Hermitian matrix by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Finite special general linear group by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Just like for the finite general linear group, the definition of special also works for finite fields, where 1 is the multiplicative identity!
Note that the definition of orthogonal group may not have such a clear finite analogue on the other hand.
Porting by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Proprietary software by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's software engineering wisdom by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Of course, "Ciro Santilli" with quotes, since all of those are either taken directly from others, or had been previously formulated by others.
Microsoft by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
And also their monopolistic practices: United States v. Microsoft Corp.
However, like all big tech companies with infinite money, they do end up doing some cool things in their research department, Microsoft Research, notably for Ciro Santilli being:
Debugging by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Debugging sucks. But there's also nothing quite that "oh fuck, that's why it doesn't work" moment, which happens after you have examined and placed everything that is relevant to the problem into your brain. You just can't see it coming. It just happens. You just learn what you generally have to look at so it happens faster.
Single cell visualization by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Filter (signal processing) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Homosexuality by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Gang bang by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Film about the semiconductor industry by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Power, performance and area by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is the mantra of the semiconductor industry:
  • power and area are the main limiting factors of chips, i.e., your budget:
    • chip area is ultra expensive because there are sporadic errors in the fabrication process, and each error in any part of the chip can potentially break the entire chip. Although there are
      The percentage of working chips is called the yield.
      In some cases however, e.g. if the error only affects single CPU of a multi-core CPU, then they actually deactivate the broken CPU after testing, and sell the worse CPU cheaper with a clear branding of that: this is called binning www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/glossary-binning-definition,5892.html
    • power is a major semiconductor limit as of 2010's and onwards. If everything turns on at once, the chip would burn. Designs have to account for that.
  • performance is the goal.
    Conceptually, this is basically a set of algorithms that you want your hardware to solve, each one with a respective weight of importance.
    Serial performance is fundamentally limited by the longest path that electrons have to travel in a given clock cycle.
    The way to work around it is to create pipelines, splitting up single operations into multiple smaller operations, and storing intermediate results in memories.
Semiconductor process node by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
TuxGuitar by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Just use MuseScore instead.
Can import from: MIDI.
Can export to:
Ubuntu 20.04:
sudo apt install tuxguitar tuxguitar-alsa tuxguitar-jsa tuxguitar-oss
tuxguitar-jsa was needed, otherwise no sound: askubuntu.com/questions/457321/tuxguitar-no-sound-in-14-04
Has OK step sequencer non-realtime up/down/left/right guitar based composition interface.
Has chord insertion.
Has bend editor.
Could be more amazing, but it is OK.
A bit limited by being very "guitar oriented". Shows you guitar strings, and you enter offset to each string. So to enter two adjacent notes you need to use two seprate strings and thing about the offsets. If only it had a more piano based interface.
Drum notation is also atrocious, you have to go to the top chord, and use high numbers starting at 36.
Moon (2009) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Global Positioning System by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
They actually carry atomic clocks in them.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Appears to be the best classic open source roguelike of the 2020's.
This website is really cool! crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby You can spectate players live and chat! Also has statistics.
Devs of this game are smart, they have one good in-tree tileset, unlike some other text-based games that didn't have an in-tree option...
Build on Ubuntu 21.10:
sudo apt install build-essential libncursesw5-dev bison flex liblua5.1-0-dev \
libsqlite3-dev libz-dev pkg-config python3-yaml binutils-gold python-is-python3 \
libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev \
fonts-dejavu-core advancecomp pngcrush

git clone --depth 1 --branch 0.28.0 https://github.com/crawl/crawl
cd crawl/crawl-ref/source
echo 0.28-a > util/release_ver
make -j`nproc` TILES=y
./crawl
This launches the UI version already for you.

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