🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo make it easy to see the credentials and papers of the groups that approve the article.

@freemo @ademan @anonymoose
Myspace in was the Google of social media. Now it's been reduced to yahoo.

Funny enough, yahoo was to the top dog iirc.

Ah yes, the times of AOL online provided via free CDs, dialup modems being the norm, the advent of AIM and ICQ messengers, children's cartoons that would not pass today's censors, and every hacker was either on a message board or irc channel...

All this right after the fall of the Berlin wall and the Chernobyl incident.

@ademan
I feel sorry for Ya, the 90s was so much better. We all just chilled around camp fires listening to Bill Clinton play jazz on his saxophone as he handed out free myspace stocks to everyone, which was the national currency at the time.
@anonymoose

@freemo @ademan tipper gore was saving us from rap music; truely an angel walking in our midst ❤❤

@zleap @freemo @mur2501 Nope. So, Arm is to RISCV like amd is to Intel (in a way, not in everything). Meaning, Arm has their own ISA (instruction set architecture) of which the most famous is probably the A64 (arm64). Meanwhile, RISC-V aims to be a license free ISA so companies don't have to pay for example.

Another important concept here that is often misunderstood is the difference between an ISA and it's underlying implementation. Meaning, I could have an operation defined as `ADD x y` in Armv8-A (64bit arm ISA) but there are many ways that this function could be implemented in actual hardware. Typically, manufacturers like ST Microelectronics will license both Arm's ISA as well as their internal designs to make a real hardware chip that has implemented the design. However, manufacturer are often free to deviate in their implementations from the "official" Arm one. As long as it still implements all the ISA it can be called "an Arm-based chip/ microcontroller".

In general, if this is the part of electronics you're interested in. Just learn vhdl/verilog.

@freemo @mur2501
Just added a forum post

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/risc-v-and-arm-development/618

May make it easier to collate information.

@freemo @mur2501
There is a tutorial here on the 8085 processor,
RISC V is more open

https://riscv.org/

Arm Developer site

https://developer.arm.com/

I think ARM is related to RISC V in some way, as RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer, where as ARM is Advanced Risk Machine or something.

Could be a good starting point as there are a lot of RISC / Arm Boards out there.

Hey @freemo
I want to explore microprocessor designing (semiconductor fabrication in general) can you help as I don't know where to start in my learning of electronics circuit stuffs also can you show me some good softwares and tools which I can use in my learning??

@georgia We. Have. Magic.

>magic: The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them

I am typing this on a slab of glass that glows, buzzes, sings, and sees because we taught a sand golem how to think. A collective of thousands of mages, warlocks, witches, and all sorts of sorcerers contributed to the tomes upon tomes of knowledge and intricate spells that keep this pocket golem alive. I use it to write minor enchantments of my own.

If you think fantasy magic would look any different from what we have discovered and invented today, you are ignoring human nature. The same structures and processes you see with our technology are the exact same that would have developed with bona fide fantasy magic. Microsoft and Apple would exist, and they would build magic mirrors for businesses, and little nice-looking enchanted slabs for rich people. They would curse you if you tried to discover their workings, as that's Microsoft or Apple's intellectual property. Google would exist, and it would offer you a free crystal ball that shows you ads half of the time, all while Google's own golems looked back through it to record what you like. @chj0 would be summoning deprecated types of imps just to try and get them to do some weird trick. I would have studied the creation and maintenance of the magical channels that connect our various charms and trinkets. Opal would constantly be mad at how clunky the existing spells and rituals are, and vowing to write her own from scratch. Textbooks and papers would be written to fill the asinine magical theory circlejerk that modern math and science have become, and academic publishers would keep them locked up just like they do now. Most people would still be ignorant of the inner workings of the tools they use. A butcher doesn't care if he rings up your pound of ham on a magic record book or a cash register, so long as he can see how much he sold, and he doesn't need to figure out the taxes in his head.

You flip a light switch. The light comes on. There is no functional difference between some ethereal force powering it, and electricity.

Nesting #dinosaur in the #Arctic : despite constant darkness in winter and cool condition in summer, they were non-migratory species, which raises the question of their possible #endothermy (again). #science #biology #paleontology
📄 Druckenmiller et al (2021) Nesting at extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.041