Notices by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)

@steter
So what rights are they taking away from us now?

@fesshole
Give a man a gun, and he'll rob a bank.
Give a man a bank, and he'll rob the world.

🎶 He's come undone
We didn't know what he was headed for
And when we found out what he was headed for
It was too late
He's come undone

He found an enemy who was strong within
And when he found out he couldn't win
It was too late
It's too late
He's gone too far
He's lost the war
He's come undone

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@fesshole
I had s manager 25ish years ago who banned the use of electronic devices in his meetings, for the very same reason.

TIL:
Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg chose the atomic symbol "Pu" for plutonium as an inside joke. It became common usage before the discovery was declassified, so the symbol was never formally standardized by IUPAC.

When I was young, I never would have imagined someday being excited to watch a name being taken off a building.

I'm surprised that Trump isn't holding an event at Four Seasons Total Landscaping rightt now to try to distract us from this.

I have this strange feeling that there should be more diagonal bracing, but that would be irrational.

They should auction the removed letters for charity. (Provided it is a REAL charity, not a scam like a Trump foundation.)

I've never before wanted to be up on scaffolding with a big damn angle grinder.

@fesshole
Clearly the best form of AI that exists!

@mei
Douglas Jones has a web page giving very efficient multi-digit BCD add and subtract algorithms, not depending on any hardware support for BCD:
https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/bcd.html

@niconiconi
So, it's not at all true?

@niconiconi
There are, to this day, many CISC processors being shipped that do not decode macroinstructions into micro-ops the way e.g. most Intel and AMD x86 processors since the Pentium Pro and K5 do.

AMD/Xilinx 7-series GTP question:

Has anyone used 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceivers to link GTPs of two Artix 7 FPGAs on different boards?

In other words, I'm interested in using the transceiver as a "raw" optical interface at, say, 5 to 6 Gd line rate, within the GTP specifications, rather than the 10.3125 GBd that would be used for 10G Ethernet.
This obviously depends on the transceiver to be dumb, like an SR or LR, and not reformat the signal, do WDM, etc.

#AMD #Xilinx #Artix7 #GTP #SFPplus

@steter
If so, I can't imagine why.

@hellomiakoda
Does moss work as ground cover to prevent erosion in the same places the US is using non-native grass?
I'm sure there must be suitable ground covers that are far less water-intemsive, that we should use instead.

If it hadn't already been obvious that it was a scam, they said that in order to send me the new card, I would have to give them information printed on the old card. I said, "I don't need a new card. Thank you. Goodbye."
This isn't the first time I've gotten one of these scam calls. They sppof the caller ID of the financial institution.
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Just got another call pretending to be my credit union, asking if I had authorized various transactions. They asked me if the FIRST four digits of my card matched. Those are TRIVIAL for an attacker to know. They asked when I had most recently used my card, and where. I said, "you can tell me that." They asked if I wanted my card cancelled or put on hold, and I said cancel. Then they started talking about sending me a new card.
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If you get a call purporting to be your bank, credit union, or card issuer, call them back at their published phone number, ideally from a different phone. If they are _extremely_ sophisticated, they may be playing SS7 shenanigans on your phone number, making the phone untrustworthy.
Never give account details to anyone who CALLS YOU.
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