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For the uninitiated https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgDPrhV8z5s

"God was knocking, and he wanted in bad "

I did the same (4-bit cpu, 11 instructions) in my Microprocessors class, out of 74-series logic, one GAL20V8 to handle the SLE instruction and an EPROM (not an EEPROM - one with th…

One hypothetical outcome if FTX had not been shut down when it was might have been "there was never a mass withdrawl of funds from FTX that would trigger an FTX liquidity crisis an…

Ugh. Sudden flashbacks to having to switch analog output between Japanese NTSC (no pedestal) and US NTSC (with pedestal) without getting weird noise in the black regions. But IIRC …

Nit: a gourmand is the opposite of a gourmet

Permanently block this number? [yes] [no]

Companies with poor quality mobile websites also usually have poor quality apps. The website can be objectively bad, but still better than the app experience.

>Why doesn’t someone fork systemd Why don't you? It's open source. No one is stopping you. Your ideas on how init systems should work are obviously superior, so you'll easily win o…

I read the page and went through the "verify the cycles for yourself" sequence and I still have no earthly idea when defining the cycles, what is the rule that says "if you're curr…

Unless you say it as "a fak"

"Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wa…

I am a native English speaker, and it's not just you.

This is the correct analysis. Not to go all Ian Malcolm, but half this comment section is spending so much time wondering if we could build a space data center, without stopping to…

Heat travels when there is a thermal gradient. What thermally superconducting material are you going to make your cube out of that the surface temperature is exactly the same as th…

"Just shift back" is really underestimating how much effort it takes to port a design to a different foundry. Sure, you can target a new stdcell library and recompile your RTL (and…

Some of us are old enough to remember the last time Intel was definitely, 100%, for-sure committed to offering foundry services, and then changed their mind and canceled the whole …

Big-endian matches the way we commonly write numbers, but if you have to deal with multiple word widths or greater than word-width math I find little-endian much more straightforwa…

>Do you just mean that we must assume something to get the ball rolling They're called "axioms"

On my phone keyboard (android) "×" is a long-press on "w"

That's correct, the Romans had March as the first month of the year, so leap day was the last day of the year and September, October, November and December were the 7th (sept), 8th…

Not one mention of the material's dialectric constant

You can isolate your ethernet over coax from your neighbor with a MoCA POE "point of entry" filter which blocks the frequencies used by MoCA. You can buy them online for around $10…

Smurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.

>> It could never be made today. > Why not? M. Emmett Walsh, Carl Reiner, Maurice Evans and Jackie Mason are all dead, for one reason.