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by tails4e 5y ago
Musk has done great things, but he's wrong about vision alone being good enough. The assertion that humans use vision alone to drive is nice marketing, but not good enginnering. Vision is easily fooled. Lidar and radar provide very val
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by tails4e 5y ago
Physical hardware disconnect for mic and camera is badly needed. I've a square of duct tape I stick over the camera of a 2.5k laptop. Madness.
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by tails4e 5y ago
Thoroughly enjoyable read, and explained a complex system excellently. Well done.
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by tails4e 5y ago
In hardware (chip) design code verification is done by seperarate engineers. Design engineers have some test code to kick the tyres, but sign off is done independently and rigoirlsy, with functional coverage linked to specification document
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by tails4e 5y ago
I agree, if an amateur like me can articulate an issue I've no doubt the experts are well aware of it. However it does not change the fact that there is no real intelligence, it's fancy pattern matching that works when given enoug
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by tails4e 5y ago
It's not the cameras that worry me, it's the whole issue that AI is not remotely intelligent. Image recognition is step 1, and NNs are pretty good at it, but can still be fooled. However taking those images, properly interpreting
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by tails4e 5y ago
I've hit heavy swapping cases a few times on my home linux box and was dissapointed in oom killer. I wanted it to kill something so I could get my system back, but it didn't seem to trigger. Instead the system became progressively
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by tails4e 5y ago
I wrote some code (I'm an engineer) that ended up being the core logic of a HW driver that was linked to linux. One of the actions by the SW dev team was to reformat it to 80 chars wide. Made it less readable by a long way, even spilt
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by tails4e 5y ago
I use systemverilog daily, and it's very powerful. What does myhdl bring that's a game changer or even significant advantage in practice? SV has quite powerful synatx, especially for verification, and it seems this replicates the
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by tails4e 5y ago
Thanks, that was a great read and watch. The progress made over a few weeks was immense. I didn't know about computron until you mentioned it in the video, so I have to ask, would serenity run under computtron? If so, could a serenity
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by tails4e 5y ago
I've watched many of your videos and love your approach to building complex features, building the skeleton first with asserts for uimplemeted code paths. However I'd love to see how you got started, the first early (before gui) s
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by tails4e 5y ago
May be true of analog EEs, but more than half of EEs I work with, and all the good ones, can script well. They use perl/python for day to day, and tcl to interact with tools. The number who can use tcl well is a lot lower than those wh
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by tails4e 5y ago
All EDA uses tcl, so no surprise Intel would too. A while back I saw some vendors tried to make perl or python an option, but tcl is the de facto language in this space those vendors often abandoned the having multiple scripting interfaces
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by tails4e 5y ago
Thanks. You definitely don't want the junction temp anywhere near 125c, the leakage would be very high. I thought most processors in due temp was 75-85c max, and will throttle severely if it goes above that.
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by tails4e 5y ago
What is the cold temp helping with? AFAIK transistors no longer get faster at cold, at least since 16nm the perforamce at sub 1V thin-ox transistors is pretty flat with temperature. Cold helps a lot with power though, leakage at hot (100C)
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by tails4e 5y ago
Agreed. The misuse of media (social and 'news') is the root of the rot. Its a shame in a first world country, thst so much of the population is so intentionally misinformed, and there seems to be no appetite to fix it.
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by tails4e 5y ago
I use TCL as I use EDA SW a lot, but I found the most horrible feature of TCLs language design, comments are not comments. A comment is a command to ignore the line. However a comment with a curly brace in it can break control flow, as its
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by tails4e 5y ago
HFT seems like it should be illegal. The 'idea' of the markets is that its fair access to all, at least in theory. I understand there is always assymetry, but things like insider knowledge has been made illegal to try keep the fai
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by tails4e 5y ago
FPGAs let you define the structure of the hardware, and implementing fixed point is a lot simpler in terms of logic gages used and usually higher performance. You absolutely could use floating point, but the HW cost would be high, so most f
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by tails4e 5y ago
I took think id be terrible at this. I doubt I'd describe my own face to a sketch artist well, let alone a fleeting meeting with a stranger..
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by tails4e 5y ago
Those who rise to the top are less likely to be influenced by social norms? Its perhaps supportive of the adage that more CEOs have psychopathic tendencies than the average population. It makes absolute sense that is the case, often to get
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by tails4e 5y ago
It is a bit much that ECC is only availble on xeons, as ecc is incredibly cheap in terms of circuitry. Glad to see AMD are including it on mid end products.
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by tails4e 5y ago
This is interesting, it seems like it may in fact be testing by looping, given it took a minute, and didn't conclude. For hardware design there are logic equivalence checking tools that work very differently - they essentially work by
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by tails4e 5y ago
This is me exactly. I feel like 10x and 0.1x at the same time, depending on the area.
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by tails4e 5y ago
The base S is 85k (depending on the week, it changes so much). It has the same performance as the model 3 performance (top end 3) and more range. I think the s is a much nicer car, though 25k is a lot more. The S was as low as 70k at one st
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by tails4e 5y ago
SSO is in place, but that browser was already signed in, so should not require it again. Redirects are between things with names like visualforce. Maybe it's not 10, but it's a lot. Can Firefox developer tools be used to track the
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by tails4e 5y ago
I've a dumb question as I don't use salesforce daily persay, however I feel our corporate intranet has been 'upgraded' to use a CRM style interface which may be salesforce SW as the backend, which I suspect purely as the
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by tails4e 5y ago
This may be an ignorant comment (as this is not my area), but I've ways wondered if say acient remains of someone like shaq were found and dated to be the same as a man 5ft tall, would we claim they were different species, or is there
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by tails4e 5y ago
I'm not sure I get the insulation aspect. Sure when compared with concrete block wood is better, but wood is still a thermal bridge. In parts of Europe a cavity between two block walls is filled with insulation, so no cold bridge, and
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by tails4e 5y ago
It seems education in most first world countries is heading the same way, teacher authority being undermined by weak administration. It should be the case that education standards are protected by strong administration, bothnto hold teacher

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