porsupah
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Comment · 3 years ago
You might find "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Sarah Harris & David Harris helpful. (Note that it comes in ARM and RISC-V editions)
https://www.waterstones.com/book/digital-design-and-computer...
Comment · 3 years ago
Apple does have a crawler of its own, which feeds into Siri's knowledge. But, there's no public front end to use it as a search engine, though there was up to about 2021 or 2022, provided as a bit of fun by some enterprising third party.
Comment · 3 years ago
Funny you should mention such use cases..
Comment · 3 years ago
How does this compare to the Red Pitaya line?
Comment · 4 years ago
They did:
"Unlike Hubble, Webb isn't designed to be fixed by astronauts. But it can be refueled robotically. Zurbuchen says that 'once this telescope is deployed, I'm going to put all the effort towards developing that technology, and so within the 10-year lifespan, we can go refuel it'"
https://nitter.42l.fr/marinakoren/status/1474367236244750345...
https://nitter.42l.fr/Dr_ThomasZ/status/1474398711505580032#...
Comment · 5 years ago
Hugely nifty work! Makes me wish I had an M1 system even more so I could help out.
Comment · 5 years ago
For a good example of how such a mesh network can indeed function well, consider Ricochet, which once offered service in a few metro regions, including the Bay. The relay units were typically mounted on utility poles, by arrangement with the relevant agencies.
True, 128kbps wasn't anything that'd compare with 4G, but this was 1999. It wasn't great at handoffs either, but still, I was able to use it on BART regardless. Imagine, connected to the net - on the move!
Comment · 5 years ago
Likewise, you might enjoy:
CHIRP Radio (Chicago): https://chirpradio.org 4ZZZ (Brisbane): https://www.4zzzfm.org.au
Both are ad-free, other than local community orgs and the occasional local independent business plug, and funded by listener donations. Big bonus: huge variety in their playlists, with the DJs playing whatever they feel like.
Comment · 6 years ago
I rather wish the 3DO version of The 11th Hour had seen release, but the publisher canned the project quite late in development.
There, we had about an hour of video - on CD, it should be noted, not a cartridge - at 288x320 (using an interlaced display mode, which virtually nobody used beyond splash screens), with a perfectly solid 30fps. Left unregulated, the decoder yielded around 40-70fps. All ARM assembly, and a huge amount of fun to write. ^_^
No hardware acceleration, needless to say, other than page blitting to copy the previous frame to the current buffer.
Comment · 6 years ago
Indeed - from the earlier, pioneering home computers like the PET and Apple II, through to the generation that followed, with the likes of the Commodore 64, VIC-20, and BBC Micro, the 6502 influenced a boggling number of programmers, myself included.
(And without the BBC Micro, would Acorn have eventually designed the Acorn RISC Machine, itself having since proven quite influential?)
C's my stock in trade, with C++ along for the ride, but assembly.. now there, some serious fun becomes possible. =:)