ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Great post and parts really resonate with me. I got addicted to World of Warcraft. It was contrary to my own self image that my brain could do something to me that I didn't endorse, but post WoW I recognized that it did exactly that.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ah but it's really encapsulating a decade plus of running clusters on limited resources into scripts that automated nearly all of the detective work on fault analysis, resulting in very clearly signaling of problems. Combined with good
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I really like 0xide's insight here. I don't know if Bryan has an MBA but this article reminds me of how I learned that good systems engineers make for good product people. A friend of mine from Sun went to Santa Clara university f
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I really don't know, I didn't measure it. It wasn't as fast as a QWERTY keyboard but it was fast enough. It was definitely way faster than typing using a 10 key numpad on a phone. Based on Steve's recommendation I had al
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Does anyone have a current reference on the reliability of HBM?
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is excellent. I had a frogpad and got reasonably comfortable with it, my use case was mostly messaging so not a heavy use of special characters like {}/|Etc. Given my experience with it, I agree that using it as a model for this p
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I agree with this, the 'firing up of the brain' and puberty are closely correlated in my experience as a child and as a parent. I'm not well read on Kafka but it seems he would agree as well.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The longest running RPi I have has run continuously for over 5 years. The big secret was not to use the SD card at all[1], I mount all file systems over the network to a NAS device (TruNAS from iX systems). It has a "UPS" in the f
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That is a fun paper to read. Anecdotally I found early on that actually writing my thoughts in a notebook was, for me, a much better way of developing and retaining knowledge.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Thanks for that link, that is a pretty amazing demo site!
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a perceptive observation. In my experience, so called "10x" engineers are as productive as they are because they have a process by which they practice the development on software that anticipates future problems. As a resu
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't know I spent a year using "Hotdog" and another three using "FrontPage" so those really don't count as years spent "getting better" :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Sort of? I don't disagree but this shift of locus for compute from the datacenter to the edge and back again is kind of like a pulsing heartbeat if you stick around long enough. Mainframe -> form based terminals Minicomputers (multi
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Nice article, the comments here are kind of amazing for a nominally technical audience. It is almost as if people have no idea how difficult automatic page layout and formatting is. There are literally PhD thesis topics on it[1]. And to exp
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Very nice analysis. I found the setup to be pretty neat, and of course if you break a key that is distributed with all the chips ... It is an interesting challenge to secure chips, and something I don't think anyone has a really excell
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is fabulous. I keep lists like this in my notebook(s). The critical thing here is that you shouldn't dwell on your "wrong" choices, instead document the choice, what you thought you were getting, what you got, and what i
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
My radical hack idea was to start an online newspaper and to contract with the local super markets to run a copy of their weekly insert. Fill the paper with local news and collect price data over time which could be marketed as a product to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Sorry can't edit it now but you are correct and I wasn't thinking "that" kind of referral :-). Easy to see that interpretation though, will have to remind myself to use "links that reference the product". FWIW
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Given that these prices are going into a database, I was hoping that you could click on an item and get its pricing over time (not a referral link to the Trade Joes web site).
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
My favorite in this class was the Phoenix 1000 from US Submarines[1]. As I recall (and someone has worked VERY HARD to scrub nearly every bit of information about US Submarines from the web) they has a really nasty bankruptcy with some very
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ohh thanks for that link! I hadn't found it. Knowing how they arrived at this figure pretty much lets me know that I can discount their "findings" :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I would be interested in reading any papers or studies that support that statement. Because of where I live I happen to know quite a few people who are in the "upper 10%" some probably better than that, and pretty much they univer
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Not sure that the 1% (or 0.1%) isn't skewing the average. Would love to see what the median American spends over their lifetime. What I'm saying is that the 400 billionaires in the Fortune 400 are likely pulling the average up.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I have had Microchip FEs say as much to me. Will be interesting when chiplet technology gets to the point where multiple chips are installed in a plastic package (there are thermal expansion/contraction issues that make this a hard pro
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yeah that was what I was looking for, apparently it has an Infineon[1] part number now : https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-b... which is kind of cool. [1] Apparently Infineon clo
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Perhaps this helps, perhaps not, but the Cortex-M architecture from ARM defines, as required, a build in debug unit. I can build a standalone JTAG/Development tool for it[1] on a $3 breakout board, and program/debug it for free us
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't disagree at all, this analysis is spot on. The size of discretes on silicon has not shrunk nearly as much as it has for transistors. However, where I am coming from is that because the transistors have shrunk so dramaticall
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I love it. I have noted this article for my talk about how CPUs are free. To appreciate that, you have to understand that when the first microcomputers came out engineers were still in "compute" mode[1], we were lectured that you
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Charitably, your profile indicates you have been 'subscribed' (or what ever they call it) here for 10 years. During that time you've posted reasonably often and received a varying amount of engagement. > Thanks. I have, or

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