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cr1901

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Another important fact about me is that I collect ISA cards. I still don't believe in magic- just concepts I don't understand yet.

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mcc, to random
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I'm going to go see a movie about ants

cr1901,
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@mcc A Bug's Life? Antz? Ant Man?

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.

I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17

cr1901,
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@gabrielesvelto Really depressing that we've reached the physical limits of creating "memory we're confident that actually will store it's value reliably" :(.

We've went from PARITY CHECK 1/2 to "memory works fine without detection or correction" to "oh now not even parity check is enough". In that sense, it's WORSE than 40 years ago :P.

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

cr1901,
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@whitequark Dunno if most obscure, and def not good, but I've been holding onto this one for a while.

I want to create a railroad-themed OCaml fork. Each toolchain installation will be called a switcher.

whitequark, to random
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the DOS INT13 handler is doing getenv in debug builds?

cr1901,
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@whitequark SMARTDRV.SYS device driver provides a file cache if you have Expanded (bank-switched, works on 8088) or Extended (not-bank switched, 286+ only) memory.

azonenberg, to random
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All of the open ECP5 tooling work is cool and all, but a little on the small/slow side for my taste.

Is anyone working on open tools for Lattice Avant-X yet?

cr1901,
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@azonenberg
> small/slow
> 85000 LUTs

While I agree that's a medium-small to medium (at best) FPGA in the grand scheme of things, I still wince a bit :P.

mcc, to random
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I need to figure out where on the internet I can ask newbie verilog questions the way I can go to the Rust discord and ask newbie Rust questions

cr1901,
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@mcc I like Lattice Reveal. But maybe that's because I've legitimately used it to solve a problem before lol (it also mostly "just works").

whitequark, to random
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hm, what's a good way to convert an SVG path to CSV?

cr1901,
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@whitequark Is that the current logo, 'cept flipped vertically?

cr1901,
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@whitequark I tried for several minutes to map the plot back to the logo in the docs, and failed miserably until I noticed it was flipped lmao.

cr1901, to random
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I need a used-working NVMe SSD (2280). Anyone have an one they'd be willing to part with for the cost of shipping (plus a convenience fee)? 1TB preferred, but I'm fine with any size.

I'm looking to do all this under $15.

It's fine if it's used because I want to test if my 2017 desktop supports NVMe (and the answer seems to be... possibly... not even Acer seems to be sure).

cr1901,
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@foone Will do, tyvm.

Fun fact, you gave me old RAM for my 29+2 Bday, and I potentially get a test SSD for my 29+5 Bday :D. So thanks again <3.

Btw, that RAM is still going strong. Am typing on the machine it's on rn; it's the reason I've gotten to 12+ years with it :D.

mcc, to random
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Oh huh for the first time I'm about to use systemd for its intended purpose (as an init manager). I wonder how this is gonna go

cr1901,
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@mcc Okay, but RC Cola isn't bad :D!

whitequark, to random
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try demangling this C++ symbol name: _ZN8iloveyouIS_S_S_S_S_EIS0_S0_S0_S0_S0_EIS1_S1_S1_S1_S1_EIS2_S2_S2_S2_S2_EIS3_S3_S3_S3_S3_EIS4_S4_S4_S4_S4_EIS5_S5_S5_S5_S5_EIS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_EIS7_S7_S7_S7_S7_EIS8_S8_S8_S8_S8_EIS9_S9_S9_S9_S9_EE

cr1901,
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@whitequark Without looking it up and based on the name that resembles an old worm:

This will blow up "nm" and exhaust some finite resource/recursion depth?

tubetime, to random
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my favorite Commodore computer!

cr1901,
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@tubetime I miss the days when computer peripherals had CPUs nearly as powerful as the main computer :D.

cr1901,
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@foone @tubetime Somehow that doesn't invoke the same excitement in me as a 6502 controlling a floppy disk drive :'D...

tubetime, to random
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one of today's pickups is this mystery Xebec RAM card. I can't find any information about it, so I think I'll try reverse engineering it.

cr1901,
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@tubetime There's no switches :o...

cr1901,
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@tubetime Oooooh, the light reflecting makes it hard for me to see it :D.

cr1901,
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@tubetime Ahhh, so it's like the AST RAMpage 286 :D!

whitequark, to random
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i want something like a livestream for coding but without having to like... be on a voice chat for an audience

i don't even mind it that much, it's just that writing applets is a comfort thing to me and i don't wanna make it harder

cr1901,
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@whitequark I used to stream vectorization on Twitch (and need to set it up again). I'd put on some FM synth tunes as the audio source to OBS, have a Browser or IRC window* open for chat (read and write) on the second monitor, and have OBS capture Inkscape for the first monitor.

It worked well!

  • Idk if Twitch still supports IRC clients :(...
cr1901, to random
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I am making a Python dictionary with integer keys. Something, somewhere, went wrong in my life.

cr1901, to random
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The hell is a three-way string split?

I thought a split of a string implied two parts- a before, and after :D!

https://mastodon.social/@jrose@belkadan.com/112253795255527264

eschaton, (edited ) to random
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Jason Scott is stirring up some drama on the eve of because he donated some stuff to but doesn’t actually understand how “donation” and “archiving” work. He’s also taking at face value that someone was “driven out” of the organization when they actually ragequit rather than work within proper governance.

VCFed is a decent organization, especially now, and the VCF events are great. This drama is a tempest in a teapot, and absolutely not a reason not to participate or attend.

cr1901,
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@eschaton >when they actually ragequit rather than work within proper governance.

You willing to elaborate on this? I was/am part of the Vintage Computer forums, and Evan is- was?- head admin for as long as I remember?

Guess I haven't been paying much attention.

cr1901,
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@eschaton I uhhh, am definitely out of the loop yes.

I was thinking of Erik Klein, who founded the VCForums (which are at vcfed.org now), not Evan. I don't know anything about Evan, it seems lol.

No comment on the relevant blog posts (other than seems like the posts made a mountain out of a molehill).

mcc, to random
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Sun's dented

cr1901,
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@mcc Sun's haunted :o...

mcc, to random
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LLM is an acronym for Luigi Looks Mormal

cr1901,
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@mcc Wasn't Luigi based off the Mo(r)m in Doki Doki Panic?

cr1901,
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@vl_tone @mcc Needs the wheeze at the end :D!

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