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vanjoe··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Also from BC: we get up in the dark in the winter either way. May as well have it light when I get off work.
vanjoe··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Duopoly is bad. We should work to fix that. A monopoly is worse.
vanjoe··on Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
Isn't that what all freedom is? Every restriction on freedom is for the benefit of society. At least according to those making those restrictions. Even the soviets thought that the reason suppression was necessary was so that those at the top could fix the country and make it better for everyone.
vanjoe··on Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
Verilator is very good. It's faster than anything else, and it is free. The downsides are it won't stimulate encrypted IP blocks. And it doesn't do mixed language sim, so vhdl is no bueno.
vanjoe··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
For a long time I've wanted to use something like this to remove advertisements from hockey games.The moving ads on the boards are really annoying. Maybe I'll get around to actually doing that one of these days.
vanjoe··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
What would have to change for you to consider it a country? It has a government, there has been talk of a European Army. It has a sovereign currency. If it is the squabbling between constituent states: hello from Canada! Check out our politics.
vanjoe··on Challenges to the credibility of two recent Netflix documentaries
Treating something as entertainment does not prevent you from learning from it, or taking what it says as fact. I learned a lot about the structure of the US government from reading Tom Clancy.

No one is mistaking that as a documentary but he is still able to insert a lot of his biases into it.

vanjoe··on FreeTaxUSA
SimpleTax, got bought by WealthSimple a year or two ago, but its still good.
vanjoe··on ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
Yeah the newer zynq-MP have a 4 core A53 as well as two realtime class cores on there.
vanjoe··on Robert Langlands, who linked number theory, analysis, and geometry (2015)
It's kinda like Alexander Graham Bell, claimed by the Scots (in England they call him British) the Canadians and the Americans.
vanjoe··on ‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
Perhaps unions?
vanjoe··on Suicides, Drug Addiction and High School Football
When I was in highschool and having a rough time (nothing like these kids are going through) then I really liked hockey because for 60 mins only the game mattered, none of the other bull shit. I don't think I could get that at a robotics club, maybe you could.
vanjoe··on The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
But how do you remember when to use $^ and $<
vanjoe··on How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)
That criticism seems to conflate culture with skin. The NHL has a culture where bring the spotlight on individuals is frowned upon (For a long time having a high number on you sweater was considered showboaty). The article wants to call this "white culture" that is unwelcoming to people of colour. That seems wrong to me.
vanjoe··on How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)
Ice is more expensive than fields, but there is probably a feedback loop as well.
vanjoe··on Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan
Carpool lanes, different tolls for commercial vs personal. I think these are essentially doing that.
vanjoe··on An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it
Arbitration and multiplexing
vanjoe··on A difficult experience with Autopilot in the mountains of Canada
Note, this was not some winding two-lane so typical of BC interior (Though this is getting better). This is a good road that was recently upgraded for the 2010 Olympics.
vanjoe··on A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
Is that legal? In Canada I'm not sure your allowed to sell unpasteurised milk.
vanjoe··on The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics
Pretty sure they are only free for at risk people/ health care workers. At least that is true in BC. http://immunizebc.ca/diseases-vaccinations/influenza

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility in Canada

vanjoe··on Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
Usually immeasurably means infinite, I'm guessing that's not what you meant?
vanjoe··on BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core
Nvidia had a presentation at the risc-v workshop a few years back. I think they are building chips with it. Nothing the regular programmer sees though I don't think
vanjoe··on BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core
Yeah there are a few out there. At Vectorblox we have ORCA that we use as a cross-platform replacement for nios/microbaze.

I don't know of anyone who has built anything as sophisticated as BOOM though.

vanjoe··on Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
Those are daytime running lights. I wish headlights were mandatory, that would eliminate people driving in rainy twilight without lights on.
vanjoe··on Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana stores
Personally I wouldn't try smuggling from across, taking beer and smokes across without declaration is significantly less of a risc than taking banned substances. I say this as a Canadian a few minutes from the Washington border.
vanjoe··on A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
I'm pretty far out of my area of expertise, so I'll take your word for it. Could an an algorithm be correct, but not proven correct, or is it defined as a heuristic at that point?
vanjoe··on A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
I think it's even less useful, even if P = NP it is possible that no one finds an algorithm. Creating a (useful) algorithm is independent of proving the theorem. Also interesting is that someone could create an algorithm that solves NP complete in polynomial time without proving P=NP. They would be unable to prove the algorithm correct though.
vanjoe··on Exa, a modern replacement for ls
I'm pretty sure ls does this as well. At least for images and archives
vanjoe··on An FPGA-friendly 32-bit RISC-V CPU implementation
How do you manage cached and uncached memory accesses? There has been some discussion lately on the mailing lists about this
vanjoe··on Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians
Really? I've never referred to myself as American. North American perhaps, but never American.
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