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by bsder 5mo ago
.100 headers tend to be smaller than most TagConnect/EdgeConnect footprints and you don't have to use expensive custom cables. The alignment mechanisms on TagConnect/EdgeConnect negate any space advantage.
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by bsder 5mo ago
> The spice core that ngspice is built off is terrible code. It has a long history going back to 1970s era fortran. Starting fresh is probably preferable That code is also hyper-optimized for performance . I sincerely doubt you are goi
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by bsder 5mo ago
> As an amateur in the space Why are you not using this through KiCad? That's what I would expect an amateur to do; especially since they handle the UX that you are complaining about. And you are complaining about tangled code but
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by bsder 5mo ago
> They cannot be that bad if they are managing to be ductape of the internet. Oh, it very much can be that bad. Most "security" relies on the Hungry Tiger Theory of Security(tm). My system doesn't need to be "secure&
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by bsder 5mo ago
I don't have much of a problem with the $100K penalties. I have a lot more issue with a $2.5K limit--that could be just one or two (intentionally or unintentionally) misreported payments. Or a paycheck hiccup. Or a layoff. Or a go
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by bsder 5mo ago
You gave an ad hominem attack with no substantive response. I can do that too: "Your account is less than a year old and is AI slop farming." Mailing lists are old, boring, boomer tech. Ayup. They are. And they work. However,
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by bsder 5mo ago
I really don't understand the folks fleeing to Discord. A mailing list does 99% of the same thing for most of the communities. Sure, if you want to chat while gaming, that's the whole point of Discord. Ganbatte. But, for everyt
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by bsder 5mo ago
> The idea that we should allow cheap vehicles to flood the domestic market because that will "cause the US auto manufacturers compete" ignores the wholly uneven playing field at work here We have been here before . This is J
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by bsder 5mo ago
> Nobody wants to even show up for ROCM I hear this over and over yet AMD's AI revenue dwarfs its consumer revenue. Somebody is buying AMD cards for AI. I would love to know who.
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by bsder 5mo ago
> I think you'd end up breaking up (or trying to) Lloyds of London, Spacex, Fedex, DHL, Boeing, Panasonic, ASML, Google, Apple, and many other very specialized companies. I see exemplars and no counterexamples. Boeing turned to garb
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by bsder 5mo ago
> do they immediately get broken up? Yes. Always. At all levels. I might provide a limit below which that doesn't happen (like $50 million in revenue), but as soon as you cross that limit, scrutiny should be automatic. > This
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by bsder 5mo ago
> That's not to say it's an easy problem to solve. Incorrect. You simply decide that having less than 5 suppliers at any level is unacceptable and you bust companies up, repeatedly until you have those suppliers. That way w
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by bsder 5mo ago
> Canned fruit, like what these farmers were producing, has been losing popularity for years. You can't force consumers to like it. Has canned fruit actually lost popularity? Or did the grocery stores decide that the shelf space
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by bsder 5mo ago
Yours is a common misunderstanding, as well. Occam's Razor only kicks in when the hypotheses have equal predictive and explanatory power. The MOND hypothesis does NOT have equal explanatory power with the dark matter hypothesis. As
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by bsder 5mo ago
Abandoning aether was NOT a "simple" answer. One you abandon aether, all manner of weirdness suddenly pops in. Light being the same speed irrespective of observer is weird. Velocity dilating length and time is weird. Not havi
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by bsder 5mo ago
> Occam's razor would point towards some general misunderstanding on which we have no evidence to reasonably speculate a cause. Dark matter is the Occam's Razor theory. It explains almost all of the observations while assumi
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by bsder 5mo ago
At this point, online fraud control is getting absurd, and AI is just making it untenable. I simply won't use ebay for anything above $50 anymore. Having physical locations that you have to come to pick up your Thneed protects both bu
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by bsder 5mo ago
And most families only had a single car prior to 1980. What's your point? Did airlines get cheaper due to deregulation or because technology and engineering made operating them cheaper?
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by bsder 5mo ago
Zig also differentiates between the wrapping and non-wrapping operators. The for loop example would toss a runtime error when the index underflowed in most compiler modes. The if statement won't work since Zig would force a cast. The
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by bsder 5mo ago
AltaVista had a Java applet that would visualize the "clusters" that a search produced. You could then click on a "cluster" in order to exclude all the irrelevant ones and the search results would update. For example: S
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by bsder 5mo ago
> This fingerprinting is incredibly sloppy What part of "vibe coding" is unclear to you? These are the same people that use React as a TUI and render at 60FPS to your terminal in order to update a spinner.
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by bsder 5mo ago
Please apply this loop to nextpnr for any of the commodity Xilinx, Altera, or Lattice parts. For example, everything about Lattice has been stuck for almost a decade at this point.
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by bsder 6mo ago
It only makes sense to me because I tried to implement a RISC-V on these Gowin FPGAs and banged into the limitations and can distill them down. A junior engineer looks at this post-AI, shrugs, and says "I'm done." The AI d
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by bsder 6mo ago
Dude, back off the buzzkill on my vibe code, man. I told Claude what I wanted, and it works fine on my machine. What kind of Karen are you that you expect me to check if it works for other people? I mean you have Claude, too, so fix it yo
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by bsder 6mo ago
> The frontier is the verifier. Um, yes? The big value that AMD had in the x86 market over competitors was their verification model. This has been known for decades. > 3-seed nextpnr P&R on a Gowin GW2A-LV18 (Tang Nano 20K) — me
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by bsder 6mo ago
The issue isn't the terminal. The issue seems to be that Claude is using React to render to that terminal at 60FPS like a goddamn video game Vibe coding is soooo awesome! And people thought that Electron was a resource pig. You a
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Waymo is an expensive taxi service, not a solution to public transport. Why not both? The absolute biggest problems with mass transit in the US are the "first mile" and the "last mile". If I wanted to take mass tran
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by bsder 6mo ago
> And the 14 people who ran their own source code interfaces scoffed and said "see. I told you." And we all said "yup" - we knew something would happen one day, but that was a worst-case-scenario that few thought was
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by bsder 6mo ago
But how do you handle arguments or loop index variables? Your liveness is the entire function? You have to compile all the WASM chunks together in order to do any optimization? That seems ... problematic. Edit: Yep. In article referen
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by bsder 6mo ago
I have never seen an electrical engineer who managed to skip the university context let alone an RF electrical engineer. Zero. None. There is a reason why so many people from engineering can switch to software while the converse almost ne

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