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    Comment #49164979

    Spot on, while reading this post I couldn't help be wonder "but what about the prototypes"?

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    Comment #49047281

    No AI was used either for the project itself or for the post. I encourage you to look at the code and the git history.

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    Comment #49043074

    As the designer of "an ethernet connected beacon that counts and never overflows until the heat death of the universe" ( https://talesonthewire.com/projects/until_heat_death_do_us_…

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    Comment #49042863

    No AI was used either for the project itself or for the post.

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    Comment #49042377

    Nice, thanks for posting the link. For the people unfamiliar with the Tiny Tapeout program: everyone that gets a copy of the Tiny Tapeout chip will be getting a copy of all the ASI…

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    Comment #49042359

    True, I went over the EDA stack a bit in a previous article here: https://talesonthewire.com/projects/blake2s_hashing_accelera... This used the librelane classic flow, so it's a lo…

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    Comment #49042058

    You can join multiple Tiny Tapeout tiles (grid squares) together to form bigger projects, which is what I did here. It's actually one of the bigger 4 grid projects. Also how much y…

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    Comment #49041884

    Sounds like they could have used you on that team. Bad luck, but it at least you can walk away proud knowing it was not an issue with your technical skills. :)

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    Comment #49032632

    Well that isn't good new for google's advertising review if this is a trend.

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    Comment #49032613

    This is great!

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    Comment #48985499

    I love this essay so much, it is such on point.

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    Comment #48826455

    Now this is a future 100 billion dollar industry!

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    Comment #48820828

    Can I do a "hold my beer" moment ? https://github.com/Essenceia/ethernet_switch_asic

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    Comment #48820389

    Thanks :) Yeah, the router is defiantly further in the future to, as it additionally requires CPU integration for run the software stack, switches are the first order of business.

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    Comment #48811479

    Alright I am back from the trenches after having written 1k words and as expected: I did not impress myself.

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    Comment #48811456

    Haha, nice one. Defiantly all wrong, if hardware design was a religion I might have been excommunicated for this. Deploying the fix now, it should have been "all nighter".

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    Comment #48811307

    The animated graphics at the end are really cool, how did you make them ?

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    Comment #48811062

    Here is my contribution, titled "The human zoo": https://gist.github.com/Essenceia/c54a8d8fe0d693f96fb7c036f2...

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    Comment #48809821

    I read your nonfiction entry, my thoughts where somewhere along the line of "well this escalated quickly".

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    Comment #48809684

    That is a very good point, such a rule would place a huge burden on the organizers.

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    Comment #48809653

    Next step: open source hardware ASIC for the open router ?

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