Sirened

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by Sirened 4y ago
And Apple in 1991 [1]. It's a very fun story actually, good read if you're in the business of writing "reliable" or "recoverable" software (aka pretty much everyone). A bad design choice in sendmail caused a ca
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by Sirened 4y ago
You say this, but this is also my lived experience. I have worked with and interacted with many who bemoaned the rise of ""PC culture"" and complained they couldn't ""make jokes anymore"" when
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by Sirened 4y ago
isn't that the whole point of globalization anyways? We wanted super cheap fabs, we got super cheap fabs. The problem is that the cheapest way to get something done may or may not be the most strategic move from a governance standpoint
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by Sirened 4y ago
is this a thinly veiled complaint about being hit with sexual harassment complaints? The simple trick to solve this problem is not to sexually harass your friends either
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by Sirened 4y ago
Does anyone have any in sight into how often they do these shuttles? Probably going to miss tapeout for this round but it'd be cool to get a physical chip some day, just for coolness.
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by Sirened 4y ago
You can also do stuff like slicing your design and putting it on multiple FPGAs. Industry has been doing this for ages because there's no way in hell they're going to fit a full SoC on a single FPGA no matter how much money they c
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by Sirened 4y ago
The original author here is using a Pi 4 which is well known for being pretty fast and hot. One easier way to solve the power usage problem would just be to not use a Pi 4. Something like a Zero 2W might be able to pull it off since it ha
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by Sirened 4y ago
It's likely that it's going to need a post on its own since it's an extremely complicated topic. Someone else wrote an awesome post about this for the Neoverse 2 chips [1] and they found that with LSE atomics, the N2 performs
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by Sirened 4y ago
Well, no. It's still plagiarized if you fail to communicate that it isn't your original work. You can't just steal ideas from someone else's paper, even if you rewrite everything. If you rely on another paper for inspira
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by Sirened 4y ago
I am also baffled that people were so brazen as to openly cheat in a group of 70+ people. Did they honestly believe that 70 people would all keep your secret and not try and get you failed out of spite? Like, I don't condone cheating b
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by Sirened 4y ago
Ah but there's still a huge inefficiency here! Why bother with the offer? Just let them include their four years of tuition to $65 application fee and make the rest of the application optional. You wouldn't want them to waste all
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by Sirened 4y ago
I've always wondered about that lol. Surely there are people who do this? If you dedicate your life to becoming very good at interviewing and bullshitting, you can almost certainly get high paying jobs that you are entirely unqualified
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by Sirened 4y ago
eh, for digital circuits/RTL it's largely been my experience that they will simply not look at you unless you have an EE/CompE degree It's bizarre but not exactly a novel problem
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by Sirened 4y ago
This might be a dumb question, but what does this even look like in industry? I'm honestly not sure how I could "cheat" my way through my job. I have to design features, argue why they're good/worthwhile tradeoffs,
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by Sirened 4y ago
> They want to pay me a ton of money for this? I'd do it for free! Happy to see that other's found this too :) This was my experience with CS—I always loved it and I am, to this day, still surprised that they pay me so much bec
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by Sirened 4y ago
Curves are extremely common in STEM classes today at Berkeley. I think I've only had a handful of upper division classes that were not curved. A lot of the internal discussion on curving vs not curving is based on the fact that buildin
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by Sirened 4y ago
For both academics and the olympics though, this ends up being an arms race that ends up just hurting those who participate. You wouldn't want an all natural, 90th percentile athlete to feel like the only way they can get ahead (or, wo
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by Sirened 4y ago
that just makes it harder. Students have been cheating on in person exams since the dawn of time. You get people texting in the exam, people going to the bathroom and looking up answers, students paying other students to take the exam for t
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by Sirened 4y ago
Yeah I caught that too. Overall very good article, but I did find it bizarre that they were made that students were collecting past quizzes into reference material. This seems like one of the few legitimate uses of these sorts of class grou
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by Sirened 4y ago
Yep... If you're going to go through the effort of completely rewriting a piece of code to try and dodge an AST analysis algorithm, you've effectively just done 70% of the work and put your grade/position at the institution o
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by Sirened 4y ago
Depends on what you use bookmarks for and what you consider a bookmark, I guess? I don't think I actually bookmark things other than to get them in my bookmarks bar for easy access. I do, however, use Apple's "reading list&qu
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by Sirened 4y ago
Yes, that's fair--this was an unhelpful and uncharitable thing to say. Many faculty do certainly work hard on this
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by Sirened 4y ago
It's sad to hear that Fox's is leaving Berkeley. I've heard only wonderful things about her from her course staff and students. It's awful that the university cannot pay its talented faculty enough to keep them from leav
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by Sirened 4y ago
I think it's a little bit of that and also I suspect they have far more pressing concerns than CRC32X being relatively slow (it is still a throughput of one per clock which isn't at all bad). Branch prediction and prefetching seem
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by Sirened 4y ago
This is way more common than you'd think, and it's not by accident. Engineering teams optimize the paths that are heavily used to get the biggest improvement across the platform as a whole. CRC32X is certainly not as heavily used
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by Sirened 4y ago
Ah, no, I was more referencing my local community. We have a fairly vibrant electronics DIY community but the technical skill caps out at around SMD stuff. Thankfully though while the community is largely stuck in the 70s, we aren't ac
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by Sirened 4y ago
It's not that other paths are not powerful but rather that its relatively rare for someone to fuck things up catastrophically with said career paths because society doesn't quite enable philosophers in the same way as SWEs. There
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by Sirened 4y ago
This was quite a wakeup call for me too. I was always into hobby electronics but a couple of years ago I got into multicopters. A _lot_ of parts were these tiny SMDs. I remember having to figure out how to attach FETs and even (once) a litt
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by Sirened 4y ago
money can be exchanged for goods and services?? you tell me this now??
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by Sirened 4y ago
As someone who has actually tried writing a kernel in Swift, the issue is purely the runtime. While you can technically build a module without it needing to link to external Swift standard library binaries, the second you try and do anyth

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