TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
10 years ago, I went through an intense period of burn-out after 2 consecutive death marches at work. Just the thought of work gave me stomach cramps. I told my manager at the time that for the foreseeable future, I'd be coming in at 1
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Was the high resolution screen that I remember really that low?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Yes, that. :-)
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Farmers.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
We have filed a few claims over the past 10 years, including: Water damage due to a sudden burst of a pipe. Required expensive drying of walls, replacement of part of the drywall and replacement of the flooring. Dealing with insurance was e
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Do you think it’s a major fraction? I doubt it, but that’s just speculation without anything to back it up. So any concrete data would be interesting.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Bought one recently for $110. It’s fantastic . One problem is how modular it is: there’s nothing holding you back from upgrading LCD panel, SSD, ... I use it as the main driver for my home lab.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My big mistake was to buy the 2GB/64GB version. I could upgrade the SSD to 128GB, but the RAM is soldered. And it’s juat not enough for today.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> According the benchmark, the fastest 8 GPU node takes about 0.5 seconds. The cost of that node on AWS is about 24$/hour. The 21 node spark cluster takes 6 seconds. But, it only costs 4$/hour. Using your numbers, the GPU solut
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by TomVDB 8y ago
95% of what I do on my laptop (other than random web surfing) is hobby stuff that can go to Github. That 5% (taxes, paperless office) happens on my MacBook. So I’ve start to do the same thing: MacBook for US travel, $40 laptop for internati
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by TomVDB 8y ago
There are always potential legal issue with layoffs. It seems reckless to have that kind of discussion in public. I don’t see that as dishonest (really, how is it?), I see that as being cautious.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
One the things I really don’t like about Scala is yet-another-obscure-build system. I’m forced to use sbt and I don’t like it. And from my reading of my Scala book, the scala compiler is running in some kind of daemon or server instead of a
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by TomVDB 8y ago
When someone indicates his intention to change lanes when there is no room, I slow down. I expect the same of others. And when that doesn’t happen, you just continue on because chances are high that the next one will. In many cases of heavy
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Isn’t it perfectly possible to signal intent even when there is no ability to do so?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Compared to the most other RV32 soft core implementations, this one is far from being teeny tiny!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
After seeing your comment here, it’s not clear why some sentences were broken. But I never realized that it was an auto-translated text. Incredible. Very nice article. Thanks for posting.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Buy yourself a TinyFPGA BX. It’s a small (tiny!) FPGA board that’s still large enough to run a RISC-V CPU. It’s a full open source flow. And there are plenty of examples. Get that first LED blinking!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
What do you want to do with it? “Starting” is a bit ambiguous. But I suggest that you first simple read the ISA specification. It’s surprisingly readable and if contains justifications for some design decisions. After that, buy a small FPGA
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My hobby is essentially the same as my work, except I have way more resources (equipment) at work.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
IOW: “passion” is basically meaningless then. And thus no disqualifying word when selecting companies to send your resume to.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I like to work with people who love doing what they do. That’s what I understand under passion. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they have to work until 8pm every day.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
At a previous company, I never told the new college grads that there were options other than vi, so unless they were enterprising enough to figure things alternatives by themselves (this was before widespread availability of Linux and the w
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by TomVDB 8y ago
In the end, what matters is that you keep your employees happy. Whether or not they are entitle brats (they are...) is irrelevant if you need those employees.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You’re obvious not sophisticated enough. /s
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I like glossy screens much more than matte, even though I use my laptop almost exclusively for development. I just love how good it looks. That makes it better for me. Suggesting that people who like glossy screens are unsophisticated is ju
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Why use Nvidia when AMD has drivers in the kernel that will never be removed. It's perfectly reasonable to be concerned about a vendor going bankrupt and choosing not to support their product. If that's the issue, just don&#x
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> CUDA, their RTX crap, Gsync, Physx, Nvidia "Gameworks" Do you have similar issues with the vast majority of software companies out there that don't open source their product? Whether it's Microsoft, SAS, Wolfram Res
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I'm currently on a rMPB 15 2012 with OSX Sierra, so 2 OSX versions behind Mojave, and a bit reluctant to upgrade out of the assumption that the old it gets, the lower the amount of QA attention it will receive from Apple. I guess I sho
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I have the same one. It died on my 2 years ago and the cost to fix it ($600 for a new motherboard) was right at the tipping point between worth and not worth it. So I did it out of laziness. (Everything is backed up fine, but reinstalling a
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I absolutely love my MBP, the 15" retina from 2012. I just spent $90 for a replacement battery, and after 2 hours of disassembly and reassembly, it's back to being a fantastic workhorse. But there's no way I'd buy a ne

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