MayeulC

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by MayeulC 5y ago
I don't know much about STT-MRAM, so I'll avoid making a fool of myself. Looking more into the details is on my TODO. Look at the datasheets and make your choice, as usual. I am not sure how the situation will evolve on either sid
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Unless it's doing adiabatic computing, of course. When computations are reversible, you don't have to waste energy to destroy bits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing#Reversibi...
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I work on ferroelectric hafnium, which looks promising with regards to CMOS compatibility. It's non-volatile, though I guess you could also use it like DRAM. Endurance is an issue for now though (it's approaching RAM use-cases, bu
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by MayeulC 5y ago
It really depends on your needs. Overkill microcontrollers aren't that expensive anymore. It's probably faster to prototype something with micropython than C. And I say that as a very proficient C developer. On the other hand, C i
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Now to more specifically answer your question: we investigate the performance impact of new logic-in-memory instructions, so a softcore is appealing: add custom instructions to the CPU, wire them using the FPGA. Run and compare. But one cou
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by MayeulC 5y ago
FPGAs are "Field Programmable Gate Arrays". AKA, reprogrammable logic circuits. Some stuff is just better done using a processor than an FPGA. Basically, when using an FPGA, you have a finite number of gates you can use: it's
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> But it is rather redundant to say vhdl and softcore I disagree. Firstly, there are many other hardware description languages (Verilog, migen, SpinalHDL for instance), and while they can more or less interoperate, one could prefer a giv
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> strict licensing terms made it hard to get code upstreamed back How come? Right now, the phone ecosystem isn't perfect. It's hard to update phones. Why is that? Because manufacturers don't care about long-term support.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Exactly. And hopefully, such a subscription should be pretty easy for web developers to ask their employers for.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I've long wondered if the answer for this and other issues like tax evasion wouldn't be to often change the metrics. If you start cheating the metrics, or optimizing a lot towards them, it becomes counter-productive when they chan
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by MayeulC 5y ago
His girlfriend was arrested together with him, it's not hard to imagine a way to pressure him into confessing.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> Allowing duplicates is fine, the important stuff comes up again whilst the unimportant bits die off. You lose a lot of context from other reporters, and some discussion that could happen between reporters. All of this allows diagnosing
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> Will this game still be playable in 20 years? > In this case, wouldn’t bundling everything be more stable? It might; or it might not. Relying on shared libraries is generally a good idea, as those get updated: for instance, you can
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> you can make the inevitably required small tweaks inside the library How do you handle Steam or the user updating SDL2 to a newer version, then (see the sibling comments about dynapi)? Does your game depend on those tricks to run?
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Like the sibling comment points out, you can easily load your own by setting an env var: SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/my/actual/libSDL-2.0.so.0 ./MyGameThatIsStaticallyLinkedToSDL2 https://github.com/libsdl-
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by MayeulC 5y ago
seeing that nynx hinted at reversible computing, they would just be smaller and more energy efficient. The idea being that you can cram more of these in a given volume. Reversible computing tries not to destroy information, allowing to go u
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I'm not sure it will, though, except in specific cases. For now, it looks like the progress has mostly been: mechanical -> electrical -> optical (/RF) For good reason too: reliability, integration, and energy effici
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I've been using NFSv4 over wireguard for a few weeks. It works really well, with speeds over 80 MBps for residential FTTH. Configuring a mesh wireguard network can take some time, though it looks like that's being worked on on and
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by MayeulC 5y ago
On the other hand, I'm not sure the author would have been offered a job had he named a higher price, so that could be seen as some kind of investment too!
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> The problem with Free Software is capitalism I've spent a bit of time thinking about this a few days ago. I believe the real problem with Free Software is the copyright landscape. With everything copyrighted-by-default, with no ex
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by MayeulC 5y ago
It isn't meant for energy delivery, but energy harvesting. Put a metal stick in place of the antenna, the same power is harvested, but dissipated away. I can see this useful for very low power devices. I don't have specific exampl
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by MayeulC 5y ago
120 MJ/kg for H2 vs 46 MJ/kg for gasoline. Both are explosive, so I think (I'm no authority on this) we can compare those values directly, without taking into account the storage pressure. Source: https://hypertext
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by MayeulC 5y ago
It may be accurate, but it could be more descriptive. The current title feels a bit lazy, but I have trouble coming up with a better one.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
So here the idea is to predict which points will be more affected by a deformation, given a 3D mesh model and the corresponding skeleton, right? The output is probably something similar to a normal map. Can the deformation be handled effici
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Wouldn't that end up being a variation of https://useplaintext.email/ ?
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by MayeulC 5y ago
sous vide . Means "under vacuum". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_vide Edit: I read a bit more on this, and was mistaken. Here is my original explanation: Basically a vacuum pump to lower boiling temperat
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Most people I know are experts on one topic or another. Some do contribute to Wikipedia in their fields. I know I do. I wish Wikipedia counted as "publishing" works. Maybe they should start accepting papers?
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I settled on kitty, personally. I quite like it, and its image supports works very well with ranger!
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by MayeulC 5y ago
It's not wayland-native, though. I use it with sway on a laptop that doesn't support OpenGL well enough for other terminals, it's okay, but I miss some features, and other <indows could snoop on it. I also had to install x
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by MayeulC 5y ago
That's true, and I hadn't considered that angle too much. However, methane's greenhouse effect is 25 times more potent[1] than the one of CO2, so converting carbon to methane is worse than just burning it. And lastly, farming

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