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So what do you use for debugging?

I've had tinnitus for 25+ years after neglecting an ear infection while I was working overtime. It's never disappeared, but the "rain on a tent" sounds from mynoise.net, fan noise,…

I reverse engineered the Game Boy from pictures of the die - https://github.com/aappleby/metroboy - so yes, it's totally doable. It is also incredibly tedious and frustrating. Not …

If this is "simple", then I don't think the author has tried a good parser combinator library yet.

Get a human to write it or GTFO

Slop

Oh lord, I went to the "ALU" example, did absolutely nothing, clicked "Run Tests" - YOU WIN You didn't test this thing at all, did you?

Why does "Browse" at the top take me to what looks like a scam shopping site? The "Pipelining" level is completely broken - big completely empty grid, no components to place, and y…

yeah crap article :P

Most complexity can be transformed into a set of interlocking simple systems, but getting there is haaaaard.

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This was lovely.

Surely "how to draw a SVG pelican on a bike" has made it into the training data by now ...

tiny coin cell, would run for about six hours

You might enjoy this dime-sized earring I designed ~13 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBhdRp_5rY

this would be more convincing if it wasn't ai written.

The smallest amount of simple code that solves the problem wins. Everything else is irrelevant.

I feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical

Are you sure you're asking the right questions?

Glad I bought a JetKVM, it's been great (other than the HDMI adapter, lol)

No benchmarks?

Yes, but it doesn't need any funny parsing trick to handle them. Just parse the whole statement as a list of expressions joined by operators, and then you can convert the flat list…

Why do I get the overwhelming feeling that the author is not a technical person and they had a LLM write this based on some handwavey ideas? There's virtually no _there_ there. "..…

You're probably already using a RISC-V computer, it's just embedded as a supervisor in some other gadget (or vehicle) you own.

Why "mediocre"? I've written production assembly language for a half-dozen different processor architectures and RISC-V is my favorite by far.