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It’s very slow, but some people made a RISC-V rv32ima emulator that runs on an ATMega328P to run Linux on an Arduino Uno. Nobody would do that in a commercial product (it’s ridiculously slow, difficult, and further into “for shits & giggles” than Taco bell with laughing gas), but even the cheap shitty microcontrollers can run Linux. Badly.

Perl users don’t have souls.

Not exactly a datastructure alone, but bitslicing is a neat trick to turn some variable-time operations into constant-time operations. Used in cryptography for “substitution box” (S-box) operations, which can otherwise leak secrets via data-dependent timing variations.

The datastructure side of it is breaking up n words into bits and interleaving them within n variables (usually machine registers), so that the first variable contains the first bit from each word, the second variable the second bit, etc. It’s also called “SIMD within a register”.

LLMs are perfectly suited to make propaganda. That (and advertising, which is just corporate propaganda instead of government propaganda) is their best use. It doesn’t matter that they’re bullshit generators when the goal is to generate bullshit.

Hymen means membrane. -ptera is wing. They have membranous wings, and no carapace like beetles. Not named due to virginity.

Different etymology of “tit”, that one is from “teat”.

“Tit” and “mouse” in English both come from words that mean “small”. “Titmouse” is “smallsmall”.

Chesterton’s Fence applies to some gatekeeping. Not all, but for life-safety thegatekeeping tends to be for sadly good reason.

It’s a Barn Swallow, not a Peregrine. Closer, faster horizontally, and smaller. I’ve got a few Peregrine photos, though none I’m particularly happy with yet.

Not quite anything. And veal works better in many cases.

Mayo is an emulsion of oil, vinegar, and eggs. Aioli is an emulsion of oil & garlic, usually without eggs.

Please no. I like my kidneys. The next lens up in quality is over $15,000.

If you want to save money, don’t get into bird photography as a hobby. Gear Acquisition Syndrome is fatal to your wallet.

Timbits. English Canadians have Timbits. Those aren’t just doughnut holes, they’re Tim Horton’s doughnut holes.

I’ve seen monthly AWS bills bigger than that, every time I look at the damn dashboard.

there are actually plenty of reasons to NOT want any kind of bi-directional data transfer between your device and the TV

I’ve got bad news for you about HDMI then…

It will destroy the soldering iron tip’s plating. This will quickly result in it being unusable for soldering.

It’s not dangerous. It won’t emit any toxic fumes as long as it’s just a stainless steel scrubber & not one pre-impregnated with soap like a brillo pad. But since it’ll destroy the iron’s tip it’ll quickly be more expensive than brass wool.

My field (cryptography) is unlikely to run into this, despite having some advanced math. There’s just not that much use for anything in 2D, and abstract algebra doesn’t bother with things as mundane as “numbers”.

I want a 16-1200mm lens, with a 300mm front element for f/mount_limited-f/4 aperture size, that weighs less than 2kg and is fully aberration corrected & costs under $10,000. And world peace, while we’re at it. That’s probably easier.