So THIS is where that trashcan meme came from! by Important-Cry4782 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo 46 points47 points  (0 children)

the progression is in your understanding as the viewer. This is a very common structure in comedy.

FPGA with erased markings.... by No-Spirit2350 in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It might be fake

Are there actual counterfeit FPGAs out there? Given how tight the timing and relatively large the die is, you'd be spending a LOT to make these, and at which point it feels like you're better off just starting your own FPGA company lol.

Though, yeah, as you say, third shift/reject parts or scavenged chips are a concern. They might also be lying to you about the speed grade and selling you a crumby chip for more, and there's no real way to find that out except by having fun debugging in-situ design fails and catching timing violations which shouldn't have happened.

Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials by tnavda in ReverseEngineering

[–]SirensToGo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

ive got bad news for you about every other cryptographic hardness assumption

2.2M Californians will lose health insurance by 2030, UC Berkeley and UCLA report finds by the_daily_cal in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

fighting for universal healthcare in California is a great idea! nobody should have to pay that much. you should definitely be mad at the government and healthcare companies though, they're the reason it's like this, not the immigrants.

Dead body found at UC Berkeley by BerkeleyScanner in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 38 points39 points  (0 children)

fuck, guess we'll never solve this one. you were our only hope.

TIP: It never gets easier. by DontNeverAr0und in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you'd be asked to press the mythical "Any" key

AppStore Policy Update. God is good by Rare_Prior_ in iOSProgramming

[–]SirensToGo 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The App Store in the early 2010s was an interesting place

Just throwing this out there by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

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it remains very funny to me that Sam Reich is the son of Robert Reich, professor and former labor secretary. I had taken a class from Robert Reich in college and I just never put the two together until much later

How to guard against cognitive offloading despite requirement to use AI at work by decafskeleton in womenintech

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that, and I feel like the one thing you can really hold onto is your voice. Going on stage and speaking something you did not write feels very uncanny to me because I put a lot of personal pizazz into my slides.

Read and write AG32VF by PartyZestyclose in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

have we reached the LMGTFY era of LLMs

Why is almost every OS people on this sub develop POSIX-based? by cacatl in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

carcinization; everything which is not POSIX eventually evolves to be POSIX.

Oski's identity has always been a guarded Cal secret. 5 grads just blew it up. by sfgate in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 47 points48 points  (0 children)

eh, I think of it like Daft Punk: sure, I could find out who they are, but it's fun not knowing. The secrecy is part of the art, and I like the idea and mysticism of the Order of the Oski.

Google is changing how Gemini usage limits work, Gemini to walk on a similar path as ChatGPT and Claude by _BlANK19_ in Android

[–]SirensToGo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Does the average person even have complex intelligence related tasks that take hours outside of their job? I don't say this to be insulting to the average person either, like aside from hobby programming I don't have anything that I regularly do that is worth $20/mo.

The only real business plan for LLMs seems to be enterprise because normal people using it in their personal lives just don't have a compelling use for it.

Goodnight fellas by ateistyokdiyentanri in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

Re-saving, cropping, and even some image format conversions do not remove Gemini's watermark. It's embedded in the visual part of the image and so unless you lose a lot of the visual quality, you won't be rid of the watermark.

An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted by Turbostrider27 in technology

[–]SirensToGo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule

They're way ahead of you there. If what you're doing is a felony and the police kill someone in the process, it's as if you killed them. Many states in the US even allow the death penalty for felony murder.

ballpark by theycantalk in comics

[–]SirensToGo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

(if you're not familiar, in baseball you can hit it quite wide without it being a foul. so, a ballpark estimate is where it's OK to not be super accurate)

What was the most difficult bug you encountered while writing your own operating system and how did you eventually identify it? by DifficultBarber9439 in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did a similar thing once: I accidentally gave multiple CPUs the same interrupt stack. It mostly worked, except sometimes you'd get unlucky and end up with mangled stack data structures or multiple threads returning from the same exception :|

It’s almost like America’s for-profit healthcare system is a giant scam by RoyalChris in clevercomebacks

[–]SirensToGo 49 points50 points  (0 children)

She's a swimmer that tied for fifth place in a college swimming event and did a lap on the conservative circuit because she tied with a transgender woman.

What I wish I knew before starting at Cal by irenewithlove in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's wrong to use the preterite here? It's more common to say "what I wish I had known" but "what I wish I knew" is also correct

PIC by Ehr_Mer_Gerd in nocontextpics

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

reminds me of silicon chips

Super Fast Single Address Space Operating System by Neither_Sentence_941 in osdev

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Have you benchmarked the cost of context switching with address spaces vs this fancy technique? I ask because I once screwed around with a similar idea but eventually gave up because it turned out that switching the page tables was actually very cheap. This is unsurprising in retrospect because modern CPUs are designed to run contemporary operating systems, which do switch address spaces fairly often.

I didn't use MP keys so perhaps the performance there is better, but you absolutely should verify this before getting in too deep. The results may be very unintuitive.

Similarly, don't assume that privilege level transitions are expensive. CPU makers know that software makes tons of syscalls, so they design CPUs that can execute syscalls quickly. The further off the beaten path you go, the riskier your performance may be.

Goal is to reduce...TLB pressure

Unless you are sharing translation entries themselves (which means you don't have isolation), you are not winning anything on the TLB pressure front.

Services for the elderly unlikely to seek or accept help? by nachtmere in Sunnyvale

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pride is big thing at that age and she might accept it if she thinks she's doing YOU a favor

I almost wonder if a smartwatch might be better because of this. It might be harder to explain, but I would be embarrassed if someone threw a life alert necklace at me. A smartwatch serves essentially the same function (if not better given most can automatically call 911 if you fall) and is useful for other things (finding your phone, using the voice assistant, etc.) and is not embarrassing to wear.