spacedcowboy

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1051.
by spacedcowboy 6y ago
Or you could use attributes... https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/gt8vsc/using_raii...
1052.
by spacedcowboy 6y ago
Absolutely, yes -Hari
1053.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Generally, the more difficult problem is to design the power-sipping, energy-efficient cpu that runs on a battery with passive cooling, than the relative power hog that plugs into the wall and has active cooling.
1054.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I take your point, but the complexity I’m talking about is what remains after you’ve done any readily applicable simplifications. Any normal task has an inherent level of complexity (“add one” is a very simple task, so can be reduced do
1055.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Complexity is like energy, it cannot be created or destroyed, it is a fundamental property of any process or thing. However, complexity can be managed. Humans do this using abstraction as a tool. We divide the complex problem up into a sequ
1056.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I’ve just moved within Apple, and requisitioned a top-of-the-line MBP (my current one is from 2014, I used to use a Mac Pro in my old position). Even with a custom build to top spec, and with it being internal (ie: not customer), it was sti
1057.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Nope, none of that, at least imho. It’s a damn good Unix workstation, like I’ve been using for the last 30 years, and you get excellent commercial app support. That’s all that’s necessary for me.
1058.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
For me, one of the prime drivers for how easy something is to grok, is how the formatting of the code lays out the logic within. He does a fair job with the last incarnation, but I’d go further than that. As he says, compilers are smart eno
1059.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I don’t have ADHD, I’m pretty laid back actually, but I don’t have a mind’s eye. I was 30 or so before I realised “the mind’s eye” wasn’t a metaphor, and people really could visualise things in their head. My brain doesn’t work like that, b
1060.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Cappuccino does this. Compare the speeds of the work-in-progress ( https://wip.laser-tags.net ) and the same site ( https://laser-tags.net ) after doing a ‘jake release’ which pulls the 90 or so files into a single .sj o
1061.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
cough There's a fair few of us - yes, even in R&D, that feel equally strongly supportive of Terminal.app, vi, and command-line tools. And as someone on the inside, who knows the answer to this story (nope, not telling) it's
1062.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Funnily enough, my brother is called Nigel... I think you might be onto something!
1063.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I'm ridiculously busy right now, and I don't have the time - sorry. What I will do is point you to the resources I've been using: http://opencircuitdesign.com is the primary resource, which gives you layout, desi
1064.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Generally FPGA place and route, and more recently the same for ASICs. I don't recommend making your own ASIC as a hobby. It's damn expensive.
1065.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
Oh it was pretty much a dedicated machine when it was burning a CD. This was a postgrad office, there were 4 of us (three called Simon...) and we had a Unix workstation each. Generally the PC sat in the corner and wasn’t really used. It had
1066.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
[This is the ‘*’ from above. I couldn’t get ‘edit’ to accept it as an update, it just kept on putting the original text back, so...] My parents bought me a black-and-white TV and a computer kit (they couldn’t afford both the TV and the alre
1067.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I was using Linux before things like Slackware came about, when it was just a boot and a root floppy disk. We had DECstation 3100/5000 machines costing small fortunes, that couldn’t reliably write a CD. The small 386 in the corner runn
1068.
by spacedcowboy 7y ago
I work at Apple. I’ve not reviewed the new guidelines but can confirm that yes, Apple do indeed let you take sick time to recover from an illness. Of course they do. In fact, the only time I ever had to interact with Apple HR about time off