tails4e

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by tails4e 22d ago
Amd less than 2 legs. If even one person has 1 leg, then the average is strictly less than 2.
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by tails4e 2mo ago
Yes, I work in hardware design ans the cost to code up the RTL for an idea and compare it to the existing code in terms of PPA, its very expensive in terms of engineering time. This week I had 5 different architecites coded, pushed through
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by tails4e 6mo ago
This is true, but a lot of the top positions are being replaced with unqualified loyalists. It's only a matter of time, if this continues, that the competent workforce gets eroded
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by tails4e 9mo ago
How does this compare to CORDIC for sin/cos generation? Which is more accurate, etc ?
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by tails4e 9mo ago
My code wasn't written to be hard to decipher, and it wasn't a goal to get everything on one line by any stretch, I just didn't like an if with regext was 2 lines minimum in python, it felt inelegant for a language that is pr
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by tails4e 9mo ago
I liked perl, it was the first language I used daily as a HW engineer. When I moved to python more recently what I missed the most was how easy it was to do a one liner if with regex capturing. That couldn't be done in python for a lon
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by tails4e 9mo ago
I heard last year the potential future of gaming is not rendering but fully AI generated frames. 3 seconds per 'frame' now, it's not hard to believe it could do 60fps in a few short years. It makes it seem more likely such a
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by tails4e 9mo ago
Why not follow decompilation like ghidra does, rather than guess, compile, compare? It seems more sensible to actually decompile.
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by tails4e 10mo ago
I didn't understand the background before the explanation, but afterwards I did. Inl walked me through the mathematical steps and each was logical and ok to follow if you have a basic calculus knowledge.
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by tails4e 10mo ago
It was. I asked it to give more details on parts of the derivation I didn't quite follow and it did that. Overall it was able to build from the ground up to the solution and solve it both numerically and analytically (for smaller value
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by tails4e 10mo ago
I just had chatgpt explain that problem to me (I was unfamiliar with the mathematical background). It showed how to solve closed form answers for H(2) and H(3) and then numerical solutions using RK4 for higher values. Truly impressive, and
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by tails4e 1y ago
Exactly. The solutions can be as simple as this. Israel has the power to fix this, they choose to do the opposite
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by tails4e 1y ago
This makes sense, but what does not make sense is who tested this 'ultimate mode', I mean they went to the trouble of adding a physical hardware switch on the motherboard for this, surely when testing there was some kind of benchm
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by tails4e 1y ago
It depends on the blue collar job, but electrician, plumber, roofer, all seem pretty safe from automation for a while at least.
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by tails4e 1y ago
It takes a long time to get form standard to silicon, so I bet there are design teams working on pcie7 right now, which won't see products for 2 or more years
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by tails4e 1y ago
Exactly this. If a junior dev is never exposed to the task of reasoning about code themselves, they never will know what the difference between good and bad code is. Code based will be littered with code that doe the job functionally, but i
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by tails4e 1y ago
No, this is just an a analogy. The reality is the data is heavily modulated, and also the video is encoded so at no point would something that visually looks like an image be visible in the fibre.
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by tails4e 1y ago
What do you find thats so awful? Once you understand the main footguns and how to avoid them, it's overall very solid.
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by tails4e 1y ago
Well doesnt this go somewhat to the root of consciousness? Are we not the sum of our experiences and reflections on those experiences? To say an LLM will 'simply' respond as would a character in a sorry about that scenario, in a w
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by tails4e 1y ago
I am surprised more uC use cases have not moved to RISC-5. What do you see keeping you on ARM for what you work on?
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by tails4e 1y ago
RISC-V is not immune from license fees, unless you want to design a high performance core from the ground up. If you want something as capable as an M4, there is years of R&D to get to that level. I'm sure a big player could do jus
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by tails4e 1y ago
I have it in docker a d use supervised mode (which seems discouraged, but I want my machine for other uses also). The one thing I struggle with is updating, I'm concerned if I update it'll break. Is there a way to fully snapshot a
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by tails4e 1y ago
Especially when doing the right/safe thing by default is at worst a minor performance hit. They could change the default to be sane and provide a backwards compatible switch to pragma to revert to the less safe version. They could, but
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by tails4e 1y ago
SystemVerilog is a much better language than verilog. You can get pretty strong typed behaviour now, if you use the language parts that allow that. It's like C, if you use it poorly/the 'verilog way' it's got some s
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by tails4e 1y ago
This is something that has been tried, basically constructing an analog matrix multiply/dot product and it gives reasonable power efficiency at into levels of precision. More precision and the analog accuracy leads to dramatic power ef
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by tails4e 1y ago
I thought this was going to talk about how printf is implemented. I worked with a tiny embedded processor that had 8k imem, and printf is about 100k alone. Crazy. Switched to a more basic implementation that was around 2k, and ran much,much
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by tails4e 1y ago
This is a very real issue for even expensive items. If you buy a car today, doesn't it have some sw component that requires phoning home to work properly. What if that company goes bust? Or if a war breaks out and that company is in a
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by tails4e 2y ago
How often do tabs really need to communicate, and when they do, does it really need to be as fast as possible. I would say slower and secure would be a better design philosophy, especially as tab interaction is generally rare, and low bandw
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by tails4e 2y ago
Makes sense. I guess the UI experience, including the terminal was so alien I assumed routerOS was an actual low level OS but, in retrospect, I was an idiot and of course it is Linux under the hood!
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by tails4e 2y ago
Their software It's incredibly powerful, but also quite opaque to someone not into hardcore networking. I setup a small private WISP using their gear and configuring it was pretty rough for a non networking nerd. It's not running

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