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<p>Q: why do ASIC designers sometimes hallucinate briefly after getting out of bed?<br />A: fell asleep in the RC-best corner</p>
<p>Q: why do ASIC designers sleep on circular beds?<br />A: this is a common misconception! the truth is that ASIC designers are interested in as many corners as possible. due to the explosion of process complexity, as many as 126 corners have been used recently, which to an uninitiated eye may appear as a circle</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Really wish they released these as DLCs for their main launcher so it's not such a pain to jump around.</p>
<p>Caution! Entry into the fediverse will expose you to 100x the background level of ΘΔ radiation. </p><p>This is still perfectly safe for short and infrequent exposures. If you suspect you've had prolonged or frequent exposure to the fediverse, contact your veterinarian.</p>
<p>New blog post:<br />Speaker DSP for a tiny 9" notebook running Linux (using PipeWire, similar to Asahi), GPD Pocket 4:</p><p><a href="https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/</span><span class="invisible">gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNm5xq_xw3s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=wNm5xq_xw3</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p>
<p>you know how in english you have things like</p><p>- shit: it's really bad<br />- the shit: it's really good</p><p>and</p><p>- cooking: things are going well<br />- cooked: things are doomed</p><p>yeah it's really confusing what words mean, so i don't want to blame the loongson people for putting, on their processor package...</p><p>"Cored by LA464"</p><p>but it's never gonna not be really funny</p><p>(just, for reference, "core" as a verb consistently means to remove the core, like "behead")</p><p>see e.g. <a href="https://hothardware.com/news/china-longsoon-3a6000-cpu-battles-intel-core-i5-14600k-surprising-results" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hothardware.com/news/china-lon</span><span class="invisible">gsoon-3a6000-cpu-battles-intel-core-i5-14600k-surprising-results</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@trurl" class="u-url mention">@<span>trurl</span></a></span> Ah, love to see the love for INTERCAL!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack" class="u-url mention">@<span>adamshostack</span></a></span> This is the problem, many of his terrible ideas have the germ of a good idea.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> power/thermal on a smartphone SoC, with dozens of sensors across dozens of processors, and with nested control loops ranging from firmware to user-space daemons.</p>
