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by xondono 5y ago
Can vouch for fedevel. It’s my goto recommendation when someone wants to “graduate” from microcontrollers into more complex designs (DDRX memory, PCIe,…)
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by xondono 5y ago
If you intend to work in the field, KiCAD has very little penetration as of this moment. It’s better than nothing, but mot companies will prefer people with experience in Altium. If you just want to start doing some projects, KiCAD is matur
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by xondono 5y ago
> the Autorouter in Kicad is actually pretty useful... For most toy projects it’s perfectly sufficient, but once you get into complicated stuff it will bite you back. Using an auto router is like building your software by copy pasting fr
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by xondono 5y ago
AFAIK, that’s only the case for the screen, and there’s a warning when swapping the rear camera.
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by xondono 5y ago
It wouldn’t, OEM batteries can be swapped with no issues, it’s non-genuine parts what causes issues.
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s not. Modern batteries integrate the charge controller with the cells, this allows to track the cell life and it allows the management of the chemistry. Even small changes in chemistry require modifications in the charging algorithm. Th
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by xondono 5y ago
A lot of people are claiming this is about screwing with third party, but there’s a lot of good technical reasons to do things like that. For instance, the serialization of batteries (they’re not only serialized, they have a symmetric key p
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by xondono 5y ago
Just because someone else asked: here's the Rust code: fn fib(n: usize) -> u64 { match n { 0 => 1, 1 => 1, _ => fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2), } } fn main() { println!("{}", f
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by xondono 5y ago
> get somewhere close to what every other modern democracy has offered for decades. Yes, just come closer to the clusterfuck the rest of us have. In every country most people say “healthcare in this country is a mess”, and yet, my best e
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by xondono 5y ago
> worst benchmark you could use for CL vs. rust. I wasn’t benchmarking CL vs Rust, but my CL vs my Rust . What I was trying to see is, can I do something useful with this? Or do I need to invest a good amount of time (something I don’
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s not like I did something weird, I pretty much copy pasted from https://lisp-lang.org/learn/functions I know the reason for the time taken is because it’s not tail recursive, and that making it tail recursive would
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by xondono 5y ago
Maybe it came out wrong (English is not my first language). I did not mean to say that I believe it inferior or anything, just that I felt writing performant code in Lisp is non trivial to learn, while rust feels pretty natural (to me). I’l
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by xondono 5y ago
Some weeks ago I tried to start learning Lisp too. I found it odd, but I’ve seen weirder. Then I tried the simple example of writing a function to compute the nth fibonacci number (it’s almost the first example). After testing some numbers,
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by xondono 5y ago
I really wonder how much is willful ignorance for the benefit of clickbait
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by xondono 5y ago
> Be a boring investor and find an exciting hobby instead. This. Too many people think that investing and trading are the same thing, they are almost opposites.
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by xondono 5y ago
Predicting demand is only really useful if you can tailor your yield function and doing so provides savings. Intel doesn’t choose to make X number of top bin and Y number of the next bin, they try to optimize for as much of the top bin as
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by xondono 5y ago
Actually some farmers do the exact same thing. Some farm products get sorted too, mostly because produce for human consumption needs to be eye catching (people don’t buy ugly food). Industrial clients don’t really care (who cares if the app
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by xondono 5y ago
The original margin for overclocking was in fact a result of being efficient. Let’s say you build 1000 chips and bin them in two categories 900 came out near peak performance. Then you get orders for 200 of the top performance item, and 700
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by xondono 5y ago
What I don’t see discussed is how JIT has become the “securitization” of manufacturing. Everyone had an incentive to do JIT, and it improved efficiency in each individual company, but it did so by inflating a systemic risk that could be eas
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s true that the auto market tends to be behind the times, but regulation is not the cause. That is much more of an issue in airplanes and aerospace in general. Cars still use micron level chips because: - They still do the job. - They ha
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by xondono 5y ago
Call me crazy, but if someone uses the word “theft” I think it’s implicit that it’s not a question of degree. Theft of pennies is still theft. So I think it’s a perfectly valid assumption that OP thinks 0% is the right percentage.
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by xondono 5y ago
What? That analogy doesn’t make sense, the RPi is not the development machine, it’s the target.
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by xondono 5y ago
Now we will start to see tournaments on certain countries with all GMs over 80y…
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by xondono 5y ago
> if you create the best product based on the best engineering, the buyers will come. In some markets, absolutely. In others not so much.
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by xondono 5y ago
The problem is that these two targets have different timelines. Intel has been dropping the ball in engineering precisely because their teams seem to be focused exclusively on the next quarter/year results. In a market where it takes 5
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by xondono 5y ago
There’s different types of companies that benefit from different approaches. Engineer leaders tend to have more focus on long term and incremental building. They consider the engineering departments to be the heart of the company. MBAs tend
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by xondono 5y ago
In Spain prices have been artificially expensive for years, after some very questionable dealings between politicians and energy companies. Being the only country in the world that taxes solar self generation does not help.
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by xondono 5y ago
EU has a massive problem of dysfunctional regulations, this just adds more to the mix. As the obvious example, the EU leader in solar is Germany, while solar is almost non existent in Spain. Spain by contrast has a lot of wind turbines in s
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by xondono 5y ago
> If I claimed "xondono's understanding of the law is incorrect", should that be a cause of action? I guess that depends on other factors. Let’s say I’m correct (for the sake of argument, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not even in
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by xondono 5y ago
To use that defense, Facebook would have to label their fact checks as opinions, something that AFAIK they do not.

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