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  why has noone written an arbitrary-precision integer library and called it Big Naturals smh need to change this

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  @mei so I went to @domi ‘s place with a suitcase with a broken wheel. being domi, they went “I can fix her”, so we went to the hardware store, and now I’m traveling with this beautiful contraption it feels so smooth and has a parking brake! RE: https://donotsta.re/objects/c0866398-fcb6-4cdf-a257-cc54369fa727

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  being interested in history of FPGAs and old electronics in general means simultanously being excited about a PDF having giant “ALL DEVICES DISCONTINUED” written diagonally across the whole document in red, and also being very annoyed at how it impairs readability wish there was “inspect element -> display: none” for PDF readers

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  you know shit’s good when you see the most M.C. Escher-esque monstrosity ever conceived taking up a two-page foldout, labeled “a simplified diagram of $WHATEVER”

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  accepting an EULA, hiding the cat ears and tail I swear I’m a good human girl and I don’t have a copy of binja waiting in the other directory

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  so, I have decided to start a thing. https://floppy.cd-rom.net/wanda:hwcat:intro still in the process of moving my notes, but I think it’s already at the stage where I feel like advertising it. :boost_ok:

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  Multivitamins A-Z are so last century. check out our newest product: the Multivitamin Unicode Edition

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  everyone wants to have a catgirl until it’s time to lift the XL cat carrier up to the 4th floor smh

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  sometimes people ask me: “Wanda, why do catgirls bite people”? I’d like to present two screenshots. the first one is Virtex-4 documentation. I hoped it was a typo. no, the document makes it pretty clear in several other places that they did, in fact, actually do that. then I looked at the Virtex-5 documentation. it took me several minutes of staring at it to figure out just what the fuck is going on. they have, somehow, managed to make it even worse.

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  guess who just got incredibly pissed off at the amd docs portal, hacked together a scraper, and is now sitting on 50GB (and counting) worth of (mostly) Xilinx docs

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  we’re walking around the town with my sister, exploring some area we haven’t been to yet. at some point we decide it is time for a snack break, so I pull out a two-part snickers bar and we prepare to chomp it. however, some 10yo boy walks up to us and aggressively demands the snickers. he doesn’t take no for an answer, and starts to fight us. so I decide to bite the fucker with full force. at this point, I wake up, finding myself with my roommate’s front leg in my mouth, jaws tightly shut arou...

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  every now and then, someone boosts the meme that “behind every remote worker there’s a catgirl that didn’t sign the NDA and is going to sell all the secrets for a piece of sashimi”. this is vile, stereotyping, and nekophobic slander. a catgirl would never sell your secrets for a piece of sashimi. (catgirls know perfectly well how much secrets are worth. your catgirl is getting so much sashimi from the highest bidder.)

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  today is an indicatif appreciation day holy shit I should’ve progressbarred this thing a long time ago

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  it seems I have accidentally conditioned myself into being incapable of ingesting any information involving CHERI (the fancy hardware memory safety thing) without immediately putting on Modern Talking at full volume

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  microcontroller exposing its JTAG at you like “single-step on me mommy 🥺”

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  I will forever hate ARM for including user-defined extension signals such as ARUSER in their AXI specifications. it’s not that I particularly hate the idea of vendors adding random-ass extension as a sideband to AXI. see, I know perfectly well that, if ARM chose to not define these signals, vendors would add them anyway, and I’d be looking at an AXI bus with signals such as ARINTEL™FOO. see, the problem is that I am now instead looking at 20 different AXI interfaces buses with 40 different USE...

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  a decade or so ago, I was writing a H.264 decoder (needed a custom one for stupid reasons which of course had to do with hardware reverse engineering). the first order of business was to implement CABAC: the final entropy coding stage of H.264 (ie. the first layer I had to peel starting from the bitstream), a funny variant of arithmetic coding. the whole thing is quite carefully optimize to squeeze out bits from video frames by exploiting statistics. in addition to carefully implementing the de...

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  there’s many things which piss me off about modern web design practices but the worst one would be interfaces which show you a list or table of some small item and force you to look at this shit with pagination of like 50 items at a time and then you try clicking previous and next to actually find whatever it is that you’re looking for and pray to all gods that this thing isn’t too dumb to remember where it was and is going to just return some random items from the middle motherfuckers will po...

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  PoV: you have ordered 1 (one) item from aliexpress jesus fuck that’s a lot of emails

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  you’ve heard of problematic age gap, now get ready for problematic enum variant size gap tbf clippy is definitely the kind of software that would happily cancel someone

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  currently rewatching a series of unfortunate events, and oof, this exchange hits me every time I know he can be prickly, but you have to understand he had a very terrible childhood.I understand. I’m having a very terrible childhood right now.

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  in retrospect maybe I should’ve asked my roommate what drugs she’s taking before instinctively snorting the powder off her leg or something

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  any vendor incorporated after 1983 can't design hardware, all they know is NDA, market segmentation, errata, be acquired, make hot chip, and lie

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  current status: playing quake brutalist jam 3 and holy shit this is good I never cared much for the first quake, but this mod manages to make it way more fun somehow I didn’t know I need a gun that shoots rebar in my life, but here we are and it is excellent (also, holy shit it feels good when enemies shout “KILL HER” etc. when they see you instead of the usual assumed gender; no, the PC gender isn’t configurable, you just have to play as Rover the lesbian)

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  needs a paper opens sci-hub gets hit in the face with “sci-hub AI-powered research assistant” instantly takes 9001 psychic damage screams, closes sci-hub, decides to no longer need paper, nor any other papers

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  :duckduckgo: how many kilometers from the German border do the spezi withdrawal symptoms start

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  notice: catgirls are valued members of the society. therefore, when writing technical documentation please avoid using discriminatory and nekophobic language such us “information provided under NDA”, “license key required”, or “registrer programming interface is proprietiary and will not be documented”.

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  every chat protocol made after IRC persistently keeps you in your chat rooms, even when you’re not connected to the server at the moment. this is generally considered to be a good thing however, consider: this removes the peak comedy of someone saying “let me try this out real quick” and getting loudly kicked out of the room by their own OOM killer taking exception to an unchecked memory leak. so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not

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  two electronic devices: exchange data in any way whatsoever EEs: this is literally equivalent to slavery and needs to be discussed as such