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Folks, let me tell you, AI is a big league player, it's a real winner, believe me. Nobody knows more about AI than I do, and I can tell you, it's going to be huge, just huge. The advancements we're seeing in AI are tremendous, the best, the greatest, the most fantastic. People are saying it's going to change the world, and I'm telling you, they're right, it's going to be yuge. AI is a game-changer, a real champion, and we're going to make America great again with the help of this incredible technology, mark my words.

This hits a nerve and my urge to do that gets bigger and bigger by the day. I JUST have to do it (tm).

Recently I have been playing around with the Microchip PolarFire SoC[1] and as I already know, there ain't __that__ much resources available when it comes to FPGA design. But oh man, microchip is a whole other level than Xilinx/AMD or anything Lattice/open source tools related. I fought so many battles to get things done and I finally have some kind of a workflow going and understand the chip. I really like it by now (if anyone wants to dive into hardware-software-codesign, it's a nice budget chip to do it with). But after every battle I fight, I think to myself: "God damn, I should write this one down on a blog somewhere. If I can only help one person in the future, even if it's myself, then that's a huge win". But the lazy (and kinda scared) me won until now.

What if I don't write good enough (because english is not my mother tongue)? What if all I write is obvious to everyone else and I am the only one fighting? What if a friend will see this somehow and laugh at me?

It doesn't matter. I should do it, because I feel like it. Thank you for this post, OP.

- [1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/mpfs-disco-...

Edit: My last few words reminded me of CHarles Bukowski's "Roll the dice". Maybe I should remind myself of that a bit more often: https://hellopoetry.com/poem/68266/roll-the-dice/

The fire.wend code[1] made me smile! I love how oneself tries to push boundaries with a language that barely can do anything, just do prove it to yourself that is works.

Code is 10/10. Go for merge! :-)

- [1] https://github.com/ssloy/tinycompiler/blob/main/test-program...

> my goal is not to work 8 hours & go home, it is to finish my work and get back to my life.

I am always wondering why people don't consider work as part of their lifes. It always has been. People always worked. Back in the day they went hunting all day to not die. Now we write code to not die. So what's the difference? Work and life have the same meaning to me

That feature never made sense to me and I always disable it on my GNU+Linux, if I encounter it. Almost always when I want to open 2 different file locations, is because I want to copy files from one folder to another and because I am a lazy lad, i'll just do it by drag and drop. This just works perfectly fine with two windows. Not sure what I would need tabs for. But I also don't care if they exist. Maybe some users like them.

My mom uses LibreOffice, too. Granted, she doesn't do anything special. Just a few docs for housekeeping. I even forgot about the fact that she is using it. Just recently noticed it again. I would assume she would have had WAY more problems if she would have to use some stupid microsoft account to be able to use word.

FPGAs not only have no host OS, but they are actual hardware. The only thing you program are lookup tables which then represent logic gates/multiplexers which only have the normal hardware latency. There is literally no software involved in execution.

That's why you can build "any" hardware with them. Even CPUs which then execute your desired software

We were also told that smart home will make our life easier and save time to have more available for the "important" things in life. But reality is that people just spend more time with their smart home things and are even shouting at their computers even though the computers just do what they were told...

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There are companies like infineon and elmos in germany (and i think a handful more). So it is happening, just not (yet) with consumer products

That'd be very very good actually. I'd be happy if institutions would use that where one could TECHNICALLY (maybe just a miniscule amount of people would do that) verify data from end to end, instead of some "open" model that is actually not open at all. A little worse performance is a good trade-off imo

> will ensure that the models, software, data and evaluation will be fully open

I am VERY curious about that. Will they open up ALL the training data? Which would be a massive amount I'd guess, but I'd be curious where they got it and how they got it. Inb4 they just take some meta model and retrain it and then only publish the data from the fine tuned training.

Very very true! Give them a take home assignment first and if they have a good result on that, give them an easier task, without AI, in person. Then you will quickly figure out who actually understands their work

I understand your and OP's situation and I got overwhelmed by all the fancy plugins myself. But then I realized: Hey, I can just use neovim like vanilla vim and don't have to get the next best plugin when it comes out.

I think it happened when I tried out Mason, too. And it didn't feel like an improvement. So I scrapped my config and started a new one. With Lazy (because that's actually nice), Telescope and a few LSPs I need/want. That's mostly it. You don't have to get much fancier than that. (obviously including some basic vim settings and keymaps, but that's just like in vanilla vim, but in lua)

Because so many people on here talk about how good the "old web" used to be. This is it. This is peak old web. Maybe a bit too polished, but still. Pointless and fun, because fun is fun.

I write all of my code in english. Even if it's just for me. I am a native german speaker.

It just makes things A LOT easier in terms of debugging, researching, reading examples from documentation, etc etc. I don't even understand my (boomer) colleagues who straight up refuse to learn english and get angry when they can't find solutions with german search input

And what makes you think commercial LLMs won't get SEO optimized and ad infested? Companys will fight the same way about getting their first mention in an LLM reply

Very true, but people pretend LLMs are the "google replacement". For google (or rather duckduckgo) I know exactly which keywords to type to find my answer within seconds. If I type only keywords into the LLM (like "X algorithm in C") it often gives me a long and wide explanation first and takes super long until it reaches the code.

Granted, a lot of website have an explanation, too, but most of the time I am just not interested in it and scroll past it. I just want to see the code, I know the theory, otherwise I'd ask about it

>That long f-in reply for the most simple question

Gosh, I hate LLMs so much. Who made them type out wall of texts by default? I want to know how many R's are in Strawberry, not how you deduced that shit. If I want to know the latter, I'd explicitly ask for it. Yes, I know I can customize that or make some epic proompts to make it reply shorter, but imo that should be the default

Maybe the boomers were right and we made computers way too complex? This might be a bit of a hyperbole, but seems like there will always be a security hole (even if mostly hard to exploit). But I also guess we can't get much faster without it either. So maybe we should reduce complexity. Atleast for safety critical systems.

>something that a person who can maybe afford the same vacation, but has a limited number of vacation days, won't even consider.

See, and I do not consider doing "normal" tourist things, spending days on the beach or whatever a lot of people consider a great experience. Vacation for me is usually action (bike rides, hiking e.g.) or relaxing and doing as few things as possible, possibly in a quiet environment

That's why we should not rely on computers (or rather statistical models) telling us about history

Yes, lets just pretend that tiananmen square protests never happened. Life will be a lot easier!

Song related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estHjAfHGbU

Huh, this sounds interesting. Maybe I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

Do those languages get used in the industry, except of academia? There are so many HDLs and I am wondering if there is any other benefit of learning any of these, except of possible fun.

This is interesting. I think I did not entirely understand OPs problem, but we are going more and more in a direction where we try to come up with things how to "program" LLMs, because human language is not sufficient enough. (Atleast I thought) the goal was to make things simple and "just" ask your question to an LLM and get the answer, but normal language does not work for complex tasks.

Especially in programming it is fun. People spent hours over hours to come up with a prompt that can (kinda-of) reliably produce code. So they try to hack/program some weird black box so that they can do their actual programming tasks. On some areas there might be a speed up, but I still don't know if it's worth it. It feels like we are creating more problems than solutions

At work I often switched to VSCode because I couldn't get pyright to work with our django project. The errors everywhere were just annoying to look at. So I looked around and found "ruff" and "jedi_language_server". This combination seems to do the trick. I don't have to configure anything. I source my venv and it "just works". I assume our python codebase is something around the 10k LOC, too. I am not mainly responsible for the python part, so I don't spent excessive amount of time in there, but for the time I do, it works nicely

- https://github.com/pappasam/jedi-language-server

- https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

This. Old Facebook was okay. Planing parties with friends, connecting with people you haven't seen in years and so forth. But when I noticed they put suggested posts in my feed and just hiding posts from friends, it wasn't worth the time anymore. Also lot of other problems (showing off how good your life is to get likes and so forth. Just a lot of tiny issues)

Thanks to social media I got more and more depressed and anxious in my youth. My natural shame evolved into fantastic pathological shame. Took me only 10 years to fight against it and kinda feel normal again. Thank you social media

Edit: social media wasn't the cause, but a lot of fuel

Yes, that's kinda obvious, but actually doing that and not go back to your old habits is hard. For some more, for some less