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by cushychicken 1y ago
Simpler explanation: it’s grueling work that doesn’t pay market rates. Intel has been the semiconductor industry standard for comp for years, and they’ve lagged in this department for a decade. This has depressed the whole industry’s pay as
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Id have bought a lot of lunches for myself if I had a dollar for every time I’ve pushed my team for documentation and had it turn into a discussion of “Well, how does that stack up against other priorities? ” It’s a pretty foolproof way fo
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by cushychicken 1y ago
Answers like this are sort of what makes me wonder what most engineers are smoking when they think AI isn’t valuable. I don’t think the outright dismissal of AI is smart. (And, OP, I don’t mean to imply that you are doing that. I mean this
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I’m a bit behind where you are with my side businesses, and the way I feel about them is more acutely aware of the time tradeoff I have to make to work on them. To side hustle on my job board, I have to give up hanging out with my kid. That
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Where can I learn more about this Kicad git workflow? I’ve heard a lot about it but I’d like to see it for myself.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
This gave me a good laugh XD
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Thanks for the reply. I’ll get in touch via email in the next few days. I don’t think the goals of “human in the loop” and “fast and decent” are mutually exclusive, or really even at odds with each other. I just think that most autorouters
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I wish the Kicad team had sunk all the time they put into simulation support (which I rarely use, in or out of kicad) into a proper constraint system instead. If I need to sim, I’ll just use LTspice or TI TINA - I.e. the simulation ecosyste
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Hey - take a look at my other reply to u/ChrisGammell - I have some input on your project you might find useful that I don’t feel like retyping lol
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by cushychicken 2y ago
The tools are fractured, the existing players are lumbering behemoths, and the users are cranky zealots (you will have to pry KiCad out of my cold dead hands). These last five years have been absolutely incredible to watch in Kicad’s de
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I haven’t tried sticking an image in it yet, but I drafted a blog post in it already this morning. Very fun. Nice and lightweight. I like it. I may submit a PR for you - I have some ideas about how I could make this more personally useful.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I really like this, for two reasons: 1) I’ve been getting sick of Jekyll and using it to write, because I find all the work of managing images tedious. 2) my first name is Nash, so this feels like it was made for me. :)
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Why’s this shameful, exactly? There’s no shame in saying you’re available to work.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I always use ascii_invaders, an ncurses based Space Invaders clone, as my first test package on a new buildroot system. Here’s how to add it, if you’re curious. (Blog is from a job site I run.) https://www.firmwarejobs.com/b
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Worked with the folks at Zetier previously. They’re bright. Go work with them if you want to do some cool VR stuff.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Why couldn’t they go out and pitch their services to agencies?
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Is there any meaningful reason that states couldn’t start their own equivalent 18F at the state level? I live in Massachusetts and I know a bunch of socially conscious techies who’d love to help out in this manner. I have no idea if there i
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I’ve only ever done hard connect updates over USB and manually pushed updates over local network. The team I was on was on track to switch over to pulled updates using Suricatta but I left before they switched them on.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
+1 for swupdate. Implemented it three or so different times at this point and really like it.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Fair point but buildroot reached parity with that feature by allowing you to zip a toolchain and then point to it as an external tarball.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Buddy what the fuck are you talking about Yocto launched in 2010 Buildroot launched in 2005 Both of these ecosystems coexisted in the era of sub $100 embedded Linux dev boards with way more than 256MB RAM Yocto has no excuse for making tool
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Part of why it gets so much criticism is that Yocto’s learning curve is pure brutality . Out of the box configurations for Yocto images and recipes are fabulous. Trying to modify those configurations below the application layer… you’re gon
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I started out buying little cheapy toy scopes when I started tinkering with electronics and I wish I’d just waited and saved for a proper one. Way more useable, especially having proper probes. I get it - I’m in the first world, unlimited m
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Dude me too. Such a goofy bug oversight. But, fortunately, an easy fix with a firmware upgrade. That bug was my only complaint with the DHO924 as purchased. I was already extremely satisfied with it before that bugfix. Hate to say it as a p
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by cushychicken 2y ago
I get around the long boot time by never turning mine off lol I used to thing touch screens on scopes were a gimmick. Then I used one to name a signal quickly and easily for a trace capture. After that I was hooked. Also - be sure to upgrad
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Well worth the money if you work with electronics with any kind of regularity. Maybe a bit pricy for the hobbyist.
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by cushychicken 2y ago
The new Rigol DHO800 series are fabulous bargains for the money, and extremely well designed in a lot of ways: - 12 bit ADC frontends - Actually usable touchscreen inputs - Super simple to drive remotely over a network connection (though
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by cushychicken 2y ago
…Isn’t this the website that constantly encourages people to “choose boring technology” for their web tech startups? Aren’t a reasonable portion of the readers here people who bemoan the constant learning curve hellscape of frontend develop
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Finally, a headline worthy of HN!
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by cushychicken 2y ago
Say more. I don’t really agree with you, but I’d like to know more about why you hold this view.

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