hardolaf

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by hardolaf 1y ago
You're conflating open source IP cores such as LiteX with open source FPGA tooling to try to make the latter look better by using the former. Everyone knows that vendor IP is pretty terrible if you don't use it in the very narrow
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by hardolaf 1y ago
I'm in the USA with nominally a 1.25 Gb/s down, 50 Mb/s connection from my cable ISP. And you'd think that it would be fast, low latency, and reliable. Well that would be true except my ISP is Xfinity (Comcast). At least
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by hardolaf 2y ago
I signed a contract prohibiting doing anything that I'm compensated to do for work outside of work or using information gleaned from my job without permission of the firm. This is a standard contract clause.
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by hardolaf 2y ago
> My previous job made it hard to even submit bugs/fixes to open source projects we used internally. Often we just forked b/c bureaucracy (there's a reason it was my previous job) The process for me to submit a PR to an OS
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by hardolaf 2y ago
> since you can't even report bugs to many of them without an account. I joined my current employer a bit over a month ago at this point and legal still hasn't authorized me to open a GitHub account or authorized me to use my p
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by hardolaf 3y ago
Defense firms do a lot more than just government work. Also, there are definitely discounts in govcloud when Fortune 500 companies that operate 30+ datacenters start talking to govcloud providers about potentially migrating to their service
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by hardolaf 3y ago
Except gas exports are largely being used to retire brown coal burning which is even worse for the environment than LNG. This isn't an all-or-nothing deal even with exports. The richer countries should take on the costs of better effic
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by hardolaf 3y ago
Yeah 40% seems like a pipedream. I was at a Fortune 500 defense firm and we couldn't get any cloud provider to even offer us anything close to that discount if we agreed to move to them for 3-4 years minimum. That org ended up not migr
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by hardolaf 3y ago
Lots of companies, like Grinding Gear Games and Square Enix, just rent whole servers for a tiny fraction of the price compared to what the price gouging cloud providers would charge for the same resources. They get the best of both worlds.
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by hardolaf 3y ago
Most businesses could probably know server needs 6-12 months out. There's a small number of businesses in the world that actually need dynamic scaling.
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by hardolaf 3y ago
I was part of a relatively small org that wanted us to move to cloud dev machines. As soon as they saw the size of our existing development docker images that were 99.9% vendor tools in terms of disk space, they ran the numbers and told us
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by hardolaf 3y ago
The strict "Open Source" wasn't even a definition when I started college.
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by hardolaf 4y ago
I'm a design engineer. A lot of my time is also thinking. I can be "working" but actually just reading articles or clearing my mind. And I can be in the middle of a gaming session later that same day and suddenly come up with
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by hardolaf 4y ago
Yup. When I worked in the defense industry, even as an unlicensed engineer, I was bound by threat of prosecution to report a wide category of violations. Per our agreement with the US DoD, even workplace injuries which could impact our read
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by hardolaf 4y ago
What if the maintainers just say no?
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by hardolaf 4y ago
> A solar panel produces >100GJ per kg of sand with roughly 10x the silver investment of a NPP or ~50g/kW and traces of B and P. So are we talking about Power or are we talking about Energy?
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by hardolaf 4y ago
I've never had a false alarm from the system on my car. But then, I actually follow the recommended minimum following distances and generally drive safely.
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by hardolaf 4y ago
The problem with the CFTC is that they should just be merged with the SEC. The wall between the two is just an odd historical oddity.
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by hardolaf 4y ago
I gave up responding to them because they can't even use the right units...
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by hardolaf 4y ago
The fluxes used with lead-free solder release about 2.5x as much particulate matter into the air and has been linked in multiple studies to a variety of lung issues. Current recommendations in the USA when working with lead-free solder is t
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by hardolaf 4y ago
> Why not keep doing the thing that's provably working. So nuclear then? Plants take on average 1-year longer than natural gas plants and a single nuclear plant produces thousands of hectares worth of solar panels with a tiny fracti
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by hardolaf 4y ago
It doesn't change the per-watt price at all and it might even increase the per-watt price as the average efficiency will likely decrease over its lifespan. It does drop the per-joule price though as it will produce more energy due to h
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by hardolaf 4y ago
Lead solder is still preferred by many governments as its use is far safer for workers compared to lead-free solders. It's a constant fight between the manufacturing nations trying to protect their workers whereas the EU wants ROHS to
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by hardolaf 4y ago
This number is based on existing mines (active and inactive) only. There's a lot more fissile material available than just the 40 Gg of usable fissile material. And that's assuming we only use U-235 and Pu-239. We also have viable
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by hardolaf 4y ago
This is exactly what we do at my job. The only time it ever causes issues with some things is when we're ramping up a new project and the PR and ticket titles don't necessarily match the work we've done. But that's more
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by hardolaf 4y ago
It sounds like you should pay more for developers because we don't have an issue retaining top talent over in the financial space.
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by hardolaf 4y ago
And it's very easy for an author of an opinion piece such as this to overlook something or over extrapolate something or assume that medieval drawings are accurate. In the case of this article, most of what the author has cited is info
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by hardolaf 4y ago
Fun fact, Andrzej Sapkowski only specified a few characters' skin color when it was important to note that they were from the same region as Geralt of Rivia. Otherwise, the only big note is that Zerrikanians have sun-blackened skin (as
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by hardolaf 4y ago
They also state that the games are wrong despite many of these games having put in farm more period and location specific research than the author. The author cites a few translations of a few summaries of laws and a bunch of stuff about En
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by hardolaf 4y ago
I suspect that Kingdom Come: Deliverance has the pigs in their work accurate to what it was at the time and the author is taking sources about specific regions and then extrapolating over all of Europe. Yes, there are inaccuracies in most g

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