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bobim··on XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
My family comes from a village in Belgium where the 12th panzerdivision SS committed mass murder, I therefore don't glorify these people, thank you. But you have to recognize what your modern comfort has to do with these people, and lower your morale standards accordingly. I'll help you: we are bad persons with low standards and a high, unjustified, self esteem.
bobim··on Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air
Interesting, that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then. But it was simply to tickle Geneva's people.
bobim··on Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air
Yes because otherwise they would have fact checked that there's no lake Geneva.
bobim··on XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
A large chunk of our western innovations are rooted in "1936" german research. US space program? From Mr Von Braun who was allowed on US land through operation paperclip. Axial jet engine?From Junkers Motoren engine propelling the Me 262. Modern submarines? From u-boats type XXI. Assault rifle? MP43. Highways, synthetic fuel, a lot of modern chemistry... So no, US did not come with most of the last 100s years innovations.
bobim··on Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
ok, it seems I need to play this game, just have to convince the bosses.
bobim··on Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
That's effectively the question: what is the buffer size needed to insulate two unit operations without introducing penalizing ramp up and ramp down phases. If one could get such answers from Factorio that would be very funny for the 10-20k dedicated software packages.
bobim··on Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
This is tickling my curiosity... Anyone knows if Factorio is time-accurate and could be used for production line design/balancing? Is it implementing things like locks on shared resources (e.g. operators), and random stoppages? That would be fun to introduce it in corporate environment.
bobim··on Modelica
Nice to cross your path, I got the first one to kickstart myself some years ago (and still struggling with evaporation / condensation).

Would you recommend the second to introduce a colleague to OpenModelica? He is into gPROMS but will lose access to the software at retirement.

Sidenote: invest in software with freedom to operate and good knowledge reusability.

bobim··on Modelica
Ah! You're the author of Modelica by example?
bobim··on Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers
Ok it's enabled by default on iPhones, but once disabled it stays disabled. What is silently enabled exactly?
bobim··on An EPYC Exclusive for Azure: AMD's MI300C – By George Cozma
Ok, I see, maybe these cores are managing things like i/o and hardware monitoring. Thanks for the opening.
bobim··on An EPYC Exclusive for Azure: AMD's MI300C – By George Cozma
The article says single-tenant, so that would be a waste of 32 cores for just one VM? Seems a lot.
bobim··on Microsoft is first to get HBM-juiced AMD CPUs
Sure, implicit finite elements analysis scales up to two cores per DDR4 channel. Core density just grew up faster than bandwidth and it makes all those high cores cpus a waste for this kinds of workloads.
bobim··on The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction
"there's no bugs in there!" a chick with a star on the cheek probably.
bobim··on Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever
And you could use a utility called umr (unreal media reaper) to extract the songs. It was mind blowing to then understand how the game switched patterns to suit the pace, a very clever use of this technology.
bobim··on $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
The maintenance must be seen as per the service value, not the car value. If it's in good condition then maintain it and drive until pistons goes through the head. Keep this gray energy off the scrapeyard.
bobim··on Ask HN: Would you recommend a framework laptop?
Specifically which model? People at work were stretching their old HPs to avoid getting a Lenovo replacement that were just failing in the hands of their coworkers in all sorts of ways. Genuinely curious to understand the mismatch between experience and recommandations I see everywhere.
bobim··on From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
I agree, sorry, I just have a grief against scammers jeopardizing kids education.
bobim··on From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
Montessori has nothing to do with this, my triple experience is that kids figure out the method allows them to derp around, and they will derp around. The school tells nothing as keeping the cash coming in is more important than kids education.

A passionate kid is passionate, the method is not making him passionate.

bobim··on Monorepo – Our Experience
Started to use a monorepo + worktrees to keep related but separated developments all together with different checkouts. Anybody else on the same path?
bobim··on Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022)
These are at least capable of thermomechanical with fluid-structure coupling. Not all-physics but still multi. True that things with multi species diffusion or electromagnetics are missing, but maybe Elmer can fill the gap.
bobim··on Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change
It's infuriating that high compensation comes with zero responsibility. Broken system.
bobim··on C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
You're probably correct about the design, so that would be a question of retrofitting existing old hardware. The example you're giving shows that the transition to these new fluids is already there. Thanks!
bobim··on C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
Thanks, I had a look at the datasheets and it seems that I have to upgrade my knowledge. But why are transformers fire still a thing then? Cost?
bobim··on C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
The dieletric oil in transformers is both toxic and flammable, causing a lot of damage when they start burning. If an alternative, safer fluid existed it would be a massive market.
bobim··on Electric vehicle safety via crash test
And power limits.

And bumper height compatibility.

And guardrails that respect motorcyclists body integrity.

bobim··on PEP 760: No more bare excepts
Not sure 3 did anything to the number of circular permutations of encode and decode one need to fiddle with until that damn csv is pulled in correctly.
bobim··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
It's not a download, it's a blessing. It's not corrupting, it's purifying. It's syntax highlighting for your strained eyes and block commenting for your sore fingers. It's peace. Take care.
bobim··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Use scite please, it's a match with your brutalist approach to development, but with some goodies. You won't regret.
bobim··on Apple's homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge
Ha nice! They should start to enforce then, because what you get is "accept" and "configure", and if you select the latter here starts the click galore.
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