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Uh oh, China hacker has found your telnet magazine.

First thing to do is get a GPIO pin or two to toggle. Plenty of debug patterns that one can blink out.

Magic-1 and BMOW did similar, a while back. See: https://www.homebrewcpu.com/

The actual list of sites who have built their own CPUs: https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/

Far simpler, cheaper, and closer to the "understandable by one mind" machine. Add Bywater BASIC, if desired.

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/31/ch32v003-makes-for-dirt-chea...

gcc will not let you actually define a negatively-sized array. Check it with some simple code -- I did. Even with -Wall -Wextra -O1 -std=c11 -Wpedantic, if I actually try to create foo[-1], on the stack or in BSS, I get the proper error: error: size of array 'foo' is negative

F = Field P = Programmable G = Gate <---- important A = Array

You aren't "programming", you're "wiring gates together". In other words, you can build custom hardware to solve a problem without using a generic CPU (or GPU) to do it. FPGAs are implemented as a fabric of LUTs (Look-up Tables) which take 4- or 6- (or more) inputs and produce an output. That allows Boolean algebra functions to be processed. The tools you use (Vivado / ISE / YoSys / etc.) take a your intended design, written in a HDL (Hardware Design Language) such as Verilog or VHDL, and turn it into a configuration file which is injected into the FPGA, causing it to be configured to into the hardware you want (if you've done it right). FPGAs are a stepping stone between generic hardware such as a CPU or GPU and a custom ASIC. They win when you can express the problem in specialized hardware much better than writing code to do something on a CPU/GPU. Parallelization is the key to many FPGA designs. Also, you don't have to spend >$1MM on a mask set to go have an ASIC fabricated by TSMC, etc.

Artix 7 is simplistic compared to any of the Versal chips. You buy an expensive FPGA and then try using an "open-source" tool chain that exposes 25% of the FPGA's potential. Not a great trade-off, eh?

It's not just that the boards are expensive; you'll also need a Vivado license to create any designs for it. That license is at least several thousand dollars for the Versal devices.

Unfortunately, my colleagues, who mostly use Outlook, employ HTML to its full extent when pasting in content to messages. ("Refer to the text highlighted in red.", "See the table for details", etc.)

Back in my BBS days, there was ANSI color with IBM-extended (CP437) block graphics to liven things up, so I can see it has gone full circle a bit.

It's good to see that cancel culture is alive and well on HN. You're free to ignore my comments, and I encourage you to do so, if you're not swayed by my arguments. However, if there's one thing I _won't_ do, it is to go along blindly with the gaping-mouth masses. I pride myself in being a free thinker, both behind the keyboard and in person. Not everyone expresses opinions the same way, and to tell me that my comments are unsubstantial is definitely a violation of the guidelines you posed. In the immortal words of Bob and Doug McKenzie: "Take off, eh?"

I doubt there will be a single person for whom Thunderbird is their first email/messaging type app. Most would have used something on their iOS or Android devices first at least.

You'd be wrong. I, grudgingly, moved from mutt to Thunderbird after it was clear that email was turning into MIME-encoded web pages.

"The compose window now also takes up less space with recipients listed in “pills” instead of an entire line for every address.."

Yup, already hate it. I much prefer not looking through a list of buttons on the To line for the one I want to remove. Additionally, I can instantly see if I'm sending and email to my coworkers company or personal address without some damn tag after his name.

You clearly didn't understand my meaning. I suggest re-reading what I wrote, and then think about the "90%" figure.

I'd flag your insulting "stupid conclusion" statement, but I'm sure someone else will do that for me.

I fail to grasp what you are implying. Please explain.

There is a limit to reasonable accommodations. For instance, restaurants are not required to feed you if you cannot lift a fork.

From my reading, social anxiety has only recently been suggested as a disability under the ADA, in one state. I am unable to locate ADA material which outlines if, and to what extent, accommodations for this disability are to be provided.

You could always obtain a TDD terminal, use those facilities to call the restaurant (call TDD, interpreter then calls the restaurant, ..) to place the order.

IANAL. You could also sue and see how it comes out.

I live in a state which has one of the highest new-cases-per-day number, and we can still go get take-out.

1) I call in my order. 2) I drive to the restaurant. 3) I put my mask on. 4) I go inside, get my sack of food. 5) I drive home.

We do a lot of cooking at home, which we find to be enjoyable, so this doesn't happen very often. Costco same-day (via Instacart), even when it tacks on 20% to the cost of items, is perfectly acceptable to me.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/794278/disabled-populati...

Let's take the first-order approximation that 15% of the population is disabled and cannot get their own food. A quick, but by no means, thorough search shows both government and private programs to help these people obtain nutritious food. We could delve into this and go down the rabbit hole of what % of that 15% cannot prepare food or even feed themselves, but I don't have data on that. Yes, delivery might be a need in some of those cases where family, friends, programs, etc. don't exist. These can be a special case, perhaps < 10% of total population.

My comments are directed at the other 90% of keyboard pushers who whine that they're getting charged too much / businesses are being harmed when they click a button for Beef Lo Mein.

The market determines what is reasonable, not you (or any one person). "Recover their cost"? What is this, communist Russia?

So what if the food providers sell off to the delivery services? Perhaps it will result in a better match for the market demands. Preserving jobs isn't the goal of capitalism, profit is. Those businesses who try to go too far toward extreme profit usually fail when smaller, more nimble upstarts dig the foundations out from under the bigger ones.

Indeed. Let the market discover the proper price for this service.

I remember this like yesterday.

Lol. Reminds me of The Crown where Price Charles is learning Welsh.

However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.

Coincidentally, I watched Inglorious Basterds last night and have always loved the end credit music, so I let it run to the end. R.I.P. Ennio

I yielded and looked but didn't come to a full stop.

Physics tells us that we should accelerate to spend the least amount of time in the danger zone (rail bed). Since the velocities are orthogonal, it doesn't matter if you are hit by a train when your car is going 55 or 5 MPH (probably, unless trees in the resulting vector of your now pulped car).

It never made any sense to me to see school busses stopping at a grade crossing, then taking an extraordinarily long time to cross those tracks. What happens if the engine fails while on those tracks and a high speed train appears.

No, my vote is to make sure you have a clear view of the tracks in both directions and punch it. Less probability of interacting with a train.

Seems like a stretch, as a safety-conscious person would stand back quite a ways from the lit firework?

Professional aerial displays are likely harmful to no-one.

Indeed.

This is abuse of copyright.

IA did bad, and should not be rewarded for this behavior.

I miss BlueWave offline mail reader...

nn just didn't compare when I got to University. irc was and still is fantastic.

Never name your company something that your customers can't pronounce. :-)