@sperbsen@discuss.systems2025-05-30 12:08:25
The deadline for FProper (SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Programming for Productivity and Performance) full-paper abstracts has been extended to June 14th. (Which is also when the papers themselves are due.)
Send us your paper!
https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-s
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-06-01 11:51:07
Folks familiar with Xilinx FPGA minutiae (i.e. @… probably): is there a register I can query via the ICAP that lets me determine how the current bitstream was loaded?
In other words, can I distinguish the same bitstream loaded via x1 SPI vs x4 SPI vs JTAG once the configuration has completed?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-05-31 00:38:26
Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-05-31 11:27:44
‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt?CMP=Share_iO…
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-05-30 10:11:00
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20892 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…
@annettamallon@aus.social2025-05-31 00:45:50
Death Literacy is essential for a good quality of life for every stage of life, including our end of life and dying. *
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-01 04:20:48
The White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator,
abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Muskfrom consideration to lead the space agency.
Donald Trump said he would announce a new candidate soon.
“After a thorough review of prior associations, I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman to head Nasa,”
Trump posted online.
“I will soon announce a new Nominee who will be mission aligned, and put America first in space.”…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-05-30 21:47:30
TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out. Yup. Seems about right. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/may/30/ella-baron-donald-trump-taco-jibes-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2025-05-31 23:35:49
New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-05-30 17:07:51
Students around the world who were gearing up to study in the United States this fall face growing uncertainty
after the Trump administration temporarily halted student visa appointments this week.
On Tuesday, a state department directive ordered US embassies globally to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students
while it prepares to implement expanded social media screening for all international visa applicants.
While interview appointments that …