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by aseipp 8y ago
Chisel isn't high level synthesis. It's not a good name to describe it when the overwhelming majority of "HLS" projects are C/C++ compilers and are completely different beasts in design and theory. Honestly, almost
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by aseipp 8y ago
Sorry, but as another commenter said, you may not like Pijul for whatever reason or think it's "bad" someone is working on it, but your argument that git's model is not exposed to the user and that there is no difference
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by aseipp 8y ago
If you don't want to pay fees or simply think having to ask permission sucks, that's one thing. But if you think an App Store somehow is subject to the laws and power of a nation, or actor of the state, and a website is not -- wel
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by aseipp 8y ago
I think it's mostly just sticker shock. Downloading another thing, and it's a bit spoiling these days when most toolsets have some amount of cross-editor support. You can do similar things in various language modes in VS Code, aft
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by aseipp 8y ago
FoundationDB does not support true geo-replicated multi-region distribution the way Cassandra, Spanner, Cockroach, etc do, at least not without paying huge latency/round trip costs. If you want to avoid that, the best you can have is a
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by aseipp 8y ago
FreeRTOS isn't a desktop class operating system (which QNX was fine at), it's a kernel for microcontroller class devices. QNX was a real desktop, not just a kernel. RT-Linux is an external patchset that still only gives you Linux,
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by aseipp 8y ago
The Nintendo Switch uses the Tegra X1 which fits in a traditional power profile of ~10W, but it is somewhat downclocked (about 1/2 the OOTB specs) to drive that power usage down more, helping achieve its current battery life. So a 10W
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by aseipp 8y ago
Do you consider the Switch "serious gaming" or do you mean "serious graphics"? I don't know what "serious gaming" means and I doubt it means anything really, but in terms of raw performance: The TX2 defaul
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by aseipp 8y ago
Timescale isn't really a columnar database, it's more like an advanced partitioning extension for time-series data ("any data you want to shard based on a time column") where you can optionally include other partition ke
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by aseipp 8y ago
Wonderful. I just updated the FoundationDB packages in NixOS to 6.0.15 at the release earlier this month. Will try packaging this up soon as well...
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by aseipp 8y ago
That doesn't really change much in all honesty; it just disables support for things like the fTPM, secure sleep states, and some communication mailbox primitives (that allow things like offloading encryption to the PSP coprocessor, thr
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by aseipp 8y ago
Here is a counterpoint: The C language is not finished, and many programmers like myself would like to see the language continue to evolve and grow in reasonable ways, especially given the fact we'll keep on writing it for a while to c
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by aseipp 8y ago
It's wild that so many people here think that e.g. major cloud vendors use the same purchasing logic for multi-hundred-million dollar deals on tens/hundreds of thousands of units, that a 17 year old uses when deciding how to spend
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by aseipp 8y ago
I'm not totally sure if those graphs are really representative of that, or at least they should be taken with a grain of salt. I've been using Nix for quite a while and I add packages I'm missing semi-regularly (although many
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by aseipp 8y ago
When you're doing development, you can generally use `nix-shell` to install all the pre-requisite tools. If you wanted to compile GNU hello, for example, you'd do: $ nix-shell -A hello Which will populate a temporary shel
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by aseipp 8y ago
They also have a new T2 chip, just like the new Air, and every incarnation of the T2 seems to include the SSD controller for the disk that provides inline encryption, tying the chipset/storage more deeply than before. I'd say it&#
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by aseipp 8y ago
> $400 too expensive? PS4 cost $350-$500 and has sold over 80 million units. The PlayStation brand has roughly two decades of solid hits and great sales, and cultural credit. People know what they're getting into. VR has no such cla
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by aseipp 8y ago
> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship. No, but launching a new ship is a bad idea if your reasons are frivolous. It's a waste of resources. Most people seem to think that resources like labor and trust are magical and gro
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by aseipp 8y ago
"Mega language popularity"[1] is largely driven by boom-and-bust fads, my friend, as well as cultural artifacts like word-of-mouth -- and the number of people who generally make any language decisions about them based on minute de
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by aseipp 8y ago
That ship already sailed way over a decade ago (or longer) and changing it now would just massively add to the confusion between what Perl 5 and 6 are. You can't retroactively rewrite every webpage and reference in history, and it&#x27
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by aseipp 8y ago
> Same with commercial/copy-left development of course, but I'm seeing too much copy-left righteousness these days. I'm not sure what planet you live on, but the GPL and other various copy-left licenses have been on the sl
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by aseipp 8y ago
That paper doesn't have anything to do with what the original poster said, which is that extremely large scale VLSI-style designs don't use FPGAs, but instead use large-scale, extremely expensive and fast simulators instead. That&
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by aseipp 8y ago
Zing and Zulu are not the same. Zing is a commercial JVM that has no open source equivalent, and has a completely bespoke design from my understanding -- calling Zing a "modified openjdk" is a stretch, from what I understand (espe
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by aseipp 8y ago
Xilinx recently created (then revoked) an open-source tool called "RapidWright" that might give you an idea -- it was basically a big Java API for manipulating and controlling Xilinx DCPs/bitstreams, allowing for some interes
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by aseipp 8y ago
But no hardware engineer would think of it that way in such a hypothetical product scenario, if they were designing it. Because: - If many units are being sold, BOM choices matter. People optimize part choices down to fractions of a penny o
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by aseipp 8y ago
You should not use AWS F1 instances if you are just starting out. They will burn a nice-sized hole in your wallet and the only thing you'll get in return is confusion and frustration as a beginner. The AWS F1 devkit and APIs are largel
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by aseipp 8y ago
Yes, they can do traditional cryptography pretty well (depending on the algorithm, of course.) AES-128 in an FPGA can encrypt a full 16-byte block every clock cycle when done right. With 100Mhz clock that's about 2.3Gbp/s, well wi
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by aseipp 8y ago
To be clear (for anyone reading), it's SubstrateVM's whole-program compiler (and corresponding analysis') that does this, not Graal itself -- Graal can be used as an ordinary JVMCI compiler in an ordinary JDK, like HotSpot C2
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by aseipp 8y ago
TLS has nothing to do with it, though, and TLS-or-not isn't relevant to the vulnerability. This exact same issue would be a problem with TLS enabled on Alpine repositories, because any mirror could have just served you a malicious pack
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by aseipp 8y ago
Realistically the security research community who find things like phone exploits are very well accustomed to a lack of source code, and in many particular niches of infosec -- it's a baseline assumption for almost all analysis work.

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