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I think from a hardware perspective this would be non-trivial, despite sounding like an obvious thing in principle.

In sending the entire frame with every refresh you get pixel addressing "for free", since you just send the data for each pixel sequentially in a predefined order. If you only wanted to update a single pixel, you would need to effectively send an instruction saying "set pixel x to rgb: a, b, c" or whatever, including both the pixel colour values and the pixel address. You'd also need some sort of edge detection for when a pixel is supposed to change which adds a delay.

This is fine for one pixel, but if every pixel on the screen changes at once then suddenly you are going to be sending a hell of a lot of instructions that not only contain the colour values as in the "old crt style" method, but also the address of every individual pixel too, which will then have to be decoded by the screen-side hardware.

All in all, you'll be using a lot more bandwidth and will need a much faster clock to do all of that in the same period of time. In the old school way, you just have a pixel clock that matches the pixel rate and some serdes for serialisation/deserialisation on each end which imo is considerably simpler.

Also consider MHRD[0], which is similar to nandgame, except you write your designs out in a (primitive) HDL starting with just NAND gates and working up to a functional CPU. Like the zachtronics games, it blurs the line between "game" and "work" just the right amount.

[0](https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/)

I've also had this experience with the Fedora partition configurator. FWIW, you can somewhat get around it by manually creating the partition layout you want (LUKS+LVM+RAID etc), then mounting it as you'd want to use it, then just selecting it from within the partition manager.

This is also the only way I've found to do it with Ubuntu's installer, but once it's set up it works fine.

>grand canyon rafting permits

Interesting, I had no idea.

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I wish there was a setting to fold parenthesis in comments

Probably MHRD[0]

I'm a hardware engineer, and enjoyed playing this in my spare time. You create small components from nand gates with an extremely simple made-up HDL and gradually integrate them together into larger and larger functional blocks until you have a basic but working CPU.

[0]https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/

So what you're saying is I could use this to parse HTML?

I'd like to see a cross between this and Absurdle

Not a web person, but isn't https end-to-end encryption

"At Jet, two 500 megawatt flywheels are used to run the experiments."

So net power is -989MW, assuming both flywheels are at full pelt the whole time and no power is required before fusion is acheived.

Windows is mandatory at work, but all of my personal stuff I do on Linux. Since I do more at work than I do in my spare time I have to answer Windows, but if the question was which do I _prefer_ then the answer would be different.

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Thanks for the interesting link, looks like on the whole build times have been coming down.

One interesting observation is that helloworld now takes about 4 times longer[0] (though only to 0.8 seconds). What could have caused this?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/O3viDc8.png

Will be interesting to see how much compile times suffer once rust starts being used more heavily in the kernel.

In my gentoo days I remember the compile time for firefox suddenly going up from 20 minutes to several hours which left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to rust.

Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?

I've read this story a few times before but never found any photos of the event until this article.

If you're looking for the sexy end of storage, send yourself down the rabbit hole of novel/upcoming NVM technologies. There is a wealth of interesting stuff to read and discover about MRAMs, CBRAMs, PCMs FeRAMs, FeFET, Racetrack memory. For more speculative/further away stuff you can look at DNA digital storage, quantum memory, time crystal memory, millipede rams and holographic storage.

There are some decent review papers and conference talks that cover the main contenders for flash storage replacement and their general benefits/drawbacks as well as some very dense research papers about the minutiae of each if you want to go deeper.

When I saw this I did wonder how much faster I could do it in hardware, but similarly I expect the bottleneck would be outputting it in a fashion that would be considered fair to be compared to software implementations (eg outputting readable text on a screen).

Regardless, I very much enjoyed your DVD screensaver-esque output.

>D and Ada both use a GC in many contexts

Can you point me to a (non-jvm) Ada implementation with a GC?

SystemVerilog and UVM are perfectly capable of being used to verify VHDL designs.

I should also add that if you wanted to use a single language for everything OSVVM is excellent.

Is the link down for anyone else?

>Ada maybe isn't very well adapted to kernel code? From what I know of Ada, doesn't it get it's memory safety from either a GC or not freeing memory entirely? That is -- ownership rules are pretty new to Ada/SPARK.

I think GC is optional with Ada, as far as I know the memory safety comes from raising exceptions (or refusing to compile) when it detects memory-unsafe operations (array bounds checking etc).

>C-style syntax and community interest also favor Rust.

That's fair, C-like languages are instantly familiar with software people and rust seems to have a more hip image than old man fuddy-duddy Ada.

>This spec argument has always seemed like a red-herring to me. Can you explain why the Ada spec would be a significant factor in this instance?

I'm not arguing for Ada over Rust (I'm not a software guy) so I don't mean it as a red herring, but wouldn't a suite of static verification tools and a formally verified compiler require a spec to be tested against?

Wouldn't it make more sense to use a much more mature safety-centric language with a proper language spec like Ada?

Mr Carlson's Lab is also excellent, restoring old radio equipment in excruciating detail. A lot of the videos are over two hours long, but it makes excellent background viewing.

Also it's always mentioned, but CuriousMarc and Ken Sherriff have some amazing restoration videos. In particular the excellent series on restoring the apollo guidance computer.

You mix it with water (and optionally vinegar).

I'm surprised the powder form of Colman's isn't a controlled substance. Not enough water and its essentially death paste. Sneeze near an open container of the powder and you'll probably need to move house and have facial reconstruction surgery.

I pity your friend for slathering it on a hot dog, first bite must've been quite a shock.

Marvellous stuff.

And literally referred to as the Ultraviolet Catastrophe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe

Perhaps it influenced the Nintendo hardware team to choose it

I was introduced to Columbo by a housemate a few years ago and was instantly hooked. The episode you mentioned is excellent, as are all the Jack Cassidy ones.

For me the standout episode is 'Any Old Port in a Storm' (1973) with Donald Pleasance.

IBM DOORS, but it's probably the worst piece of software I've ever had the misfortune of using.

Extremely irritating