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New comment by tails4e in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

tails4e — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:14:45 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates"

tails4e — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:13:24 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "Perl's decline was cultural"

tails4e — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:54:59 +0000

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, it felt inelegant for a language that is pretty elegant in general

New comment by tails4e in "Perl's decline was cultural"

tails4e — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:15:25 +0000

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 regex capturing. That couldn't be done in python for a long time. I think the walrus operator helps, but it's still not quite as concise, but it's closer

New comment by tails4e in "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"

tails4e — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:09:38 +0000

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 short years. It makes it seem more likely such a game could exist. I'm not sure I like the idea, but it seems like it could happen

New comment by tails4e in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

tails4e — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:54:20 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "Gemini 3"

tails4e — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:48:39 +0000

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 basic calculus knowledge.

New comment by tails4e in "Gemini 3"

tails4e — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:47:17 +0000

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 it both numerically and analytically (for smaller values of x)

New comment by tails4e in "Gemini 3"

tails4e — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:59:22 +0000

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 solutions using RK4 for higher values. Truly impressive, and it explained the derivations beautifully. There are few maths experts I've encountered who could have hand-held me through it as good.

New comment by tails4e in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

tails4e — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:00:46 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug"

tails4e — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:41:06 +0000

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, surely when testing there was some kind of benchmark or comparison to show this feature was an advantage. Maybe they don't test, or they have 'internal firmware' that is not what the user gets, but it's a serious fail either way.

New comment by tails4e in "California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21"

tails4e — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:42:09 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

tails4e — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:31:59 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "2025 State of AI Code Quality"

tails4e — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:20:40 +0000

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 will be littered with code that doe the job functionally, but is not good code, and technical debt will accumulate. Surely this can't be good for the junior Devs or the code bases long term?

New comment by tails4e in "TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech"

tails4e — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:44:10 +0000

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 visible in the fibre.

New comment by tails4e in "Spade Hardware Description Language"

tails4e — Sun, 25 May 2025 12:13:07 +0000

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

New comment by tails4e in "Claude 4"

tails4e — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:58:00 +0000

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 a character in a sorry about that scenario, in a way shows the power, it responds similarly to how a person would protecting itself in that scenario.... So to bring this to a logical conclusion, while not alive in a traditional sense, if an LLM exhibits behaviours of deception for self preservation, is that not still concerning?

New comment by tails4e in "ARMv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm to New Financial Heights"

tails4e — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:44:50 +0000

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?

New comment by tails4e in "ARMv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm to New Financial Heights"

tails4e — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:43:18 +0000

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 get to that level. I'm sure a big player could do just that in house, but many would license Si-Five or similar. It will be interesting to see if Qualcomm and the like would make a move towards RISC-V, given their ARM legal issues

New comment by tails4e in "A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant"

tails4e — Sat, 17 May 2025 08:23:10 +0000

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 update it'll break. Is there a way to fully snapshot a container state and it's disk state, so I can 100% restore to it if something goes wrong ? I'm still running HA from 2020 because of this.

The other think I'm not a huge fan of is it's template language, it's clunky to say the least, but overall it's a great amd flexible system