Weirdly, I think it all got me my first job. I interviewed at a graphics card manufacturer and the interviewer placed one of their cards on the table and said “tell me what’s on that card”.

I picked it up and pointed out all the components because I knew them all by their part numbers that were written on them. I hadn’t seen them before, but I knew they were options in XFree86. Then add in that the regular array of chips was likely VRAM and the chips with the same logo on them as was above the door where the companies own video processors.

I didn’t know how any of it worked, but he didn’t know that. All he saw was a fresh graduate that just effortlessly identified some quite esoteric components of a design he’d personally made.

The thing that sticks with me is video card support. Back then (before Nvidia, 3dfx, etc) you had VGA cards that had one of a number of chipsets on, but it would be paired with a video timing chip and a RAMDAC. Buying a card required knowing which combination of parts it used and which combinations had support in XFree86. Then writing the configuration required knowing the video timings supported by your monitor. Not just frequencies, but blanking periods and such like.

EDID solved that last problem.

There’s a reason I put the word “elective” in my post. Your hypothetical is not an elective situation. It’s an emergency procedure and so would not be covered by the legislation.

Increasing taxes is just taking a larger and larger slice of a shrinking pie. You have to make the pie bigger. We have to grow.

Austerity hurt us. Brexit hurt us. We need to repair those things and accelerate growth.

It’s an area of 168,500 sq mi.

A patriot battery can cover 300 sq mi.

Marine drones. Basically remote control exploding speed boats, some with rockets on them. They basically attack like hyaenas bringing down a zebra.

What a weird article. It talks as if abortion is illegal in the UK. It is not illegal.

I think it’s talking about at what point in the pregnancy abortion is allowed. I think most would agree that there is a point at which elective abortion should be off the table (e.g. would anybody argue for an abortion to be allowed the day before birth?). So the debate is about when that point is. A fair debate, but articles like this don’t help.

I want this so bad. Please please please.

No,no! I mustn’t hope. Hope is the bringer of disappointment.

They did it a bit too hard by the looks of it.

Y?

If the 8088 had used all but one 256 8-bit values as legal instructions, all your new instructions after that point would need to start with that unused value and then you can add a maximum of 256 instructions by using the next byte. End result is 511 instructions can be encoded in 16-bits.

In other news. A factory fire in Hull, England received nothing more than local news coverage this week. Their product? Hand sanitizer. Turns out that 99% alcohol is really flamible.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fire-breaks-out-at-hull-factory-and-spreads-to-area-holding-1000-litres-of-hand-sanitiser/ar-BB1oyRi8

I wonder why there’s such a huge disparity in news coverage between these two stories. I guess it’s because the building was evacuated successfully, right?

So “instruction encoding length”.

I don’t think that works though. For something like RISC-V, RV64 has a maximum 32-bit instruction encoding. For x86-64 those original 8-bit intructions still exist, and take up a huge part of the encoding space, cutting the number of n-bit instructions to more like 2^(n-7)

Trouble is that people pointing at this as evidence to show that Reform can’t be given power fail to realise that it doesn’t play as a negative to those that vote for them. Some Reform voters see this and think “they’re not afraid to be honest”. Trump’s comment played positively to a large number, as awful as that is.

Digging up a little bit of misogyny on these people isn’t worth the effort.

Yes, because 256 memory locations is a bit limiting.

Even then, at what point do you measure it? DDR interface is likely very much narrower than the interfaces between cache levels. Where does the core end and the memory begin?

I expect the engineers are telling the marketing people “No! You can’t do that. You’ll scare everyone that it’s incompatible.”

…but they’re not in 100 percent correlation in this case, and you’re naive if you think they are .

We’ve proved we can do fusion, but we’re still at the stage of just having singular reactions. None of these are power stations with a continuous flow of output, and they’re not even close to being so.

How much of this is climate change and how much is agriculture? Could better agriculture techniques help? Or not needing Iran to be wholly self-sufficient because of sanctions?