Posts by remi@universeodon.com
(DIR) Post #ASv4OGmg2iipYaBgnI by remi@universeodon.com
2023-02-21T20:44:31Z
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After discovering http://wttr.in and then subsequently discovering a couple different wttr packages for #emacs now I'm wondering why my modeline won't show weather emoji. Kinda suspect it has something to do with doom-modeline but the wttr modeline package doesn't have any additional faces.Text is pretty neat though. While the colorful pics would take up less room, it's nice just seeing "Sunny" anyway.
(DIR) Post #ASv4OHqG6tBIpys412 by remi@universeodon.com
2023-02-21T21:54:24Z
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@ecadre Alas, ye olde cubicle does not have window access.
(DIR) Post #ATNPgaK8LlhF3nXukK by remi@universeodon.com
2023-03-07T13:44:15Z
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@b0rk Been following the discussion on bytes and it's interesting. This is speculation but there's also likely an aspect of engineer laziness going on. A hexadecimal digit [0-9A-F] represents 4 bits. What are you going to do with 6 bits? That's 1 hexadecimal digit, and the next can only go up to 3? Seems wasteful. That said, I have a sneaking suspicion though that "byte" came before "nibble" just because the joke in the name ("What's smaller than a bite(byte)?" "A nibble") Finally, buses. Really the reason for keeping buses to multiples of bytes is addressing. I suppose you could just address to 6 bits, but again, then it doesn't extend very well does it? If your byte represents 0x0 to 0x3f, and you want to read two bytes, it now extends 0x0 to 0xfff. In that number, you can't visually tell the contents of each byte! It's 0x3f and 0x3f. With an 8 bit byte, it's wholly represented by two hex digits, so two bytes together can be read easily. A read of 0x1234 has bytes 0x12 and 0x34
(DIR) Post #ATdjvIUwutcfqoISDQ by remi@universeodon.com
2023-03-15T12:40:56Z
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@8petros You've got the general idea. The development environment consists of (typically) a hardware definition language (#vhdl or #verilog), and a toolchain (usually vendor specific, though there are some open source ones) that synthesizes the code into a logic equation list. And finally a toolchain that takes that netlist and maps it into the individual small discrete functions and configures the routing between them.There is volatile memory on the device that stores the current configuration and must be loaded (many ways) on power up. There are a few models that have non-volatile memory that stores the configuration and loads itself. In high radiation environments, there are even fewer (and very expensive) models that have write-once-non-volatile memory for configuration.I don't think your idea of using them as a generic purpose drop in replacement for things is particularly a good idea. The board environment is honestly more important than what you're doing in logic.
(DIR) Post #AWeUHzmm1A4yox34ZU by remi@universeodon.com
2023-06-13T14:00:16Z
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Actually this thing brings up a point I'm not entirely sure about with the #fediverse. I have a #mastodon account here at Universeodon. I have an account at KBin. If I understand correctly, ActivityPub is linking all these federated tools in some fashion. Is there a point or a reason to try to consolidate the Mastodon and KBin accounts? I absolutely can treat the separately, but I think they're basically the same thing, just... pointing at different federated content. Do I have that right?
(DIR) Post #AWeUI1MGAi3jhIevWS by remi@universeodon.com
2023-06-13T14:11:43Z
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@MrEUser But how do I make that happen or does it happen automatically? Or is Mastodon only picking up hashtags in comments? I don't think KBin is picking up Mastodon posts based on hashtags, though there is some sort of 'microblogging' feed on KBin that makes me think of Mastodon, but I don't know if it's just local to its Bins or what. The administrator does have a post up about how traffic just absolutely slammed his server with the #reddit refugees, so perhaps it's just something that will take some time.
(DIR) Post #AX9YKuGiiOcH2KvEga by remi@universeodon.com
2023-06-28T14:39:07Z
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@vees @kellogh I think it also depends on shapes. If you baked a round cake, and then baked a square cake, then stacked them, I think you could reasonably say you have two cakes stacked rather than one as-built cake assembly with multiple cake parts regardless if the cake BOM included frosting.