I certainly use defaultdict often in Python too, but not more often than the regular dict. Maybe 90% dict and 10% defaultdict. So from my POV lookup only should definitely be the default.
Gowin seemingly doesn't even sell the chips to individuals. Either set up an LLC so you can request samples from a destributor, or desolder one from a sipeed dev kit.
I could order MOQ (minimum order quantity) of anywhere from 100-500 depending upon range. I didn't need to be an LLC, but it sure helps to actually know the lingo and understand how to deal with distributors and FAEs (field application engineers).
One thing you absolutely have to remember is that when it comes to distributors and FAEs is that as an individual you are wasting their time. Talking to anyone other than you is more profitable. Nevertheless, most won't ignore you (sales is their job, after all) but you very definitely have to make their lives as easy as possible and understand that you get their time after they have serviced everybody more profitable.
Tariffs made everything miserable because the FAEs and salespeople were up to their earballs dealing with the daily price swings of customers with actual volumes.
"The goal for this year is [...] 1000 developers on Discord."
Am I understanding this correctly, they want 1000 people on their Tenstorrent Community Discord or something? Are those the kind of metrics we're working with nowadays? If so, that's bleak
Hmm yeah it's quite badly written. Either way, let's just say it's an example of a place where one can look stuff like this up.
"Ending whiteness" does not mean "killing all white people" or "eradicating all European cultures" or whatever the parent comment was implying. (Or am I reading too much into it?) Though perhaps you can find some moron calling for that on Twitter.
Are other phrases of the form "ending ____ness", where ____ is a racial qualifier, also acceptable, then? Someone using that term could similarly argue that they're not advocating for the eradication of ____ people - just the identity and behavior associated with ____ people.
Are you arguing that calling it "whiteness" is a bad branding move by the sociologists? In that case, I fully agree. There's other similar bad branding moves like "toxic masculinity" or "racism = power + prejudice". I wish they would change those words.
Or do you mean that sociologists who speak about "abolishing whiteness" secretly mean "abolishing the behavior and identity of white people"? No I wouldn't agree with that. I think they mean what they say, and when they tell you their definition of "whiteness", that's what they're referring to. Not some other thing.
> people insist on using the dangerous way and then blame it on the language
Can you blame them when the dangerous way uses 0 syntax while the safe way uses non-0 syntax? I think it's fine to criticize unsafe defaults, though of course it would not be fair to treat it like it's the only option
They're not using the dangerous way because of syntax, they're using it because they think they're "optimizing" their code. They should write correct code first, measure, and then optimize if necessary.
Hotter _incandescent_ bulbs (e.g. tungsten wire, halogen, etc.) produce more light than cooler ones, but the heat is still wasted. That's why such bulbs are going away.
With non-blackbody bulbs (e.g. florescent, LED, etc.) the light is produced directly. Any extra heat is still wasted, but we can (and do) engineer to reduce it, thus making the bulbs far more efficient.
Censorship by a website moderator means you need to move to another website to express your ideas. Censorship by the government means you need to move to another country.
Censorship on an app hosting page means you need to host your app somewhere else. Censorship on the only app hosting page allowed means you can't host your app at all.
Silos. You can create your own and say anything you want (only constrained by the law). Everyone else can join it, or blacklist it, for themselves. Nobody gets to shut off someone else's silo, they can only ignore it for themselves. Nobody gets to decide what other people choose to read or write.
For the case of Reddit, a silo maps nicely onto a subreddit. Within any subreddit the moderator can have full control, they can moderate it exactly as they choose. If you don't like it, create your own where you will have free rein.
What about content that is illegal in the country that your "silo" is hosted in, like, say, CSAM (but you can really really substitute anything else illegal there, like eg. planning terrorist attacks)? If a "silo" is CSAM-friendly or its express purpose is posting it and its moderators don't want to remove illegal content, what then?
I hope there are no legal jurisdictions that are actually CSAM-friendly. But this isn't a unique problem, there are many situations in the world where legal jurisdictions are muddy. For example, when over-the-air television signals can be received across country borders. Just let the law sort it out. Admittedly, it's more difficult for companies that operate in multiple countries, but they're already managing to do it today. The main hope is, that companies will not add any additional censorship themselves, and that an attitude of free exchange and tolerance, would be the default position for more of us than it is today.
That's a good point. But for all practical purposes, Facebook, Reddit, and other major social networks represent what the web means to an average person. Many of them never even open a browser. So those major social networks should be treated more like a public square, for the discoverability that provides, if nothing else. And in the context of sites being delisted and apps being banned (Google, Apple, etc), it would be nice for major social networks to be committed to free speech on their platforms.
The AMD Framework laptops have the same issues, I've heard from several people. It seems AMD's implementation of USB C/4/PD is just broken (or at least extremely difficult to write firmware for)
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