The Official Status Thread
-
In Silicon an AND gate is always a NAND followed by an NAND inverter, something about the NAND structure being easier to fabricate.
The fundamental CMOS structure is an AND-OR-INVERT (AOI) structure, essentially !((A & B) | (C & D) | (E & F)), where there can be typically up to about 4 or so inputs in each group of AND terms, and generally 1 to 3 or 4 ORs. The following, grabbed from Wikipedia, shows a little simpler gate that implements !(A | (B & C)).
The transistors on the bottom turn on if their inputs are high. If both of the transistors in any branch are on, the output will be pulled low; therefore, the output will be low if A is high, or B and C are both high.The transistors on the top turn off if their inputs are high and on if their inputs are low. Therefore, the output will be pulled high if either A and B are both low or A and C are both low. This is the complement of the function that enables the bottom transistors, so the top and bottom halves are never trying to pull the output in opposite directions at the same time.
Basic NAND gates, NOR gates, and inverters are just degenerate cases of this structure. One can form a simple, 2-input NAND from this by eliminating the A transistors on top and bottom (and renaming B and C to A and B):
A NOR gate is formed by eliminating the C (or B) transistors (basically, flipping the NAND gate upside-down). And an inverter consists of only the two A transistors:
Thus, it can be seen that the fundamental CMOS gate structure is always inverting. A non-inverting gate is made by using the inverting gate structure that implements the desired function followed by an inverter:
.NAND is preferred over NOR not because it's easier to fabricate (it isn't), but due to the way the two types of transistors work, for the same area it's slightly faster.
-
Microsoft just bought Xamarin. That's not going to help with all the crazy people who think .net on Linux either doesn't exist or is some kind of horrible Microsoft conspiracy.
-
Yay. Yet anther step backwards in calming down yhe opensores kids.
-
Status: Waiting for a co-worker to create a PR so I can approve it, then I can log off for the day. Until then surfing StackOver:
What is the reasoning behind naming of the .NETs Select (Map) and Aggregate (Reduce)?
In other programming languages, I have seen Map and Reduce, and those are cornerstones of functional programming. I could not find any reasoning or history why LINQ has Aggregate (same as Reduce) and
I love the pissing match in the comments of the question, then the snark in the comments to the top-voted answer, hahaha.
The funny thing is to me the naming is obvious (LINQ is designed to be comfortable for people who know SQL; SQL uses the terms SELECT and AGGREGATE. The top answer is pretty interesting, digs way back into the research projects that led to LINQ.)
-
Status: Bought a thing of Southern Comfort to celebrate surviving today. I'm about two shots in and holy lightweight, Batman, I'm already down for the count. I guess I'll sleep well tonight!
-
Status: The only one of the Futurama movies that they made instead of season 5 that's any good is The Beast with a Billion Backs and even it is just ok.
-
Status: The only one of the Futurama movies that they made instead of season 5 that's any good is The Beast with a Billion Backs and even it is just ok.
The movies were great!
Executive Powder.
Cellphone Telephone.
You are insane.
-
I am insane, but I am also correct about the quality of the Futurama movies.
The first one was the worst because not only did it spend roughly half its runtime giving literally every character who had ever spoken in any episode in the previous four years at least a few lines.
And if that wasn't bad enough, it also retroactively RUINED two of the best episodes, Luck of the Fryish and Jurassic Bark. It doesn't work if you make Fry go back and live his life, YOU ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN THE SHOW THAT HE DID NOT.
-
he's right, the movies aren't up to the rest of the series
-
Status: Clean sheets, clean me, blakeycat by my side to use as a backup emergency pillow, and the last half of The Giant Claw to watch. If I don't get sleep tonight, it's seppuku time.
-
That sounds fantastic. Try watching Attack of the Crab Monsters. I found it in Amazon Prime's crap movie section and it was 50 shades of B-Movie awesome.
STATUS Back at work and the kanban board is has only grown by one entry.
-
NAND is preferred over NOR not because it's easier to fabricate (it isn't), but due to the way the two types of transistors work, for the same area it's slightly faster.
Great answer, thank you. I was going by what I was told when doing HDL
-
get resource manager open and check your disc queue when this is happening. i'll bet you a dollar that it spikes well above 1 (it should never exceed 1 except under extreme IO load)
if you're lucky you'll be able to identify a rogue process that spams IO, if you're unlucky it's something in the disc or SATA controller that's gone wonky.
Finally managed to isolate the cause - the resource manager / task-manager didn't tell me much when it happened.
Disc queue was indeed spiking, but the disc activity was at zero - there was neither read nor write activity (and as a result, the process list detailing the active files was empty).
I thus reinstalled Win10 because I thought that this Samsung Magician tool borked something.
Well, while it may not have been the cause, it certainly did not help. Because straight after the re-install, the system hung again with the same symptoms. This time it recovered, though, and I was able to access the event log which warned me about "storahci" having to reset \Device\RaidPort0 with an id of 129.
One of the pieces of advice I found was to simply install the Intel Rapid-Storage drivers. I'll see whether that did the trick...
-
STATUS That one kanban entry to caused me to blow a gasket.
A step in our process requires translation so we have a useful function that exports the English to a csv to send off to be translated. The translators send back the same csv with extra columns with the translations. Our team then copies and pastes from csv into our tool which takes about a week for a medium sized project.
This is the first that anyone in our team heard about this and I actually said "What in living fuck" aloud before I even realized it. My tech lead said immediately "Ah you've seen the new jira".
Fuck me sideways with a rusty socket wrench. This is absolutely appalling and it's not even high priority.
-
Status: cat-in-a-box
What is it with cats and cardboard boxes? Put an empty cardboard box on the floor, turn around ... box is now filled with brown cat looking smug: 'I've been sitting here all day, it's my box.'
Make cereal ... walk past box ... is now occupied with black cat.
After that I thought I'll give the grey one a chance to sit in the box too but he started scratching from the second I even hoovered him above the box.
Conclusion: 2 out 3 cats sit in the box.I think I've found your cat.
-
A step in our process requires translation so we have a useful function that exports the English to a csv to send off to be translated. The translators send back the same csv with extra columns with the translations. Our team then copies and pastes from csv into our tool which takes about a week for a medium sized project.
Do mean that the total translation process takes about a week for a medium sized project, or the copypasta takes your team a week?I guess you just need an import function as well as an export function, with that addition it sounds heavenly. I worked extensively on maintaining and troubleshooting a translation process where our tool directly integrated with the translators' system, and *breaks down, shaking*.
-
Do mean that the total translation process takes about a week for a medium sized project, or the copypasta takes your team a week?
The copypasta work. It's fucking retarded. It would take us two weeks to implement and test it and probably save someone's sanity.
-
Status: Not yet fit enough to work (unless I can do it in 5 minute bursts). Better than yesterday, but I must've been really down then.
-
Also I never fucking asked for help. This is all assholes giving unsolicited advice, assholes who have been here long enough to know I hate unsolicited advice.
Suggestion: Maybe if you word it differently when you post your life problems here, people will stop offering unsolicit...oh wait...
Filed under: Have you tried a long walk, followed by a shower and then a book
-
Too orange and it was a box from Zalando and not Amazon
-
Too orange and it was a box from Zalando and not Amazon
One could almost say that cat isn't your cat... that cat is a... copycat.
-
18 posts were split to a new topic: The FrostCat Plays Alone
-
Status: mock interview straight after lunch to prepare for the real interview the Fiery Demonic Mice have set up for me tomorrow, and I really haven't done enough preparation. Also feedback from previous interviews (mock and otherwise) indicates that the more nervous and stressed I am about it, the more confident and enthusiastic I appear.
On the plus side, the more I practise this the more I stress about the real thing, so I'll probably come across with a really confident and enthusiastic manner. On the flip side, I get tongue-tied under stress, so I'll seem confident and enthusiastic but without coherent, intelligent answers to the questions.
-
**Status:**strong text
: What are the prime factors of ultramarine?
: The gemstone or the colour?
: The colour.
: The smell of rain on the wind after the dry seasons and the taste of your first kiss.
: Exactly correct! well done!... My dreams are WEIRD
-
Swap you? I don't remember exactly what I dreamed last night but I remember waking up in a sweat and I know it was dinosaurs. Of the meat-eating meatosaurus persuasion.
-
I had a fever and dreamt nightmares about @weng's breakroom. That was also weird.
-
Swap you?
if you want. the night before that featured tentacles. of the "i've seen enough hentai to know what's going to happen next" variety.
-
tentacles. of the "i've seen enough hentai to know what's going to happen next" variety.
I've had worse in that vein. I was afraid to sleep for a week, though, and it's not something I'm prepared to describe in a public forum.
Some time back I tried to drown myself in a dream, in preference to being caught by the things that were chasing me (also I was Johnny English, which made sense at the time).
-
I've had worse in that vein.
as have i. at least that one has a somewhat happy ending.
the ones with the T-rex or slenderman..... much less so.
-
at least that one has a somewhat happy ending.
the ones with the T-rex or slenderman..... much less so.
Well I personally find that I can get over a dream where something's just trying to kill me as soon as my heart-rate returns to normal after I wake up. It doesn't bother me for days or weeks afterwards.
-
@CarrieVS said:
One of the enemies in XCom2 is a ball but it opens up into a tentacle monster to attack you. When I first saw it I thought it was about to "probe" my characters. It was one of those moments where I thought "I really have seen too much tentacle porn in my lifetime. Maybe I should stop clicking on links to weird Japanese sites."Swap you?
if you want. the night before that featured tentacles. of the "i've seen enough hentai to know what's going to happen next" variety.
-
That sounds fantastic.
It's definitely special. Badly in need of a MST3K-esque riffing, I actually thought maybe I'd take it on myself maybe next week when I have lots of free time. No idea if it's under copyright or not-- at least one YouTube channel has permission to show it.
-
Status: Chris'sake, if my company doesn't fire that client, I'm gonna fire them myself.
First they wanted a feature. A huge one - two months of development to integrate the system we're making with some other system they're running. It was in plans for at least a few years now, but there were always troubles speccing it - either the company responsible for the other system was unreachable, or the client didn't have the budget, etc, etc. But hey, we're doing it.
Two months later, roughly 95% completion, almost ready to go - client calls and tells us to freeze the project. Because something something can't get the budget until September or so. Well, we won't deploy it then, and all is good, right? Wrong - they don't want the feature to be passed, but they need the forms to be shown in-application with dummy data because, uh... audits? I think?
Well, fair enough, we halt our work, cut some code and it's ready to go. That means I'm out of work, so I ask the boss to scoot off home early and get a few days off - sure, no problem, we'll sort some things out, so get a day off tomorrow and then we'll see, if we don't need you you can get a few more. So 2:30 PM, I get off work.
2:40PM, waiting on the tram stop, look at the phone - one missed call. Great timing. I get back to the office.
So, uh... they want another feature. (describes something totally irrelevant to what we're doing)
...we'll get the spec today evening or tomorrow.
Ugh, they just put one in the freezer... well, it's not rocket science, some two days of work, I can start on it by Monday.
Yeah... here's the problem. They need it by Monday. On production.
You're kidding? I just got my time off request accepted!
Actually they wanted it tomorrow, but we managed to tell them that's pretty much impossible. So, sorry for putting you in this situation, but do you think you can put the weekend in?
...yeeeah, I'll take the laptop.
-
You're getting stomped on, buddy.
Like 1984 boot-on-face stomped on.
-
Status: Database I'm now in charge of consists of VARCHAR(500) for every key.
-
Status: Just got a facebook friend request from a customer.
-
Status: i haven't been in my house for a couple of days, so my desktop machine was hibernating the whole time. last night, at about 3:30 AM it decided it was a good time to install updates, so it woke up, and reboot all by itself.
-
Suggestion: Maybe if you word it differently when you post your life problems here, people will stop offering unsolicit...oh wait...
Suggestion: Maybe if BlakkoRut realize that other humans have empathy, and that insomnia is a common, shared problem with a host of solutions, and that the forum is filled with people whose entire existence is centered around solving problems, and also worth mentioning again empathy, and that maybe, JUST MAYBE some people here in one way or another care about about him and don't like his suffering...
maybe
-
...yeeeah, I'll take the laptop.it's not easy, but don't do that. say you're out of town for the weekend, or something. otherwise, you might end up like @Weng. have you seen that breakroom? have you?
-
@Lorne_Kates said:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Suggestion: Maybe if you word it differently when you post your life problems here, people will stop offering unsolicit...oh wait...
Suggestion: Maybe if BlakkoRut realize that other humans have empathy, and that insomnia is a common, shared problem with a host of solutions, and that the forum is filled with people whose entire existence is centered around solving problems, and also worth mentioning again empathy, and that maybe, JUST MAYBE some people here in one way or another care about about him and don't like his suffering...
maybe
With that kind of reasoning it's no wonder the british abandoned you.
-
@Lorne_Kates said:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Whoa! Who are you accusing of having empathy. Fucking Canadians and their empathy. Of all the bad British traits to inherit.Suggestion: Maybe if you word it differently when you post your life problems here, people will stop offering unsolicit...oh wait...
Suggestion: Maybe if BlakkoRut realize that other humans have empathy, and that insomnia is a common, shared problem with a host of solutions, and that the forum is filled with people whose entire existence is centered around solving problems, and also worth mentioning again empathy, and that maybe, JUST MAYBE some people here in one way or another care about about him and don't like his suffering...
maybe
-
Status: Just got a facebook friend request from a customer.
Facebook has privacy controls. If you want, you can "friend" someone but only let them see stuff you specifically publish for them.
Or you can ignore their request. Some people send friend requests to literally everyone they know.
-
You don't have $17?
-
Yeah, I haven't decided if I want to go through the hassle of setting up controls. May let it sit for a bit. See what he does.
-
The fax machine just scared the entire office again.
-
... My dreams are WEIRD
Not really, seems pretty cromulent to me.
Status: Apparently Outlook's "Clutter" filter really only filters stuff from Microsoft. Either that, or Microsoft only sends me clutter...
Edit: WTH, that's not the one on the clipboard...
-
Status: AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
So my wife suspected she's pregnant. Fine. She took a test and it came out positive. Fine. She went to her OB who confirmed and gave her an ultrasound. Fine. The ultrasound showed two gestational sacs. Fi.. Wait. What‽
At least there's only an 80% chance of actually having twins at this point. Nothing's really for certain until the second trimester.
-
Did you forget to leave her in odd parity?
-
At least there's only an 80% chance of actually having twins at this point. Nothing's really for certain until the second trimester.
http://i.imgur.com/24NN91B.png
(also yay)
-
