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Problem need to include the year in the encoding then

You could decide if the en passant location is plausible from the position and color of the pawn on ranks 3 & 6, since it's only available of a pawn has moved two squares, so must be on rank 3 or 6, and it hasn't been promoted(another way it could reach those ranks)

> So, I'm not sure anybody verified that what the right holders claimed was actually true.

Yup, this will be weaponized by the MPAA/RIAA


From the embedded systems end, VSCode really feels like the new Eclipse.

For decades embedded CPU companies would look at visual studio and say, "Boy howdee if we only had visual studio for our chips!" But they wouldn't be willing to put in the effort to do so, so they'd start with Eclipse, and the C/C++ plugin, and hack in a JTAG interface, and maybe a few code generators to pin out the hardware and say, look at us we made an IDE! And that IDE sucked, not because of eclipse, but because nobody actually put the work in to make it useful. You'd get lime breakpoints but not memory breakpoints or function breakpoints. You'd get a call stack but no way to inspect your RTOS. Every chip vendor did it themselves, so every tool was wildly different even for a big standard ARM core.

VSCode for embedded is the same thing, just in JavaScript. With AI!


One of the main architects is the same.


Yeah, monitor the send queue length and reduce bit rate accordingly.


Yes, but always got it from GPS so presumably they'd be off about the same amount.

Distributed sonar, allows placing receivers willy-nilly and aligning the samples later.

Remote microphone switching - though for this you wouldn't notice 5us jitter, it's just that the system we designed happened to have granularity that good.


The integer pipeline is often needed for address calculation near the same time as the floating point pipeline.

The R4200 FPU performance suffered for this reason.


I've been wondering if I could pull the DIMM from a running machine if everything was cached.

Probably not due to DMA buffers. Maybe a headless machine.

But would be funny to see.


It's so much fun working with systems with more pixels than ram though. Manually interleaving interrupts. What joy.


If you use a tile-based hardware renderer, such as on the original nintendo chip, then pixels are rendered on the fly to the screen by the hardware automatically pulling pixels based on the tile map.


> why is there mismatches in british/american english

You sometimes see this with real live humans who have lived in multiple counties.


> You sometimes see this with real live humans who have lived in multiple counties.

Also very common with... most Canadians. We officially use an English closer to British English (Zed not zee, honour not honor) however geographically and culturally we're very close to the US.

At school you learn "X, Y, Zed". The toy you buy your toddler is made for the US and Canadian market and sings "X, Y, Zee" as does practically every show on TV. The dictionary says it's spelled "colour" but most of the books you read will spell it "color". Most people we communicate with are either from Canada or the US, so much of our personal communication is with US English.

But also there are a number of British shows that air here, so some particularly British phrases do sneak in to a lot of people's lexicon.

See a similar thing in the way we measure things.

We use celsius for temperature but most of our thermostats default to Fahrenheit and most cookbooks are primarily in imperial measures and units because they're from the US. The store sells everything in grams and kilograms, but most recipes are still in tablespoons/cups/etc.

Most things are sold in metric, but when you buy lumber it's sold in feet, and any construction site is going to be working primarily in feet and inches.

If anything I expect any AI-written content would be more consistent about this than I usually am.


For Canadian units I always like this handy flow chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/d1hwpx/canad...


> multiple counties

Pay no attention to those fopheads from Kent. We speak proper British English here in Essex


I do this because I'm a non-native english speaker. My preference varies from word to word. I write color, but i also write aliminium.


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