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by aappleby 4y ago
Recently I've been much more pleased by the "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Ninja Plus A Few Trivial Scripts". A raw Ninja file is verbose but easy to read and understand, and there is basically no magic happening behind the s
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by aappleby 4y ago
Loved my Eee PC at the time. Just enough computer, cheap, small.
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True, that's similar - but I wouldn't say that SQL alone is enough to build an application.
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That works for the trivial example, but in a larger program I can't realistically say (a,b,c,d,e,f......zzz) = (....) to get the equivalent of an "atomic" update to the program's state.
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Ask HN: What programming languages distinguish between “old” and “new” values?
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Proxxon's Dremel-style multitool combined with the drill press stand works great and is much less single-use. Their mini-mill is also great. Avoid the Proxxon tiny circular saw though, it is utter junk.
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by aappleby 4y ago
How close are we getting to the Shannon limit here?
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Contour Unimouse. Highly recommended.
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Blue Ball Machines: Translating between the software and hardware universes(github.com)
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Metron C++ to Verilog Translator Tutorial(aappleby.github.io)
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A comment and reply from the Reddit thread on r/fpga here - https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/uz2u0a/write_synthesi... - "Sounds all very nice, but isn't it just hdl with a C++ syntax
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by aappleby 4y ago
Hi, I'm the author of MurmurHash and GateBoy, amongst other things. About 6 months ago I started working on a tool to convert GateBoy's source code (after "lifting" it into more standard C++) to Verilog. This project tur
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Show HN: Write synthesizable Verilog in C++ with Metron(github.com)
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...did anyone here read the actual article?
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by aappleby 4y ago
Very rough guesstimates: 200000 * 200 * 2 = 80M tris/sec 200000 * 200 * 32x32px = 40 gpix/sec (if no occlusion culling) Neither of those numbers are particularly huge for modern GPUs. I'd wager that a compute shader + mesh s
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by aappleby 5y ago
Lol, hangs my Pixel 5.
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Robot chef!
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Beepa boops
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by aappleby 5y ago
Niiiice. -Austin, GateBoy guy.
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My lithops is about five years old, it has flowered once and divided once in that time. I give it a teaspoon of water every couple months if it looks wrinkly.
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CPLDs handle programmable logic much differently than FPGAs - it might not actually fit.
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8x8, so 64 4-luts and 64 flipflops? I'm not sure what I could build with that. Maybe a frequency counter with a SPI output, not much more.
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A couple of years ago I decided that I needed to work on a significant project that would occupy me for the rest of my life, plus or minus a few decades. So I did.
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That's not the whole GPU, just the timing part.
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More like "run this low-quality polygon and raytracing renderer at 320x240 @20 fps, upscale to 4k120 with acceptable quality".
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Oh c'mon, it doesn't even link to itself. ;)
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by aappleby 5y ago
Believing yourself capable of making rational decisions about something the experts are still studying is a peculiar sort of fallacy.
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by aappleby 5y ago
What's a god? How can I meaningfully ascribe any qualities whatsoever to a non-corporeal, non-perceptible entity? What does it even mean to ask if things that are outside of our universe "exist"? Etcetera etcetera. You can&#x
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by aappleby 5y ago
I can certainly understand religion in an external, objective sense much as you can understand the various interconnected storylines in something like the Marvel comics/movies, but as soon as you ask me "...but do you _believe_ it
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I am missing whatever the brain circuit is that makes you understand and believe in religions. I can't even call myself atheist or agnostic, as that would require assuming that the statement "Is there a god?" is both coherent

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