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by foft 18d ago
Memories! Back at university I got a G400 and, with the open documentation they released, was able to make a driver for BeOS. It worked but looking back it’s stark how much I have learned since then. One feature I particularly love is a dua
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by foft 2mo ago
The question is what is reasonable. This is more how I work for code and I just tried for a document. i) Prompt (Human input) ii) Response (LLM) iii) For (i=0;i!=n;++i) { iv) Review/adjust (Human input) v) Response (LLM(s) - different
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by foft 2mo ago
Cutting coffee to just the morning definitely helped me. My problem now is that if I think of anything vaguely interesting in the evening then my brain refuses to stop thinking about it. That and restless legs. Evening if my main time for h
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by foft 2mo ago
Really awesome. Though I wish they'd do a dense 48B, 60B or 72B. There seems to be quite a gap between the small ones and the enormous ones these days.
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by foft 3mo ago
If you put your data in Snowflake then there is a built in AI (ok it’s Claude) that can access the databases. This sidesteps a lot of the issues in that the data is clearly already with Snowflake.
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by foft 8mo ago
Having used codex a fair bit I find it really struggles with … almost anything. However using the equivalent chat gpt model is fantastic. I guess it’s a matter of focus and being provided with a smaller set of code to tackle.
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Snowflake Major Outage(status.snowflake.com)
7 points by foft 9mo ago|1 comments
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by foft 11mo ago
Yes. If you haven’t yet read it Cory Doctorow’s new book Enshittification is well worth a read. I am still reading it but it certainly explains some of the bad practices by these major advertising/spying giants and the resulting market
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by foft 1y ago
It was a strange decision to limit the drives. I can see they might want to accredit drives which would give a 'Synology Approved Experience', though outright only support their own was bizarre. I'm very pleased they are reve
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by foft 1y ago
If you are interested in FPGA PCIe or PCI cards there are also a lot of Gidel boards available second hand. ProcSpark/ProcStar etc. The official software is proprietary and they often contain multiple FPGA devices so there is again an
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by foft 1y ago
As a big openscad fan I love the idea of designing circuits with code. I do wonder though about designing circuits vs designing schematics. I see you have ‘wire down 100’ making it a more visual language than defining the nets. Be interesti
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by foft 1y ago
I've had great results with Codex, though I found ChatGPT 5 was giving much better results than the existing model. So ended up using that directly instead. So very excited to have the model upgraded in Codex itself. The main issues wi
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by foft 1y ago
In Switzerland pretty much all sites have a setting for French, German, Italian and often English. It is very much a multi-language country. It is great to be able to select individually per site. I often like to use the native French and j
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by foft 2y ago
If anyone was interested in the Amiga but has not kept up with recent developments, I suggest looking up the Vampire V4. It is mentioned in the article but I thought I'd add a few more details. It has a reimplementation of the ECS and
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by foft 2y ago
Ouch, if that is the case this is only going to boost the non US suppliers. Has anyone tried lcsc.com? Digikey and mouser are great but if all semiconductors go up 50% that is a problem.
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by foft 2y ago
Thom did great work on the Plato stuff. Also be sure to check out his Fujinet work, really nicely done. Ported to many platforms too.
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by foft 2y ago
Also read it backwards
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by foft 2y ago
It is not just Apple that did this, for example here is an equivalent from Atari: https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1698
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by foft 2y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of FlexFS ( https://flexfs.io/ ). I spoke to a very knowledgeable person there when investigating what to use but we ended up using EFS instead. An annoying feature of EFS is how it scales with amount
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by foft 2y ago
Is it possible to use this to make songs for multiple chips at once? In the pokeymax and sidmax projects I have dual pokey, dual sid, dual ym2149 and a simple dma sample engine available. It would be great to make some songs using all of th
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by foft 2y ago
There are a few improvements that could still be useful: i) FPGA on a newer process so it can clock higher. For faster 68k in the Amiga core and pentium 1 equivalent speeds in the x86 core. ii) Faster ARM chip and better ARM-FPGA fabric, op
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by foft 2y ago
To do a fab build out and restructuring of this scale clearly they need to spend a lot of money. In that context the numbers from the financial report do not seem that shocking. This all seems to be quite an overreaction in the market. They
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by foft 2y ago
The tricky thing here is that as this mostly affects unlocked CPUs it is going to be hard to prove when the fault is from this algorithm vs user/motherboard manufacturer overlocking. Unless there is any internal monitoring with fuses b
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by foft 2y ago
Why do you discount Gaudi 3? It looks like a very strong offering.
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by foft 2y ago
These are still available: https://centuriontech.eu/product/ct63-rev-2022/ There are also expansions for the expansion! People also use the CTPCI to run the desktop on a Radeon 7500. Alternatively there is an FPGA
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by foft 2y ago
Doom was ported to the vanilla falcon making heavy use of the dsp: https://www.leonik.net/dml/sec_bm.py
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by foft 3y ago
Cookie permissions and EU advertising options should absolutely be built into the browser, it makes no sense for the user to have permissions on each site individually like this with a different system on each one. Then the user can central
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by foft 3y ago
We are discussing this on the Atari forums. The person who posted it is a well known software developer who has linked it from his site(2). So far we don't know. 1: Larek, who make Laura. http://atariki.krap.pl/index.ph
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by foft 4y ago
I did mean 25% faster, though it was a guesstimate. That was comparing Agilex to Agilex D, not Cyclone V to Agilex D. FPGA logic in simple terms consists of LUTs (look up tables, used to implement gates) and registers. The LUTs can be chai
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by foft 4y ago
I'll try to answer this, though my direct experience is only with Cyclone and Max 10. The Mister uses the Cyclone V 5CSEBA6U23I7 built on TSMC 28nm. It has 110000 logic elements and also a hard ARM. These are on Intel 7, so there a sig

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