Ok, so on the one hand it’s nice that his utter batshit insanity has an actual cause (and hopefully the dude is getting the help he needs for it) but on the other hand why the hell is this guy a goddamned senator and also running for president? Why are we letting this happen? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112405769849479979
@nyrath Hey Winchell, on the subject of books from one's youth did you ever run across "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" by Anthony Ravielli. https://archive.org/details/risefallofdinosa0000unse
It is a perfect illustration of the pre-Dinosaur Renaissance paradigm of dinosaurs, complete with bowed reptilian legs, swamp dwelling sauropods, upright theropods, and mammals eating all their eggs as the cause of extinction.
Utterly out of date of course but a fun look at the past of the past.
Related to historical dino history and also to gaming - I stumbled upon an acquaintance author's demonstration of his "Bone Wars" card game, that allows one to re-enact the feuds of the predatory Victorian palaeontologists, including misnaming misaligned bones, and promptly bought a copy.
Hobby electronics is 80% dealing with the fact everything expects 5v and 5v batteries aren't really a thing, and 20% being told on forums that your question is wrong.
@JoshuaACNewman@gsuberland@jon@geordie
Smaller geometry process for faster & lower power mainstream CPUs GPUs RAM required lower voltages. Chips to interface with those and chips to be made on the same fab line would naturally use the same 3.3 voltage.
Quite likely!
3.3V was added as an additional rail (adding to +5,±12v,+5sby) in ATX standard in 1995. IBM 5x86C and Cyrix (IBM & other) 6x86 CPUs were 3.3v in 1995.
But the Mobo still was mostly 5v logic (with 12v I/O), so the 3.3v wasn't directly seen by most.
@ai6yr
Failure to have a $(HotTopic) strategy is bad for shareholder value, so having a strategy must be good.
Data harvesting/resale. Blockchain. CraptoCoyn. NFT. LLM/^AI^/ ChatBot.
Being a waster of money, electricity, fossil carbon is apparently irrelevant to 90-day long term planning of quarterly share holder value forever growth.
(#sigmoid curves look like exponential until they don't. )
I think my next project along the lines of VGAPride might be writing programs to display a trans pride flag for as many platforms as possible.
Like, a simple c64 program, qbasic, win32, js, etc.
@foone
the program IEFBR14's name is longer than it's object code.
Possibly the smallest commercial program, and it has/had a bug.
(Alas fixing the bug doubled the size and was backwards incompatible.)
OK I just opened the new APT output format merge request. I'm attaching the current state side-by-side comparison in a picture (and yes I typoed git into the wrong tab)
@waldi@juliank
Indeed, I switch to a tan background to view git diff because red/green is poor contrast on black (even worse with a retro green-on-black terminal profile !).
@AtheistIntelligence
True but.
His fame and wealth were why he had the legal team that could catch the racist cops cheating and pin them back in court.
The over-worked and under-paid public defender is rarely going to get the same result.
(I know of one similar that worked.)
If by "dumb" (an ableist word to be eschewed) you refer to the munitions.
Long range Artillery in the pre-RADAR days was generally quite involved and for non-seeking/correcting payloads remarkably ^precise^. (Not by modern standards of course! )
@isaackuo@sudnadja@hendric@KarlSchroeder@cstross@nyrath@FredKiesche
(And aside from terror uses e.g. Paris gun, where target was a whole city. But iirc the WW1 Paris gun projectiles were arguably the first human made objects to rise above the atmosphere - which required a change to their meteorological corrections.)
Milliseconds is in one sense correct, and true today with digital communications. But 1898-1941, the millisecond knowledge of a corporal on one tower must be merged with the knowledge of another corporal at the other end of a baseline at central plot, via sync bells and telephonic dictation. People with nomogram slide rules apply wind and other ballistic corrections, and pass the solution to the guns.
I'm involved in interpretation and preservation of Coast Artillery fortifications (1775-1949). The maths of the analog computations 1898-1941 are a particular interest.
Your milliseconds dismissal of long distance surface combat (ship v ship or shore v ship) is only correct once Radar was fielded (1942). It is very much wrong 1898-1941. During that period, the solved sensor-fusion/target-prediction problem was quite analogous to the light-second or light-minute problem.
(And thanks to non uniform atmosphere, harder.
And you have computers, barring a Butlerian Jih*d.)
Yes, an ambient plasma would act as atmosphere for some ^ballistic^ (optic) corrective-calculation purposes!
(I'm guessing (SWAG!) it would have to be rather thick plasma for the reduction in light-speed C implied by the Index of Refraction n to be sufficient to change the set-forward time for target projected position?)
Well, you may have demonstrated that Charged Ion Beams are sub-optimal for use within a star-system's inadequate vacuum?
(Coriolis affects on long range terrestrial gunnery (and missiles) are a long known, long solved dynamic swirl in artillery, to extend my "it's been done - without computers" metaphor.)
Either fight in a better vacuum,
or pick weapons suited for the battlespace,
e.g. ones that can accept the peri-stellar approximation of vacuum, vs ones sensitive to the deviations from vacuum there.
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