cushychicken

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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   it’s a crowded market where politics and connections are worth more than technical expertise This is 100% true. Kill mosquitoes first. Then go for defense contracts when you can show you have sensors good enough to hunt and kill bugs. I g
2. 62.▲
   by cushychicken 1y ago

   Never realized you can fit the whole of the 4004 schematic on three pages . Extremely cool.
3. 63.▲
   by cushychicken 1y ago

   GLASS IN YOUR FACE
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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   Fuck yeah. Very cool. I got my EE degree from MSU and grew up in Bozeman. (I live in Boston now and I wonder every fucking day why I don’t live in Montana any more.) This has a whiff of something Brock Lameres or Ross Snider would be invo
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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   I’m super curious to see the reactions in the comments. antirez is a big fuggin deal on HN. I’m sort of curious if the AI doubting set will show up in force or not.
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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   Love your username btw lol
7. 67.▲
   by cushychicken 1y ago

   Yeah, I think we’re just gonna have to agree to disagree here.
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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   > No it isn't, as in it literally isn't. Yes, it is. It is a well known field in hardware development, and generally treated as a sub field of manufacturing engineering. It deals with things like testing, sampling, statistics o
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   by cushychicken 1y ago

   1. Totally agree that the field of software metrics is dominated by clueless or outright bad actors. I can say with complete certainty that I do not know the right way to measure software quality. All I know is that quality is handled as
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I’m not sure what conclusion to draw from this comment, apart from the fact that you’ve sure made a lot of assumptions about me and my experience.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I think I’ve finally figured out just what is that annoys me about the “software quality” crowd. Quality is a measurement . That’s how it works in hardware land, anyway. Product defects - and, crucially, their associated cost to the compan
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    There's a lot to love about this. I particularly like feeling like you need permission to show optimism and enthusiasm about your work. I also particularly like this bit: “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a for
13. 73.▲
    by cushychicken 1y ago

    Love that most of the comments here are love for PPKII Strong agree with all those comments - it’s a great little tool at a great price!
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    This was my first thought too. RTL is all well and good. How does it perform in silicon?
15. 75.▲
    by cushychicken 1y ago

    True in theory. Not in practice.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    zero… hardware startups in the Series A data I have 15 years of hardware development experience and I would stay far, far away from anyone in the VC space. I simply don’t believe that anyone in VC is capable of aligning their own ince
17. 77.▲
    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I'd still take ChatGPT as that translation layer over all but the best SWEs I've worked with.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I have a mountain of professional experience that indicates many software engineers are not very good at it either. Why would I add a subpar translation layer into the process of achieving my goals? There’s no inherent value in that.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    Same!
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    What kind of things is it doing? Wrote me: - a SPI deserializer that sets a bit after 12 bits read in, to trigger a prefetch - an SDC constraints file for the deserializer that correctly identified the SPI clock and bus clock as separate
21. 81.▲
    by cushychicken 1y ago

    Yes! It’s much better at using functional logic than I am - which I appreciate!
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    ChatGPT-4o is scary good at writing VHDL. Using it to prototype some low level controllers today, as a matter of fact!
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    A part of me really hopes to see this used as a prop in the upcoming Alien: Earth TV show.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I thought I recognized that big dual body six engine launch plane!
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    Hypersonic technology has a lot of strategic military importance. This is a public signal of “we got something to Mach 5 and landed it in one piece - twice”. That’s a pretty good indicator to people who want to get in on hypersonic technolo
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    Grew up in Bozeman MT, about an hour’s drive from Butte. This makes me realize the trope of “young person from the west who just wants to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS TOWN” is much older than I thought.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I very much like creating programs. The code is a tool. Nothing more. I love the shed I built for my family. I don’t have a single feeling for the hammer I used to build it. For the record: I can sing well. I just can’t sound like Tony Ri
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    It’s almost like there’s a big range of different comprehension styles among human beings, and a varying set of preferences that go with those.
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I love coding - but I am not very good at it. I can describe what I want in great detail, with great specificity. But I am not personally very good at turning that detailed specification into the proper syntax and incantations. AI is like j
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    by cushychicken 1y ago

    I’m right there with you on this. Thanks for the comment. You articulated how I feel about this situation very well.