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by lvoudour 7y ago
Regarding the end of the article: A new category of hardware that beats FPGAs at their own game could bring with it a fresh abstraction hierarchy. The new software stack should dispense with FPGAs’ circuit emulation legacy and, with it, th
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by lvoudour 7y ago
Seems like the author is arguing that when FPGAs are used for "computation" and not for prototyping or replacing ASICs for low volume production, there should be an ISA to abstract the gory details like in GPUs/CPUs, and Veri
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by lvoudour 7y ago
It's seen as part of the standard business expenses like utilities and rent. Of course it squeezes their profit margin but what can they do? Competition is fierce. What most joints do though is to require a minimum price per order to a
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by lvoudour 7y ago
I used to live in Dublin until recently and coming from a country (Greece) where food/coffee delivery is free (apart from any tip), fast and ubiquitous, I was taken aback by the fact I had to pay a substantial delivery fee. The upside
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by lvoudour 7y ago
I personally haven't seen anyone in past ten years or perhaps more using Windows, let alone for programming at any businesses I worked at. Whereever I went, everybody's using Macs with macOS to do development. Is Windows even sti
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Isn't consciousness a manifestation of intelligence? I don't see how the two can be treated separately. Talking about AGI is talking about something that can achieve a level of intellect which can ask questions about "being&q
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by lvoudour 8y ago
How is it a distraction if that's the one and only goal of OpenAI? What are the investors investing in?
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Sorry for being a buzzkill, but if you create something with an intellect on par with human beings and then force it to "create value" for shareholders, you just created a slave.
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Maybe the USA Today site when accessed by EU IPs? https://eu.usatoday.com/
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by lvoudour 8y ago
> Likewise, morality beyond legality is much more likely if it doesn’t yield any ground to competitors Then, why do it at all? You want to tell the world what is right and wrong, fine, do it as an individual, write a book, found a religi
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by lvoudour 8y ago
9/ For many people there is little difference between what is legal and what is moral. This mindset is especially dangerous when it is held by people in power, such as Google's executives. The mindset is: if it's a legal req
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by lvoudour 8y ago
> It's an oversimplification to say that Moore's law is over. Some important metrics have stopped improving. Others are still going, for now. It's not over, but we're seeing trade-offs that we didn't see in the p
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Curious as to why you think AMP is a step to the right direction.
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Look over the man's head ;)
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by lvoudour 8y ago
That's Greece in a nutshell right there. Skills were never relevant, and still aren't. It's all about who you know, and what political leverage you have. The results are there for all to see. I left Greece 6 years ago, and u
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by lvoudour 8y ago
All vendors have linux toolchains. But they are still proprietary and bloated (at least after a point)
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by lvoudour 8y ago
I'm sorry but this is an absurd comment. How do you define Europeans? North/western only? The continent's name is ancient Greek and, while the eastern borders may have changed, there is no point in time where the greek mainla
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Google and co aren't the smiths, they are the ones that hire them
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by lvoudour 8y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I think your comment is spot on > People do move from Juul to more advanced setups, and yes, they step all the way down to 12 or 6 mil (nicotine) off the bat and likely go down to 3 m
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Anyway, if I have a point, it's this: never underestimate the inadequacy of the US primary education system. That happens everywhere it's not an American thing ( btw, the article is from an Irish newspaper), there's too muc
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by lvoudour 8y ago
It's the Balkans: disputes may seem inane to an external observer but they last generations and usually end up in (or perpetuated by) wars. It's the first time since I can remember where a dispute is resolved peacefully, without h
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Started working out, started vaping (and stopped smoking). Noticeable quality of life increase in just a few weeks
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by lvoudour 8y ago
the men's team is a joke. Not American, but I think you're too harsh. It's certainly not top tier but lately it has fared much better than teams with bigger history and love for the sport
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Didn't downvote you, but I fail to see how your comments are related to the original post (why some countries are better at soccer). Anyway, Blind allegiance. Stop and think about the context. P.S. I know European football has a lot o
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by lvoudour 8y ago
That's true, but that doesn't explain why the HDL IDEs lack modern productivity features or why the simulator GUIs have the same interface as 20 years ago. Inertia and vendor lock-in are better explanations IMHO. I hope with FPGAs
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Vivado is absolutely terrible, especially the GUI. Our toolchain at work is set up so that it can be entirely avoided, with developers only writing Verilog in their editor of choice, and calling make or pushing to Jenkins when they want re
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by lvoudour 8y ago
I agree. And barring some groundbreaking invention that completely alters the hardware landscape, I think the trend will be heterogeneous/domain specific ICs. Which means new software development paradigms as well.
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by lvoudour 8y ago
Theories are not laws; only takes one counter-example to disprove them I agree, apparently it only took a couple of minutes in mspaint to disprove yours :) On a serious note, what hermitdev did we've probably all done at some point i
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by lvoudour 8y ago
It's great that you guys treat it like a real news segment and have a neutral stance on each post. But don't be afraid to give your own opinion on the subject. +1 I'm not saying throw away the current format, I like the dig
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by lvoudour 8y ago
>There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry. That's exactly what the article is about :)

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