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Baoer makes some decent models (mostly ripoffs of Montblanc). They go for around $3, and are pretty durable as long as you don't drop them.

This attitude toward justice is exactly why you're not Alito.

Offer free prescription fills to uninsured people who ask him for help? Your comment seems to imply he'll be abused in prison, which is less than acceptable.

I'm no neutral party, and this is totally subjective, but KiCAD is way better than DipTrace.

We have faith that we'll do our best to do good science. That's the extent of it.

Please don't say stuff like "I have full faith" when it comes to astrobiology :(. It's really tough for us to even get funding for a lot of these missions, especially now that NASA is being pushed away from astronomy/science and into crewed spaceflight, and the added pressure of some people's "full faith" is really not helpful, as well-intentioned as it may be.

The thread you linked makes a good point: there isn't really any reason to care about the actual time, only the relative time. These sorts of clocks just use 256- or 512-bit counters; it's not like they're having overflow issues.

The fact that this comment is greyed out is quite telling.

Can you provide a reasonable justification for this?

The dictionary. Highly underrated, extremely high signal-to-noise ratio.

Generally, "highest possible value/bandwidth ratio" would better connote a positive intent. Agreed on both points!

A lot of people don't know that adaptive optics is meant for atmospheric usage only.

He's referring to the "WE WUZ KANGZ" meme, in that he sees the research as not believable.

He's specifically asking in the context of the recent Intel CPU bugs.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877188.

Did you change the layout since the original publication? The quotation marks at the beginning of every other paragraph are vaguely confusing.

No, it was just a test of the HN hivemind. They go nuts with the upvotes when people with all-lowercase usernames say authoritative things, like "please stop," etc.

On the other hand, you could have worded your comment a bit better so it didn't seem like you were accusing every reader of having schizotypal personality disorder.

Abishek: totally unrelated to this story, just letting you know there's a typo on your business' homepage:

"Time is an illusion, we are it's magicians"

the apostrophe is unnecessary, as "its" is possessive. Best of luck with your company!

Please don't post this sort of thing on a public forum.

It wouldn't really fit with the PR narrative for them to just license IP from ARM, and they probably wouldn't develop nearly as much technical knowledge as they would developing the architecture themselves.

Aside, I hope my comment didn't seem too abrasive. It's hard not to get attached to something you work closely on most of your life.

That's fair. I suppose I overestimated the significance of Chuck's username.

Do you think ARMs don't have branch predictors or multi-level caching? Did you know some supercomputers are being designed around ARM computers? x86_64 is not king anymore.

I'm not sure why pedroaraujo is being downvoted other than in response to his criticism of HN topcommenter Chuck McManis. Pedro is correct; toy CPUs , like what Chuck mentioned building, are so trivial that undergraduate students can build functioning models of them in a few days or hours. They are quite literally thousands of times less complex than the CPUs (even RISC arches) that are discussed in the article.

I also concur with Pedro on the clock speed part - clock speed has absolutely nothing to do with your hardware design until you have written all the HDL, simulated its behavioral characteristics, actually synthesized the logic, completed the analog and I/O components of the design, and are actually preparing for tapeout. There's a reason only AMD and Intel make large CPUs for the consumer market, and it's not because college students are too busy.

I'm going to fade into the grey background for this, but ChuckMcM's comment is yet another disappointing step toward the total calcification of this forum. It's not a commentary on the article; it simply states, lazily, and ignorantly, that whatever it is they're attempting at IIT-M, it can't be too hard. What an an incredibly condescending and blasé thing to say, especially on a public forum where what you say can't be erased.

I'm actually quite glad to see another implementation of RISC-V from outside the US. The horde of nearly identical ARM cores on the market is terribly uninspiring.