biggieshellz (u/biggieshellz)

biggieshellz commented on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC timculpan.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/colinprince

phkahler · a year ago

I thought Intel 4nm was outsourced to TSMC. Or it's a rebranding of an earlier node. Am I mistaken? Do they actually produce that?

Here we are:

https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-to-strategically-use-tsmc....

biggieshellz · a year ago

Intel 4 was the initial internal-only version of that process. The version available to external fab customers is Intel 3, which is in production in Oregon and Ireland. See https://www.trendforce.com/news/2024/06/20/news-intel-claims...

biggieshellz commented on No bar exam required to practice law in Oregon starting next year reuters.com/legal/governm... · Posted by u/freedomben

ugh123 · 2 years ago

This has nepotism and pay-to-play written all over it

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

How? If anything, this gives a path forward for people who can't afford to take months away from work to study for the bar exam or pay Barbri for a prep course. Compare it to professional pilots, who can work towards the 1500 hours they need for their ATP license while getting paid to do flight instructing, towing banners, flying charters or cargo, and so forth.

biggieshellz commented on VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III vcmi.eu... · Posted by u/vitabenes

jokethrowaway · 2 years ago

Dos won't cut it for H3; it's wine territory

and wine is a pain to use on mac, as Apple killed it with the move to Catalina

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

Wine works fine on Mac -- see https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/1599bm1/does_w... for the Gcenx packages that work.

biggieshellz commented on J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64 1nt3r.net/j-cia/... · Posted by u/dusted

lmpdev · 2 years ago

I have a boxed C64 that hasn't been turned on for over 20 years

I thought I'd try to turn it on but got spooked by the requirements for the PSU

I understand it needs ripple free 5VDC 2-4A+ through a 7 pin din

Am I really going to blow the unit up with a switch mode, does it really need linear regulation?

What's stopping me using 2-3 LM7805s in parallel?

[Background] former burnout frontend dev working at an electronics shop

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

Why would you blow it up with a SMPS? I built a PSU for mine with a 5V switch-mode wall wart that originally powered a USB hub and it works fine. There's a 100uf filter cap on the 5V rail inside the machine already that will smooth things out. The real danger is letting the 5V rail get too much over voltage; that's what happens with the original power supplies, and it will cook the RAM chips in a hurry.

biggieshellz commented on The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey albertcory50.substack.com... · Posted by u/AlbertCory

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

This is a great article, but I take issue with the "character matters" section. Blakey was a notorious heroin addict and was known for introducing his young sidemen to the drug. A lot of the stories are here: https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/80777-whats-the-deal...

From the thread:

Jamil Nasser told me (re: Dan's interview and the junkie question); when the band went on the road, Blakey stocked up with dope ahead of time. So the typical situation was - they are in some town, middle of nowhere; everybody is strung out and desperate. So Blakey says, 'let me go out and see what I can find' - he comes back with the stuff he already had, marks it up about 10 times, says, 'well, this was all I could get but it's pretty expensive." He takes their "share" out of the gig money, they go home with nothing, he takes all the cash.

biggieshellz commented on Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore phillymag.com/news/2023/0... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

hahla · 2 years ago

A banh mi roll would work pretty well.

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

Disagree. I've had them in Saigon in addition to here in the States, and a good banh mi roll is much crispier on the outside. That's not the texture you want for a cheese steak -- it has to be really soft.

biggieshellz commented on NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework github.com/NationalSecuri... · Posted by u/thund

intelVISA · 2 years ago

Easy: all nonfree software you have to decompile to view the 'source' is dodgy by design.

Tools like Ghidra et al. merely lay bare the truth you already know.

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

What if someone gives you a binary that they claim is built from a particular source code? If you don't decompile it, how do you know if that's true or not? Or what if you can't trust your compiler (a la https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html)?

biggieshellz commented on NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework github.com/NationalSecuri... · Posted by u/thund

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

The breadth of that tool is just incredible. I'm about to submit my first PR to them to fix a couple of bugs in their PEF parser (classic Mac OS PowerPC executables), but it's absolutely bonkers that they have that support to begin with, and that it all works as well as it does. I'm very pleased to see my tax dollars going to something like that.

biggieshellz commented on Morse Code Chat morse.halb.it/... · Posted by u/mindingnever

luke_cq · 2 years ago

Does anyone have any data on how much use Morse Code still gets today? Are there any people still using it actively for communication, or are there literally zero practical applications anymore?

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

Plenty of use today in amateur radio, especially amongst QRPers (low power enthusiasts, signals <= 5 watts). It's easy to build transmitters/receivers for, and it's more efficient than, say, voice modes like SSB in terms of spectrum usage and how far you can get per watt.

biggieshellz commented on Morse Code Chat morse.halb.it/... · Posted by u/mindingnever

biggieshellz · 2 years ago

Wow, so much beeping -- sidetones all over the place. You need some way of tuning. Speaking from experience, CW operators love a narrow crystal filter to help with selectivity!

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