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There are people who look words up to correct their vocabulary. They're called "literate." There are also people who know how to read, but refuse to read, and refuse to look up things that they are mistaken about, even when informed. They're called "aliterate."
My hope for you is that some day you will achieve literacy, because you do actually know how to read and so you're ripe for it.
As a firmware programmer, I don't even read comments that start off with idiocies like telling me what I don't know. I do know that there could be nothing in my comment that would mean I don't know things I really do know, so when I read you say that shit I know you're not even being remotely logical and you're just going to spew. So I spend the time I would have spent reading your words to tell you I'm not reading your words.
If you assume I *do* know what I was talking about, you could always re-read it with that in mind and then maybe you would comprehend it. The goal is to find a true meaning of what you read, if you make assumptions of ignorance you're choosing to argue only from there.
You can literally still buy the "true" RISC micros from the 1980s, built with modern processes so they consume very little power. None of it went out of production.
They cost about the same as what you pay for a single discrete transistor.
You can't have a CISC chip, or even a RISC-based chip that has CISC features (like ARM), if you want to be protected from backdoors. You need a real RISC chip where your registers are literally registers, and there is no microcode. Basically, the smallest of the microcontrollers from the 1980s. You'll have to build everything from the ground up with a cluster of those things.
Or, accept that you don't know what microcode does, you don't really trust it, and just decide which one to use anyway. And then you're able to use it.
It is just the same as with linux and hurd. It really makes no difference which one you like the best, because only one of them is a real choice.
Honestly, for most tasks you could just build a device with some op-amps and analog dials to do whatever automation you want. But when it behaves in ways you didn't expect, you'll be able to have confidence that it is some knowable phenomenon, like bad wiring, rats, insects, tree rats, backhoes, or somebody driving by with an excessively amplified CB radio. I mean, you still won't have any idea what is "really going on," but you'll look like you do to average people.
Government paying companies for construction services is not a subsidy. It is just regular spending, the same as if anybody else did it.
Idiots are so stupid around here, they think spending is a subsidy if the gubermint was involved. Words have meaning, even a word like "subsidy" has meaning. Too bad neckbeards are allergic to dictionaries, it means there is basically no hope of ever even teaching them one new word; not even the ones they already misuse.
If somebody can't tell the difference between a purchase and a subsidy, but somehow they're already whining, don't bother explaining the details. They're not listening.
Everybody that is listening has to wait until they know the details to even form an opinion, much less whine about their perception of if the world is doing what they want.
Neckbeards know to hate him because electric cars are slow and boring, and solar power is for hippies.
Those other things are for people who already read the news and care about "issues" to care about. This is just random hatred from basement dwellers, don't expect it to be consistent or to scale.
because the range of opportunities for women has been historically limited for sexist reasons. you know this, but you're complaining like a jerk anyway.
No, the neckbeard sends roots deep into the host and totally compromises the nervous system. The host only perceives these events as gaps in time, they don't even know what stupid things they said or that everybody knows something important about them now. To them, nothing even happened.
I just hope the people who designed the bridge I drive over every day didn't think that "engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers."
Funny, I always hope bridge engineers have really strong empathy for their customers, because I sure wouldn't want them to just casually cut corners on my safety to save a buck, or to make their boss happy.
I'm not sure what you hallucinated, but I didn't contradict anything so it wouldn't make any difference if there was sarcasm or not. I mean, sarcasm is what idiots substitute for humor, and I don't mind that, idiots have a right to humor too. But why would I care? Why would it change what I say about my own experiences?
Man, I totally wish I had had those articles as a kid in the 1980s. I could have had separate tables for data and opcodes, instead of just a big list of memory locations and values.
If you're doing graphics the way I was, and you want to change one pixel, it could take hour.
On my planet peek and poke could only access memory locations. Assembly is a language where those get replaced with mnemonics. Peek and poke don't give you that. Assembly also has a bunch of other things it can do relating to variables and registers that you can't do with peek and poke. You could use peek and poke to write an assembler, but it would be a sucky one.
When we wanted to do something using peek and poke, for those of us who actually used it, we had to look up the memory address of the peripheral and read/write our values there. You can do many things that way, but only things that map to memory locations. The real utility isn't that you can do assembly, because you can't. The human looking up the memory addresses is the assembler in that situation. Instead the value is that these micros had relatively few pins and used memory-mapped IO for peripherals, so you could access the low level functions of whatever third party chips you had installed, like a sound or graphics chip. It was the only way to access certain graphics modes from BASIC.
Your whole argument is hung on the lie that anybody is talking about things in the future. We're talking about actions in the past, and rights in the present.
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Nope. You failed in your attempt to operate a dictionary. Please try again soon.
There are people who look words up to correct their vocabulary. They're called "literate." There are also people who know how to read, but refuse to read, and refuse to look up things that they are mistaken about, even when informed. They're called "aliterate."
My hope for you is that some day you will achieve literacy, because you do actually know how to read and so you're ripe for it.
Neckbeards are/were hippies.
Uh, wow, you should invest in internet some day so you can find out who the Earthlings are.
As a firmware programmer, I don't even read comments that start off with idiocies like telling me what I don't know. I do know that there could be nothing in my comment that would mean I don't know things I really do know, so when I read you say that shit I know you're not even being remotely logical and you're just going to spew. So I spend the time I would have spent reading your words to tell you I'm not reading your words.
If you assume I *do* know what I was talking about, you could always re-read it with that in mind and then maybe you would comprehend it. The goal is to find a true meaning of what you read, if you make assumptions of ignorance you're choosing to argue only from there.
You can literally still buy the "true" RISC micros from the 1980s, built with modern processes so they consume very little power. None of it went out of production.
They cost about the same as what you pay for a single discrete transistor.
I just got done playing a rated game of chess, and I wouldn't buy a $500 graphics card or consume an extra $5/year of electricity just for graphics.
You can't have a CISC chip, or even a RISC-based chip that has CISC features (like ARM), if you want to be protected from backdoors. You need a real RISC chip where your registers are literally registers, and there is no microcode. Basically, the smallest of the microcontrollers from the 1980s. You'll have to build everything from the ground up with a cluster of those things.
Or, accept that you don't know what microcode does, you don't really trust it, and just decide which one to use anyway. And then you're able to use it.
It is just the same as with linux and hurd. It really makes no difference which one you like the best, because only one of them is a real choice.
Honestly, for most tasks you could just build a device with some op-amps and analog dials to do whatever automation you want. But when it behaves in ways you didn't expect, you'll be able to have confidence that it is some knowable phenomenon, like bad wiring, rats, insects, tree rats, backhoes, or somebody driving by with an excessively amplified CB radio. I mean, you still won't have any idea what is "really going on," but you'll look like you do to average people.
He said that porn doesn't feel the same on an AMD chipset.
Government paying companies for construction services is not a subsidy. It is just regular spending, the same as if anybody else did it.
Idiots are so stupid around here, they think spending is a subsidy if the gubermint was involved. Words have meaning, even a word like "subsidy" has meaning. Too bad neckbeards are allergic to dictionaries, it means there is basically no hope of ever even teaching them one new word; not even the ones they already misuse.
If somebody can't tell the difference between a purchase and a subsidy, but somehow they're already whining, don't bother explaining the details. They're not listening.
Everybody that is listening has to wait until they know the details to even form an opinion, much less whine about their perception of if the world is doing what they want.
Neckbeards know to hate him because electric cars are slow and boring, and solar power is for hippies.
Those other things are for people who already read the news and care about "issues" to care about. This is just random hatred from basement dwellers, don't expect it to be consistent or to scale.
because the range of opportunities for women has been historically limited for sexist reasons. you know this, but you're complaining like a jerk anyway.
No, the neckbeard sends roots deep into the host and totally compromises the nervous system. The host only perceives these events as gaps in time, they don't even know what stupid things they said or that everybody knows something important about them now. To them, nothing even happened.
I just hope the people who designed the bridge I drive over every day didn't think that "engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers."
Funny, I always hope bridge engineers have really strong empathy for their customers, because I sure wouldn't want them to just casually cut corners on my safety to save a buck, or to make their boss happy.
This post is juvenile. If middle school taunts are all you have to offer on the subject, why say anything at all?
Your brother chews bubble-gum!
Like Timothy Leary said,
Right, you came to realize it doesn't have a narrow meaning, but you failed to understand that that means it can be used loosely.
And yes, that sort of attempted correction is entirely pedantic. Which I don't mind. But when you're being pedantic, be right. Or don't try it.
I'm not sure what you hallucinated, but I didn't contradict anything so it wouldn't make any difference if there was sarcasm or not. I mean, sarcasm is what idiots substitute for humor, and I don't mind that, idiots have a right to humor too. But why would I care? Why would it change what I say about my own experiences?
Yeah right, you were busy herding cows or something, coward.
What sort of kid would write an assembler, instead of making stupid games? Did your mother have any children who lived?
Man, I totally wish I had had those articles as a kid in the 1980s. I could have had separate tables for data and opcodes, instead of just a big list of memory locations and values.
If you're doing graphics the way I was, and you want to change one pixel, it could take hour.
That's the weakest attempt at a pedanticism I've seen all week.
Pro tip: synonyms are synonymous.
At that age, only being off by 1 is doing pretty good.
My friends had the TRS-80, so did my cousins. I only had a Timex/Sinclair 1000; no tape deck.
If you only experience games, are they not your reality? Is reality not real?
That is binary code, but it isn't assembly. Assembly is when you can do those things with non-binary source code.
Or rather, assembly code is the input to the assembler, not the output. Here, you have to hand assemble the output, due to lack of an assembler.
On my planet peek and poke could only access memory locations. Assembly is a language where those get replaced with mnemonics. Peek and poke don't give you that. Assembly also has a bunch of other things it can do relating to variables and registers that you can't do with peek and poke. You could use peek and poke to write an assembler, but it would be a sucky one.
When we wanted to do something using peek and poke, for those of us who actually used it, we had to look up the memory address of the peripheral and read/write our values there. You can do many things that way, but only things that map to memory locations. The real utility isn't that you can do assembly, because you can't. The human looking up the memory addresses is the assembler in that situation. Instead the value is that these micros had relatively few pins and used memory-mapped IO for peripherals, so you could access the low level functions of whatever third party chips you had installed, like a sound or graphics chip. It was the only way to access certain graphics modes from BASIC.
They can't take away open source software that we already have.
If they muck it up, we'll select a fork and be done with it.
Solved, easy.
Your whole argument is hung on the lie that anybody is talking about things in the future. We're talking about actions in the past, and rights in the present.