You are buried in the details. The guy is a hero who opposed a fascist takeover of the US government. He's not going to have any difficulty finding employment.
I had a CS professor as an undergrad who would teach a couple of advanced seminars in his own research area. His approach to those simplifications was to announce, "I'm going to lie to you now, but just go with it and I promise that later we're going to learn the real truth." I liked that as a compromise, to make some practical progress, but not to mistake the simplification for full understanding. (And he wasn't rigid about it -- if somebody would ask a deeper question he'd happily answer it to some level and then get on with his plan.)
According to this link, Paulo Coelho has a net worth of over $500 million and didn't get there by giving away books, so perhaps your example is not well-chosen.
Pretty presumptuous to tell someone that they shouldn't be paid for their life's work, and then to tell them they should be happy someone pirated it. For the exposure!
There was already a design of CADR for FPGAs [1] that does synthesize (and boot), I don't know why amszmidt needed to start again from scratch or if his design is a modification of the earlier one.
A similar comment applies to lm-3. Maybe it is built on a fork of the previous repo, it is hard to tell.
Yes, the site and the video are complete vaporware. But from the examples, it sounds they are targeting architectural and RTL-level design. There's no indication that they are trying to replace the physical design flow. So it wouldn't have any bearing on what foundry fyoure able to use to fab your chips. Anyone using this would be in a position no different than if they had hand-written their RTL.
I hope we get more concrete information on this. It's very concerning if verified, especially with the Spain and Portugal blackout being so recent.
Remote bricking has already happened on a small scale through normal internet connectivity: [Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279010) Installed inverters remotely disabled after a dispute between a contract manufacturer and a client. In the HN discussion from November there are comments from security-conscious and off-grid folks talking about how they protect their systems, and none of that would be effective if there's a hidden channel.
> "We know that China believes there is value in placing at least some elements of our core infrastructure at risk of destruction or disruption," said Mike Rogers, a former director of the U.S. National Security Agency
> "That effectively means there is a built-in way to physically destroy the grid," one of the people said
It's very concerning, especially with the Spain and Portugal blackout being so recent
The abstract of OPs link mentions "Processing-Using-DRAM (PUD)" as exactly that, using off the shelf components. I do wonder how they achieve that, I guess fiddling with the controller in ways that are not standard but get the job (processing data in memory) done.
Edit: Oh and cpldcpu linked the ComputeDRAM paper that explains how to do it with off the shelf parts.
Yes was talking about the grounds crew, no one was harvesting trees for money, it was my favorite job and would happily do it again if I didn’t have family obligations (I had mentioned this in the post).
That said the farm I worked I knew the farmer and his dad pretty well and I worked there year round for a couple of years with breaks in the summer. Harvest time was insane and not all the years were good, but the family were comfortable and most of the time the workload was reasonable. It maybe different now but I lived in farm states then and I personally knew several well to do farmers that were living very well with more assets than I currently have. So I’m not sure I’m fully on board with your view of farming. It depends a lot on time and place I’m sure though, I’ll fully admit that I’m no expert.
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