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by moftz 10y ago
It seemed like one of "I did it because I could" kind of projects. I've used awk to setup some complicated reformatting of text files that I needed cron but I've never even considered using it as a prototyping language.
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by moftz 10y ago
Someone can already walk around a grocery store and see what's in my cart or they can just watch me checkout. Buying groceries isn't exactly a private experience unless you buy your stuff online. Securing tags in things like a pas
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by moftz 10y ago
Motorolla had this thing about 5 years ago: http://allthingsd.com/20110216/motorola-atrix-android-phone-... It sounds like it didn't perform that great but with the more modern phone hardware and possibly some har
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by moftz 10y ago
"'This is a retrospective study, so we cannot determine causation' between marijuana and weakening heart muscles, he concluded." Title should be changed to reflect that only a correlation has been found, not a causation.
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by moftz 10y ago
The article says they met up and mailed their absentee ballots together. Maybe the trading sites could use something like a video recording of someone checking a box on their ballot and sealing it up or do a recording of them in the booth c
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by moftz 10y ago
You can track changes within Excel and with Office 2016, there is a comparison and merge tool included (that's been long overdue). But since the files are binary encoded, there is no external way to track changes unless someone wants t
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by moftz 10y ago
I smashed my Nexus 6P's screen and have been using a friend's old iPhone 4s in the meantime as my old Androids were either damaged or totally dead beyond recharging. Disregarding the sluggishness of the phone (it is 5 years old...
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by moftz 10y ago
As much as I love running Arch on my school laptop, I'd never run it on a laptop I would use for making money. I'd probably be using something like Fedora, a stable distro that doesn't break whenever I update en masse. I usua
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by moftz 10y ago
There are plenty of MacBook Pro alternatives that have identical hardware but have a wider range of ports: Microsoft Surface Book Razor Stealth Dell XPS 13 Unless you are sticking with the macOS ecosystem for old time's sake, it's
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by moftz 10y ago
Probably the highest level of abstraction for Verilog is using something like Altera's IP cores. They are binary blobs intended for a specific FPGA model that can be hooked up like any other module but they are configurable for things
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by moftz 10y ago
Unless the book is some rare or antique print where the physical copy carries some intrinsic value worth more than the actual paper its printed on, then I have no issue with using a copy of a book in a artistic but destructive fashion. If i
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by moftz 10y ago
You can do a lot with Verilog as long as you don't intend for it to run on an actual FPGA. You can initialize registers to values, print to a console, and add in hardware delays for timing. Simulation is what Verilog was meant to do in
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by moftz 10y ago
With a CPU, everything is done procedurally. With an FPGA, all the code kind of runs at once. You build your modules and wire them together. The state of the HDL layout is static. There is no stack or heap. If a module is turned on, its doi
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by moftz 10y ago
Interesting, in my digital design and microcontroller classes, they have been beating FSMs into our heads since day one. I knew there were a few projects where I knew it wasn't totally necessary to do but used a FSM to get the checkbox
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by moftz 10y ago
Is the experience-based career mostly because the methods behind verification haven't changed much? VHDL and Verilog haven't changed much compared to the software world where new languages with novel features come out every week.
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by moftz 10y ago
A lot of times, you can get access to IP blocks. You can view a reference design of what the module does but the actual code is a binary blob owned by the chip manufacturer. You can treat these as functions and build larger designs from the
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by moftz 10y ago
I had a pretty cool class project once where we built the same formula solver in Verilog using three different optimizations: latency, power (watts), and area (in terms of PLU usage). I spent a long time just diagramming the timing of the v
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by moftz 10y ago
Re: State Machines I'm neutral about state machines. Obviously in things like microcontrollers and HDL, state machines are really necessary. Outside of those two examples, state machines can either make code much more stable or just ad
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by moftz 10y ago
In some cases, they need to preserve email in case the company is sued and emails are subject to discovery. If these guys want to talk in private, they talk face to face. Email is only for things that should have a papertrail.
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by moftz 10y ago
Also, emails can be subject to discovery during a lawsuit. If you want to discuss things you don't want some lawyer looking over a year from now, you keep all discussions face to face or via phone. Email is only for things that should
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by moftz 10y ago
But are the police or the FBI going to investigate your ransomware-locked computer when there are thousands of cases of this happening a year? The ransomware is usually running from a script. There is no guy wearing a ski mask on the other
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by moftz 10y ago
Oh boy, another application of mobile VR that no one will use. Except in this case, there won't even be enough software to make it worth anything.
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by moftz 10y ago
At the airport closest to my house, the baggage pickup is right next to the exits to the taxi and pickup lanes. This means that I only need to carry all my stuff for a short distance to a car or shuttle rather than carrying it through the t
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by moftz 10y ago
There were 210M licensed drivers in the US with an expected annual growth rate of 1.6% [1]. Extrapolating this data gives 231M licensed drivers in 2016. From the article: "...law enforcement in more than half of all states can search a
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by moftz 10y ago
The older GoTenna devices use the MURS band, the new mesh devices use 33cm band. Totally incompatible.
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by moftz 10y ago
Re: BONUS This won't work if the firewall is blocking SSH traffic. Now, if it's just port 22 being blocked, then you setup your sshd to run on something like port 80. At an internship where I had a lot of downtime, I had to setup
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by moftz 10y ago
In the US, for pretty much all open frequencies that require either no license, a de facto license (owning a device gives you a license, CB), or a certification test based license do not allow any sort of scrambling or encryption unless the
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by moftz 10y ago
Exactly, I don't understand the voxel craze all of a sudden. Plain old triangles work a million times better than any voxel ever will. I guess voxels are more of an aestetic now but I'm not a fan. All the sharp edges just make it
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by moftz 10y ago
I used to smoke just for the nicotine benefits. Then I realized that I stunk more than I thought so I quit that and picked up dip (smokeless tobacco). It provided a much more prolonged nicotine "buzz" and I could use it at my desk
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by moftz 10y ago
I don't believe the author even writes code, he is just a liaison between the developers and management. He's only seeing the big picture, none of the actual work involved with creating low level libraries, drivers, etc. You can&#

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