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Comment Re:32 (Score 1) 38

A chip that I played with a long time ago can only be programmed through 32-bit register access (limitation of the ARM bus). The address space for I/O peripherals can run out quickly and it's a hassle to move or expand them later. So a lot of small values get tightly packed into the register map. Here's one used for filter coefficients for the display.

Horizontal scaling filter is a 6-tap filter with 4-bit positional phase.
* Coefficients 0 and 5 are 3-bit signed value ranging from -4 to 3.
* Coefficients 1 and 4 are 5-bit signed value ranging from -16 to 15.
* Coefficients 2 and 3 are 8-bit unsigned value ranging from 0 to 128.
* Coefficient 0 is the multiplier for the earliest pixel (P0) in the group of 6-pixel and
* Coefficient 5 is the multiplier for the latest pixel (P5) in the group. The output pixel positional phase is defined as centered in P2 if the positional phase is 0 or proportionally in between P2 and P3 if the positional phase is larger than 0.

(source: 29.10.2 DC_WINC_A_PALETTE_COLOR_EXT_0)

Comment R.I.P. tech industry (Score 4, Insightful) 197

Great news for Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. They have a vibrant tech culture and it will suddenly get a new influx of labor that can bring about a lot of profit for many businesses.

Trump is playing a loser's strategy at globalization. Ultimately the stakes for him personally are low. But your average working class American is going to be hit hard when the money dries up for the fastest grown and fourth largest industry by revenue in the US, the information technology industry.

Comment Futurama (Score 1) 239

Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Well, sure, but not in our dreams.

Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky.

But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!

I must be a defective American. I don't understand why so many people tolerate ads in their Smart TV, on their Kindle sleep screen, in their children's classrooms, and now on their rather costly appliances. I don't even like having ads on paid TV or streaming services. Or ads on my web browser (that's MY bandwidth you're streaming video w/ audio ads to)

It's a twisted idea that every activity in life has to be related to marketing and commercialized. Some kind of hyper-capitalism, where we double down on consumerism in order to continue feeding the machine, despite the diminishing benefits.

Comment violence is the language of fascism (Score 1) 136

The so-called Leftists aren't the ones that literally states they were going to start a civil war if they can't have their way. Out of the mouths of both Vance and MTG only a few months ago, but part of the conversation on the Right for many years. https://www.vice.com/en/articl...

The vast majority of us in America wish to work our differences peacefully and move on with our lives. Most of us know that war is not romantic. It is costly in money and lives, and clearly won't make our streets safer.

Comment Re: Or... (Score 1) 159

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

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