blocks the frequencies used by MoCA. You can buy them online for around $10 and they install without tools, Besides neighbors
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by variaga 1y ago
Smurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.
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by variaga 1y ago
>> It could never be made today. > Why not? M. Emmett Walsh, Carl Reiner, Maurice Evans and Jackie Mason are all dead, for one reason.
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by variaga 1y ago
Word. 28 years of FPGA and ASIC design here, in VHDL, Verliog and SystemVerliog. Coming from VHDL, verilog had some painful limitations (no struct/record type) but SV fixed those, and supports some surprisingly powerful metaprogrammi

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