ever wonder what’s inside your USB-C cable? here’s a cross section of one! this one can handle 10Gbps.
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It’s funny to think about the Nintendo 64; why was it 64-bit? Why was that a marketing thing? Did it have more than 4 billion colors? Did it need to address more than 4gb of memory?
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Attached file: hermit-crab–2015-HR-PDF(1).pdf
“Hermit crab care sheet”
© 2015, Petco Animal Supplies, Inc.
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i suspect in practice it was for data level parallelism, ie two 32 bit or four 16 bit operations at once. kind of an early form of SIMD or GPU shaders.
hell, the Dreamcast and PS2 advertised themselves as 128 bit, even though technically iirc that was just their graphics chips.
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Spending my mental energy parsing the content out of someone’s compulsive irony or sarcasm is a decidedly worse use of time than moving on to the words of someone who can express themselves without it. Defend your time. Life’s too short, and there are more & better options.
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In Android, tap and hold is a gesture that uncovers a lot of hidden behavior. Took me a while to get used to trying it.
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Don’t worry about 3rd party app stores for now. I’d recommend you don’t enable developer mode or allow 3rd party installs for a month or so while you get used to the ecosystem. Stock Android offers so much customization and interesting apps I doubt you’ll need it.
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@schnarfed thanks for heads-ups!
tantek.com/updates.atom fixed, raised item count so subscribers can catch-up.
Cause: PHP 5.3 to 7.2.13 update. Stricter default function params handling. Updated @cassisjs repo accordingly, deployed live.
tantek.com/t50F3
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What [philanthropy] represents is a standing invitation to wealthy people to insert their private preferences into the public sphere. Or to put it more bluntly, it’s an invitation for plutocrats to operate in democracy.
– Rob Reich, Professor of Political Science, Stanford