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whitequark

@whitequark@mastodon.social

catgirl shaped object

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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mia, to random
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With the introduction of Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010, Sony were eager to put out a full home theater system. One of their early models, the HT-A7.100, included a revolutionary evolution to the standard stereo jack: the 7.1 surround jack, allowing all 8 channels to be sent over one cable.

dsalo, to random
@dsalo@digipres.club avatar

Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

charlotte, to random
@charlotte@trans.enby.town avatar

just found the town where all the good jobs are

Evv1L, to random
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:windowstrash:

Inspired by this:
https://mastodon.online/@vas3k/112463951307461100

niconiconi, to random

Q: Why can't iOS App Store programs process 32-bit integers greater than 2147483647?

A: Everything must be signed.

niconiconi, to random

"note: candidate expects 0 arguments, 3 provided"

It's what happens when you submit a patch to the project's mailing list.

niconiconi, to random

Impedance measurement using a six-port reflectometer is kind of like celestial navigation if you think about it... a known star gives you a circle of equal altitude, a known load also gives you a circle of equal scalar impedances. The problem in both cases is the missing phase angle, and the solution is to use several different ones to see where do these circles intersect.

mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc,
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Like, I saw a post complaining that everyone simultaneously loves Firefox's pure-local translation library but everyone is also complaining about Firefox "refocusing" on AI, and that is a fair point, but also to me if a company/org announces they are going to focus on "AI" that is a statement that they are only going to be exploring the least useful, most damaging forms of "AI". If they intended to do something good, they'd probably call it something other than "AI"

azonenberg, to random
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange avatar

I think this is next level cursed. But it actually worked.

whitequark, to random
@whitequark@mastodon.social avatar

why does LLVM have a -DLLVM_ENABLE_CURL=ON|OFF option

foo,
@foo@fosstodon.org avatar

@whitequark To create uncertainty in smartwatch firmware

danderson, to random
@danderson@hachyderm.io avatar

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they didn't embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

thezoq2, to VHDL
@thezoq2@mastodon.social avatar

It is now possible to go from a clean linux laptop with nothing but chromium installed to running Spade on an in less than one minute!

All the magic is done by @whitequark's http://yowasp.org/ which I just ported Spade to.

Give it a try! https://vscode.dev/github/TheZoq2/spade-vscode-toolchain-demo

video/mp4

whitequark, to random
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today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

  • if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
  • if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

azonenberg,
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange avatar

@whitequark Speaking of weather it's quite realistically modeled since it's one of your main threats (hypothermia will kill you faster than pretty much anything but a bear or wolf attack).

There's an ambient temperature plus wind chill and precipitation. Every piece of clothing has a certain level of insulation and windproofness, as well as waterproofness. Wet clothing is far less warm and also can soak through to layers underneath.

Skin left exposed to freezing weather, or touching wet clothing that's left outside long enough to freeze, can develop frostbite which gives you a permanent health reduction.

Carrying a heat source warms you slightly, but road flares are non renewable and extremely scarce, oil for your lamp has to be looted or rendered from cooked fish, and torches can be blown out by the wind.

Oh, and clothing wears over time and can be damaged by animal attacks, snagging on things during a fall, etc. And can be repaired with a sewing kit or (more slowly) with crafted materials. And worn clothing has less insulation etc.

astrid, to random
@astrid@fedi.astrid.tech avatar

engineer: just run valgrind to see where the leak is from
girl named val:

astrid, to random
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astrid,
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v2

niconiconi, to random

It's not bare-metal programming if your devboard has solder mask.

mcc, to random
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Trying to imagine what kind of harm Duke Classics might be alluding to here

whitequark, to random
@whitequark@mastodon.social avatar

plants are fucked up. like... as a concept

lispegistus,
@lispegistus@hachyderm.io avatar

@whitequark
And then there are carnivorous plants. Not the fly traps with the moving leafs, the other ones that are just like "yeah, I'm just gonna evolve to be a shape insects tend to drown in and then just absorb their rotting flesh and reinvent carnivorism by accident." That's fucked up.

xgranade,
@xgranade@wandering.shop avatar

@whitequark They just kind of grow new parts whenever and wherever they need them. It's... disturbing.

lispegistus,
@lispegistus@hachyderm.io avatar

@whitequark
Like, imagine if the way you ate was food just randomly crawled in your mouth and died by accident and you somehow made that work.

chrisvest,
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@gsuberland @whitequark they also save a lot of energy by just never moving from the spot where they first started life, and that concept is technically open to all

jacqueline, to random
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new project update!! https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara/updates/first-pcbs

alex, to random
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"average british person earns enough money to be alive" actually just statistical error. taxcuts georg, who lives in belize and makes £10,000,000 per second is an outlier and should not have been counted

janamarie, to random
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Have you ever considered..

f4grx,
@f4grx@chaos.social avatar

@cato @janamarie smart card micromodules were made to reuse 35mm film stuff at Bull factories in the 1980s.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.

The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.

Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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AkaSci, (edited )
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Six months after it suffered a serious brain injury and after months of mind-boggling ultra-long-distance surgery, the Voyager 1 spacecraft walked and talked at full data rate today!

After transmitting a full memory readout on Friday at 40 bps, Voyager 1 switched to the science-mode 160 bps rate, which presumably the DSN site at Goldstone was able to receive and decode today.

Congrats and kudos to all who made it happen.
👏 :mastodance:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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