sheridan

joined 2 years ago
[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago
[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I vaguely remember as a kid my parents being asked to show their ID at the grocery store when paying with a credit card. I think they were checking that the names matched.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh neat. Maybe she can get some Hell swag.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (11 children)

My girlfriend returns other people's stray carts when she sees them. I guess she's getting into super heaven.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I didn't realize he was that old.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've noticed this problem with a lot of media made in the past decade. I think Netflix's 'Ozark' is one of the worst examples. In almost every indoor scene the lights are off or very dim.

However, I got an oled screen this year, and it's helped a lot with dim scenes. I'm guessing hollywood is calibrating for expensive high contrast screens like oled and mini-led?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (5 children)

But she's so young.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

When I was 10, I went on a trip to Venezuela. At this restaurant in Caracas, I went into the bathroom. It was a single person bathroom. For some reason the door had slide locks on both sides. While I was in there, some kid locked the door from the outside (I could see through a narrow gap). It was a real door, not a stall door. I couldn't unlock it. I started panicking a little and kicking the door. Eventually a waiter let me out.

I'm still confused about why that door could be locked on the outside.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks! I've been collecting old computer books from resell shops. I'll look for it.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! I've heard of FPGAs in the retro gaming space. Cool stuff.

 

Recently I studied the very fundamentals of how computers work at the level of 1s and 0s, wires, and logic gates from a book written for laypersons. I followed the book along and built a very, very primitive computer with a cpu and ram in a simulator by plotting different kinds of logic gates and connecting them with wires.

After this exercise I'm left wondering how are new chips designed nowadays considering that there are billions and billions of microscopic transistors in a modern chip? I'm assuming there are some levels of abstraction to simplify the process? I can't imagine all those billions of transistors and wires being plotted manually one by one by people. Is there like a programming language of some sort where a compiler converts syntax into circuitry layouts?

Also, I don't mean the physical manufacturing process. I think I have a good grasp of that. I'm purely talking about the design stage.

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