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New comment by tliltocatl in "The dead economy theory"

tliltocatl — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:11:28 +0000

But that's core product. That's how they make money. Whatever it's a good idea to make money that way is a different story.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Adding Reflection to C"

tliltocatl — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:48:20 +0000

Been there… Pendantic nitpick: it's more akin to introspection, reflection would be self-modifying code.

New comment by tliltocatl in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

tliltocatl — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:59:50 +0000

Xilinx has the best silicon. Everyone else is behind. Altera is basically dead thanks Intel. Lattice is nice for low power but performance-wise they are behind. Don't know much about Microchip, but from the little I've heard their tooling is a disaster even by the standards of FPGA tooling. Then there are Gowin (not bad, but Chinglish docs and everything), Gatemate (pretty innovative and vendor-backed nextpnr support - but only one low-mid FPGA with a promise to release chiplet assemblies of it latter). And Effinix - don't know much about them, do anyone have experience?

New comment by tliltocatl in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

tliltocatl — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:50:11 +0000

The software is useless without their chips and the chips cost a fortune. It's not "business model no longer supports giving away free stuff". It's just bean-counters cutting corners.

New comment by tliltocatl in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

tliltocatl — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:41:33 +0000

> - AI upscaling of low res footage

I'd say this is far more problematic than plain slop.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

tliltocatl — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:17:07 +0000

Without continuous feedback from real world, lower-probability token (and soon high-probability ones as well) will be complete garbage.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Show HN: GuideOS – A radar-first, off-grid navigation kernel for edge robotics"

tliltocatl — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:22:44 +0000

Looks like a typo (extra H at the end of URL).

New comment by tliltocatl in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

tliltocatl — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:02:20 +0000

I guess FPGA division (nee Xilinx, which was always a bit sketchy, even if they had best silicon) doesn't learn much from the GPU division.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"

tliltocatl — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:12:34 +0000

Just write C then.

New comment by tliltocatl in ""Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024)"

tliltocatl — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:26:20 +0000

> What could be more anthropomorphic than "social structures"?

Group of humans doesn't behave like individual humans do. And we can't have same ethical expectations towards groups as we do towards individuals. As simple as that.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?"

tliltocatl — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:41:24 +0000

That's the most annoying part of C. And yes, "I hate implicit" people, I can hear you, but this hampers refactoring A LOT. The number of times I've found myself in "need to move this piece into this function, but then this struct becomes a pointer and I've fix the dots and arrows"…

New comment by tliltocatl in ""Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024)"

tliltocatl — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:19:18 +0000

Don't anthropomorphize the grass cutter. All social structures, be it for-profit corporation or something else, are ultimately like this. Use the good thing while it is still there, ditch it once they pivot to being assholes. No hard feelings.

New comment by tliltocatl in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

tliltocatl — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:15:41 +0000

> full project code search

grep

> go to definition

/definition

Not even using vim, I'm more of a micro person.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

tliltocatl — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:28:21 +0000

Data retention is probably unusable for archival purposes.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

tliltocatl — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:34:05 +0000

Meh. The problem is that it might start receiving you local radio station and end up deterministic enough to screw you. So you need to shield the dirt properly.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Inventing Cyrillic (2024)"

tliltocatl — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:14:44 +0000

Х is ch in Bach rather than h, and apparently, anglophones can distinguish those. I can't.

New comment by tliltocatl in "Inventing Cyrillic (2024)"

tliltocatl — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:52:14 +0000

It absolutely doesn't as pronounced now, yet Thomas is Фома, Theodor is Феодор, etc. Just like Hertz is Герц, even through Г and H are as far from each other as one can get.

New comment by tliltocatl in "The USB Situation"

tliltocatl — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:07:42 +0000

Besides what retatop and crote said - USB4 uses either binary or PAM-3, 10GBASE-T uses PAM-16. Higher modulation means lower frequency bandwidth (so longer and/or crappier cable), but also more current-hungry line driver and more current required to keep noise manageable.

New comment by tliltocatl in "The USB Situation"

tliltocatl — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:59:22 +0000

I'd rather prefer Ethernet over USB 2.0. Full duplex, galvanically isolated and cheap fiber converters, (relatively) lightweight host implementation possible, no "transaction translator" madness (at the cost of slightly more expensive hubs). Too bad it is such a power hog.

New comment by tliltocatl in "The USB Situation"

tliltocatl — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:09 +0000

TRRS might work for power, but it sucks for signal integrity - ergo no high-speed for you. And 4 wires is nowhere enough. You need two for each differential pair. No, half-duplex is absolutely not okay, it's the worst design decision in pre-SS USB.