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hak8or··on Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al?
It depends on what sort of asic stuff fyou want to do, meaning digital or analog.

Adanced chip design by kishore Mishra is very good and like 50 bucks last I remember.

If I were you, I would just look at Amazon reviews and buy whatever looks decently rated and is avalible for cheap used.

hak8or··on Linux desktop market share over 3%
Any specific reason you used a dedicated eh GPU instead of just the integrated one? Or do ryzen igp's not do too well?
hak8or··on Mailable Live Animals
It depends greatly on your location. Mine is very bad, I've lost maybe 10 packages over the past few years or so. Thankfully Amazon has been kind, but I worry I may eventually raise a flag there, even though I tell them constantly my local usps is trash.

The people in my post office are extremely rude and about as "I don't care" or "not my problem" as you can imagine. To be fair, I've also seen some extremely rude customers in the past too. From what I see, they are also very understaffed and probably under paid, but then again they have godly benefits and job security.

hak8or··on DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes
That sounds really unusual I feel, the insurance company should be within their right to deny a claim if the home was destroyed due to gross negligence, like someone deciding to make a pool on their roof without asking an architect, or throwing a raging party with 700 people and the floor collapsing.
hak8or··on Bootstrap 4 Beta
Been staring at it for like 20 seconds and I don't see it. Looks like a normal name to me?
hak8or··on Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go
How on earth is it world class if you can't do line by line or step debugging?
hak8or··on Exa, a modern replacement for ls
Well, I have to admit, it is smaller than a docker container of alpine Linux containing the ls binary! Still doesn't mean it's monstrously large for no good reason.
hak8or··on Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses, outraged sellers say
In Europe, for some sad reason credit cards are very rarely used and many stores don't accept them. Not to mention, if you do a charge back against a store like Walmart or Amazon, you won't be able to shop there anymore because they will ban you.
hak8or··on EventRegistry – Real-time, annotated feed of world news
The pricing is contact us levels, so right off the bat probably more than three quarters of readers brushed this off.

I don't see any free public API like twitters mini firehose (10% of traffic for free).

hak8or··on ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15
Surely the usa military or intelligence wouldn't be happy with that, right? Who would have access to this information?
hak8or··on Software Engineering at Google
What new York state law prohibits this? My contract says that as a salaried employee I work at the company for 23:59 hours Monday to saturday, so it's only Sunday that's off the clock.

And from what I understood, all inventions they own, but I am still very iffy on what's qualified as an invention.

A coworker even asked for bosses blessing to sell some stuff on the side unrelated to the company, he said no because as per the contract that wouldn't let coworker give full undivided attention to the company.

hak8or··on IRS Requests Bitcoin Buyer Records in Broad Tax Evasion Case
This is fantastic, thank you!
hak8or··on White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
This seems to explicitly not include workers who are privvy to trade secrets based on a quick skim, so I guess all of us tech workers wouldn't have anything changed sadly.
hak8or··on Rust language bindings for TensorFlow
Uh, heh. I have got to say, this is the first time I've seen such genuine anger and hatred towards something as abstract as a programming language and its users.
hak8or··on Show HN: Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL
Good luck with that. There ain't no way rust is getting a misra complaint setup anytime soon. Not to mention, the current vendors are entrenched in their ways to ridiculous levels. Companies like keil for example don't bother to have a Linux complaint tool chain.
hak8or··on BeagleBone Black Wireless
While the motives are nice, there is no way I am willing to reward a company like the one who makes the beaglebone black that effectively scams its customers by charging such a huge amount relative to other products.
hak8or··on Raspberry pi Zero and USB 3G internet and XMPP = awesome IoT device
Does anyone have any suggestions for cheap 3g and up modules? For 2g I can get a module off aliexpress that has 2g, GPS, and Bluetooth with a uart based interface for less than 15 bucks not including the antennas. For 3g, sadly I couldn't find anything anywhere near that price range and instead what I found was usually in the 40$ and up area.

In the USA, tmobile will be shutting down 2g in I think 2020, which is not that far off. Hence me wanting to get on 3g ASAP, but all solutions seem ridiculously expensive.

I haven't looked as 3g USB do goes in the past, they seem to be sub twenty dollars, but there is no way I am having my little micro with 8kb of ram run an entire host USB stack with enough resources left over for my code.

hak8or··on Rustconf 2016 – What was cool and what surprised me
What do you mean by inclusivity?
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