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by VonTum 1y ago
Well no, some objects (notably Cell<>) require Copy, because clone(&self) takes a reference and can do arbitrary things with the Cell (including overwriting the data its ref points to via Cell::set())
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by VonTum 1y ago
The minimum pressure differential needed to perform reverse osmosis is bigger than the pressure differential between a collumn of fresh and a collumn of salt water of equal height.
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by VonTum 1y ago
Who could possibly be in favor of this? Like sure industry lobbying is strong but could any politician really argue they're acting in the interest of their constituents with this?
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by VonTum 1y ago
Yup, HLS is ridiculously fickle in that regard. In our lab we had the case that swapping out a C-style array T[] for a C++ std::array 10x-ed our resource consumption with no explanation. And also the general problem of scribing resource use
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by VonTum 1y ago
In academia people use general purpose languages (Notably C++ dialects) for FPGA design quite a lot. And there's definitely a glut of papers published on the development of such "High Level Synthesis" tools. In order to use t
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by VonTum 1y ago
https://archive.is/hVTit
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by VonTum 1y ago
I commend all those who take the risk of setting up these bypasses. You take enormous personal legal risk in providing a service that morally shouldn't have been paywalled in the first place. Knowledge wants to be free after all.
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by VonTum 1y ago
For me the "should I use a library for this" comes down to if I want to be able to dip under the abstraction. For instance: terminal color codes. I'm building for linux, but would like my code to be reasonably portable to oth
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by VonTum 1y ago
They could've at least added left-pad as an example of a bad dependency, instead of the cop-out
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by VonTum 1y ago
You'll find many (including myself) who find Microsoft's purchase of Minecraft to be a huge loss for the game. I'll admit that the acquisition wasn't the calamity people were fearing, but overall it's still been a n
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by VonTum 1y ago
For really basic syntax stuff it works, but the moment you ask its advice on anything involving ChatGPT has confidently led me incredibly wrong right-sounding trails. To their credit, the people on the Rust forum have been really responsive
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by VonTum 1y ago
I find it unproductive to assign emotion to such blatant corruption. I'd rather frame it as "That comissioner sees it to be in his personal best interest to not stop consumers being robbed by big corps."
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by VonTum 1y ago
1.75mN can certainly be measured on earth. I would of course be happy to hear about a new physics breakthrough, but putting all the VC buzzwords together "proprietary quantum whatever" does not instill confidence.
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by VonTum 1y ago
Why does this give me EM-Drive vibes? Haven't we established that some kind of propellant is required for conservation of momentum?
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by VonTum 1y ago
I am building a Hardware Design Language for FPGA accelerators. The big trick or the language is that it doesn't hide the pipelining you have to do to up your FMax, instead, you can manually add register stages in the places they'
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by VonTum 1y ago
As for bloatware-free phones: Fairphone. I've been using one for more than 4 years now, replaced the screen after dropping it, and I bought an extra battery to keep my gps alive on long ski trips.
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by VonTum 1y ago
The irony! Though, I'll grant that there's not really a way to argue this without showing videos
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by VonTum 1y ago
I had a bit of a chuckle that apparently 5 out of 50000 opening "(" parentheses weren't closed, but then I saw that 2 out of 12000 "]" brackets weren't opened! What criminal is using these standalone?
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by VonTum 1y ago
My experience is similar to the SDAM described in the post. Indeed factual information, or things that are linked to locations are easy to access, yet more arbitrary information like "That one restaurant is named Fleep Burger" or
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by VonTum 1y ago
What a weird crabs-in-a-bucket argument against unions. "Don't empower yourself and the rest of your colleagues because they might get powerful enough to kick you out"? The whole reason H1Bs were invented is to disempower the
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by VonTum 1y ago
> As one HDL theory expert once told me "Too many high level HDLs try to abstract out time, when what they really need to do is expose time." Exactly! It's astounding how often the documentation of some vendor component ha
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by VonTum 1y ago
I've been wondering how long it'd take for it to show up here. I can attest to Frans (the lead dev) being a talented and highly active developer. It's frankly quite intimidating to be a competitor of his. ( https://
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by VonTum 1y ago
I agree, likely the first immortal person has already been born. Perhaps even large swaths of the population are already effectively immortal, but they just don't know it yet. Sadly, my main fear is that immortality will only be availa
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by VonTum 2y ago
https://archive.is/BgoLl
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by VonTum 2y ago
There's a reason just about every TI-84 emulator (Cemetech, WabbitEmu, Ti-calc) requires you to copy and upload your own OS ROM. They all specifically mention this is due to fear of being sued on their websites. Though I hope one day t
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by VonTum 2y ago
It is uncanny how well this describes me. I've been trying all kinds of things, like website blockers, timeouts, breaks, etc. nothing's stuck. And it's all about "getting in the zone". Once I'm there, things fl
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by VonTum 2y ago
The german word is "Verloren" (Also in Dutch) But the similarity is striking still
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by VonTum 2y ago
I'm just so tired of this VC urge to monetize every possible aspect of human interaction. You're selling yourself as a "community", but instead of actually doing that you lure people in with a free trial, to then use the
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by VonTum 2y ago
I'd go for a 3-month hike. Maybe try a big one like the Appalachian trail. Sure you need some money for a tent, good coat, camping stove etc. But the day-to-day costs for hiking are minimal.
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by VonTum 2y ago
Still travel, see the world. Experience physical reality! Spend whatever money you have to make your final days pleasant. 12 weeks isn't going to build you a legacy. So just drop the workaholism.

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