vanjoe

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by vanjoe 9y ago
Why is the kilogram the base unit instead of gram?
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by vanjoe 9y ago
Rubber duck is trying to lead you astray. Use emacs!
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by vanjoe 9y ago
Is this true? I don't know anything about writing interpreters, but wouldn't function pointers work?
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by vanjoe 9y ago
Reading the history of fixed width simd is agonizing, every generation trying to fix mistakes. You'd think they'd learn eventually.
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by vanjoe 9y ago
As long as you allow that society has the right to force people to be locked up without their consent because they broke a law, I don't think it's a stretch to say that society has the right to force people to do work.
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by vanjoe 9y ago
VLF is not easy to deploy, from Wikipedia : "Transmitting antennas for VLF frequencies are very large wire antennas, up to a mile across. "
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by vanjoe 9y ago
What determines autonomous flying? Couldn't the drone just hover in the middle of the room and not crash? Would that count? Don't you need some sort of increased score for moving around?
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by vanjoe 9y ago
> kept all of humanity from a tragic end Humanity would have survived, lots of people would Die, but not everyone
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by vanjoe 9y ago
What's up with kids buying lunches at school? At my school everyone brought lunches with them. Never had any drama that I can remember.
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by vanjoe 9y ago
I wouldn't say lattice tools are super helpful, I've spent more hours cursing icecube2 than I care to recall.
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by vanjoe 10y ago
I don't think this is true. I'm not an expert on application scale CPUs, but I think they actually have ROMs that control state machines that execute the instructions. This is similar to how regular instructions are stored in memo
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by vanjoe 10y ago
Always comparing,never evaluating against an outside standard. We'll never break the n log(n) barrier
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by vanjoe 10y ago
Is Vancouver really in the class of london and new York? (I've lived my whole life in a Vancouver suburb, and I'm curious how the world views us)
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by vanjoe 10y ago
I think adding absolutes is not helpful
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New tiny FPGA from lattice(businesswire.com)
6 points by vanjoe 10y ago|0 comments
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by vanjoe 10y ago
Right, you usually have some idea of how Look up tables an n bit add operation, or an n bit multiplexer etc takes up. You also need to take into account how much memory and multipliers you need since FPGAs have multiplier and ram blocks bui
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by vanjoe 10y ago
Yes, it is built to be as lightweight as possible. We have used it with wishbone devices on ICE40 chips, which are about as small as they come
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by vanjoe 10y ago
The biggest feature change is the addition of interrupt support. Also stability and bug fixes.
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ORCA – An implementation of RISC-V intended to target FPGAs(github.com)
77 points by vanjoe 10y ago|14 comments
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4th RISC-V Workshop Proceedings(riscv.org)
16 points by vanjoe 10y ago|2 comments
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by vanjoe 11y ago
Yes, that is more or less true, the problem you would run into is communication between cores. When you have lots of cores you run into problems if they all want to talk to the same memories. If they were could all run more or less independ
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by vanjoe 11y ago
I'm the principle author, I can answer any questions