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dmitrygr
13,812karma·4,951submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.
me@dmitry.gr
https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/
Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple
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The country that does not, invented more or less every modern technology (transistors, ICs, wifi, microwaves, cellular). Mayhaps there is something to it.
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Seems Microslop forgot the #1 rule of selling bits and bytes: buying from you needs to be easier and less painful than opening thepiratebay (and possibly installing an emulator)
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> The correct fix is to bounds check before casting. This will do wonders for speed. Actually explicitly using the safe isntr might be better. Something like this will happily compile to a single i…
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>Micropython creates the illusion embedded developers do not need to understand C, their CPU, or other advanced concepts to do embedded programming.
Amen.
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The AI-slop main marketing image does not inspire confidence. Look at bottom left: "Domestic replacement of Broscomparn high-end products"(sic). See middle-right: "Comprenensive courten…
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Simpler yet: require every call to come with a physical source address, huge (and enforced) jail times for faking it. Let the internet and the pissed callees crowdsource the rest
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> This has absolutely not ever been the case. I think it was. Eg: on most russian warez forums in the 2000s, it was a bannable offense to crack russian-authored software.
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> Companies that don't do this will have their firmwares dumped with open source models and tools This is not as "one and done" as you make it sound.
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KDE plasma. go wild.
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Yes. Show me how to make zoom screen sharing work without pipewire and prayer.
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Wayland: you can have two cursors but no, you can’t have screen sharing.
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> why people come to a technologist forum without a basic understanding of system dynamics. Cognitive dissonance, they understand but refuse to admit it because it conflicts with their world view.…
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Atmos does not tick, nor make any audible noise
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> no one will visit your website. It's as simple as that. I am not convinced. My traffic counter spins quite rapidly, and I only publish on http://dmitry.gr …
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I got my sister a Atmos VIII as a present a few years back, and it took us a few attempts to get it running at the proper speed via the adjustment lever (the analog world is messy). Now it gloriously …
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I’ll put $xxxx money on #3
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> There are serious questions about copyright, labor, energy use, slop, and maintainers drowning in generated contributions. But Way to not at all engage with any of that and just go on your merry …
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
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> You don't do a full climb after a go-around, an IFR missed approach can have you climb quite high, especially in areas with serious terrain. Example: https://aeronav.faa.gov/…
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> you can compute any logarithm from two base-e ones.
They need not be base e. Any base will do as long as it is the same for both the numerator and the denominator
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> I assume that a go-around requires less sustained power output than a full climb from takeoff, No. Source 1: PE = mgh Source 2: am pilot
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OMG someone used our data to make an MK model! Just like we did to every author in the world!
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Firefox on macOS. site reported M1 and 16GB. Mac is M4 + 24GB
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The *architecture* is RV32I_Zmmul which is unambiguously neither new nor custom. What you describe (the specific implementation details of a core) is *microarchitecture*. In this case clearly a lot of…
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For anyone else curious: custom FPGA-based CPU code but not a custom architecture. This is an RV32I core. The article takes along time to give up this fact.
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PC? what pc? Every single NES game or CGB game would fit on a floppy. More or less all GBC and SNES games could compress down to a floppy
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Until relatively recently in computing history, games (and all other programs) were small. Hell, Pokemon Gold fits un a floppy trivially compressed, together with a working GBC emulator. I can trivial…
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Reductio ad absurdum