markemer

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by markemer 3mo ago
Yeah, research in general. Sometimes the thing you want just doesn’t exist. The story of the blue LED is like one guy with a CVD machine he could adapt with great precision because it was the only thing it had.
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by markemer 3mo ago
You’d be surprised how much that still happens. In my research clean room in grad school we used to have to build machines ourselves all the time. Not from first principles mind you, but we did have a machine shop and had to make all sorts
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by markemer 7mo ago
Yeah as a New Yorker and someone that's lived in the Boston to Washington megalopolis basically my whole life, a lot of Europe feels very familiar. I felt right at home in Lisbon.
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by markemer 7mo ago
Also Environmental regulations are like vaccines. They're victims of their own success. In the late 1960s early 1970s, before the EPA, the air and water in the US was a disaster. The EPA documented it: https://www.businessin
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by markemer 7mo ago
Or, just turning back on the one we mothballed in Peekskill.
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by markemer 8mo ago
Yes, but only as a fun retro thing. Not for most calculations, although I have to say for back of the napkin, almost all in your head style things, they can be handy.
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by markemer 8mo ago
LadyAda is 5x the EE I am, and I think highly of myself. The boards are just art.
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by markemer 11mo ago
Isn't this like the exact plot of Down Periscope?
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by markemer 1y ago
Especially if you're in the ecosystem. I can use them with all my devices, and they switch seamlessly.
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by markemer 1y ago
Yeah, honestly, smartphones are a very mature category now. Only so much you can do with them. Same with laptops and desktops. Plenty of improvements to be made, but those yearly wow factors are just not coming back.
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by markemer 1y ago
Not to mention radiation hardening. The soft error rate alone on these single digit nm chips would be massive.
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by markemer 1y ago
Yeah, I thought maybe he was a big fan of GCC or something, but he just seems to not like compilers? Or likes complaining about them?
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by markemer 1y ago
Yeah - I didn't understand the hostility - if these fixes had been refused or not even considered, than maybe, but they all seem like honest bugs that need fixing.
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by markemer 2y ago
Yeah, me too, but thankfully Starry Night is owned by New York's MOMA. So the french can't have it, but I can see it in New York.
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by markemer 2y ago
They meant scare quotes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes While they may be “quotes” of stuff from the original (which that technically was) the intent was clear.
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by markemer 2y ago
I’ve known companies to give exit packages on firing to avoid a lawsuit since you sign away rights to sue for illegal firing and it’s a nice cheap bribe. Mostly the big lawsuit targets do this. Not usually as good as the layoff package, but
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by markemer 2y ago
I was able to. You just have to fill out the same paperwork. Give people an option to opt out, etc.
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by markemer 2y ago
We make so much in China, I don’t get what the deal is, here. Just that a US billionaire isn’t making the money?
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by markemer 2y ago
That’s been my thought since the TikTok ban as well. It was meant for people, but this for sure seems to meet the spirit of the prohibition. Does it actually violate it? We’ll have to see once the cases work their way through.
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by markemer 2y ago
Maybe it’s just because I’m an EE, but I really got into the data modes too. Like did you know how stupid simple old school pagers are to create signals for? You have to make some slight modifications get them into the Ham Bands (or buy a n
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by markemer 3y ago
Yeah that’s exactly my experience, except I bought my first Mac more around ‘03.
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by markemer 3y ago
Also AppKit works perfectly well in swift. People just probably remember the ObjC versions of things better since that’s where this all started. But the naming is pretty standard if you remember the old calls.
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by markemer 3y ago
Yeah the wrapper is the same, it’s just NSView instead of UIView and the like. But the API is wrapped just as well.
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by markemer 3y ago
Yeah, it’s exactly the same function calls. Swift C interop is pretty decent, especially when dealing with apples own calls.
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by markemer 3y ago
There isn’t a ton of work being done in ObjC anymore. I’ve interviewed quite a few junior iOS developer candidates that didn’t even know it. There are some holdouts, of course. As I’ve been doing Mac/iOS programming since the retain re
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by markemer 3y ago
Yeah. Open toolchains have come a long way, but they’re not there yet. The Lattice ICE family are the best supported.
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by markemer 3y ago
Verilog is just a logic implementation. It should be pretty portable. There are some issues, and certainly the bitstreams won’t be compatible, but if C still works, I imagine verilog would too.
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by markemer 3y ago
That’s how I see it too. The FPGA version are knock offs, like would have been done back in the day but with fancy future hardware. A gate level reproduction would be kinda strange aside from pure desire for preservation. (Which is still a
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by markemer 3y ago
Not even that. They’re suing to invalidate the patent entirely and are also attacking the W1 watch Massimo sells based on Apple Patents. I’m not sure as to why Apple decided to go full scorched earth, but man they pissed somebody off.
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by markemer 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve said in many interviews that I know a lot about signing Apple products, all learned entirely against my will.

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