Ethan Black

"someone who treats the machine like a tailored instrument rather than a black box" Hit the nail on the head. That's it. I'd like to be that guy.

@divinesturgeon Maybe someday you'll surpass the amount of followers I have on social.golemwire.com 🙃

ok. I should have been on X this whole time

@divinesturgeon Wow, well you got to go to Japan, didn't you?

lol my mom dug up this penmanship journal entry of mine wild

I made a mistake in my own programming language, and ordered the items like <padding><branch><static> instead of <branch><padding><static>. So when I changed something totally unrelated and the program length changed, the padding adjusted and broke the code sometimes. #assembly

I had a directive in my videogame that zero-padded for word alignment, and a word making up a static variable, and a branch to skip over the static variable (temporary logic).

Making 0x00 0x00 a no-op in my ISA was a mistake. I might want to adjust that before I get the #SubSky ISA out of beta.... #ISADesign #ISA

That's pretty much how I got here, too. I also love the version of 'making things' that programming is. The strict logic! I love it. I need to get more into mechanical engineering someday, though....

This strongly lends itself to the idea that some sexually abusive men identify as female, in order to abuse women further in prison. So, I wish that prisons were segregated by sex, rather than gender identity. It would be safer for women. PDF: canada.ca/content/dam/cs…

of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. and: > Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. [2/3]

Interesting study: canada.ca/en/correctiona… Regarding LGBT Canadians who have committed sexual offenses: > Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority [1/3] #politics #CAPol #feminism

@DanDouglas117 @sappholives83 Thank you so much. I hate when people post w/o citing, it just makes them look lazy. IDK what the 1st link is about; in the others, I see the key sentence: > Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex.

@sappholives83 Link to study bellow. canada.ca/en/correctiona… canada.ca/en/correctiona… canada.ca/content/dam/cs…

A recent study found that 94% of Canada’s trans-identifying inmates didn’t come out as transgender until after they were arrested. The same study also found that trans-identifying male inmates are 5x more likely to be sex offenders than other male inmates. Locking these men in women’s prisons is a violation of international law and every legitimate human rights organization should say so.

@DaughterDad79 @DanDouglas117 @sappholives83 And 3. > Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex.

@DaughterDad79 @DanDouglas117 @sappholives83 It's in link 2.

@reactos Not common hardware, but getting it working with no issues is a win for ReactOS :)

#ReactOS installs and runs on HP Workstation xw4200! All hardware does work with no issues, including NVidia GeForce 7300LE and generic Intel AC'97 compliant integrated audio!!

Giving a DLC fighting game character the ability to build stage, without preemptively tuning him down, was a really bad idea. #SSBU

@GregorySchier @Cazvd0 Well don't lump us all together in one category....

@Cazvd0 Haha, you Linux users are awful

Ah, I'm remembering why I switched to Mac ~10 years ago. I just rebooted my Framework/Omarchy setup and now the screen is just... black. I'm sure I could debug/fix it but I have work to do.

@GregorySchier @athasdev I have installed Ubuntu on relatives' computers before, and they need tech support about as often as Windows, if not less.

@GregorySchier @athasdev The way I look at it: if you want a no-nonsense system I don't need to maintain, choose a common distro, on known supported hardware if possible. So not Omarchy, for example.

@esemdw Sheik is better than Steve yey we knew it

CPUs tend to get slower with time. Probably not for the reason you’d expect. Unfortunately, many microcode updates are security related, which almost universally cause performance regressions…or even complete feature loss! Haswell might be the worst performing processor family of all time, in terms of features removed. TSX - concurrency instruction literally removed due to security concerns DX12 - removed / broken due to priv escalation Meltdown, Spectre, Foreshadow, MDS - all lead to perf regressions…for MDS specifically Red Hat and Microsoft still suggest disabling HyperThreading on Haswell! Over the life of a CPU, I’d expect the typical performance curve (from microcode) to look like: Initial Launch to +1 year, slight upward trend, platform maturing 1-2 years, mostly flat 2+ years, likely downward trend. Enough time has passed where security people are starting to poke/write papers indirectly leading to vendor microcode regressions 6+ years / EOL -> old CPUs start to have major regressions! I genuinely wonder if extremely performance-sensitive industries sometimes purposefully delay or otherwise remain on “stale” microcode…and just accept the additional risk.

@sudbalaji @GregorySchier We got one of those once. Oof

@GregorySchier I think usually these ones dump heat into water that needs to be emptied or drained directly into a sink or something

Umm... do the laws of physics not apply to this thing?