nanumbat

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by nanumbat 3y ago
I guess I've been lucky.
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by nanumbat 3y ago
I'm 60 in a few days. I slid into Verilog (now SystemVerilog) about 12 years ago, mostly on FPGAs. These days I've got more work than I know what to do with. I'm planning on retiring in December. There's something to be
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by nanumbat 3y ago
Yes on Ranger, however the first Surveyor completed a soft landing and returned image data.
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by nanumbat 3y ago
My late father-in-law was a manager at Hughes working on Surveyor 1. My wife shared his (unpublished) notes and audio recordings of the the project with me. It was an absolutely remarkable achievement. I can confirm that the Hughes team was
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by nanumbat 3y ago
It's an 802-VLZ3. All inputs have MUTE ALT 3-4 selected. ALT 3-4 is selected for Control Room Source. Assign to Main Mix is selected. Ctl Room/Submix level is at the Unity detent. Main Out L/R send the final mix to the amplif
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by nanumbat 4y ago
An ancient 8 channel Mackie sound mixer to the left and slightly north of my keyboard. Other than inputs from the main computer, it pulls in audio from a bunch of other stuff/computers in the room, has a handy 1/4" headphone
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by nanumbat 4y ago
Fixes for Pixel 6 were pushed today. https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2023...
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by nanumbat 4y ago
For the hardware I was using, the downstream CDR was actually doing a reasonable job locking on the spread-spectrum clock, such that PCIe negotiations would sometimes work through quite a few states without error (I was watching the state m
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by nanumbat 4y ago
From the comments: "Protip: don’t try to be fancy and provide a local REFCLK from an independent oscillator. Always use the host’s REFCLK as it may be spread spectrum modulated for EMI compliance in most PC systems." Someone hande
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by nanumbat 4y ago
Oddly enough, I never met any of the coders. The entire code base turned up on mag tapes from Belmont, CA. I was working in Toronto. I was very much a newbie, so I didn't form an educated opinion on code quality. There were very few bu
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by nanumbat 4y ago
My first job in 1987 was porting all of Oracle's source code (entirely in C for 32 bit architectures) to a 64 bit Control Data mainframe. So, that.
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by nanumbat 4y ago
I can't speak to security, but I bought a Mi Mix 2S some time ago and put LineageOS on it. Definitely check that the frequency bands the phone supports are utilized by your carrier. (The fastboot screen on that phone has a wee little b
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by nanumbat 4y ago
Track down a syntax-aware code search/database tool (if your IDE doesn't have one). For me it was/is GNU ID Utils. At some point you'll be handed thousands or millions of lines of someone else's code, and you will n