wanderingjew

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LLMs Will Replace 8-Track Duplication Engineers(bbenchoff.github.io)
50 points by wanderingjew 4mo ago|13 comments
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SixForty – photo sharing for the Apple II(colino.net)
2 points by wanderingjew 5mo ago|0 comments
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by wanderingjew 6mo ago
What a crime is is determined by the population. For a very long time, the population has given the idea of a "justice system" to... Well, the justice system. Things have deteriorated lately, and the population does not see the ju
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by wanderingjew 8mo ago
There is no documentation of what the LEDs were _actually_ doing. There are descriptions, like 'Random and Pleasing is an LFSR', but no actual information that maps to actual pixel coordinates spaced in time. Nearly zero code. I&#
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by wanderingjew 10mo ago
gettin some real shit hacker news commentors say energy with this one
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
you'd think so, man. you'd really fuckin think so.
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
Author here – I did do the ‘think real hard and write Python’ part, but at the netlist level. I used simulated annealing on the 8196 nets to minimize total length / crossings before importing into KiCad. Where the GPU router comes in i
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
Hi, author here, for this project, the backplane is as much of the computer as the 'daughter cards'. Think of it like the wire-wrap boards of _really old_ minicomputers. I'm using the PDP straight-8 as an analogy here because
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
> On the technical side, somewhat more recent FPGA 'placement' algorithms used a simulated annealing algorithm, while what you didn't isn't about placement, that approach could posisbly help with 'net cross-over
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
Hey, guy who made this here. This probably deserves a little explanation. First off, I'd like to tell you I'm really, really unemployed, and have the freedom to do some cool stuff. So I came up with a project idea. This is only a
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OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad(bbenchoff.github.io)
220 points by wanderingjew 11mo ago|29 comments
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
It's for a 4096-node cluster arranged in a 12-bit hamming-distance 1 graph. If you know what I'm talking about please don't spoil it for the others. Yeah, it's a very expensive hobby project, but I can see some applicati
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
"fame"
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Show HN: GPU-Based Autorouting for KiCad(github.com)
8 points by wanderingjew 11mo ago|6 comments
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by wanderingjew 11mo ago
> Another issue: art and philosophy have very limited or zero dependence on a material substrate. Computation has overwhelming dependence on the performance of its physical substrate That's absolutely false. Do you know why MCM furn
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by wanderingjew 1y ago
I fixed that https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/MacSSL.html
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Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data(bbenchoff.github.io)
174 points by wanderingjew 1y ago|37 comments
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Recreating Mac System 7 as a design portfolio(bbenchoff.github.io)
2 points by wanderingjew 2y ago|0 comments
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by wanderingjew 2y ago
acktually, traditionally, 'batteries' referred to two or more cells. This keeps with the etymology of the word as an emplacement of cannon or guns. If OP meant a single cell, they should have written 'cell', not the sing
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
https://bmsir.ytmnd.com/
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
If you've ever wondered why it's ctrl+g: https://twitter.com/ViolenceWorks/status/1335382435031252992...
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
You are not owed a license. You are not owed neither software nor hardware. If you don't like it, re-create all the work, but don't plagiarize, and release it under whatever open source software you want.
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
You're right. This was taken with a Quicktake 150: https://640by480.com/posts/397/
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
Dale lives in Petaluma; easy commute.
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
FiDi is always dead. Even before covid, the hardware store on Pine was closed on random weekdays. Now at least it's open all weekdays, 8-2. So things are improving, I guess.
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
http://guillotinery.com/
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by wanderingjew 3y ago
Growing up, on the playground, you said, "actually what you just said is a symbol of power of the Roman consuls, so I will take that as a compliment.", didn't you?
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by wanderingjew 4y ago
https://640by480.com/
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by wanderingjew 4y ago
I've got a script on a few of my sites. Initially, the redirect is off. If it passes 100 incoming hits from HN in an hour, I assume it's on the front page. Then I just do some messy scripting to re-enable the script for a few minu
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by wanderingjew 4y ago
Three scenarios: 1. I build these 2. Sell them 3. Trigger it randomly, for the lulz

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