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I agree completely. Just the way the market is going proves that this society is built on a foundation of pure instant gratification to such a level that they can't even understand the realities of a pandemic. We're FUCKED at this point, and the people who should know what to do are drinking the fucking koolaid. I'm just done with anti-intellectualism altogether.

"could be brutal for the economy"

Uhh, racking up deaths WILL be way more brutal for the economy.

I'm currently loving the draft of the book. I'm moderately well off with javascript, but I've never used typescript before so I'm working on figuring that out as well. In any case, it's a wonderful book with plenty of diagrams with explanations. Highly recommended! I've spent years dabbling with programming language as well as compiler/debugger/simulator design, so all of this is right up my alley. :)

It's unfortunate that we as a species cannot prioritize the health of the whole over preoccupied defensive posturing in order to hide all weaknesses. Like a decayed tooth that's just a shell of its former self...

Thank you so much, I'll ingest this into my system, haha. Also, very cool results, that's really impressive! I'm a computer engineer by trade (primarily FPGAs), so it's always great to see other FPGA engineers (hi!). :)

I have always been fascinated by a paper on barrel shifters myself. I think you would enjoy this as well: https://www.princeton.edu/~rblee/ELE572Papers/Fall04Readings... In particular, logarithmic barrel shifters are amazingly simple to implement better than a massive multiplexer for each shift step.

Edit: oops, after further investigation it looks like you may be doing this in your design?

Yes, I also agree with you from a moral standpoint that it doesn't seem right, but if you agree to their terms by creating an account, you play by their rules.

Honestly, the point I'm trying to make with the baker analogy is only to understand who has the final say: the company has the final say on what actions they will perform and the customer has the final say on where they spend their time and money.

There are actually plenty of alternatives to Twitter, but obviously these corporations own the largest market share. However, to blame Twitter or Facebook for that is misguided. They are as big as they are because customers have decided to agree to their terms, and if those terms change, Twitter and others have to send updated User Terms, at which point all users have every right to cancel their accounts. Any complaints about a company's policies whilst still being a customer is their own fault. :)

Is it not the right of private companies, social media or otherwise, to choose how they distribute information?

Also, the only division I've ever seen is from people who can't handle a coffee cup that says "Happy Holidays" on it.

I disagree wholeheartedly with this mindset.

It comes back to the question of whether a company should be able to deny the service of a customer based on its own internal decision making. So lets use a real world example, how about a baker denying service to a person based on sexual orientation. Should the company be forced to provide a service if it goes against their conscience? I believe the answer should and always will be: No. However, the economic and social ramifications of that company denying service is at their own risk and demise. Furthermore, any company should be allowed to modify, terminate, and/or otherwise control whatever service they provide. Which is the agreed upon User Agreement Terms that all people must agree to when they sign up for a social media service. This agreement means that you acknowledge that you will play by their rules, and that you forego your First Amendment rights absolutely, at the mercy and whims of the social media company.

That is the fucking point.

Whatever users write on social media is at the complete control via the User Agreement Terms unless otherwise stated. So yes, users have full control of what they write on social media and a company has zero reason to maintain, distribute, or display any information that users create for any reason whatsoever.

Social media companies CAN ban/shadow ban anyone for anything that they don't like. You are forever at the mercy of a private company and you did so freely by agreeing to their terms. If you don't like this approach, don't use social media. Economics. I do not want an internet where a private company is forced to be the voice box of any particular political philosophy that they did not choose, let alone ANY agenda that they do not choose or agree with.

That is the danger of insisting that social media should be at the behest of the First Amendment. If a person is ignorant of this fact, they need a REAL reality check.

That sounds like the way forward, I wish things were working out that way here! (USA)

Off-topic but, I just discovered your music on spotify a few weeks ago and can't stop listening to your albums, amazing stuff man!

Please describe a 'militant' atheist perspective unironically. :)

When you contrast it to any other type of 'militant', there is typically violence involved..

However, personally, I think the closest thing I could believe in is a "best self". Not that anyone chooses their beliefs, but the rest would be pretty hard to digest for any good reasons.

Honestly, I just think giving up on the idea that you can do this by yourself (in the long term) is counter-productive. Especially if you have an existential crisis later in life and that 'higher power' was the only thing that kept you moving forward. Learning how to embrace self-respect/love/understanding/esteem would go so much further in the long run and would help in all aspects of your life. With each success, and learning to accept each failure -- you will be strengthening productive habits.

Meteors can produce smoke trails and I have seen them create them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbpiOWs6zPU (note: not my video, just one I googled)

No, the Artix-7 is a bottomless pit of LUTs, DSPs, and BRAMs. You could probably fit a ton of 6502's in it.

it's sad that he tries to validate his idea by evangelizing to laymen instead of trying to convince "big science" of his ideas.

My dad was and is the same way -- everyone is in some massive conspiracy plot to misguide the public. Typically there are demons or other some suches that are pulling the puppet strings. A few months ago he was convinced the world was flat.. It's this whole Dunning-Kruger effect that seems to affect so many people.

I think there are generations of people who missed out on a proper education and a healthy skepticism.

Couldn't agree more. I still listen to this soundtrack while working. :)

It's mainly common in EE schematics because 1k7W doesn't have any weird characters like '.' that may not parse correctly in CAD software.

Until 'they' figure out a way to tunnel through the dongle for yet more security violations, haha.

Sorry to go off topic, but, when I started reading this response, I started thinking, "hey is this the dadhacker.com guy?". I really loved your atari st history blog posts, man!

I'm laughing at the extra 2 bytes of memory you just gave us! ;)

IMO, the NES dev community had a better time with the 6502 -- but they definitely had far more memory to play with by then and they had (more) expensive cart mappers with RAM.

The chaining kind of reminds me of how z80's ALU works [1]. It's kind of chained in together over time.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-h...

Really cool visualization of the VM!

Cute little cpu! I like the OPR instruction, neat way of handling increment/decrement (DEC by way of NOT and INC). Are ROR and ROL also chained? That's neat too.

"But consider this: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Princeton are all Universities that started off as Christian seminaries. Their roots are founded in the idea that academics and reasoning are inherently noble pursuits."

The key here is that they started off as Christian seminaries. Are they any longer? Perhaps this same reasoning led them to stop being Christian seminaries in the first place.

How do you increase the performance of the primary/middle/high-school system? To me, that means creating better and more educated teachers that can generate more 'performant' students!

Warning: Naïve laymen "answer" from me :)

I think the 'direction' is the same 'direction' describing the process of say, a non-reversible chemical reaction, like catching something on fire. The reaction happens in one 'direction' only and cannot be reversed. Maybe? Of course, there are some quantum phenomena that do not obey this directionality?

Doesn't it cost Comcast money AND processing power to STORE the browsing history?

Word for word, your review is exactly how I felt (Though I was also excited from the beginning because I'm a sucker for Doomguy and wished Doom 3 was anything remotely like Doom 4)

I would like to know this too! I'm trying to think it must be some radioisotope dating, but I don't see what they would be comparing or sampling. It would also be interesting to do some DNA dating differential method between species.

Just out of curiosity, what deeper truths?

I realize this article is much more in-depth than the view of this author, but.. Yeah, it's amazing how the approach to this has shifted. Imagine if the Allies in WW2 had just complained about the Nazi cryptopgraphy and 'outlawed it for everyone' instead of actually worked around it..