People here might also be interested in pwndbg, which adds a lot of qol improvements to the typical gdb/lldb experience. Including splitting dialogs over tmux panes, a lot more context info added to debug lines like where do pointers point to. Heap inspection. Colorization. makes for a much more friendly debugging experience.
re Dune 1 and 2 in same year: At some point Dune 1, developed by Cyro interactive, was officially cancelled and Westwood (so a totally different studio) got a crack at developing it. But it turned out Dune 1 kept on getting secret funding as well, and wasn't cancelled when the higher ups found out. So we were kind of lucky to get both of them.
a) thats awesome
b) I am taking a wild leap in deducing you're the same retro-games Benj Edwards journalist that was part of the infamous Retronauts East team. Just wanted to say i always quite enjoyed your presence :)
Yosys, the underlying compiler of ice studio, also targets the much bigger ECP5 FPGA, also by Lattice, which is called Project Trellis: https://github.com/YosysHQ/prjtrellis
Yosys functions more like a software open source tool. So command line compiling. It also has a REPL. It is very quick compared to the commercial solutions. Especially around compile times which can take seconds instead of minutes. YMMV, but I think the consensus is that it's a lot more convenient to use.
In general the hardware toolchains feel very ancient compared to software toolchains.
Yosys / project Trellis and nextpnr are amazing - I've played with them using an IceSugar-Pro board (which despite its name has an ECP5-25 FPGA) - but there's also an experimental branch for Xilinx 7-series devices now - Project X-ray, with an even more experimental branch of that targetting the Kintex7-325 FPGA on one of the QMTech (AliExpress) boards. That's of particular interest since that FPGA is large / high-end enough not to be supported by the free version of Vivado!
Maybe it doesn't like the HN referer. Selecting the address in the address bar and hitting enter loaded the site for me.
Last time this made the rounds, a colleague found a guy squatting with his pants down in one of the green parks.
Edit: on 2nd look, you can't see his lower half, and the guy was probably just walking forwards. To find him: look at the white circle at the bottom of the panorama, if the words are oriented correctly (the red Shanghai symbol at the 12 o'clock of the circle), zoom in and follow the line from 12 o'clock "upwards" until you reach the La Tagliatella restaurant, the guy is wearing blue in the bushes between this building and the reflective tower to its left.
Ha, I swear I just spent 20 minutes on the site looking around several cities. Not trying to phish anybody, but apply your normal level of risk aversion to ambiguous Chinese links :)
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