samlittlewood

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Intel Custom Foundry’s 10nm meltdown is crushing a $20+B market cap tech giant(semiaccurate.com)
71 points by samlittlewood 8y ago|48 comments
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
Somtimes, you don't even need an autopilot: http://www.ejectorseats.co.uk/ejection_from_a_harrier.htm
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
https://www.yworks.com/products/yed http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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by samlittlewood 8y ago
Interestingly, this could be circumvented - the boot rom does the logo scroll using data from cart, THEN, in a separate loop checks it vs local copy. If you can make the cart read different data at each stage, you are golden! IIRC Argonaut&
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Medals - I think linkedin approached this?
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
They were reasonably experienced, but had an appetite for optimization beyond what most people would consider reasonable. In defense however, the task at hand was creating graphics microcode, so that mindset did pay off. As you rightly poin
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Used to work with two programmers: First would type out a few lines of code incredibly fast with lots of mistakes (and not bothering to backspace over wrongness) - then go back and clear up damage using notepad level editing. Second would s
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Also enjoying https://github.com/japaric/svd2rust - Generates simple uniform register mappings for various cortex-m and msp430 micros.
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
I have not used it yet, but maybe: https://github.com/hashmismatch/freertos.rs ?
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
For rust on bare metal target, it is also worth looking at: http://blog.japaric.io/quickstart/ and other work by Jorge Aparicio - https://github.com/japaric .
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A game, in which you play an AI who makes paperclips(decisionproblem.com)
4 points by samlittlewood 9y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
It certainly supports sending answerback: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-W... . But IIRC, we had some (non-DEC?) terminals that 'helpfully' allowed remote programming of the an
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
I seem to remember that being used as an attack vector at college: Identify a terminal that was logged on as root (albeit physically inaccessible), then find a way of getting message to it, then send a string that programmed answerback and
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
When I am interviewing: Candidate having competed in programming competitions - big green flag. But, if success in competitions is, in their view, their biggest asset - amber flag. I would extend this to most competitive endeavours.
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
So, should these lanes be painted like the recharge areas in F-Zero?
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Whilst not realtime rendering - Physically Based Rendering (Pharr, Jakob & Humphreys) http://www.pbrt.org/ is great for understanding what people are trying to achieve, without being distracted by very detailed optimisa
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
A recipe for disaster is for a manager's code to wind up on the critical path, then become a blocker - bad code & bad management. A possibly better approach is for managers to have a few side proejcts, scouting out potential risk r
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
A variation on this is not swoop in and make discoveries that the team is very close to finding - let them enjoy the thrill (even if you have to nudge them a bit in the right direction).
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Waiting for one called 'FlashDrive'
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
As a brit, that reads ok - to me, it does not imply intention. "Fred killed himself whilst overtaking a lorry on the A30" would not imply suicide (but possibly poor judgement).
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
Also, As well as words, I would recommend practising the key diagrams that represent the projects(s) - so you leave enough space for the important elements, and don't fall of edge of page/board.
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by samlittlewood 9y ago
MIT/DARPA also have a combined solid state steerable beam transmitter and sensor using phased arrays: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectr...
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Conus Textile is very cool - good examples look just like computer simulations!
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Looks plausible, compare to: https://www.startengine.com/startup/jetpack-aviation Using 2 AMT Nike turbines at 80 kgf each (these are big) So 6 smaller turbines (eg: AMT Olympus) at 23 kgf looks good. That said
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
IIRC - Chris had been promoting the project that became TT for a while. He main work at the time was as a truly awesome 68k to PC porter. I remember a colleague telling me something along the lines of 'Chris should stick to doing ports
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
As an aside, modern aerobatic aircraft are often rigged 0,0,0 (wing incidence, tail incidence, dihedral), so level flight will need equal elevator deflection in the appropriate direction. Less efficient - but makes for symmetrical performa
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
For me: Don't use the computer to waste time - if I need decompression time, try and make it doing something w/ kids (LEGO!) A solid dev. environment where you can walk up, crank an iteration, and walk away. (Like in the time it t
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Best independent source I can find is http://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu4.html#Sec4Part14 . I noticed whilst writing a verilog implementation - seeing the @PC+ relative modes for immediate data made me dig out my PDP-11 re
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Fun fact - the MSP430 ISA is based on the PDP-11 ISA.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
I'm curious how easy it would be to export content from Synfig (an open source 2d vector animation tool) http://www.synfig.org - that would then be open source end to end.

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