kop316

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Comment · 3 months ago
Citation needed for this, as this makes no sense.

However, content shifting (i.e. ripping from CD to digital) is a thing, and that's what I do with my physical media.

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Comment · 5 months ago
I have bought a Unicomp keyboard 7 years ago, had none of those problems, it works as well now as the day I bought it.
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Comment · 8 months ago
So something that you can do with PDKs is add your own custom standard cell and tell the EDA tools to use them. This is actually pretty smart, this way you can use most of the foundry cells (which have been extensively validated) and focus on things like this "magic multiplier", that you will have to manually validate. This also makes porting across tech nodes easier if you manage only a handful of custom cells versus a completely custom design.

(I have my guesses as to what that is, but I admittedly don't know enough about that particular part of the field to give anything but a guess).

Comment · 8 months ago
Ohh neat! A generalized version of this was the topic of my PhD dissertation:

https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/thesis/Modern_Gate_Array_De...

And they are likely doing something similar to put their LLMs in silicon. I would believe a 10x electricity boost along with it being much faster.

The idea is that you can create a sea of generalized standard cells and it makes for a gate array at the manufacturing layer. This was also done 20 or so years ago, it was called a "structured ASIC".

I'd be curious to see if they use the LUT design of traditional structured ASICs or figured what what I did: you can use standard cells to do the same thing and use regular tools/PDKs to make it.

Comment · 9 months ago
Look up "piddle packs".
Comment · 9 months ago
Agreed. Doing something about this should have been well over a decade ago, not now. Considering how long it took, this isn't going to bring me back from ordering from Amazon.
Comment · 9 months ago
Not really. I'd rather find out very quickly that someone doesn't know a domain space rather than having to wade through plausible looking but bad answers to figure out the exact same thing.
Comment · 10 months ago
> Since when did “scratch-built” become equivalent to “built from scratch”? As a non-native English speaker, do I need some more English classes?

As a native English Speaker, "scratch-built" is definitely not a common term (I was confused when I read this).

Comment · 10 months ago
ok...and? The post was about making a native GUI app, which GNOME builder is clearly able to do. By your logic, the app in the video won't work across OSes.

My point is this is still clearly possible for native GUI apps.

Comment · 10 months ago
I saw this comment a while ago, and even now, I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
Comment · 10 months ago
Here's the page: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/352475/Canon-PGI-280X...

It's honestly hard to tell, but I think the pack of 5 is for the set, not 5 of each.

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