y0ungarmanii

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by y0ungarmanii 3y ago
I saw various comments about how FPGAs are not ready for consumer hardware, apple is using them in the airpod max already (probably for filtering audio) Check the link below https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
They do if they get into high frequency trading :(
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Math is so much easier when your using it to model something that is real. I remember in Physics 1 in college when the professor was going over how a baseball hits a bat and how it is modeled with all of its nth order derivatives. Everythin
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Reminds me of when Terry Davis taught me that switch statements are just lookup tables and b/c of that more efficient. RIP to the king!
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
yahoo it is
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Lol colleges are more expensive country club than place of higher education. We really shouldn't be surprised with the corruption anymore after we found out how easy it was to get on the rowing team of most of these places.
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
One of the projects I keep putting off is creating a simple RISC based CPU on an FPGA and writing an assembler & compiler for it. It would probably serve no real purpose other than education for myself which is why I put it off...
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Funny enough my only bad grades in high school were with languages, I think your analogy is apt. I could understand bio and learn it but performing at the level needed to be a doctor was not going to happen. Although, I have no regrets very
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
I originally went into premed in college and struggled a lot, I had other family members who were premed & or doctors and didn't understand how I could be getting C's in biochem or physiology. I finally gave up realizing there
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
I mean they don't pay that bad unless its entry level. Senior & principle engineers can make over 150k and thats a pretty good salary everywhere besides San Francisco and most of them are in LCOL areas.
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Very true, the commercial sector has almost no need for things like advanced optics, radiation hard electronics, RF absorbing materials etc.
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Big reason why this is advanced also was no one other than the military ever had a need for this kind of tech. Sometimes private sector is more advanced like when it comes to silicon fabrication, but those advancements will usually get inco
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by y0ungarmanii 4y ago
Lol without outting myself i worked in defense and although it could be mind numbingly slow we deff have tech at least a decade more advance than commercial sector. Mainly for the fact that there isn't a commercial market yet for the a