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by Lramseyer 5y ago
I think the article understates how big of a deal this is. It mentions a lot about the implications from the perspective of packaging, but this opens up a whole new world for IO! Right now, most semiconductor companies who make an SoC for w
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
Who says you have to fabricate a RISC-V processor on leading edge TSMC nodes? What about FPGAs? What about older nodes? The whole point of my argument is that when you make the proprietary "industry" knowledge more generally avail
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
The year is 2012. Blender is an open source 3D modeling and CG software. There are hundreds of crummy plugins and hacks (and a handful of good ones,) whereas Maya is battle tested, developed by professional Autodesk engineers. It comes with
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
Maybe this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, but what about natively supporting tabs in a window manager? While it would probably be impractical to force all applications to support tabs, it would be nice to be able to rearrange elements/
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
What is it good for, or what is it used for? I think Tcl's biggest downfall is the fact that it suffers from Excel syndrome in that It works well for a small set of problems and OK for a bigger set of tangential problems. Tcl is Tool C
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
The way your previous comment was worded implied a level of attempt to justify the presentation style as opposed to being worded like: "their argument is [It's B2B...]." And while it's admittedly such a minor nitpick on
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
That's because you have to pay an extra licensing fee for clear and concise visual design. Besides, that would add complexity - imagine if there was something that needed to be changed after the article was published! /s
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
> It's not really that either because PCIe 2.0 was "5GT/s" despite being only 4 gigabits per second. Sort of, depends on where you're measuring. PCIe 2.0 runs at 5GT/s, which is the speed that the Phy layer
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
The term gigatransfers per second is essentially Gb/s, so 2 bits x 32 billion per second is 64 billion per second. This is done using PAM4, which stands for Pulse Amplitude Modulation, and 4 is the number of valid voltage levels. Norma
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
Not a stupid question at all! Any communication protocol has functional layers to them, and at the very bottom is what's called the Phy layer (or physical layer.) While pretty much every layer can be implemented in digital logic, the p
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
> Why stop at 5.25in drives? Let's go back to washing machine sized units or even bigger. Let's stack platters so dense and heavy that we can use the spindle as a flywheel UPS system too. Current HDD tracks are around 50-60nm w
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
You're not wrong, but it's important to keep in mind that for more complicated FPGAs, they have hard IP blocks in them often supplied by other companies. Also consider that when these IPs have errata in them, they can sometimes be
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
I would agree with you in the case of a mass market design where you're competing with a major CPU player. And while that gets the most attention in the tech media, it's actually a somewhat small portion of the market. it's i
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
I'm familiar with Daisy, however that's for recycling iPhones. Not repairing laptops. It's totally different. Your claims about independent repair shops may apply to franchises like ubreaxifix, with bottom of the barrel pay t
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
This future of automated repair and recycling that you speak of is not the current reality, and as somebody who works in hardware, I would be very interested in learning more about this emerging technology of automated repair that you speak
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
Indeed there is, and you would be correct in that assumption! Take a look at CXL. It's currently optimized for NVMe, Ethernet, or co-processors (GPUs.) It uses the PCIe Gen 5.0 physical layer (but then again most SerDes IPs are genera
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
> UBI only works when it's 1) Universal (even to rich people) and 2) When it's funded by dismantling some/all of the existing welfare state. This is key. To go even further (at the risk of being a little political) The bes
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
> the latency when typing drove me fucking NUTS! I had the exact same experience. Back at my old company, all of our development was done on a secure Sungrid server farm that could only be accessed from the VDI environment. The way my co
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by Lramseyer 5y ago
I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it here, but this crypto boom has sent demand for mining hardware through the roof, which has contributed in no small part to the chip shortage. Miners are buying up ASICs, GPUs and FPGAs at a
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
While my experience is mainly in digital hardware, my tinfoil hat theory as to why the hardware startup scene is so lackluster is because the EDA tools are expensive hot garbage. Not only are the dev tools cost prohibitive, but so are the n
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
One issue with the hyperloop that nobody seems to talk about is safety. How do you handle ruptures in the tube? How do you evacuate? and What do you do if your pod loses pressure? This isn't like a 737 where you can give people oxygen
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
I'm glad somebody pointed this out! Meta materials and diffractive structures are not known for being low dispersion. This article mentions nothing about bandwidth. However, I think the writer assumes that the indented reader knows thi
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
The challenge of doing that, is that there are apparently a lot of proprietary IP blocks (both analog and digital) that are in the FPGA (like the Viterbi decoder as the parent comment suggests) that would need to be redesigned before you co
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
> I think a lot of people at HN just hate IBM for no real reason I disagree. From a marketing perspective, they are a company that is known to over promise and under deliver. Their marketing is vague pie in the sky without much to show f
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
I would argue that the fact that Apple and Google are working together to develop a contact tracing protocol goes to show the general level of dissatisfaction with the way contact tracing is done in other parts of the world and the privacy
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
You might be surprised. Pretty much all of the pre silicon work at the semi companies I have worked at (besides maybe emulation) is done “remotely” from a server farm to begin with. Even with post silicon work, with careful lab set up, you
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by Lramseyer 6y ago
If I am reading the data correctly, considering total number of cases, and current rates of growth, the Bay Area is doing really well compared to the rest of the USA in terms of preventing the spread. [1] There will inevitably be areas that
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
Not only that, but the sheer complacency of people within the industry when it comes to better tools blows my mind! Our VDI development environment runs an OS from 2 decades ago. It's ugly and the latency is mildly infuriating. And yet
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
I was always torn about the implications of Vaporflys. I can respect the fact that they skew the competition, but how is this any different than cycling? Pay a ton of money to reduce drag coefficient, moment of angular inertia, and weight t
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
The dealer purchased the car from Tesla at an auction according to Jalopnik, and as another commenter pointed out, the feature is documented on the Monroney sticker. It doesn't matter whether or not the first owner paid for the feature

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