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Yes, I work in hardware design ans the cost to code up the RTL for an idea and compare it to the existing code in terms of PPA, its very expensive in terms of engineering time. Thi…

This is true, but a lot of the top positions are being replaced with unqualified loyalists. It's only a matter of time, if this continues, that the competent workforce gets eroded

How does this compare to CORDIC for sin/cos generation? Which is more accurate, etc ?

My code wasn't written to be hard to decipher, and it wasn't a goal to get everything on one line by any stretch, I just didn't like an if with regext was 2 lines minimum in python…

I liked perl, it was the first language I used daily as a HW engineer. When I moved to python more recently what I missed the most was how easy it was to do a one liner if with reg…

I heard last year the potential future of gaming is not rendering but fully AI generated frames. 3 seconds per 'frame' now, it's not hard to believe it could do 60fps in a few shor…

Why not follow decompilation like ghidra does, rather than guess, compile, compare? It seems more sensible to actually decompile.

I didn't understand the background before the explanation, but afterwards I did. Inl walked me through the mathematical steps and each was logical and ok to follow if you have a ba…

It was. I asked it to give more details on parts of the derivation I didn't quite follow and it did that. Overall it was able to build from the ground up to the solution and solve …

I just had chatgpt explain that problem to me (I was unfamiliar with the mathematical background). It showed how to solve closed form answers for H(2) and H(3) and then numerical s…

Exactly. The solutions can be as simple as this. Israel has the power to fix this, they choose to do the opposite

This makes sense, but what does not make sense is who tested this 'ultimate mode', I mean they went to the trouble of adding a physical hardware switch on the motherboard for this,…

It depends on the blue collar job, but electrician, plumber, roofer, all seem pretty safe from automation for a while at least.

It takes a long time to get form standard to silicon, so I bet there are design teams working on pcie7 right now, which won't see products for 2 or more years

Exactly this. If a junior dev is never exposed to the task of reasoning about code themselves, they never will know what the difference between good and bad code is. Code based wil…

No, this is just an a analogy. The reality is the data is heavily modulated, and also the video is encoded so at no point would something that visually looks like an image be visib…

What do you find thats so awful? Once you understand the main footguns and how to avoid them, it's overall very solid.

Well doesnt this go somewhat to the root of consciousness? Are we not the sum of our experiences and reflections on those experiences? To say an LLM will 'simply' respond as would …

I am surprised more uC use cases have not moved to RISC-5. What do you see keeping you on ARM for what you work on?

RISC-V is not immune from license fees, unless you want to design a high performance core from the ground up. If you want something as capable as an M4, there is years of R&D to ge…

I have it in docker a d use supervised mode (which seems discouraged, but I want my machine for other uses also). The one thing I struggle with is updating, I'm concerned if I upda…

Especially when doing the right/safe thing by default is at worst a minor performance hit. They could change the default to be sane and provide a backwards compatible switch to pra…

SystemVerilog is a much better language than verilog. You can get pretty strong typed behaviour now, if you use the language parts that allow that. It's like C, if you use it poorl…

This is something that has been tried, basically constructing an analog matrix multiply/dot product and it gives reasonable power efficiency at into levels of precision. More preci…

I thought this was going to talk about how printf is implemented. I worked with a tiny embedded processor that had 8k imem, and printf is about 100k alone. Crazy. Switched to a mor…