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You might find "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Sarah Harris & David Harris helpful. (Note that it comes in ARM and RISC-V editions)

https://www.waterstones.com/book/digital-design-and-computer...

Apple does have a crawler of its own, which feeds into Siri's knowledge. But, there's no public front end to use it as a search engine, though there was up to about 2021 or 2022, provided as a bit of fun by some enterprising third party.
Re:Oscilloscope/AWG/Logic Analyzer: Analog Discovery 3 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:46AM (#36467212)
How does this compare to the Red Pitaya line?

https://www.redpitaya.com

Re:James Webb is fully deployed on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:01PM (#29858592)
They did:

"Unlike Hubble, Webb isn't designed to be fixed by astronauts. But it can be refueled robotically. Zurbuchen says that 'once this telescope is deployed, I'm going to put all the effort towards developing that technology, and so within the 10-year lifespan, we can go refuel it'"

https://nitter.42l.fr/marinakoren/status/1474367236244750345...

https://nitter.42l.fr/Dr_ThomasZ/status/1474398711505580032#...

Re:Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:02AM (#28181188)
Hugely nifty work! Makes me wish I had an M1 system even more so I could help out.
Re:We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:25AM (#26377142)
For a good example of how such a mesh network can indeed function well, consider Ricochet, which once offered service in a few metro regions, including the Bay. The relay units were typically mounted on utility poles, by arrangement with the relevant agencies.

True, 128kbps wasn't anything that'd compare with 4G, but this was 1999. It wasn't great at handoffs either, but still, I was able to use it on BART regardless. Imagine, connected to the net - on the move!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:13PM (#26038579)
Likewise, you might enjoy:

CHIRP Radio (Chicago): https://chirpradio.org 4ZZZ (Brisbane): https://www.4zzzfm.org.au

Both are ad-free, other than local community orgs and the occasional local independent business plug, and funded by listener donations. Big bonus: huge variety in their playlists, with the DJs playing whatever they feel like.

I rather wish the 3DO version of The 11th Hour had seen release, but the publisher canned the project quite late in development.

There, we had about an hour of video - on CD, it should be noted, not a cartridge - at 288x320 (using an interlaced display mode, which virtually nobody used beyond splash screens), with a perfectly solid 30fps. Left unregulated, the decoder yielded around 40-70fps. All ARM assembly, and a huge amount of fun to write. ^_^

No hardware acceleration, needless to say, other than page blitting to copy the previous frame to the current buffer.

Re:In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:52PM (#21849480)
Indeed - from the earlier, pioneering home computers like the PET and Apple II, through to the generation that followed, with the likes of the Commodore 64, VIC-20, and BBC Micro, the 6502 influenced a boggling number of programmers, myself included.

(And without the BBC Micro, would Acorn have eventually designed the Acorn RISC Machine, itself having since proven quite influential?)

Indeed. The one example I recall was in Tank Girl, R rated - the copy I rented from Blockbuster had one line blanked out, just as she discovers where exactly the Rippers are hiding out. The normal release has a voiceover line "See hell, go to hell." - in the Blockbuster copy, this line was missing.

There may have been other edits, but that's the one which tripped my memory when watching the laserdisc copy I bought soon afterward.

Re:Josephine is closing its doors on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:50PM (#16288265)
The "Status" tab holds what you're looking for, at the bottom:

"01/29/18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment."

So, just the House, for now.

If someone changes their name, does the timing matter with regard to an H-1B application?

ie Does it matter much, beyond notifying them, and if so, is it better to perform that change before/during/after the processing?

Indeed. Several years ago, I was working on a 2.4GHz device, and we noticed that occasionally, the microwave in the office kitchen would disrupt things. A quick check with a 2.4GHz band spectrum analyser showed what was going on:

https://i.imgur.com/S1Luizd.jpg

The company being as cheap as it was, I simply began using the microwave as a deliberate noise source for testing the device's operation under adverse conditions, placing a few mugs of water in the microwave for a few minutes, and deliberately setting my channel to collide with the microwave.

Re:Micropython code to implement a GSM mobile phone on Monday November 13, 2017 @09:38PM (#15692172)
I'm unfamiliar with the baseband scene at that level. Might you know why the difference in price between 2G and 3G modules is so striking?
Re:Render Multimedia in Pure C on Saturday November 04, 2017 @09:31PM (#15627723)
I'm returned to the heyday of Sorenson Video 3, Windows Media Video, and RealVideo. =:D Our application was used by most web video professionals at the time - go to a trailer on Apple's site, and it'd almost certainly have been produced by our work.

All C, up to Media Cleaner Pro 4, migrating to C++ with Cleaner 5, with some Altivec (oh, what a joyous SIMD ISA) on the Mac side.

Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:50PM (#15612575)
Works for me with Safari Technology Preview 43 (Safari 11.1, WebKit 13605.1.12), High Sierra 10.13.2b1 (17C60c).
Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:57PM (#15235158)
As a prospective Reddit advertiser, I'm disappointed to learn of this new alteration, as it does seem to dilute my budget considerably.

The ability to target specific subs has multiple benefits:

- the advertiser knows precisely where the ad's appearing. Useful for them and their notion of where it'll be most useful, and indeed, knowing it won't be running anywhere else. Reddit appears to be deliberately diluting this benefit.

- the reader had previously been assured of ads relevant to the sub. As has been noted elsewhere, it's not always welcome for ads from professionally relevant subs to bleed outside the work day. Then there are subs which people might not want ads targeted for them appearing elsewhere - I'm not entirely confident someone who'd visited a sub on the basis of tentatively exploring a possible element of their sexuality, for example, might want that highlighted the next day when visiting some other sub entirely.

Packt is also worth considering, with a similar lack of DRM and multiple formats.

As a nice bonus, every day, they make one title available free - a good means to dip into new technologies just out of curiosity:

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

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