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FPGAhacker··on What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
Pretty sure they meant micrograms, not milligrams.
FPGAhacker··on Let's Build a Chip with Math
I’ve been an asic designer for a very long time, I’ve never seen anyone make close to those numbers in salary.
FPGAhacker··on The Health Benefits of Coffee
What is manual about a bee like barista?
FPGAhacker··on Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?
Unrealized Internet Billionaire.

I recommend against attempts at humor front and center like this on a resume. It’s too early.

I’m in a serious mood trying to solve a serious problem when I’m reviewing resumes. This would fall very flat with me. I would not think you were serious about finding work.

Sneak in some humor later and it might work. If I’m interested enough to read the details of your resume, something humorous later on might get a chuckle out of me.

FPGAhacker··on Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why
Why? I could see wanting some macOS apps to work on iOS, that makes sense to me.

But with sidecar you can get a pretty good idea of macOS on iPad. And it’s not great. At least as-is it’s not great.

FPGAhacker··on Ask HN: Do you run apps bare metal?
“ In computer science, bare machine (or bare metal) refers to a computer executing instructions directly on logic hardware without an intervening operating system. “

The definition may be changing, but at least Wikipedia still has it this way.

FPGAhacker··on An Unbelievable Demo
Look at footnote 28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace#cite_note-28
FPGAhacker··on How Not to Redact a Warhead
Sometimes the secret is the fact of using a specific technology, not the technology itself.
FPGAhacker··on Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
This is a truism that extends to any governing body. But there are people that having lived under the tyranny of power mongering HOAs, work to keep the rules to a minimum.
FPGAhacker··on Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
Depending on the hoa of course, but my answer is yes. Yes it is. As long as I’m on the board ;)

In all seriousness though, I hate the bureaucracy but being on the board gives me the opportunity to keep things in check.

FPGAhacker··on 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
I like Ford and have driven mustangs for 30 years with a short gap where I had a truck.

Just a preface to say I’m not hating on Ford in particular here, but the msrp is bogus. I can nearly guarantee that the actual base on a vehicle you can actually by will be $10k higher once a dealer is involved.

Edit: side comment, wow 800 plus comments on an F150 hacker news submission. Did not see that coming ;)

FPGAhacker··on TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production
There are an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 0.

Or they could go to picometers and femtometers giving another 6 orders of magnitude.

FPGAhacker··on Robinhood’s big gamble
Look up wash sales. I personally did not know about that. I made some money “scalping” on doge volatility, then learned of this tax rule, and I’m left wondering if I’m going to get a tax bill that wipes out what I made.

It’s not a stock, so maybe not. But I hadn’t even heard of such a rule and it was an eye opener. I could have gotten into a pretty deep hole and had no idea.

Not Robinhood’s fault, but a risk nonetheless.

FPGAhacker··on Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
You should be able to upload your library to Apple Music (visible to just you). It used to be called iTunes Match, but my understanding is it’s integrated to Apple Music now.
FPGAhacker··on MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]
I have to make a lot of assumptions, but a couple hours doesn't seem unreasonable for the core function. Among the many assumptions are the hash function, what is actually being hashed, what processor interface is, desired performance, etc.
FPGAhacker··on MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]
> The tools are too complex and the whole process has a learning curve that far out weigh using a stock CPU/SoC.

Sadly this is true, although the open source tools are gaining ground pretty quickly from what I understand. https://symbiflow.github.io/getting-started.html

FPGAhacker··on MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]
Personally I think "programming" RTL is dead simple. It's so simple, in fact, that it's not even interesting. But I've been doing it forever so my perspective is skewed.
FPGAhacker··on All-new iMac features the M1 chip
I was super happy to see that option for sudo, and it worked great. Until MacOS reverted it. Not sure if I did an update or what, but the change was undone.
FPGAhacker··on Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies
It seems far more likely to me that their Apple Watch support shenanigans are caused by Apple trying to lock out a competitor in streaming fitness.
FPGAhacker··on Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support
I don’t know either, but you can apparently work around it via an iPhone app.
FPGAhacker··on Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
We are not a homogenous group.
FPGAhacker··on MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project
Not that this is necessarily helpful to you in the short term, but it strikes me as a good problem for machine learning (going from die pictures to transistor schematic.)
FPGAhacker··on Setting up Starlink
That would be a greengrocer's apostrophe.
FPGAhacker··on A Brief F# Exploration
Do you mean The first dotnet language?
FPGAhacker··on How much can a Clojure developer do alone?
I haven’t written any Clojure for a few years now. So my knowledge and technique is out of date, but I have a contrary opinion on “repl driven” development vs many Clojure advocates. In short: your repl compiled code is state that you now have to track in your head.

Yeah, great, you can compile a single function and it hot loads. It’s pretty awesome for experimenting and debug, but the longer your repl session is open and the more you change and compile, the more likely you are going to end up with a mixed state in memory that does not reflect how your program would behave if run from scratch.

You are going to forget to save a change or your manual tinkering with a data structure will leave it inconsistent. These errors accumulate, like navigation error with an IMU.

It’s got use cases for sure, and I miss hot reloading when I’m debugging in other languages, but it is far from being the ultimate feature a language can have.

FPGAhacker··on U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan
Possibly. It would take a strong economic interest for the US government to do anything. Losing TSMC to China might be enough. We live in interesting times.
FPGAhacker··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
I suspect that it may have been "bred." That is, engineered in the same way that dog breeds are engineered, which isn't so exotic.
FPGAhacker··on MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification
I actually like the feel, and later versions didn't sound like a thundering herd. But it was just so unreliable that it was completely not worth it.
FPGAhacker··on Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
“Eerly premium” should be “Early premium” on the front page.
FPGAhacker··on Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
It’s possible they are selling these at a loss to seed or whet the market. If it takes off then maybe it will reappear at a profitable price.
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