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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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niconiconi, to random

Tired: Per-core licensing fee
Wired: Per-pin licensing fee

foone, to random
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I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

foone,
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two of the best feelings when programming are:

  1. figuring out a really clever way to solve a problem
  2. figuring out a really stupid way to solve a problem
whitequark, to random
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can anyone UK-based recommend me a private endo who'd prescribe HRT without much fuss? I had a prescription before I moved countries, they just need to replicate it.

preferably in north of England area but in principle anywhere is fine, the UK is small

mcc, to random
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HOMOSEXUALS PLEASE DEPOSIT WITH US ALL OF YOUR PRECIOUS GAY SO WE MAY SEAL IT AWAY IN OUR VAULTS

niconiconi, to random

"But wouldn't [TVS diodes] effectively cause a short on the source, if the source sees an almost zero-ohm resistance? Could that damage the source?"
"If the source is lightning, then damage to the lightning is irrelevant."

LMAO ​:blobcatlul:​

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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do you, personally, associate quartz crystals with war?

(there will be context once the poll ends)

niconiconi,

@whitequark I remember reading a story about Yan Jici, a founding member of the Chinese Physical Society, who directed the production of over 1000 crystal resonators during the second Sino-Japanese War in a rush in Kunming, later in WW2 even US Army and RAF received a few emergency parts from him. I said it was difficult to imagine how to cut a quartz without lasers and CNC. Another reader directed me to that US wartime documentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Jici

azonenberg, to random
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Please boost for reach: Open source project seeking technical writing contributors.

Ngscopeclient (https://www.ngscopeclient.org/) is looking for people to assist with end user documentation and, in the future, possibly developer oriented API documentation as well.

We welcome help from any interested parties, but are particularly hoping to find some familiar with electronics/embedded systems given the nature of the project. Documentation is LaTeX in Git.

As an open source project we have limited budget (at least until some of the in-progress products from companies using our software launch and start bringing in donations) so are hoping to find volunteer contributors, but I'm willing to throw some of my own funds into the pot if necessary. I can't afford to pay for a lot of hours at industry consulting rates but if you're willing to offer discounts for F/OSS then I'll try and work something out.

mcc, to random
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The government should give me a grant to spend 3 weeks installing every Linux distribution until I find the right one

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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https://www.jedec.org/standards-documents/docs/jesd318-ver-102

leonidas,
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@whitequark You Can (Not) Refresh

vulkan, to random
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Apple M1 (Honeykrisp) driver achieves Vulkan 1.3 conformance

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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Clock ticks (†Horoixodidae; A. A. Koch, 2144) are a now-extinct family of parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida. Adult ticks are approximately 1 to 8 nanoseconds long, although their larvae may reach as much as 1 microseconds in duration. Since the widespread adoption of asynchronous logic in the Third Industrial Revolution, habitat destruction and loss of reproductive capability have caused the decline of this once-widespread group of animals.

18+ whitequark, to random
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US11604718B1/en

18+ niconiconi,

@whitequark The most outrageous software patent I know is https://patents.google.com/patent/US4965765, Lisp syntax highlighting without IBM's permission was theoretically outlawed from 1986 to 2006, but at least they didn't bring that to courts.

whitequark, to random
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realization: since a USB 3 device can work with two high-speed diffpairs, power, and ground, you could define an embedding of USB 3 over SFP and make your thumbdrive 1000% cooler

@0x47df

niconiconi,

@whitequark @0x47df Tried that in 2022. I can confirm it works. (Still no time to actually finish and publish that...)

ezio, to random
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thanks for telling me how to bypass copy protection avermedia

whitequark, to random
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> It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

this has nothing to do with microsoft recall! anybody you send stuff to can have it compromised. you message your high school friend, she gets caught at a protest, now cops have all that data

you can never control the data you give to somebody else, recall or not

niconiconi,

@whitequark "If you think, speak, write and sign, then don't be surprised."

arnfinnp, to random
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Adobe introduces the One Click Stalin tool.

azonenberg, to random
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Finally got around to making a proper image version of the meme.

jamesthomson, to random
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The latest TestFlight build of Dice by PCalc has a new Pride dice theme which can be tinted to show a wide variety of flags (all the ones that are in PCalc currently).

I'm generating the stripes on the fly, based on a underlying greyscale gradient texture, so I should be able to use that same technique for more intricate designs that can be recoloured.

A set of dice showing the lesbian pride flag.
A set of dice showing the bi pride flag.
A set of dice showing the trans pride flag.

mhoye, to random
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"Naming things" is just a semiotic proxy metric, the two real hardest problems in software are understanding yourself and understanding other people.

shebang, to random

BORDERLINE SOFTWARE LICENSE (BSL) Copyright 2024-2069 Shebang, Ctrl, Eve

If you encounter a bug im so sorry,,, sorry,, i'm sorry,,, sorry,,, please dont hate me,,, sorry,,,,, sorrreyyy,,, ill be a good developer for user,,, just dont hate me please,,,, ;-;

This licence provides the terms under which you may use the code. but if you decide to ignore those, uhmm, please don't... you will ? oh, that's okay I guess, I understand. I mean you could have asked... no ? that's fine. it wasn't reasonable of me to set rules so strict on who could use my code, you're right. I'm glad you want to use my code...

jacqueline, to random
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tech company ceos talk about "AI" and "LLMs" like it's the deflector dish in star trek: voyager

jacqueline,
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computer, transfer all reserve power to negotiation skills. engage.

niconiconi, to til

#TIL Heavy water absorbs infrared instead of red light, so if you spend billions of dollars to fill a swimming pool with heavy water, it would look transparent and no longer be blue.

wingo, to random

honest opinion: people that need constant-time code should not be using a general-purpose programming language. emit assembly or write your own DSL https://fosstodon.org/@simo5/112554241913244159

mwk, to random
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Wanda. do not steal snacks from future Wanda. future Wanda has greater need for these snacks than you. you should defer to future Wanda's needs, implementing time-dimension communism across Wanda instances.

thezoq2, to random
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Today we finally released 🏄 Surfer 0.2.0 🎉

This release contains months of improvements, both big and small. Some highlights:

  • A remote server
  • A more powerful Risc-V decoder that now supports RV32IMAFDZicsr
  • Lots of interface improvements including
  • Edge stepping
  • Multiple view ports
  • Undo/Redo
  • Variable drag and drop
  • Selectable themes
  • Experimental support for GHW
  • Lots of bug fixes

Release blog post: https://blog.surfer-project.org/v0-2-0/
Changelog: https://gitlab.com/surfer-project/surfer/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads

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