FPGAhacker

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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   Halfway to making a handheld radar.
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   I think there are many parallels between functional programs and electronic circuits. Many design concepts and disciplines of software can be applied to digital design. The idea of actors and message passing very naturally applies itself
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   Don’t know why you are downvoted right now. A major abstraction, absolutely huge, is “Digital.” It’s all analog, and outside of the sanitizing Digital abstraction, it’s not pretty. But the digital abstraction allowed for astronomically com
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   Dear God I wish they would do another 0 new features release. It used to be that the excuse was bug fixes don’t sell. Maybe not, but buggy software does lose customers. They may bring in the newbies with features, but you retain with bug fi
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   I definitely wish there were more collaborative games. I like to game with my wife, and we don’t prefer games where the objective is defeating each other. Minecraft far and away is the game we play together most of the time. Alas it has fin
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   I think this is 100% spot on correct. Life is damn hard and cruel without our help as it is. We don't need to add to it, and yet we do. Thank you for posting this. Being able to have a conversation with someone of differing opinion,
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   Not this reader, if only because I lost interest halfway.
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   well, i don't know the context of buffett's quote, what he meant, but i can say with confidence that in the US, even the most upstanding citizen breaks several laws per day. speed limits, imperfect stops, improper turns from a sto
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   by FPGAhacker 9y ago

   In case you or anyone reading this were unaware, there is a link underneath stories called "past," which provides the service nathell did in parent.
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I thought I was being helpful with my comment. That was certainly my intention. It was a correction to a misunderstanding. As neither of the two authors I referenced replied, I assumed that either they didn't see it, or accepted the
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    Both you and pluma are confusing deodorant with anti-perspirant. Very often they are combined in the same product, so the confusion is understandable. But deodorant is perfume, anti-perspirant stops sweating.
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    There is a trend I noticed where I work. Most people that “get it right” the first time around do not get any recognition whatsoever. It is the people that screw up, release with big flaws that the customer then pressures the company about,
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I read all that as an indictment of SystemVerilog rather than of simulators. I agree with the assessment of hw engineers doing software.
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I would be happy if all my bullet points applied only to cycle accurate sims. I think the market would create itself with the right ingredients present. I think a high level language, a well defined intermediate representation with an eye
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    FPGAs are definitely not a dead end. By virtue of being reconfigurable, they will never be obsolete as long as ASICs are a thing. Now, some whole new technology will come along eventually, supplanting present day ASICs and FPGAs... but u
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I believe the major disruption waiting to happen in chip design is open source tools, and the hardware languages. Frankly, the closed source tools are pretty awful from a user interface perspective. Under the hood, amazing things happen, b
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I imagine a lot of Venezuelans did not expect their assumption of a fat bank account equaling self sufficiency to fall through. Self sufficiency is a fallacy. There are degrees of dependence, and if you lose enough of your dependencies, yo
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    Write yourself a note to revisit this sentiment when you are 60. Personally I feel compassion for people that have made a living doing something they love for 30 years only to find that livelyhood made obsolete virtually overnight. Unfortun
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    I would like to take this opportunity to confess that I was baffled by the use of the term float in CSS since inception. I vaguely thought it must have something to do with layers and you would float an image to the top layer. It only occu
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    S8 was 690 GBP at launch. You still have a fair point though as 8 months after launch (July 2018), I'm sure the X will still be 897.
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    Are you sure it is not you that has made the uncharitable interpretation? I read the peanut gallery comment as an agreement that the guy knows what he’s talking about.
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    There are a number of disciplines involved. Engineers at the foundry will range from those focused keeping the equipment aligned to produce functional structures on/in silicon over time, to engineers that design standard libraries of c
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    by FPGAhacker 9y ago

    They do if you file them at radar.apple.com. I've had back and forths with them on some video card performance issues after sleep after filing a report there.