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My learning experience was when Idi Amin was overthrown people thought that now he was gone things would get better for Uganda.

Did not.


For me I think the issue is the way you think of memory.

You can think of memory are a store of register sized values. Big endian sort of make some sense when you think of it that way.

Or you can think of it as arbitrarily sized data. It's arbitrary data then big endian is just a pain the ass. And code written to handle both big and little endian is obnoxious.


Yeah people need to stop doing that going forward. It makes driver code a royal pain in the ass.

Palestinians patrons need to tell them they aren't going to win militarily against the Israeli's

Not today, but the fertily rate is 2.9 in Israel and 3.9 in Gaza. Even if demographics isn't quite destiny it's generally the way to bet.

Just a reminder pushing people to start wars they can't win is shitty.

To me those stats suggest that the Palestinians have a bigger advantage in making love than war. How do you think they encourage war?

You encourage war and murder. What you just said is that while the Palestinians in Gaza aren't strong enough now to kill and enslave the Jews and Arabs in Israel they will be in the future. And once they are they will do that. And the thought of that makes you hopeful.

I'm a Zionist.

Reminds me there are startups looking at vat grown protein using hydrogen and CO2 to feed nitrogen fixing bacteria.

An interesting thing is solar farms are maybe 30-50 times more efficient than corn. So the above isn't insane on the face of it.


My mom always made a couple different exams to hand out so you couldn't just copy answers. A lot of my professors had a rule if you aced the final you got an A in the class. I think that was also done to not reward cheating. Having to take the bar is probably another one like that. Cheat all you want in law school if you can't pass the bar too bad.

Small brained primate comment.

With embedded firmware you only flash the .text and and flash to the device. But you still can debug using the .elf file. In my case if I get a bus fault I'll pull the offending address off the stack and use bintools and the .elf to show me who was naughty. I think if you have a crash dump you should be able to make sense of things as long as you keep the unstripped .elf file around.


That's my dad who worked at NaSA doing aeronautics stuff said.

Pilots fuck up all the time so blaming them doesn't excuse anything.

And I find myself butting heads with people over that all the time. Coworker (smug satisfied voice) well if the end user fucks up it's not our fault. Me (trying not to sound really annoyed) yeah it's still our problem.


Although it has far from mainstreamed yet, I like how the software industry has the notion of a “UX bug”: if the user failed at anything, the software is at fault, because it wasn’t easy enough to use.

Was mentioning to my GF (non technical animator) about the submission Clock synchronization is a nightmare. And how it comes up like a bad penny. She said in animation you have the problem that you're animating to match different streams and you have to keep in sync. Bonus you have to dither because if you match too close the players can smell it's off.

Noise is part of the world itself.


In the latter 1800 there wasn't enough gold to accommodate the vast increases in industrial production. Which was deflationary.

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

You can imagine every year the price per bushel of the wheat you grow drops and your mortgage stays the same. When your whole economy is like that no one wants to borrow or lend money and investment slows.


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