TimeSquirrel

joined 2 years ago
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage" even though that's the technically correct word. "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a shitbox full of dry-rotting composites and plastics. Older cars were something you wanted to keep around. Modern "old" cars are something you're embarrassed to be driving around in.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn't going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Real pros check every line for malware

Noob. How can you trust the underlying libraries and assembly code those functions/methods are coming from? Better get a debugger and watch those CPU registers while it's running.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Meh, the weed thing isn't that exciting anymore, I'm in Baltimore and pass five dispensaries on the way to work now.

Thanks Colorado, for breaking through for the rest of us though.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that's not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've been doing it for years. Like the "National Socialists are leftists because socialist is in the name" thing. Ignoring that in Europe at the time, everybody was basically calling themselves socialist to chase the votes of the working population.

They aren't stupid, it's intentional, to muddy the waters for people that aren't very familiar with that history.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha, I'm still over here messing with 10/100 Ethernet and USB 2 on my home projects. I'm used to bigger tolerances than the truly high tech stuff.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 children)

the lower voltage they operate at calls for more attention to be paid to signal integrity between the CPU and memory

And they aren't kidding around, modern high speed signals are so fast that a millimeter or less of difference in length between two traces might be enough to cause the signals to arrive at the other end with enough time skew to corrupt the data.

Edit: if you ever looked closely at a circuit board and seen strange, squiggly traces that are shaped like that for seemingly no reason, it's done so that the lengths can be matched with other traces.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So math is like painting, you can just arbitrarily add a splash of color somewhere to change the mood..

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