Paul Daniels

Electronics Engineer
Software Developer
Macbook Repairer
Creator of FlexBV
Not very magical

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

What is it about Claude that makes it sometimes hellbent on blaming anything but its own code?

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

Another new format added to FlexBV6, this time it's an incarnation of Fabmaster. Would love to see more of the format just to test ( .faz files )

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

More and more not looking like FlexBV5 any more; more like an EDA but without the editing aspect...for now :-o

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

I should note, that's on a 2GB nVidia T400 card, so pretty low-end now.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

When you spend a week optimising your graphics drawing pipeline because you can barely get 20fps in HD screen with the new copper-layers feature, only to find that in the end it was your nVidia GFX driver at fault and now you can do 50~60fps @ 4K with everything turned on :-o

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@rdotapps Merged, tessellated and tiled and AABB’s from top to bottom. Last step to do now is to bake the view and only change if required.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

FlexBV6 says "I think we need a bigger GFX card!" My poor nVidia T400 really doesn't care much for these absoutely massive circuit board design files.

Very nice to enabling copper/trace layers for Teboview, GenCAD, KiCAD, Eagle, EasyEDAPro, XZZ PCB and more to come!

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@TrisH0x2A This + Steven's UNIX Network Programming has guided me through since the early 90's.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@Adriksh In as much as there was an email program called Sylpheed/Claws/+ which opened near instantly and could handle many tens-of-thousands of emails without a hiccup, then sadly we had to migrate to Thunderbird and it's a steaming pile of bloated kak that chokes on its own UI ego.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@SaschaWillems2 @VisualStudio Borland Pascal with TurboVision in a 132x50 text mode on 4DOS or OS/2 + text mode WPS was development heaven for me back in the 90's. Got a lot done.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@notnotsteven Well, that gives me some hope - I noticed their 450nits brightness was the same; would be a lot more viable to cough up $1600 than $2300, especially since I don't use my monitors for anything other than as a monitor ( not even speakers ).

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

Sadly my beloved DELL Ultrasharp 2722D's died due to liquid damage which while I was able to get another 18 months out of, finally died.

Looking one of these to replace the pair but that's a high price premium ($1200 for another pair of 27US's or $2400 )
https://t.co/BMxGmaHytd

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@notnotsteven yes, unfortunately I don't see any options from DELL that bring that sort of screen *without* the unused extras :( I could take a gamble on the LG variant but I have a feeling I'll be left dissapointed relative to what the DELL will be like.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@notnotsteven Usually a triple column situation; source editor (vim), compiling/web middle (top and bottom), and far right the application itself being worked on / testing.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

Even after ~20 iterations, I still find something to tweak in each subsequent PCB ordering. This time I shifted one cap about 2mm to one side so as to make it easier to rework the tiny DFN controller if the reflow isn't perfect.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@ponceto91 Much love for TurboVision. It worked, it was easy to generate ( there were some nice 3rd party builder tools ) and it felt effective to use. When Delphi came out I found myself yearning to stay with TurboVision.

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

Just noticed with the Apple iPad Pro 3's with their translating feature, it's not too dissimilar to the Babelfish in THGTTG :-o They even look similar!

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

@Foxalabs I tried it, we didn't get along - behaved more like a reluctant mentor than a problem solver; good for when you're doing 90% of the code yourself, less good when you're trying to automagically have something hash out a solution for finding a pattern in the binary data

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

What on earth did they do with Claude? Was great last month, now it's a token consuming dumpster fire that can't work out anything or just goes around in circles chewing up more tokens :(

[Paul Daniels @pld73]

Starting to see the machine grind a bit under this sort of load drawing all the traces. To be fair, this is a debug build with -O1 -ggdb