the "facts" hat @vogon@mastodon.social

getting vaguely unsettled by the number of new ways silicon manufacturers are inventing to invalidate your hardware warranty in software https://www.anandtech.com/show/16267/amd-precision-boost-overdrive-2-adaptive-undervolting-for-ryzen-5000-coming-soon

the one thing that is good about this year is that in a few decades there will be a minute-by-minute timeline, complete with line graphs, of how liberalism is a pathetic waste of time that eventually gives reaction everything it asks for

related news: just checked and corecivic — the private prison company — has been on a bull run since the 23rd (the day the GSA announced they’d ascertained biden the winner) and is now above where it was pre-election

starting a pool for how many days it is before biden proudly announces that all of the camps will now be operated by the bureau of prisons instead of private companies, again

do I want goofy light-up power cables? absolutely

do I $150 want them? probably not

just learned about lian li strimer power cables and I would be very tempted to use these in my next computer if they wouldn't cost like $150 for a full set https://www.lian-li.com/strimer-24pin/

back at it again in rust-v

I hate the way this sign-extension code looks but also I hate the way it looks in such a way that I refuse to change it

went back and implemented all of the arithmetic instructions that were in the test suite but not my test program and it's up to 38/54 (70%)! C-minuses get degree-minuses

got the riscv-tests compliance suite running on my rust RISC-V emulator and 15/54 (2 tests are broken in such a way that they hang forever, so I skip them) isn't a good grade or even a passing grade, but it's progress

last week the hosts of this show were split 1/1, but this week they're both "dick stuck in VCR again"

plenty of my classmates told me there was nothing sinister about tech companies and venture capitalists teaming up to market "anyone can code! even these countrified dumbasses!" and now those classmates are going to be the last cohort of programmers to ever earn $200k/year

actually I've come around on it and I hope it gets generally adopted now, because the american equivalent to the aussie emphatic "as" being a bowdlerized abbreviation of "as fuck" would be very american

just heard a youtuber pronounce "af" as a word (/æf/) and I'm going to dry up into dust and blow away on the wind

other states closer to 1,000 than the nation as a whole: DC (959 deaths/million), MI (937), AZ (905), GA (883), FL (855), SC (844), IN (831)

the country as a whole is at 819 right now

actually, NJ is getting pretty close to 1 out of every 500 residents dead, and NY + MA are more than 3/4 of the way there