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Here's the fix. They pulled two signals horizontally out of the "Group Decode ROM". They went to a NOR gate and an inverter that they added in an empty space. This signal went to another NOR gate, the gate split in two to add another input. This strange layout caught my eye.

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I am a qualified disagree. There's a time and place to call out all the great services, protocols and software in the fediverse. That time and place are not the first 5 minutes someone has heard of the network. If people say "Mastodon", just say "Mastodon". And then help them along as the learn more.

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Here is another video tour of the moon, featuring hi-res images of several areas of the moon, including the Apollo landing sites imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters per pixel.

The tour also highlights the mineral composition of the Aristarchus plateau, evidence for surface water ice in certain spots near the south pole, and the mapping of gravity in and around the Orientale basin.

youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2
#moon #NASA #Artemis
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Mistodon: this is a highly characteristic specimen of piquANSI's #AsemicWriting, enshrined into #asciiart box-drawing characters. This piece was included in our MIST1118 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

Dave Kilian wrote an introduction to lock convoying for total beginners, people who don't know what is a context switch.

davekilian.com/lock-convoys.ht

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Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
orders-in-council.canada.ca/at

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@VirginiaEubanks @epicprivacy @shriramk Am extremely uneasy with this demonization of "algorithms". Reminds me of ignorant people becoming distraught on learning they have "chemicals" in their bodies, that their house contains "atomic matter", that they have bacteria in their intestines, or that mobile phones emit "radiation".

Of course algorithms quietly run every government. That's why governments have been buying lots of computers since the 1950s: to run algorithms on them. That's all you can do with a computer!

How long until we hear of professors and grad students being lynched for working on developing type inference algorithms?

Is shameful to see this kind of rhetoric in a Wired article, and is shameful to see people who should know better endorsing it.

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I appreciate how they didn't go the route of "make the nazis hyper-competent in order to make them more intimidating" because:

1. Actual fascist governments & militaries tend to be ineffectual due to rampant corruption & the nazis were no exception -- when competence is trumped by loyalty, ass-lickers rise to the top

2. The image of hypercompetence was a big PR thing

3. The regular nazis don't need to be intimidating because there are nazi werewolves coming

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Twitter, Musk 

@allenholub Curbing aggression is a losing battle on Twitter. Is a trolling platform; Twitter success is measured by how many people you provoke strong reactions from. For motivation, you see your trolling score update in real time, and you get a metrics display to help you analyze how many people each Tweet goaded into detectable reactions. You can put videos or photos in Tweets (great for emotional manipulation) but not code, equations, or more than 60 words of actual reasoning, not even a 100-word abstract. Is optimized for quick reactions; nobody can see what you tweeted last month unless is linked.

Possible Musk will try to change this, but not likely; more probable to go the other direction.

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One thing that’s a bit of a hassle with Mastodon is that you can’t immediately follow people on other instances.

You have to copy the username and search for it on the server that has your account.

To make this easier, I’ve created a little bookmarklet. Press it, and you’ll be taken to the same account as viewed from the masto host you are on.

GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/bramus/d8bce55

(Change the value of `MY_MASTO_HOST` in the code to your mastodon host –not URL– and you’re good to go)

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hi let's do an #introduction . i'm fbz. i am a hardware hacker (firmware, embedded, actual physical beeping with a multimeter and air wires and unsanctioned upgrades, etc). i love ham radio, 73's de K7FP. i love textiles especially knitting (i used to have an industrial knitting machine). i have two small kiddos and i don't sleep much right now. i love all things spaaaaaaace especially spacecraft and launches. i speak English, Français, und Deutsch. i'm studying for my OSCP. recently i've gotten into WS2811 holiday light shows and custom built outdoor animatronics.

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#TypedRacket has just got way more powerful. The following code gets typechecked as is:

(: eval-with (All (a) (-> (VariableMapping a) Any AnyValues))) (define (eval-with ht expr) (parameterize ([current-namespace (make-base-namespace)]) (for ([(x val) (in-hash ht)]) (namespace-set-variable-value! x val)) (eval expr)))

Six months ago I spent a couple days trying to get eval-with to typecheck, only to get the answer on the mailing list that Typed Racket couldn’t do that. Well now not only can it do this, it also has dependent types!

I’m extremely excited 😍

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cozy in a mac rom scarf. specifically this is a slice of the ROM from a Macintosh IIsi. here's how it was made. i used @th 's script github.com/osresearch/prom/blo and the mac roms on archive dot org archive.org/details/mac_rom_ar

if you have ImageMagick already installed:

$ perl hex2png.pl -y 1280 -w 32 mac_rom_archive_-_as_of_8-19-2011/36B7FB6C\ -\ Mac\ IIsi.ROM \ | convert - maciisi.png

Then a slice four columns wide was taken of the resulting image and knit into a scarf. The scarf is 1280 pixels/knit stitches long and therefore wraps natively in the columns of the scarf. if you want to make your own, you'll need a hacked consumer knitting machine or an industrial knitting machine or someone with a setup to machine knit it for you.

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Absolutely incredible that large groups of people have decided to spend their time hating on:
1) making sure your charitable giving is doing the most good possible, and
2) extending the number of healthy years of life

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well, there is that, but really, if there might exist facts that would make one think an action one is considering taking that would cause irreparable harm if it turned out to be wrong, maybe you shouldn't take that action before checking the facts very very thoroughly. I find people often react to accusations by assuming the accused is deserving of punishment, as if being accused was proof of wrongdoing. malicious players have found this to be easily exploitable.
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1/7 With all the talk about moderation on mastodon, most of the discussions I’ve seen have centered on the work and experiences of paid commercial content moderators. But volunteer community moderators have done this work for a long time! I’m going to share some of my favorite papers about the experiences of community content moderators. Apologies to the authors if you’re on Mastodon and I didn’t tag you! And please share your favorites!

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