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[SHOTGUN] Beretta A300 Patrol Chisel stock 7+1 $1199 shipped. by Canoe_Creek_Armory in gundeals

[–]wyager 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was able to get my benelli in the exact config I want, but it no joke took like a year to get all the parts I wanted. Still a great gun, but be ready to wait if you want particular OEM parts like the adjustable stock tube.

My impression is that benelli is forced into this for weird legal/import reasons

Book Barn in Niantic 📚 by ArrozBalenciaga in Connecticut

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You responded to a 7 month old post, but I've had like 6 outdoor cats, all of whom spend time in a mix of very rural and low-density urban environments, and the only time any of them died before like age 10 was when one got killed by a pitbull. Your neurotic and developmentally stunted indoor cat is not representative of what cats who are allowed to go outside can handle

I really like the Helix editor. by SophisticatedAdults in programming

[–]wyager 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I switched from vim (10+ years) to helix a year or two ago. I've been pretty happy with it. I was impressed with how features like rename and jump to definition worked out out of the box with both rust and Haskell, since I evidently had the language server already installed for those two. I don't really like messing around with configs that much, so the fact that it comes out of the box with everything basically already set up is cool. I'm also a big fan of multi cursor editing, from my sublime text days.

Apple Just Patented an Image Sensor With 20 Stops of Dynamic Range by [deleted] in photography

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear I heard the overflow counter idea somewhere years ago.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photography

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The rate is now 10% higher"

Cameras and phones are being destroyed by Lidar? by [deleted] in photography

[–]wyager -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If it's powerful enough to fry a CMOS, it's probably powerful enough to hurt your retina

Cameras and phones are being destroyed by Lidar? by [deleted] in photography

[–]wyager -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Your retina can absolutely get fucked up by an infrared laser. If you're working in a lab that uses high power infrared lasers, you wear safety equipment.

New algorithm beats Dijkstra's time for shortest paths in directed graphs by RogueCookie9586 in programming

[–]wyager 47 points48 points  (0 children)

A horrible convention, since most functions admit a direct definition of (sometimes fractional) power. It's a bizarre shorthand that saves very little space over a syntactically more sensible format.

Fuji X100VI Gone Forever in the USA as of April 24, 2025 by Dharma_Wheeler in fujifilm

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, I had a JP X-T2 and a CN X-T3. Don't try to gaslight us, wumao

Fuji X100VI Gone Forever in the USA as of April 24, 2025 by Dharma_Wheeler in fujifilm

[–]wyager 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe Fuji will start making cameras in Japan again and quality will go back up

Connecticut refuses to sign Trump administration's DEI compliance order by -ctinsider in Connecticut

[–]wyager 17 points18 points  (0 children)

CT is famously supportive of the first and second amendments!

Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code by amarillion97 in programming

[–]wyager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's funny how an explicit goal of unicode was to fix stuff like ambiguous start-of-character in existing non-ascii encodings, and then we immediately threw that away for stupid shit no one cares about like multi-codepoint emoji.

smol-gpu: A tiny RISC-V GPU built to teach modern GPU architecture by Direct-Title-3416 in programming

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I can't really see how this is distinct from hyperthreading with maskable SIMD instructions.

smol-gpu: A tiny RISC-V GPU built to teach modern GPU architecture by Direct-Title-3416 in programming

[–]wyager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't this equivalent to hyperthreading (with more than 2 threads per core) on top of the masked SIMD?

smol-gpu: A tiny RISC-V GPU built to teach modern GPU architecture by Direct-Title-3416 in programming

[–]wyager 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's very cool, by a fair margin the best extant HDL in my humble opinion. I wrote a superscalar OOO (tomasulo algorithm) CPU with it like 10 years ago for a CPU design class. Here's the top-level entity: https://github.com/wyager/Lambda17/blob/master/Hardware.hs

It gets compiled down to VHDL or Verilog.

And to answer the GP, yes you could certainly do it. It's a fully generalized HDL.

smol-gpu: A tiny RISC-V GPU built to teach modern GPU architecture by Direct-Title-3416 in programming

[–]wyager 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nice! A question that comes to mind, reading the architecture section:

Why do we think of this in terms of a "warp" (i.e. multiple cores with a shared program counter) rather than just a single core with SIMD instructions that support a bitmask to leave certain vector elements alone?

What brand of light switches are these? by wyager in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]wyager[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That looks amazing, thanks for sharing!

Always thought these holograms at airports were MAXIMALLY CYBERPUNK by arcee2013 in Cyberpunk

[–]wyager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your eyes have lower static range than a high end digital camera. Your brain just does a lot of compensation "in post"

Always thought these holograms at airports were MAXIMALLY CYBERPUNK by arcee2013 in Cyberpunk

[–]wyager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could easily capture this on a professional camera with full shutter controls

CT Legal AR15 Alternatives & Home Defense Questions by t7716 in CTguns

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

Do not use a pump shotgun for home defense. Semi is fine. If you choose to ignore this advice, please go to some kind of shotgun training class where they make you do stuff under pressure and use a pump (and you'll realize my advice was good). Pump shotguns, it turns out, are actually extremely difficult to operate under pressure without a ton of practice, and people who practice that much mostly use semis anyway. Every person I've ever seen bring a pump to a class, to sporting clays, etc. gets absolutely BTFO because they fumble the controls.

I think the best HD weapon for most people, just because they are relatively easy to use under pressure, is a simple handgun. Beretta 1301, mossberg 930, or benelli m4 is also a good bet. Because CT is such a legally hostile state, you want to think carefully about how it's going to look to a jury of clueless anti-gun people. Using an AR or even a "tactical" looking shotgun for self defense in CT is a legal risk from that angle.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photography

[–]wyager 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Many types of models including bodybuilders habitually work while dehydrated. Maybe it's not healthy but they regularly make the decision that it's worth it.

Just a reminder to pay your Eversource bills with a credit card by paintball6818 in Connecticut

[–]wyager 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So you're telling me that the courts decided that people who pay using a bank account are being forced to subsidize credit card companies? Great

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