vzidex

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by vzidex 5y ago
I'm very happy with my Leopold with Cherry MX Clears, having come from a Model M as my first board. Alternatively, at this price point one could put together a very decent custom from a kit + switches + keycaps.
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by vzidex 5y ago
I have an original production Model M and don't think I would ever go back to it. It's extremely loud (friends would always complain if we were gaming together), keypresses are very heavy, and it takes up a ton of deskspace. If th
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by vzidex 5y ago
Definition, martial law: Martial law is the temporary imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency where civil forces are overwhe
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by vzidex 5y ago
Fascinating, thank you! Admittedly I don't keep the closest tabs on what Xilinx is doing.
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by vzidex 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work in this space (not at Xilinx), comments are strictly my own opinions and do not reflect any positions of my employer, etc. Broadly speaking, FPGA-based ML model accelerators are in an interesting space right now, where th
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by vzidex 5y ago
You've struck on the fundamental problem that the FPGA industry has been trying to solve for 30+ years - how to get an FPGA into the hands of every developer, like how GPUs have propagated to be essential tools. Nobody has come up with
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by vzidex 5y ago
I've done it as well with my parents, who love wine. At the shops I've been to, you buy the grape concentrate up front and they handle to process of making it up until bottling. Once the juice has fermented, you go in and they wal
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by vzidex 5y ago
It might very well be the DAC doing the work then, or maybe the placebo effect is just making me pay more attention to music I first heard years ago and I'm picking up more :) Thanks for the information though, I'll do some A&#x2F
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by vzidex 5y ago
Anecdotally, recently my dad got me a Tidal subscription (which has masters at supposedly higher quality than CDs) and an entry-level DAC. The two put together have blown me away and I've been having a blast the last couple of weeks re
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by vzidex 5y ago
Adding to the comment about difficulty, the number and ratio of likes : dislikes on a problem is a good measure of difficulty. A Medium with 5K likes and 300 dislikes is probably quite a good (well-written, constrained, fair) problem. A Med
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VRoom! Building on AWS(moonbaseotago.github.io)
2 points by vzidex 5y ago|0 comments
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by vzidex 5y ago
Yes, Intel will still sell you a license for NIOS if you want to harden it into your product.
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PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon(anandtech.com)
20 points by vzidex 5y ago|2 comments
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GlobalFoundries to Spend Billions: Doubling Fab 8, Creating New Fab in NY(anandtech.com)
15 points by vzidex 5y ago|5 comments
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by vzidex 5y ago
I'm vegan and supplement DHA via this product: https://ca.freshfield.life/products/vegan-omega-3
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by vzidex 5y ago
1-year vegan here, no new health issues to report. I supplement vitamins D and B12 and omega-3 fats.
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by vzidex 5y ago
I think an older GPU would definitely be useful. Used GTX 1080 cards (I picked one up used for C$375 back in September) are listed for C$750-850 where I live. I'm not as familiar with AMD's products but I think 1-2 generation old
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by vzidex 5y ago
Military is still a major customer, at least for their FPGA division (Altera). Probably still enough smart people kicking around to make it work.
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by vzidex 5y ago
>spend years working on getting acquired instead of working on new chips (which happened to Altera) That's interesting, can you expand on this? I'm curious what could have impacted them that much (I'm a student about to fi
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by vzidex 5y ago
I'll take a crack at it, though I'm only in undergrad (took a course on VLSI this semester). Making a device at a specific technology node (e.g. 14nm, 10nm, 7nm) isn't just about the lithography, although litho is crucial too
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The Bripe Coffee Brew Pipe(briping.com)
1 points by vzidex 5y ago|0 comments
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by vzidex 6y ago
Hugely anecdotally, I think ketamine might have fixed my depression for about 6 months with one heavy dose. It was early 2018, I had just gone through a really bad breakup the December previous. Around March, my friends invited me on a ski
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Hamburg build from 2008 on a new district, the HafenCity, a soulless place of concrete, expensive apartments, and chain stores. I find your description here fascinating, because it's exactly how I've described the CityPlace d
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Are there available AI accelerators on the market at the same level as Google's? Not sure if they're quite at the same level (hard to measure apples against apples and all that), but there's a few companies in the space
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Can someone say is "event driven" in the context of an HDL different than say what even't driven is in Javascript web app, GUI etc? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it in a digital circuit context. I think
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Few farms will talk about killing their animals, of course, keeping what is happening sterile in appearance is pretty important for keeping the amount people eat high That's exactly what I was trying to point out. Animal product i
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by vzidex 6y ago
Note: I'm heavily biased due to being vegan. What I found interesting while reading this was what it _didn't_ say. Specifically, they mention that calves are kept with their mothers for 5-6 months, but what happens to them after t
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by vzidex 6y ago
Seconding the rOtring 600 - I got mine at the start of university, and it doesn't show any signs of stopping near the end of my bachelor's now. Though, you do need to carry it in a case of some sort, because the tip doesn't r
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by vzidex 6y ago
> I'm not concerned If someone happens to know some esoteric trick that they could Google search (Unless of course you're applying for a position at a company that manufactures very low level devices like microcontrollers or em
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Some facts are so well stablished in human knowledge that there is not need to cite it. So, your statement is true because you say that it's common knowledge that it's true? > Primary and secondary production, is a big fat

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