• Why can't YouTube do good content moderation?  (Gizmodo)
  
  Because fuck you Gizmodo, that's why.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• Kik says they totally didn't offer an unregistered investment when they sold $100 million worth of digital tokens to investors without registering the sale with the SEC.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That's a bold strategy Cotton.  Who am I kidding, they're screwed.
  
  
• Arend is a theorem prover based on Homotopy Type Theory.  (GitHub)  It natively supports higher inductive types and a version of cubical syntax.  IntelliJ Arend is a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that turns it into a full-fledged IDE for the Arend language.
  
  I have a license for IntelliJ.  Beyond that I have only a vague idea what Arend actually does.
  
  
• Barf bags are provided in the seat pocket in front of you.
  
  
• Ready?
  
  
• C-Mera has Lisp syntax with C semantics.  (GitHub)
  
  
• Okay then.
  
  
• Intel will have 56-core CPUs available next year.  (Serve the Home)
  
  They will have servers with 56-core CPUs available this year, but you'll have to buy the whole thing from Intel, and each CPU uses 400W of power, so you'd better live in Greenland, or better, at the south pole of Pluto.
  
  
• Teenage satirist Soph a.k.a Sewernugget has been banned from YouTube, Patreon, and Bonfire for facecrime.  (One Angry Gamer) 
  
  I don't know if some of the commenters on One Angry Gamer are being ironic or if there's a bunch of raging antisemites over there, but Rule One applies.

Well there's a thought: 960x540 is kind of a standard video mode.  Televisions interpret it as 1080i, and monitors interpret it as 960x540.  The pixel clock would be 37.125 MHz - manageable - and in "high resolution" mode it wouldn't require any internal line or pixel doubling.

Pixels have a 1:1 aspect ratio, and it's an integer fraction of 1080p or higher so there's no scaling artifacts.  Sub-resolutions of 480x270 and 320x180 would work, and with a little fiddling, a 640x270 text mode where the pixels weren't square.  My originally planned 640x360 high-res mode would not work, but you'd have something better.

Text mode would offer up to 120 columns by 45 lines (8x12 character cell).

I should be able to do that without needing an FPGA at all, and all I need to test it is the developer kit (which I have), a handful of resistors, a VGA cable that no-one wants anymore (I'm sure I have a few of those), and a soldering iron.  And solder.  And maybe a little breadboard or something.  And some breadboard wires.  And at least a multimeter with frequency measurement so I can check the output voltage and HSYNC.

Still, if I can do this without an FPGA it's at least twice as likely that something will actually happen with this project.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 08 2019 12:07 AM (Iwkd4)

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