Reading this comment by @david_chisnall: lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_curren… (the one about flat memory being a poor abstraction and so on), it occurs to me that microprocessor designers are way better at hiding complexity behind non-leaky abstractions than a lot of us software developers (myself included). I wonder why, or if my perception is off.
First, hardware abstractions are hard to change. The i386 didn't succeed because it was the best 32-bit chip, it succeeded because it could run all existing 8086 software. That's a massive driver. It's easy to build a new chip that massively outperforms a modern Intel chip if you're able to co-design the OS and language that run on it but you won't sell (unless it is really good for a specific, common, workload and gives at least a 10x speedup, as with GPUs).
Second, hardware is simple. Hardware is laid out on a 2D plane and interactions are bounded to adjacent things. You need to route wires to interact with further-away things, which makes place-and-route harder and impacts timing. Most of the time, logic blocks are equivalent to pure functions: they have some in wires and some out wires and, after n cycles, will produce some output on the output wires that depends on the input. The ones that are not (the ones that have internal state) are the more annoying to verify. In contrast, objects in a programming language exist in an n-dimensional sea. Any pair of objects can interact if some piece of code holds references to both (including if one holds a reference to the other). Most components have some state and their output and interactions with other components depend on that state.
Antes de la pandemia, para el cumpleaños de mi ex, se me ocurrió la genial idea de grabarme cantándole el feliz cumpleaños, por supuesto, desafinadísima e inventando notas. Hasta mi hermana salió al final del audio felicitándolo y me pegó un susto porque no sabía que estaba ahí. Lástima que no conocía este imno, me habría ahorrado la vergüenza! Y seguramente la relación se habría salvado 🤣🤣 todo ventajas. youtube.com/watch?v=Ayyo6X2IbU…
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USB-C is officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU.
This means:
🔌The same charger for all new phones, tablets and cameras ⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology 🔄 Reduced e-waste 🛑 No more “Sorry, I don’t have the right cable”
"The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" is an abnormally well-written textbook. I'm 5 chapters in and so many things are clicking for me that have never made as much sense before. I bought the physical version but it rocks that it's also available for free in full legally: dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
@modulux The REPL's include an input method that allows you to type them using a prefix character (usually backquote). So to type ⊂ you press backquote followed by z.
There's also an Emacs mode for people who prefer that. It's also my intent to create a custom keyboard layout for Linux, but I haven't done that because I personally have no need for it. There is one for APL though, which has almost all the symbols needed.
Arch Linux is a community-driven Linux distribution for the "do-it-yourself" user.
A couple of Arch Linux maintainers and contributors will give you a status update of what has been happening since the last congress. We'll also allocate time fo...
Enjoy the meetup :) I can't be there this year, but I wish all of you a nice congress and happy new year remotely, especially the ones I've had the pleasure to interact with (e.g. @Foxboron, @felixonmars, etc...)
"Až si sám kladiem otázku, čím to je, že sme sa v tejto krajine akosi zacyklili. Ale aby som nebol úplne nespravodlivý, nemyslím, že ide len o našu krajinu. Situácia vo svete priam naháňa strach. Neviem, či je to nejaká zákonitosť, že ľudia neustále musia vybojovať niečo, čo už raz vybojované bolo. Nerozumiem, kde to má spúšťač, že si opätovne musíme pripomenúť biedu ľudského života a uvažovania."
Herec Martin Huba považuje divadlo za jeden z posledných priestorov, kde ešte existuje „paušálne zatracovaný svet elegancie“. Členom Činohry SND je od roku 1976. Zažil tam viacerých riaditeľov aj ministrov kultúry.
Tuta is not down, but it's possible that your malware protection is blocking access to us - which is a side-effect of the DDoS attacks. We're working with these malware lists to remove our IPs which were wrongfully reported. Please try to access with a different connection.
Tag 1, 23.30 Uhr: wir haben die ersten taktilen Stockwerkspläne (in Version 1.0) ausgerollt 🥳 Vielen lieben Dank an die großartigen Engelund Maschinist_innen, die das möglich gemacht haben. Wir freuen uns auf eure Rückmeldungen 💜 #38C3 #a11y #accessibility
I found "Master of callous" to be one of the most disturbing BF stories I've ever heard. Usually, you get a sense of why the Master does what he does but in this story the violence just seems so senseless and it just went on for so long that I pulled back from it for a while. I eventually finished it and I think it's not until the end that you see his motives; I won't say more than that.
Why DeepSeek's new AI model thinks it's ChatGPT "...DeepSeek hasn’t revealed much about the source of DeepSeek V3’s training data. But there’s no shortage of public datasets containing text generated by GPT-4 via ChatGPT. If DeepSeek V3 was trained on these, the model might’ve memorized some of GPT-4’s outputs and is now regurgitating them verbatim." techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/why-…
We share in case this might be of use. Our friends in a large portion of the #USA might be experiencing severe weather tomorrow. This is a great 24-7 stream to monitor for #Accessible #Weather #WX updates. youtube.com/watch?v=SFcykaD6g0… And his main channel often goes live for coverage during severe weather events. Those who subscribe and tap the notifications bell icon will know if he goes live. His main channel is here. youtube.com/@RyanHallYall
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This week, we’re diving into table navigation with JAWS. Learn how to: ✅ Navigate rows and columns faster. ✅ Use advanced shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt for precision. ✅ Unlock the power of the JAWS table layer.
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse - AI Power Needs Threaten Billions in Damages for US Households "...New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans. This map shows readings from about 770,000 home sensors, with red zones indicating areas with the most distorted power. The problem is threatening billions in damage to home appliances and aging power equipment, especially in areas like Chicago and "data center alley" in Northern Virginia, where distorted power readings are above recommended levels." bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai…
it's useful to preserve things like hidden tracks, pre-gap content, inter-track timing (including when that gap is specifically structured to offer chapter stops in a continuous recording e.g. of a concert or live recording) - edge cases, mostly.
It's worth knowing that you can embed the .cue file directly inside the FLAC file though instead of having to keep them side by side. Worth testing with your players of choice though, support can be finicky. Worth figuring out though.
@gnomon Oooo, can you elaborate? I've copy and pasted cue files into the comments tag of FLACs, but that was just to avoid archiving separate files. Is there any software that can actually do something with that, or some sort of specification for it?
One is for a VorbisTag type 2 metadata block (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue file.flac`), the other is for applying track tags from that CUE sheet (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue --set-tag-from-file=CUESHEET=file.cue file.flac`).
On Windows, foobar2000 handles files structured this way; in my case, mpd does too. I don't know of many others though.
Inter-track perfection — gapless, noises in gaps, there's a handful of things separate files can't represent. But in general no, at least not on modern albums which are designed as separate tracks, not a single continuous recording.
@aredridel Oh, interesting, thanks. I think I need to re-test whether the players I use support them; I haven't had a good experience with such files yet, and mostly started splitting everything out of custom.
Yeah, I think with rare exception, separate files is easy and fine. But there's subtleties that audio tapes and CDs can have, so it's not _exactly_ right.
@aredridel I have never written a music player, so I really don't know what I'm talking about, but it sounds like a player could very well string together two adjacent songs to avoid gaps in the audio?
Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at …
Es ist natürlich alles voll aufregend, aber bitte vergesst nicht die Photopolicy. Hier kursieren sehr viele Bilder, mit ganz vielen erkennbaren Menschen. #38c3 events.ccc.de/congress/2024/in…
It's been a while and everything is very exciting, but please don't forget the photo policy. There are pictures going around with a lot of identifiable people. #38c3
Comcast, one of the nation’s largest cable and internet providers, is facing backlash from customers as it prepares to implement a series of price increases across its TV and internet packages, while simultaneously reducing a key autopay discount.
@sapphireangel I dropped their X1 TV service and I honestly don't miss it. The one benefit of X1 is what you can do with their voice remote. The work that Comcast did with that is amazing but I don't watch enough linear TV to make it worth paying for. The FAST services, like Xumo Play and Pluto TV, are good enough for my needs.
Chci se vám oběma omluvit. Včera jsem to přehnal s konzumací jistých, pro mládež nevhodných, látek a ve finále jsem vás označil za kokoty, včetně mě samého (byť ve vtipu, ale to nelze snadno poznat v textovém dialogu), a odsoudil jsem vás dle vašich počítačových preferencí. (MacOS je pořád přeci jen FreeBSD, byť značně vykastrované.)
Jakožto potomek umělecké rodiny v surrealismu mne svádí experimentovat s nepředvídatelností internetových interakcí - nicméně nejsem zastáncem vulgarit a agresivity.
Nerad bych, abyste vnímali mou prezenci v tomto svobodném internetovém prostoru jako parazitní. Mou prací je generovat tkzv. engagement, neboť jsem primárním vzděláním tvůrcem digitálního obsahu. A pokud se pohybujete v kyberprostoru alespoň pár posledních let, víte, že umělec je odpadem společnosti - a to je přeci jen břemeno, se kterým není jednoduché přežívat.
Abyste mi oba věřili, že naše včerejší interakce byla skutečně jen hrou, přikládám obrázek, který vás snad přesvědčí, že svou omluvu myslím vážně.
There's a lot I don't know yet, but no sense in delaying with what I do know – hi, my name is Robin and I'm trans.
I'll be going by Robin Riley, and using they/them pronouns for the foreseeable future. And it's going to take ✨ time ✨ to update my info everywhere, so please bear with me.
Pilar Alegría renuncia a la utilización de Google Classroom en sus colegios para proteger la #privacidad de los #datos de los menores, 26/12/2024:
"El Ministerio de Educación ha renunciado a utilizar las herramientas escolares de Google en los #colegios de Ceuta y Melilla, territorios donde tiene competencias educativas, después de que la AEPD se lo desaconsejara por apreciar evidentes riesgos para los menores y una recogida invasiva de información personal..."
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