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peter_d_sherman
18,479karma·5,712submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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">the award-winning SERV is [possibly!] the world's smallest RISC-V CPU . It's the perfect companion whenever you need a bit of computation and silicon real estate is at a premium. …
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>"As a second example of an additional symmetry in empty space, physics works, normally, the same when seen in the mirror. That leads to a very useful [usually, but not always!] con…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
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>"You need 2 stacks for Turing completeness." I am not completely sure about that assertion... We know that Rule 110 is Turing complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
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Observation: Any piece of software/service or piece of software/service used in a software/service chain which implements and/or consumes Regular Expressions (aka RE's, RegExp…
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>" A magnetocaloric material warms up when a magnetic field is applied. [...] When the magnetic field is removed, the material returns to its original state, reabsorbing the heat, and returni…
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Agreed, we have beamforming. Beamforming, to recap, uses multiple radio transmitters acting in a coordinated fashion, along with specific fast calculations -- to modify the conditions of the combined …
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Related: https://gpuopen.com/download/publications/Real-Time_Procedur... https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/WorkGraphCompute... https:/&…
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Now that I think about it, I wonder if it would be possible to use a second radio signal as a repeater , that is, bounce/reflect a radio signal off of another radio signal in other words boun…
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>"The Architecture Astronauts will say things like: “Can you imagine a program like Napster where you can download anything, not just songs?”" Yes, and that is how things like VPNs, Tor, …
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The greatest feature of NixOS (in my opinion) is the ability to run what are called "ephemeral shells" -- that is, to be able to download and run software in an isolated environment without …
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Interesting! I never knew nor thought about the following before: >"the International Space station has a repeater for packet radio" [...] "with VHF the higher the better. It lasts a…
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Related: https://www.hoopladigital.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/12u00ni/hoopla... …
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Related: https://zipcpu.com/
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Greenspun's tenth rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." ( https:&…
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Random idea based on article: I'd love to see a future Sci-fi TV episode where a character gets not one, but multiple such "from the future gift boxes with video messages from a future self&…