TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
In most states, the biggest issue is still the one of anonymity. I wonder if there’s a way around that by selling/auctioning off your winning ticket to somebody who’s already famous and, say, a billionaire at a discount.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
In my college days, I often hitchhiked to places instead of taking the train. It was just more fun to talk to people of various kinds. One day on my way back from a trade show about the future of technology (1992?), I get picked up by this
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> When someone says something like "Intel's 14nm is as good as TSMC's 10nm" I think most people would expect this to be talking about the performance of the chips being produced. One could reasonably assume that when
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Density is important for the fab. Power consumption and clock speeds are something that can be tuned per design even for the same process.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
For the longest time, it was very profitable investing. It’s not less irresponsible than buying Tesla stock.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Do you carry an ice bucket when walking around town?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I think you're off by a factor of 100?
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I assume that you've worked with 60 yo customers in the past. What's your experience with placing them?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-... > Paul Allen: Gates, Ballmer tried to 'rip me off' > "One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> The fact that cryptocurrencies have managed to grow and hold their value for so long is in itself proof that the financial system is not working. The market cap of all stock markets is on the order of $100T. Total bond market cap is of
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That's a start. I'd be most interested to see a reference to one of those studies. Google is letting me down on that.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Would the volume be much higher than the numbers that are reported by surveys like this one, in which women are asked about it explicitly? If so, why? Of all the respondents, 20% report sexual harassment of some sort. That’s a very high num
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Now that’s a claim for which I would like to see more proof. Because if most men would do this (and most implies: a majority of them), then even the current deluge of reports would be nothing compared to what you’d expect it to be. I’ve hav
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The original question is: "ex-FAANG developers...". In that context, it's definitely priviledged but far from being extremely untrue.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Not directly answering your question, but start out by reading the RISC-V ISA specification. It's very readable and it often explains why certain decisions were made.
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As somebody else noted: it doesn't have to be the company that does it, but a lower level employee who cuts a deal. So paying the company more wouldn't solve the issue completely. All of these things are extremely cost sensitive.
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I understand the indignation etc etc. And the suggestion to not use these kind of companies anymore. And that sounds really reasonable, until you realize that pretty much all contract manufacturers in the Far East will source cheaper or off
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The picorv32 is a nice little processor, but it's surprisingly inefficient in its use of FPGA resources compared to the performance it offers (which is very low.) For small FPGAs, it's far from being the best solution. That said:
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wrote this in a different discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18124411 Super small CPU cores are fantastic for complex FSM replacement, especially on an FPGA which has unused block RAMs (so using th
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Are you arguing that Brexit and Poland happened in the US?
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This has nothing to do with immigrants, brexit, Trump, etc. And in many countries, these policies have been done for over a decade with no obvious voter backlash.
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There have been plenty of European countries where similar (or much stricter) rules were introduced and arguments similar to yours were used. And in the end, there are hardly any negative consequences.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Super small CPU cores are fantastic for complex FSM replacement, especially on an FPGA which has unused block RAMs (so using them is essentially free.) I’ve seen cases with relatively complex pure HW FSM being replace by a small CPU and 1KB
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I always thought that covenants were part of an HOA, but for us, that's not the case. It's regular single family home. The covenant is attached to the tract on which all the houses were built and supposed to be enforced by some ne
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I installed Ubiquiti at home and it was a terrible experience. I really wanted it to work, but my wife teased me long enough about my "professional grade" installation that I gave up. She was right. The biggest issue was range, wh
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that my current house, built in the sixties, in the South Bay has a covenant that has all kinds of restrictions, including one on race. (It might have been a covenant on a different house that we bid on, but got rejecte
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I don't think being able to a own vacation home in the Midwest is relevant in this context: the increase in income going from France to the Midwest is almost certainly going to be much lower than the increase going from France to the B
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by TomVDB 8y ago
LUTs are still the building block of all FPGAs. Logic elements are just a higher level of hierarchy. For example, according to the Intel Arria 10 handbook, an ALM contains 2 4-input LUTs and 4 3-input LUTs, which can be combined in various
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The learning curve of FPGAs is steep because it's a completely different way of thinking. And if you're thinking about a particular application, I agree that the Cypress chip might be the best solution in a bunch of cases. But the
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That's much more FPGA-like than I expected.

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