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by beefok 5y ago
Hey sorry, I'm late to the game -- I didn't realize you responded. I do understand your view completely, and maybe I came in reactionary. Honestly I'd have to continue thinking about it to provide any sort of meaningful answe
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by beefok 5y ago
The comparison is not even remotely equivalent. The statue hasn't been destroyed, it was moved to a different location. Islamic destruction of cultural artifacts for 'blasphemy' is a completely different reasoning because it
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by beefok 5y ago
https://californianewstimes.com/sleeping-couple-wake-to-find... I worry about this too. Cripes!
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by beefok 5y ago
cough Factorio cough :)
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by beefok 5y ago
I didn't mean open source, no, and it looks like the free version of yosys has limited support of systemverilog. What I meant were the free toolchains provided by all of the FPGA vendors. They typically support SystemVerilog in synthes
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by beefok 5y ago
Hm, every vendor with free tools (Xilinx/Altera/Lattice/Microsemi etc), seem to be fine with it, along with the usual vendor-specific Modelsim. In fact, most "verilog" synthesis tools actually synthesize SystemVeril
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by beefok 5y ago
I come from a VHDL background (the industry I work in is purely VHDL), but recently I've been enjoying Systemverilog in my personal projects and it fixes a lot of these issues! You can even do: typedef enum bit[1:0] { my_one
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by beefok 5y ago
Personally I'd be worrying about the negative long-term effects of actually contracting COVID-19 [1] [2]. In any case, you're the one making a claim here: can you show the benefits of natural immunity? Can you show the risk vs rew
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by beefok 5y ago
Sometimes secrets imply protecting IP and nothing nefarious.
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by beefok 5y ago
Could I please just get a full movie of The Second Renaissance? :)
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by beefok 5y ago
I guess you need to define what a computer engineer is. To me, (as a computer engineer,) logic gates are a critical portion of my work. I would consider this a classical starting path towards what encompasses the discipline. Of course, soft
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by beefok 5y ago
Sorry I never responded to this, yes it's absolutely possible. I think things are changing and a lot of companies will pay for your degree. Typically you can also negotiate it in a job interview. Usually it does involve keeping good gr
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by beefok 5y ago
My college mentor always said, "do not pay for a Master's degree, find a company who will pay for it." Best damn advice I've ever gotten!
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by beefok 5y ago
They weren't *all riots, for the most part they were peaceful non-violent protests. Your view of reality is through an obvious lens of propaganda if you think protests in Seattle about racial violence vs. attacking the US Capitol to st
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by beefok 5y ago
The ESA and NASA and the like are also using LEON [1] for a lot of their work these days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON
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by beefok 5y ago
This is kind of off topic, but, in my mind, 'right to repair' has more to do with combatting throw-away consumerism versus quality products. Certain appliances could be made much better over having to buy 10 annoying dryers over t
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by beefok 5y ago
While there may always be unexplained phenomenon, it's hard to ascertain how long UAV/Quadcopter technology has existed. Perhaps the battery tech hasn't been here, but who's to say nuclear reactors aren't in play. P
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by beefok 5y ago
Don't forget this happy little Earth hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater edit: upon further investigation, maybe it's not much worse than a bunch of cows farting..
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by beefok 6y ago
I'm looking at this one for a CPU design I've been working on. :) https://github.com/jserv/shecc They just released it!
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by beefok 6y ago
I've been hunting for a good decompressor to use in a low ram microcontroller, for instance, an ARM Cortex M0. I've read an article [1] on LZ4 decompression on the Cortex, but I couldn't understand what kind of memory require
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by beefok 6y ago
This book goes into some great detail about this. :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZLS3TU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... I will always recommend it!
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by beefok 6y ago
At the very least, there's also the Definitive edition which plays great in Win 10. I've enjoyed playing that game again.
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by beefok 6y ago
Originally MIPS (or DLX) was the dominant architecture used for teaching computer architecture because the standard Computer Architecture textbook (by one of the main designers of MIPS, David Patterson [1] along with John L. Hennessy [2])
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by beefok 6y ago
I'd say that's more of a Dungeon Master/Ultima style system, not 2.5D raycasting [0]. I would argue that Midi Maze for Atari ST was more of a pioneer in 1987 [1]. :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_
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by beefok 6y ago
Woo! Congratulations! I have really been enjoying integrating/applying what I have been learning in this book. I don't have anything to show, but it's been great to play with. Thank you for your tireless efforts, Vlad! :)
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by beefok 6y ago
With the size constraint of that reactor (in volume), what's to say it would be used for the public? It could instead be the source of energy for a factory, or a data center for instance. I don't think we have to keep thinking abo
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by beefok 6y ago
Typically fabless CPU/MCU companies design and implement netlists to these CPU designs. It includes all of the logic to implement the CPU. This netlist/VHDL/Verilog design is the protected IP they sell, as well as the rights
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by beefok 6y ago
I feel you completely. The Vivado IDE/toolchain is absolutely atrocious and the designers should be shamed for the horrifying bloatware they push as the STANDARD. Sometimes I have better luck doing everything in tcl/commandline th
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by beefok 6y ago
That's the point buddy. They will now be irrecoverably overwhelmed. Every portion of the infrastructure is going to be overwhelmed.
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by beefok 6y ago
It appears that you don't understand exponential growth. What just began in the USA is an all-but-reversible process now. This isn't just about death count, it's about a complete disablement of any sort of economy or infrastr

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