That sounds like a great idea, but you today we can't even synthesize arbitrary VHDL/Verilog code efficiently. The author needs an understanding of hardware architecture to write something that synthesizes versus just a…
Those are all shaping (and bidi) issues though, independent from encoding. UCS-4 is a single Unicode code point and the simplest encoding. Shaping may combine code points many to one, one to many, have ordering issues,…
I read articles like this and come to the conclusion that UTC is flawed, not Unix time. Leap seconds seem mostly useless. People seem to think they are important for astronomy, but for every astronomical calculation I…
If you come at it from an engineering approach (e.g., electrical engineer), it doesn't look like that at all. In fact, the focus is on filters and spectral analysis. It looked something like this when I was at Georgia…
How is vinyl more durable as far as physical media goes than a CD (digital format)? Vinyl can easily warp when improperly stored, degrades every time it is played, and even a small scratch result in audible…
I've used XZ to compress tarballs of backup. XZ was useful so I could store more backups on an external hard drive. I have seen bit rot on some of these files (stored on a magnetic HDD), in the sense that the md5sum of…
If Android is on a camera, I want some sort of a hypervisor situation where it does not interfere with real-time operations. My Canon T4i will very responsively snap a picture once I have locked the focus, aperture, and…
Nuclear deterrence has been a controversial topic for 50 years. There have always been arguments for nuclear disarmament instead. I took the point of this article to be that the ICBM portion of the US triad does not…
Triple buffering confusingly means different things. Both you and the OP are correct. The OP meant something in line with what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buff... "In triple…
BSPs weren't new to the Quake engine (Doom had them). Gouraud shading, lighting, and TCP/IP multiplayer are what made Quake revolutionary for the PC. These things existed on SGIs costing $100k for years before too. The…
Monospaced fonts simply mean that the horizontal width is constant. While this also means there aren't any kerning pairs, it is a different concept. Simply disabling kerning does not mean a font is monospaced. Kerning…
What do they push instead? Python? Go? JS?
I used to work on flight software for a private company. It seemed like inertia from "heritage" always drove lots of decisions. From my memory, I remember quality assurance from NASA getting hung up on the following…
The US National Map has better, more recent topos. These GeoPDFs allow turning on/off layers (e.g., satellite image, PLSS grid lines, etc). You can also download historic topos. http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/
"If you do have the misfortune to have to work with SPARC" So true... I work with the LEON (GPL implementation of SPARC) and have the occasional very bad day of SPARC asm code.
Those are good. The only one I have worth mentioning was a conversation that went like this: Manager: So you like caving? Me: Yeah, I was able to go on a month long expedition last summer to the mountains of Peru.…
That sounds like a great idea, but you today we can't even synthesize arbitrary VHDL/Verilog code efficiently. The author needs an understanding of hardware architecture to write something that synthesizes versus just a…
Those are all shaping (and bidi) issues though, independent from encoding. UCS-4 is a single Unicode code point and the simplest encoding. Shaping may combine code points many to one, one to many, have ordering issues,…
I read articles like this and come to the conclusion that UTC is flawed, not Unix time. Leap seconds seem mostly useless. People seem to think they are important for astronomy, but for every astronomical calculation I…
If you come at it from an engineering approach (e.g., electrical engineer), it doesn't look like that at all. In fact, the focus is on filters and spectral analysis. It looked something like this when I was at Georgia…
How is vinyl more durable as far as physical media goes than a CD (digital format)? Vinyl can easily warp when improperly stored, degrades every time it is played, and even a small scratch result in audible…
I've used XZ to compress tarballs of backup. XZ was useful so I could store more backups on an external hard drive. I have seen bit rot on some of these files (stored on a magnetic HDD), in the sense that the md5sum of…
If Android is on a camera, I want some sort of a hypervisor situation where it does not interfere with real-time operations. My Canon T4i will very responsively snap a picture once I have locked the focus, aperture, and…
Nuclear deterrence has been a controversial topic for 50 years. There have always been arguments for nuclear disarmament instead. I took the point of this article to be that the ICBM portion of the US triad does not…
Triple buffering confusingly means different things. Both you and the OP are correct. The OP meant something in line with what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buff... "In triple…
BSPs weren't new to the Quake engine (Doom had them). Gouraud shading, lighting, and TCP/IP multiplayer are what made Quake revolutionary for the PC. These things existed on SGIs costing $100k for years before too. The…
Monospaced fonts simply mean that the horizontal width is constant. While this also means there aren't any kerning pairs, it is a different concept. Simply disabling kerning does not mean a font is monospaced. Kerning…
What do they push instead? Python? Go? JS?
I used to work on flight software for a private company. It seemed like inertia from "heritage" always drove lots of decisions. From my memory, I remember quality assurance from NASA getting hung up on the following…
The US National Map has better, more recent topos. These GeoPDFs allow turning on/off layers (e.g., satellite image, PLSS grid lines, etc). You can also download historic topos. http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/
"If you do have the misfortune to have to work with SPARC" So true... I work with the LEON (GPL implementation of SPARC) and have the occasional very bad day of SPARC asm code.
Those are good. The only one I have worth mentioning was a conversation that went like this: Manager: So you like caving? Me: Yeah, I was able to go on a month long expedition last summer to the mountains of Peru.…