srjilarious

Congrats! I'm celebrating my 10th now and my son was a hard sleeper until about 7 months. For me, it's just gotten better and better.

I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years.

I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.

I've had the same experience - I spent 6 months last year really digging into Rust and came to the conclusion that for the software I'm writing it's trying to save me from problems that I just don't run into enough to make it worth it.

I ended up jumping over to Zig and have been really enjoying it. I ported the same hobby 2D game engine project from C++ to Rust, and then over to Zig. A simple tile map loader and renderer took me about a week to implement in Rust and 3 hours in Zig. The difference was a single memory bug that took 15 minutes to figure out.

I dual booted Windows on my desktop and laptop for a few years and also noticed lots of weird issues - reduced battery life on my laptop, sleep/hibernate being broken, GRUB occasionally just dying on me. I eventually got rid of Windows all together and now just run Manjaro. I was surprised that suspend issues and battery life on my laptop, for instance, completely went away.

The main thing that kept me on Windows for years was games, but once I jumped into using Proton via Steam on Linux (and now the tweaked Proton GE), I can run almost all of my game library at full speed. The few games I can't play are due to anti-cheat software like Battleye.

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Thanks! I too think GPU programming is quite similar in that you need to think of things in a more data streaming sense. It's sort of functional that way too; building up pipelines of transforms.

Ha, good eye. corrected to 1e6 :)

The IceStick is also nice and a bit cheaper at ~$25 but it has a smaller 1k logic element Ice40 FPGA on it whereas the TinyFPGA-BX has a larger 8k logic element FPGA.

I agree about using C++ for actual ip block implementation. My experience has been pretty mixed. Mostly because the tools (Intel HLS in my case) don't always give you a great idea of what constructs cause you to generate inefficient hdl code.

For example, passing a variable by reference in one context cost me an extra 10% logic blocks, and in another lowered it by 10%. It became a bit of a shotgun approach to optimising

I find this to be true for a lot of applications. Some times it seems like fpgas are hammers looking for a nail.

Where they can shine is if you need some odd combination of peripherals attached to a microcontroller: think of something like a uc with 4 uarts or multiple separate i2c buses.

Anywhere you need a lot of parallel processing that you can guarantee won't be interrupted, like a video processing pipeline is also a good fit.

Really excited to see this out. I've been learning Elixir and Phoenix with the 1.3rc and have really been enjoying it!

I'm a fan of Contexts myself as that is typically how I architect apps on mobile as well. I like having everything separated more explicitly and testable individually and Contexts seem to promote that in a really nice way.