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by cushychicken 7mo ago
Love the interviews Dwarkesh sponsored with Sarah Paine from the Naval War College. Also, somewhat spitefully, find it funny that he has multiple roommates.
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by cushychicken 7mo ago
it's usually coding something more precise in a sort of plausible deniability. Yep. I'm a director now. This is exactly how it is. A big part of being effective in this role is understanding how direct you can be in a given scen
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by cushychicken 9mo ago
Mickens is a rare combination of bright, engaging, and absolutely hysterical. I hope I get to meet him someday.
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by cushychicken 9mo ago
They're good advise, but can be hard to execute on for most people. OP gave the thread a very good and valid suggestion. Treating this as a societal problem - for "society" to solve - is lazy thinking. If you want something
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by cushychicken 9mo ago
Sure. http://cushychicken.github.io
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by cushychicken 10mo ago
It's only dumb if it doesn't work. If it works... well, congratulations. You now have an edge that no one else knows about.
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
I think there’s a lot of people out there who don’t want to believe written communication skills like these are as important as raw technical skill.
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
It’s the “embedded” part that people struggle with. I can find systemd script gremlins all the live long day. I can’t find anyone who can write device drivers for custom peripherals, then hook them to user space utilities in a sane way.
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
And embedded Linux! I’ve had a hell of a time finding good embedded Linux devs. I got insanely lucky to hire two this year.
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
Didn’t everyone kind of migrate to more capable chips like ESP32 and STM32 in the intervening decade since Arduino got big and commercial?
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
I for one really like developing and co-managing specs with an LLM. I think it’s a great conversational tool for evaluating and shaking out weak points in a design at an early phase.
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
>The difference is purely in how much spec you write before you start implementing. Ah, and therein lies the problem. I’ve seen companies frequently elect “none at all” as the right amount of spec to write. I’d rather have far too many s
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
Waterfall gets an unnecessarily bad rap. Nobody who delivers any system professionally thinks it’s a bad thing to plan out and codify every piece of the problem you’re trying to solve. That’s part of what waterfall advocates for. Write a sp
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
Oh my god I fucking HATE the SPI config bus on the ice40 series So difficult to get the directionality right and also enable a JTAG bus Hate these parts for that reason
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by cushychicken 11mo ago
Oh wow, Greg Gianforte managed to do something in politics I don’t vehemently hate . He’s not a very nice person but he did at least used to own a tech company.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
OP is making comments about poor performance single cycle of a sigma delta ADC. Single cycle readings defeat the point of sigma delta ADC setups. You're taking many high noise samples and averaging them over time to get a better pictur
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by cushychicken 1y ago
This is cool. A hundred prototypes in eight weeks is no mean feat. Y’all made a lot of smart choices to keep your timetable. Not least of which was finding - and listening to - a good CM partner.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
This is awesome. I suspect that for every one job the government would subsidize for a daycare professional, that we’d see three women enter the workforce. That’s a net of four people employed. I have no proof of this aside from my own expe
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by cushychicken 1y ago
That’s a slippery slope argument. Plenty of employers do not operate with this expectation. In the US, I’d replace “plenty” with “most”. Plenty of employers recognize an opportunity to differentiate themselves to candidates by publicly not
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by cushychicken 1y ago
I actually kind of like when companies are upfront about 996 expectations. The transparency makes it that much easier to avoid them.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Is it really surprising that DEF CON went where the money was? Most cybersecurity work in the US, by volume, rolls up to one of about five organizations - all of whom are US government entities. Most cybersecurity work has nothing to do wit
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Unrestrained onions in command module.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Homeboy deserved someone to weep for him at least a little bit. Not so much the fact that he was gone - the fact that he was here. Jim Lovell made us all better just for existing.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
They certainly do withhold information. See my other comment for my speculation as to why. I suspect it has nothing to do with the OSSW community; they give their software tools away.
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by cushychicken 1y ago
> The vendor tools ARE leagues better than the open source alternatives, but it doesn't mean the open source stuff is just for toy projects It’s not a question of developer experience. We heartily agree that using Vivado sucks. My p
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by cushychicken 1y ago
I didn’t say they were benevolent or forgiving deities. XD The statement “vendor tools are god” is a statement that they are all powerful, and not something you can work against. It’s not pleasant, but it’s a necessary evil. You’re not goin
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by cushychicken 1y ago
> these new age HDLs aren't really HDLs in the strictest a sense but rather languages that let you cleanly write RTL generator programs At what point does the abstraction start to help your productivity in developing gateware, rathe
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by cushychicken 1y ago
I find myself deeply skeptical of much of the open source FPGA movement. Most of those efforts stem from the underlying notion that “…this is all a problem with the tooling! ” This approaches the problem space from a very software-centric
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Love this. The most dangerous words during debug are: “…but it should work this way!” This is a mantra I try hard to instill in all EEs I mentor. “Should” isn’t worth a damn to me. You test your way out of hardware bugs - you don’t logic
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Late 90s/early aughts Tacomas are GOAT vehicles. I had a stick shift one in high school. Absolutely loved it.

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