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by vzcx 12d ago
Hardcaml compiles to verilog and then you use the horrendous vendor toolchains.
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by vzcx 13d ago
Nice solution and good easter egg find!
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by vzcx 13d ago
You can give the cell instances a stable name by setting GDS property 98, which I learned about from my reconnaissance of the puzzle author's github and sky130 visualization tool. This way I was able to spot check a pass over the netli
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by vzcx 13d ago
This would need good image recognition, but maybe not so far out of the realm of possibility. These GDS design files have a lot more structure to them.
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by vzcx 13d ago
Incredible amount of determination, but you really did make it hard for yourself! You can install librelane to get the whole open silicon tool suite and the sky130 PDK. Circuit extraction can be done with magic. Going from a spice netlist t
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by vzcx 2mo ago
LTCM was actually a lot more sophisticated, this fund's thesis was basically "number go up." Count the OOMs!
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by vzcx 3mo ago
As an American, I trust Chinese AI providers more than American.
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by vzcx 3mo ago
I know your comment is about the absurdity of such a thing, and maybe the stupidity of the administration, but for the readers at home: Fentanyl is actually a very simple molecule. The way it's (and other drugs) production is controlle
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by vzcx 3mo ago
> AI is dual use technology. And? Computers are dual-use. Cars are dual-use. Telephones are dual-use. Freeze-dried chicken is dual-use. Single-use, i.e. military only technology is actually pretty rare. > This kind of posture is simpl
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by vzcx 3mo ago
Having a chatbot that talks to you about synthetic biology or nuclear physics is just not the same as being equipped to develop biological weapons or atomic bombs. None of this will happen in the "neighbors backyard." You are exag
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by vzcx 3mo ago
Or... they just disagree with Anthropic's ethical stances and approach to applying them?
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by vzcx 11mo ago
The best conmen have an abundance confidence in themselves.
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by vzcx 2y ago
Lisp is a family of languages. They share a common ancestry. That family is larger than Common Lisp, although Common Lisp is might be the last living descendant. While there are common traits among members of the family (parenthesized notat
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by vzcx 2y ago
Since there are other decent dynlangs out there, the benefits are less about the surface language aspect, and more about the process of getting to a solution. These are the system aspects of lisp that enable an incremental development workf
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by vzcx 3y ago
If you are interested in machine learning, check out Gabor Melis's library: https://github.com/melisgl/mgl . It's not an area I'm super familiar with, so I can't speak to it's feature set, but I
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by vzcx 4y ago
lmao, brilliant scientist Elon Musk is NOT. A closer comparison would be general Groves, someone who can get the team and resources in place so the work can get done.
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by vzcx 4y ago
Grammarly used SBCL in production: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p... It also sounds like they were very much a polyglot shop.
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by vzcx 4y ago
I don't think that's at question in this case. It was decided in Massachusetts v. EPA that EPA is required to make that determination itself. Three years after that decision, EPA basically answered "we think it is." The
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by vzcx 4y ago
Excuse me, sir, flamebait is classified as a destructive device. I'm going to need to see the NFA tax stamp for this post.
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by vzcx 4y ago
Isn't it a good thing that armed citizens and the professional warrior caste like police and military -- who are also really just other citizens -- work together? If you are asking why the glorious revolution hasn't happened despi
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by vzcx 4y ago
yes.jpg ? We are armed and dangerous, we we want to be. Not to you of course, but to anyone who threatens to cause you death or great bodily harm. How about a thank you for being prepared?
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by vzcx 4y ago
Right, right. Guns are absolutely about power. What is interesting to me about this difference between us is that I really, really want people to have that power: I think it is very important that regular people have this "violent pote
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by vzcx 4y ago
It can't even do that for long, as the difficulty adjusts downward to compensate.
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by vzcx 4y ago
Tether has the veneer of bank equity from the balance sheet "attestations" it publishes, but I think a better analogy would be that tether issues casino chips for the decentralized casino that encompasses the tether-based offshore
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by vzcx 4y ago
Make Калининград Königsberg Again.
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by vzcx 5y ago
I read this thread and found it interesting, but the mafia boss argument seems weaker than the simple desire of all businesses to have commoditized inputs and avoid vendor lock-in. The oil and gas guys who are friends with the boss are poli
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by vzcx 5y ago
Honest question: if you are nvidia, why not publish the interface specification for your device? If there are silicon bugs, publish the errata and the workaround. I've seen SOC manufacturers do similar. What's different about GPUs
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by vzcx 5y ago
Well this is interesting: my perspective is that we are actually already living in the age of the bureau and the technocrat, with only some vestigial democratic traditions, and we have been since 20th century wars. Burnham (who is well wort
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by vzcx 5y ago
I recently sent a low-fee, nearly instantaneous payment over the lightning network with exactly zero trusted intermediaries. LN may or may not be ready for wider-scale adoption, but it was incredibly cool. It gave me that same feeling of po
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by vzcx 5y ago
Where did you acquire this point of view? You sound very certain, but I think you've got it completely backwards: You say bitcoin cannot be a currency because it is highly volatile, but I'd argue that it's just as true that B

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