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- Comment on is it a good beginner Python project to write a hacking software?? 11 months ago:
Doing a “hack simulator” would likely be easier in other languages, so you will hopefully run into some problems regarding acquiring and presenting the information, which I imagine would give you a decent understanding of the flow of data in python.
I’d say “Go for it”, doesn’t sound too advanced and not “hello world”-simple either.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I’m too stupid to walk backwards through the 4th one, so I guess I only experience 3.5 dimensions.
- Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 11 months ago:
Yup, that’s the one.
Had quite some problems with programs not cleaning caches properly and drives having weird behavior when accessed in offline state when they first introduced it, though I imagine it surely must have become more robust by now.
- Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 11 months ago:
Mostly for not loosing unsavable work across transit. Though, Windows has kinda blurred the line between shutdown and standby, so now you can do neither (I guess you can still shutdown properly holding down the shift key while pressing the button, but who thinks about that?).
But standby was indeed much more prevelant when booting your laptop took 2~5min.
- Comment on Completely free 11 months ago:
I was thinking about Knights of Sidonia. They bough the rights while second season was being made, and while I’m not sure whether they also Labelled the first season as Netflix Original, they at least took it down from everywhere and instead put it on their own site.
- Comment on Is shadow banning submissions/comments/users a thing on Lemmy? 11 months ago:
Haven’t seen that behavior myself yet, but yes, that does sound like either a bug or shadowbanning.
Excuse me for not being able to help.
- Comment on Completely free 11 months ago:
I mean, if Netflix can call a series to which they bought the rights a “Netflix Original”, then this dude can host you a free website for 1$+.
- Comment on Is shadow banning submissions/comments/users a thing on Lemmy? 11 months ago:
I’ve encountered a few times where the post or a parent comment got deleted, which also appears to hide any sub-comments.
Might that be it?
- Comment on Is it possible to have an English only setting here? 1 year ago:
In the browser (because everyone uses a different app) click on you username and settings. Scroll down to “Languages” and unselected undetermined and any non-English languages.
This should make sure that you only see English content, even if it also removes all the undetermined (read unlabeled or mixed) content.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 year ago:
Right, apologies for dumping it down so far, I find it hard to properly gauge the knowledge of others on the internet, and just try and play safe.
I wasn’t aware that one could serial program gate arrays, as, as far as I know, the definition of serial programming is code that is governed by a processor, and which prohibits anything but serial execution of commands. So it’s new to me that gate arrays can run serial code without any governance or serialization process, since gate arrays by themselves are anything but serial. Or rather, that you need to synchronize anything and everything that is supposed to be serial by yourself, or use pre-built and pre-synced blocks, I guess.
Anyway, going by the definition that serial programming can only be performed using some kind of governance or synchronizing authority, that alone would be another layer of security.
As serial implies, it rid us, or lessened the burden, of those timing related issues, some of which included:
- All the problems of accessing in-use resources that multi-cored serial “parallel” programming reintroduced.
- Making a block and not properly timing it resulting in the clock changing while it’s still flipping gates and produce unexpected behavior.
- As the above, just generally having to time everything, as having too many clock blocks or sync checks results in unnecessary speed loss, and having too few checks might result in unexpected behavior.
- Over/underclocking and other slight power and clock variations.
- Uninitialized gates producing random behavior.
- And by extension: the power up process not being exactly the same every time, resulting in more unexpected behavior. Very annoying to debug when it looks all right to start with.
- Reading through seconds of timing diagrams (that’s a lot of reading with a clock time of nano seconds).
- Block placement and connection problems.
- Using gate array layouts/code with differing transistor specs.
And the list goes on, but you know.
Serial also has a lot of pitfalls, and you can definitely screw things up bad, but at least you don’t have to think much about clock or timing, or memory placement, unless communicating between devices or cores, and those sync problems tend to be rather tame and simple compared to intra-processor problems.
At least from my experience.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 year ago:
I think you are misunderstanding me. Are you perhaps thinking about multithreading or multi core? Because some people have also started calling that “parallel”, even if it is nothing like low-level parallel.
A CPU does not build upon a CPU, a CPU builds upon a transistors which are collected into gates, and which can be assembled into the correct order using parallel programming.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 year ago:
A CPU is a very complex gate array which handles bothersome tasks such as synchronization (run conditions) and memory access, and presents you with a very limited set of instructions. All serial programming builds upon this very limited set of instructions, and the instructions have been thoroughly tested over the past 6 decades.
Not to say that CPU architecture or microcode is fail-safe, but the chance of your computer blue-screening because of a failure of your CPU is rather small.
Now, parallel programming (the low level variant, not the hijacked definition) is the art of “wiring” those gate arrays manually. A CPU is actually made using parallel programming, so all the safeties it presents for serial programming will not be present in parallel programming, as parallel programming does not use a CPU.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 year ago:
Lots of buzzwords indeed, author apparently doesn’t even know what a smart sensor is, as they described a regular sensor in their first paragraph.
That said, you can absolutely program analog ICs, such as by using a Field Programmable Gate Array instead of just your regular Gate Array (your usual, ‘stupid’ IC). Though, while a random IC might cost you less than half a dollar, a FPGA will cost you around 100$ for a simple chip.
On the other hand, skipping any GPU or CPU and their limitations by clock speed should speed up the AI considerably, though parallel programming (not concurrent programming) is much harder and comes with almost no safety when compared to serial programming.
- Comment on in the future a voice actor will probably be a person who provides a library of voice clips to train an AI on 1 year ago:
That is the world we currently live in.
Quite some work left to do to achieve a sociaty with universal basic income, if even the technologies developed for the purpose are twisted and used against it.
- Comment on bro pls 1 year ago:
Man, that’s just not in the budget. How am I supposed to scratch my need-to-kill-brown-kids itch without the taxpayer money we specifically set aside for this purpose?
What kind of absurd ideas are you gonna come up with next? No more instigating strife in the middle east? Pah! Not on my watch!
- Comment on Are you actually horny or do you just need a shit and it's pressing on your prostate? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see. 1 year ago:
A wolf, or more specifically our dear little furry eye-gifted Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate.
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
Perhaps (hopefully) i just encountered some folks who just assumed something, and that it’s not actually becoming a trend.
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
w/ appears to have origin in the food industry some 70 years ago (according to this question).
To me it makes sense, as I first encountered it in video games where abbreviations and text-saving-slang are commonplace. Furthermore, while abbreviations usually have multiple letters, single letter abbreviations can quickly become confusing, so I belive that this is the reason for putting a slash behind it, or possibly a bar above it.
- Comment on Free disposal? 1 year ago:
Don’t swim in the water, I’ve heard you get severe and abrupt lead poisoning when trying.
- Comment on Using Facebook/Meta Messenger on Android 1 year ago:
You tell us.
Using PWA you’ll retain all the features and nice-to-haves of the app, while also preventing it from doing any weird magic to your files in the background. Sharing files from your main profile to your private profile is also as easy as opening the file in your main profiles file browser and clicking “share”.
What is your threat/privacy level? How far are you willing to go, and what/how much is it that you want to keep private?
- Comment on Labeled album hosting solutions 1 year ago:
It appears that the Flickr Commons initiative is specifically for companies and organizations, and sadly not for individuals.
I’ve been looking a little into Flickr, and it appears that there exist some similar solutions named Piwigo and Media Goblin which I’m currently checking out.
Thank you for the heads up!
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- Comment on Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter 1 year ago:
I guess the emoji were there to set the proper mood, which they succeeded in, as the most horrible thing about that article definitely was the abhorrent use of emoji.
Closely followed by me not being able to tick a single product in their quiz, and getting a “perfect score” while using Discord of all things as primary messenger…
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Who let the Dougs out?
- Comment on Would you really though? 1 year ago:
This is getting out of hand.
- Comment on Does Perchance.org count as coding/programming? 1 year ago:
Not a dumbass, we all have to start somewhere, and the only way to really fail is to stop trying to improve oneself.
That’s also what in the oh so olden days set apart the script kiddies from the makers. The script kiddies found some readily available tools and boasted about their skill, while the makers tried to dig into the tools to get a better understanding, and ultimately be able to hack together the tools to better fit their needs. Many makers started out as script kiddies.
People nowadays often get introduced to programming in computer games, such as Minecraft’s redstone, and I don’t think that perchance is much different.
Next steps would be to find a programming or scripting language and start learning about common syntaxes and logic, perhaps even make your own generator!
- Comment on Does Perchance.org count as coding/programming? 1 year ago:
Ah, I was wrong. I just checked and it appears that engineer isn’t protected per default (as you stated).
I was thinking about “Civilingeniør” (literal translation would be “civil engineer”, but that is no faithful translation), which everyone who graduates a MSc. in engineering receives, and which is at least protected locally.
Thank you for calling me out.
- Comment on Does Perchance.org count as coding/programming? 1 year ago:
Usually you draw this line by “locking” a title behind some kind of education or certification. If someone carries this title, then it must mean that they at least have a basic understanding about x skill.
“Programmer” and “developer” aren’t protected in any meaningful way, and I’m trying to hammer that into my brain, as I did not really see someone who hosts a template Wordpad site as a webdev, or a Python scripter as a programmer (scripting is programming, but programming is much more than scripting, so comparing the two didn’t make sense to me).
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 1 year ago:
Writing out a person’s full name/tag every time you reference them is not practical (see my previous comment), so one wouldn’t give this as reason against third person references in a serious discussion.
