I can easily explain how this art process could handle BGAs. As mentioned in the article, you could swap the indentation+hand-painted circuit traces with screen-printed traces on a flat surface.
Defending one idea isn’t shooting down another. Point to point wiring has its uses, for sure. But calling it an “idiotic ash tray of clay and paint” is shooting something down. But again, i think you’re conflating me with an earlier commenter.
I can also implement compliant IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic, with all rounding modes and exceptions, in Conway’s Game of Life, and I can implement that on a Turing machine and emulate that Turing machine in Brainfuck. This does not mean it’s sensible — it would be a serious engineering project that should be decomposed, built in pieces, and tested or verified in pieces. Which even a Chinese LLM ought to be able to do in an appropriate environment with appropriate resources and an appropriate prompt.
But that is not what this is testing. And I’m not even sure which number system the mentioned roots of unity are in. Maybe it’s supposed to be generic over number systems in a delightfully untyped lambda calculus sort of way?
edit: after pasting the entire problem including the solution, ChatGPT is able to explain “GN numbers”. I suspect its explanation is sort of correct. But I get no web search results for GN numbers and I can’t really tell whether ChatGPT is giving a semi-hallucinated description or figuring it out from the problem and its solution or what.
We must have a very different view of the world because in my neck of the woods companies are desperate for senior talent. And it's become even harder to find seniors now that everyone has access to a machine that can create the appearance of experience.
Replicad is designed primarily to be used as a library with the web editor as a helper.
FluidCAD is designed to be used as full CAD package code + UI. I've outlined some of my motives in recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721997
I am quite happy for anyone to use whatever tools they find to be good. I'm also happy for anyone to use jj with whatever server they want to.
It is right to be skeptical of me, but I hope to keep that integrity by continuing to talk about things that I believe are legitimately good, regardless of anything else.
Thanks for the reply Steve - I think it's only natural, and charitably unintentional :) But almost everything I've seen upvoted around the Internet from you has been about jj and being directly tied to east river source control... I think that's a reasonable framing. I can only hope me signalling this maybe changes something. While I'm not a fan of jj (I'd much rather Pijul were to eat the world), I think you as a person is really nice and always have been "for the community", but I can't shake this current framing!
You can't say it's adjacent to it, when your job directly involves the technology. You'd stop posting because anything you say about jj could be interpreted as a sales pitch for jj, and a lot of people can be turned off by that. That's one reason. Our lack of creativity is not proof of no more.
But I don't think "stop writing" is the only strategy to jump on...
Or maybe I'm just extremely unlucky to have only caught these kinds of posts and gained this framing! Totally possible.
or the top 1% of value holders means your connection to other holders is vastly smaller than the other 99%. also highly likely to get cancer no matter who you are. i think the odds are better than people think, was just a matter of time
regardless of that observation: i am glad it's good people working with good people on these problems!
So this is a smudge of like 4 projects? Huh. Definitely interested, but I wonder about the longevity of the system. That's one thing about the code cad systems I like: it's pretty easy to port code from one to another.
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