speleo_engr

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by speleo_engr 7y ago
That sounds like a great idea, but you today we can't even synthesize arbitrary VHDL/Verilog code efficiently. The author needs an understanding of hardware architecture to write something that synthesizes versus just a test harne
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by speleo_engr 7y ago
I don't think its going to get any design starts, nor is that the intent. There are companies with rock solid legacy applications that want to continue to run them on newer hardware. VMS first ran on the VAX (long dead), then Alpha (de
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by speleo_engr 7y ago
I read articles like this and come to the conclusion that UTC is flawed, not Unix time. Leap seconds seem mostly useless. People seem to think they are important for astronomy, but for every astronomical calculation I have ever done, your f
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by speleo_engr 8y ago
Depends on the company size and how long they have been around. Based on experience, I will always ask the following at a smaller company: Have you ever been close to missing payroll? Depending on the answer, make sure to find out when was
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by speleo_engr 8y ago
If you come at it from an engineering approach (e.g., electrical engineer), it doesn't look like that at all. In fact, the focus is on filters and spectral analysis. It looked something like this when I was at Georgia Tech: First, you
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by speleo_engr 8y ago
How is vinyl more durable as far as physical media goes than a CD (digital format)? Vinyl can easily warp when improperly stored, degrades every time it is played, and even a small scratch result in audible imperfections. A CD at least can
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by speleo_engr 9y ago
Triple buffering confusingly means different things. Both you and the OP are correct. The OP meant something in line with what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buff... "In tr
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by speleo_engr 10y ago
Monospaced fonts simply mean that the horizontal width is constant. While this also means there aren't any kerning pairs, it is a different concept. Simply disabling kerning does not mean a font is monospaced. Kerning is a table of pai
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by speleo_engr 10y ago
Those are good. The only one I have worth mentioning was a conversation that went like this: Manager: So you like caving? Me: Yeah, I was able to go on a month long expedition last summer to the mountains of Peru. Manager: I can't bel