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by laydn 5y ago
Well a journalist -a US citizen- (Jamal Khashoggi) was killed in a foreign (Saudi) embassy; evidence (including, Audio evidence) was presented of the killing and was found to be credible, CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin S
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by laydn 5y ago
Ah yes, yet ANOTHER fighter jet program. I am sure this time, they will get it right (on time, on budget). /S
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by laydn 5y ago
Is the JWST in a state where they can open it up and inspect? Or are they just going to run simulations to see if the shock/vibration would cause any anomalies?
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by laydn 5y ago
It's not that we have a low standard, it's that we are bound by the full suite of tools that are provided to us in order to achieve our design objective. When I am close to tapeout and I am moving a single gate across a flip flop
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by laydn 5y ago
But, HOW do you debug Clash? For example, what is the design and debug flow of using Clash to target a Xilinx FPGA? My guess is that you're going to tell me I will have to debug the generated Verilog code?
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by laydn 5y ago
I am having trouble understanding the usefulness of all these new pseudo-HDL languages. In all the projects that I've worked on, the choice of HDL (which was 95% of the time, Verilog, for the rest, VHDL), was never actually 'impor
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by laydn 5y ago
Given that this stack costs $6/year, running on a $2 controller, it seems somewhat expensive, unless it is providing some sort of advantage/benefit. However, the examples on Github aren't complex enough to show what is the ad
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by laydn 5y ago
For example, for childhood vaccines, France does it by a hefty fine (up to 30.000 Euros) and up to two years in prison if you avoid vaccinating your children. Maybe the same can be done for adults as well? We will see how they will attempt
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by laydn 5y ago
You do realize, a lot of vaccines are already mandatory all around the world right?
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by laydn 5y ago
Assuring for whom exactly? The citizens of ~8 nations who have these WOMD?
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by laydn 5y ago
The lead times for the STM microcontrollers have gone way beyond unreasonable. "730 days" I think is a polite way of saying "we may never supply you with this chip". I may be way off here but my observation is that chips
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by laydn 5y ago
I just don't see Munger's angle here. I mean, why not donate the money and let the university handle everything else? What is his line of thinking exactly? He thinks the university will waste the money or something?
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by laydn 5y ago
I am surprised that Apple sources more wafers than AMD from TSMC. Are they really the largest customer in terms of wafers, or are they getting better deals thanks to their enormous cash reserves and financing abilities?
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by laydn 5y ago
I am not sure about the age/experience angle, but for your concern about "work is being off-shored to low income countries" : I believe this is the expected outcome of "Work from home" and "Remote Work" tr
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by laydn 5y ago
Is my understanding correct that all your CAD data is stored in Autodesk cloud servers if you are using Fusion 360?
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by laydn 5y ago
Do you know whether anyone using these types of tools (like OpenSCAD, CadQuery) in any serious design? By serious I mean, real, industrial use cases (think automotive, defense, aircraft, etc.). Or are these tools mainly targeting hobbyists?
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by laydn 5y ago
That makes no sense. I wonder what they mean by "fake" chips? Are they simply not placing the chip on the board, or are they using a footprint compatible different chip (unlikely), or are they completely redesigning the board with
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by laydn 5y ago
Maybe we can put distinctive, unmistakeable labels on food packaging that indicates that the candy bar you're about to eat is "ultra-processed" Maybe we can also tax "ultra-processed" food at a higher rate. I just t
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by laydn 5y ago
There was nothing shocking in this agreement imho. Imagine you're at the negotiation table with Pfizer/Biontech. This is somewhat expected, when one party holds all the cards in the game.
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by laydn 5y ago
For the first time in my life, I experienced a massive heat wave, torrential rainfall and flooding, a forest fire and hail, all within a single month. I am NOT looking forward to what's coming in a few years.
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by laydn 5y ago
No, the manufacturer still quotes $4, with a 52-week lead time :-)
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by laydn 5y ago
We were quoted $40 for a $4 STM32 microcontroller, by a component broker. Due to our desperate need, we caved in and paid for the 10x price and our only hope at this point is that the parts will be genuine. Sigh.
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by laydn 5y ago
They are going to have to figure out how to spend all that cryptocoins as well, which I think will be the more difficult part.
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by laydn 5y ago
Writing documentation of the changes that were made, Writing test cases for the code that I just added, Writing a detailed commit message for the changes... ...and trying to figure out if the compile time can be reduced!
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by laydn 5y ago
Cost breakdown here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk... I hope OVH would donate some compute/machines to lichess. It would help lichess a lot financially. It would be good publici
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Ask HN: Is it a good practice to use firewall hardware to secure an SMB network?
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by laydn 6y ago
My experience is similar. I seem to stumble upon two different types of libraries: - One that is so specifically designed to fix the authors' original problem. It is implemented in such a way that it doesn't cover a lot of use cas
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by laydn 6y ago
Why is nobody worried about the helicopter crashing to the rover and possibly destroying a science instrument? How far will the helicopter be from the rover?
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by laydn 6y ago
TI has also cancelled distribution agreements with several of their top distributors recently. (Avnet, etc). They have a few global distributors remaining, and if you talk to any of them for a new design, you'll notice they try to avoi
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by laydn 6y ago
Anyone know, how long would these robots keep dancing, with the on-board batteries?

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