G_glop

whitequark, 1 day ago to random

every compiler project expands until it creates its own version of TableGen. after that it is swiftly replaced with something that is "not as difficult to use", and the cycle continues

whitequark, 10 days ago to random

when your program tries to open a normal filename

whitequark, 14 days ago to random

girl (safe gender (weapon))

18+ whitequark, 18 days ago to random

today i learned how to draw blood from a vein!!!! it only took two attempts for me to get a useful result, though it was barely flowing anyways

good thing i have like 17 more vacutainers left

whitequark, 23 days ago to random

i recently got a new toy! it's a (civilian) miniature drone helicopter directly inspired by the (military) flir black hornet drone helicopter

it doesn't have a FLIR sensor but otherwise seems (from declared characteristics) very similar in design and handling. also it costs $100 instead of $100,000

whitequark, 26 days ago to random

"doctor" is quite possibly one of the worst insults i can apply to anybody

(doctor like an MD, not a PhD)

18+ whitequark, 1 month ago to random

she bang on my fd until i exec

whitequark, 1 month ago to random

did you know: maximum-sized USB HS BULK packets where the payload is all-ones are about 16% longer to transmit than the ones where the payload is all-zeroes or random?

this is easily measurable using the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer with a slightly modified benchmark applet:

I: g.applet.internal.benchmark: mode sink-zeroes: 42.84 MiB/s (342.70 Mb/s)
I: g.applet.internal.benchmark: mode sink-ones: 38.91 MiB/s (311.25 Mb/s)

(the measured overhead is about 10% due to other factors, e.g. scheduling)

G_glop, 1 month ago to random

when a bricklayer retires do they leave the mortar plane?

pervognsen, 1 month ago to random

It looks like the Wasm GC extension has been finalized and is starting to be widely implemented. It seems pretty good from the spec--it's really more of an extension for graphs of minimally structured objects (in an opaque, managed heap outside of Wasm linear memory) that so happens to also be what you need to implement GC in a Wasm engine.

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

you know that paper where they gave spiders various drugs and made them spin webs?

ok, so ST did this with computer architects, to get this

this is one chip

(from http://efton.sk/STM32/gotcha/g108.html)

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

holy shit the english trains are unusable

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

pats head of angel girl this bad thing can fit so much violence in it

dies from evisceration

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

i remember being a high schooler who was like "i wanna make a pcb owo" and then running headfirst into CAD software after having never encountered one before

it was EAGLE and it has shaken me to the core

whitequark, 3 months ago to random

girl ambition is incredibly hot

whitequark, 4 months ago to random

inspired by @stargirl, a "no stupid questions" thread!

ask me any question about embedded development, FPGAs, programming languages, life, angel girls, or anything else you think I know about, and I'll do my best to answer them

whitequark, 6 months ago to random

the reason i am excited about WebAssembly is because it's the first interesting computer architecture designed in the last 30 to 40 years (unlike e.g. RISC-V)

people who have not looked at how Wasm works usually don't get it, which makes me sad