This is exactly it. The various *HDLs are explicitly written to create systems of logic gates.

I recently rewatched all three, and they all hold up as I remember. The first one is great, the second could be great if there was a bit more editing to trim down some overly long monologues, and the third one is a bit meh.

In The Matrix 2, Trinity uses nmap to check for an ssh exploit, then cracks it using a cli tool, all from Linux.

Edit: The ssh exploit was a real, known vulnerability at the time.

It is such bullshit that it works. It doesn’t fix everything but damnit it does enough that I have to keep doing it.

Looking back… that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn’t come in.

I remember having a few of these for WordPerfect, MS Word for DOS and Lotus 1-2-3.

Oh man, I loved my OG Droid.

Then Diogenes comes rolling through in an RV.

I use the “short meetings” option in gcal, which shortens meetings by 5-10 minutes to give me a passing period between meetings. Twice this week people have had the audacity to try and schedule a meeting in that break. 😬

And… they’re basically all correct. Linux does run on all sort of machines, even really ancient ones. It has a solid command line environment, or rather lots of them. And it’s astounding powerful. Windows does still blue screen, is currently the best place for gaming, and wow is MS fucking you with Win11. Macs can have a cool setup, are really simplified for most users and expensive.

I just tried it and it actually works! 🤣

Oh look, it’s me.

When I was a very junior EE I ended up working mostly on microcontroller code. There was one bit of extremely ugly code I inherited that parsed a terribly designed serial communication protocol by using a giant maze of nested if statements. I really wanted to rewrite it to something better, but I never quite came up a solution while I worked there. Years later after I was no longer at the company I had a stress dream about it and finally came up with a working solution. I still wish I could go fix it. I really hope it’s no longer used, or that someone else has finally fixed it.

Which word?

Once upon a time the entire internet was an irrelevant nerd clubhouse. Those were good days.

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Honestly, that’s not that bad? If we were to turn off every data center if would barely impact world energy use and electricity is getting cleaner every day. Of course we should push to get better faster, but this doesn’t seem like a big source of low hanging fruit.

Well, it’s big and great relative to what it used to be. But it’s still pretty limited compared to Windows. As an example, about 40% of my Steam library runs in Linux natively or officially supported by Proton. Another 20% runs ok enough through Proton, though not officially supported. That leaves 40% that I’m rebooting to windows to play. And, of course, that game I’m most playing right now is one of those.

60% of my library running in Linux is amazing compared to what it used to be, but still isn’t enough to convince a serious gamer to switch.

Oy definitely, I can see a box that is a combo LiFi/WiFi access point with a single ethernet/fiber optic cable running to it providing the best network available for each device becoming a standard ceiling fixture in offices and tech forward homes.