Ah yes I should’ve specified. It’s a Rumble 100. Yeah, that’s a bass amp as I was primarily playing bass when I bought it. It does sound surprisingly excellent when I play clean-ish guitar through it, but with the GT-1 I can’t quite get a satisfying overdrive tone, no matter what pre-amp simulation I select on the GT1. With the amp set to clean, 0 gain. The master volume is plenty to make it loud. But yeah, I just can’t get this combination to reproduce what I’m looking for.
Perhaps it’s the speaker cone itself which is holding it back. I hadn’t considered that yet. Thanks.
The DSL40 sounds very appealing indeed, and not too pricey. I’ll go around and look for it at the local guitar store. I’ve also frequently seen those Katanas mentioned above which I’ll have to try. Thanks.
Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....
According to the article this system also detects power outages and shuts off when they happen. Just like full-scale solar power systems. But yeah, no physical kill switch.
I’m guessing regular non-LP DDR works fine socketed in desktops because power is nearly a non-issue. Need to burn a few watts to guarantee signal integrity? We’ve got a chonky PSU, so no problem. On mobile devices however every watt matters…
California somehow never fails to do the wrong thing when it comes to utilities.
The problem isn’t people with a few solar panels on their houses, the problem is climate change and poorly maintained infrastructure leading to wildfires and massive liabilities. Perhaps if these liabilities would come out of PG&Es absurdly high profits they’ll be motivated to rethink how maintenance and wildfire risk is mitigated.
The author pointed out they also could’ve just called openssl prime -generate -bits 1024 if they weren’t trying to learn anything. Rebuilding something from scratch and sharing the experience is valuable.
There isn’t even any memory management in their code. And arguably the most interesting part of the article is implementing a bignum type from scratch.
The builtin u64.isqrt seems to be available in nightly only, and additionally I guess the author didn’t want to use any external crates as part of their self-imposed challenge. Though I think there may be an off-by-one result with f64.sqrt I don’t think this functionally breaks their u64 code because they loop to root_n + 1.
Well, yeah, but you asked why they didn’t use integer sqrt. It’s something many programming languages just don’t have. Or if they do, it’s internally implemented as a sqrt(f64) anyway, like C++ does.
Most CPUs AFAIK don’t have integer sqrt instructions so you either do it manually in some kind of loop, or you use floating point…
I doubt doing it in software like that outperforms sqrtss/sqrtsd. Modern CPUs can do the conversions and the floating point sqrt in approximately 20-30 cycles total. That’s comparable to one integer division. But I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong.
As he alludes to, this is different on Teslas. Where in an attempt to save a few bucks on a simple sensor they’re using “machine learning” to detect rain with the front-facing camera and it doesn’t fucking work.
I think Big Tech is still pretty much a dream job for most people. High pay. Perks. Work/life flexibility. It’s certainly not as dreamy as it was 5 years ago perhaps, but realistically I’d take it over pretty much anything else.
Eh. I work in tech. I have friends who work or worked at almost every big tech company you’d recognize. These are still jobs, dealing with layoffs, annoying bosses, etc. has always been a fact of life. But from what I can see the average techie still has it very good compared to most other jobs. My friend who is a nurse would certainly like to earn a tech salary, not have to deal with hospital politics, and not work night shifts all the damn time, and take time off whenever they want to not whenever there’s availability…
One of the developers I respect most in my career walked out on .5M in bonuses on Amazon because of their ranking system for his employees. I was shocked.
This also shows what an incredibly privileged position techies have in the job market. I totally understand quitting Amazon. Really, I wouldn’t want to work there either. But ask one of their warehouse workers if they’d ever quit and forfeit a 0.5M bonus…
Yeah. Tech has gotten worse. But you really think it’s better in any other sector? I’m sure there are a few highly-compensated lap-dance-inspectors out there but the vast majority of workers deal with the same shit techies are dealing with, for significantly less pay and respect, if you can believe that.
And I don’t think they give out stock grants to warehouse workers, but I could be wrong.
Yeah. That’s my point. And still people take these jobs and work very hard indeed. Try explaining “limited bathroom break time” to your average tech worker.
Average Amazon .com Warehouse Worker hourly pay in the United States is approximately $16.96, which is 7% above the national average.
People don’t seem to understand the average worker would kill to make $80/hour and $200k in RSUs. Not a dream job, right.
This was a really good summary of what Rust feels like in my opinion. I’m still a beginner myself but I recognize what this article is saying very much....
It’s not like Rust is the first language which requires you to reason about ownership. People still write tons and tons of C++. Rust is much faster to write than C++ in my experience, because ownership is checked by the compiler instead of requiring the human programmer to constantly think and reason about.
I wouldn’t write gameplay code in Rust like I posted above, but most of the complaints about the borrow checker making Rust somehow exceptionally hard to write are overblown imo. There’s a learning curve but then it makes sense.
Killer Bean - Gameplay trailer (www.youtube.com)
Best amp/fx setup for that classic metal sound at home
I mostly play and enjoy the sound of “classic” metal. 1980s Judas Priest. Metallica. Maiden. Etc....
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EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator (www.theverge.com)
Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....
Wreck of famed World War II sub USS Harder found off the Philippines (edition.cnn.com)
Chip Enjoyers - What's your favourite brand/type of chip?
Daughters and Fathers
This is a serious question, mostly addressed to the adult women among us but also to anyone else who has a stake in the matter....
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' (www.theregister.com)
Anger builds over sweeping change in the way most Californians will pay for electricity (www.latimes.com)
Sorry for the paywall (but kinda not sorry since the LA Times is worth subscribing to)…...
How hard can generating 1024-bit primes really be? (glitchcomet.com)
Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers (youtu.be)
How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status (www.cnbc.com)
Star Wars and 40k!
Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games)
This was a really good summary of what Rust feels like in my opinion. I’m still a beginner myself but I recognize what this article is saying very much....