TomVDB

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811.
by TomVDB 8y ago
(e) Free tickets for some event (which is very often the hook to get you into the door)
812.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I went to a similar presentation in Hawaii for educational purposes and was able to convince my wife and daughter to come along. It was less impressive than we hoped it would be, but we had a good time by replying leading questions with und
813.
by TomVDB 8y ago
It returns the result r, which is a temporary, stack allocated array that becomes undefined by the time your return from the function. That’s the worst violation. Furthermore, r is a fixed 100 bytes. There is no overflow checking whatsoever
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by TomVDB 8y ago
When we bought a house with a pool, I did not keep the existing pool maintenance guy who'd come in every week for $100/month, and neither did I install a better pool vacuum robot. I love the 30min when I come home after work where
815.
by TomVDB 8y ago
My immediate reaction would be the United Fruit Company and it’s dealings in South America. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company But I’m sure you can find instances where oil companies heavily influence
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by TomVDB 8y ago
https://www.esperanto.ai is a similar example, with 4K+ RISC-V cores on a single chip. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/risc-v-processors-mak...
817.
by TomVDB 8y ago
> Why bother with rasterization when you can write a ray tracer in a page of code and get better results? You do realize that ray tracing is ultimately a problem whose performance is determined by the external memory system? Unless you’r
818.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I remember talking with somebody from a startup sometime in ‘99 to work on something like that. These massive number of little cores were supposed to be the next evolutionary step going from customer transistors to standard cells to ... Whe
819.
by TomVDB 8y ago
That was my understanding as well.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wrote "quality of IDE" not "quality of the toolchain" for a reason. In fact, let's reduce this to "quality of the editor." The text editors are absolutely terrible, but that's why they invented Vim.
821.
by TomVDB 8y ago
The lack of multi-register store and load is one is one of my biggest gripes with the RISC-V ISA. It just hurts to see the compiler waste 32 x2 bytes just to save and restore register context. (It matters a lot when you have a little CPU wi
822.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I don’t see how the quality of the IDE has any influence on what selection of FPGA to use. We select FPGAs based on HW features and that is that. The tools are more than good enough for debugging or to kick off an occasional custom synthesi
823.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Partnership has never been about who works the hardest. It's about who takes (or took) the most risk to get the business started. If the employer pays a generous salary for work done well, I don't see what the problem is.
824.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I haven't used it in a while, but before AR kit, there was already MagicPlan, an app that allows one to record all the corners and locations of door and windows in a house, and then automatically stitch it together into an architectura
825.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I hate to rain on the open source FPGA parade, but I do a lot of hobby FPGA stuff using both closed (Quartus, ISE) and open (yosys, arachne) source, and when I have the choice, I go closed source every time I have the chance. It’s not the t
826.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Exactly: it’s impossible to quantify such a minor policy in the context of vastly different kinds of economies.
827.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Do you believe that anyone who has a hobby website with a forum needs an official privacy document, presumably vetted by a lawyer.
828.
by TomVDB 8y ago
There’s a big difference between ignoring somebody’s privacy and having an official lawyered document that spells them out. I’m sorry that this is a distinction you weren’t able to make.
829.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Read the nightmare letter. How hard is it to reply to just “a few” questions like that?
830.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Maybe the request is an overreaction?
831.
by TomVDB 8y ago
In order to reply to your questions, the mark would have to study the GDPR one way or the other to answer them. That by itself is way too much hassle.
832.
by TomVDB 8y ago
This is so incredibly tonedeaf: do you honestly think that small hobby-scale websites have a privacy policy?
833.
by TomVDB 8y ago
How much growth can be attributed to something like this? And what's the total impact on overall growth of the economy? It's probably a rounding error, and a pretty reasonable trade-off to make.
834.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I just googled the email of the CEO of my company. First hit on Google was https://www.ceoemail.com . And the email address matched the one of our Outlook server. So it's apparently very searchable.
835.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I went from a regular keyboard to the Microsoft Sculpt. A few year later, most people of my group at work have switched to them too. It's not perfect: the ESC key is a flimsy little knob and I'm a heavy vim user, but you get used
836.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I had exactly the same problem. Heavy tendinitis in my right elbow, mostly due to a regimen of squash, badminton, and rock climbing multiple times per week. I similarly switched to trackball mouse and keyboard without num pad (I was already
837.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that many ordinary European (and US!) citizen are pretty happy about the GDPR as well. If clicking an extra button is really all it takes. But despite the assurances of many here that it's not hard to comply, I&#x2
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Indeed, there is not. I had to run the example design to fully understand what it's trying to do.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Alright, let's talk about your comments: > Asynchronous resets are fundamental because they are not dependent of the presence of a working clock. Yes. And a clock is fundamental because without one, your design wouldn't work ei
840.
by TomVDB 8y ago
The arguments that you give are pretty trivial and easy to solve once and for all compared to physical design consequences (which you don’t mention at all.) They were definitely not sufficient to stop the conversion of millions of lines of

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