oscillonoscope

17 ms·

1.
by oscillonoscope 12d ago
I've been playing in this space as a hobby for a while. I agree the current round of startups are dead ends but I doubt LLMs will be good enough without drastically different tooling than today (ECAD and ATE). I've been playing ar
2.
by oscillonoscope 22d ago
It's a shed, you can just compact gravel and put it on pavers
3.
by oscillonoscope 23d ago
It believe the most likely consequence of AI is to promote generalists: people who have a domain expertise, can work cross discipline, and has enough programming knowledge to keep the LLMs on track. I don't think 'pure' softw
4.
by oscillonoscope 3mo ago
I think it's less a middle path than a third option. I see the type of thinking the author is commenting on whenever there is a tight requirement on a feature. Especially when you know you have to add some custom magic to meet the requ
5.
by oscillonoscope 4mo ago
If I need to move a 'branch bookmark' around a lot, I usually just tie it to an empty commit and then rebase changes before the bookmark.
6.
by oscillonoscope 4mo ago
Congress is completely nonfunctional. It doesn't work. Americans are just too dedicated to American civic religion to admit it isn't working.
7.
by oscillonoscope 4mo ago
It took a small company I worked for months to get new licenses due to AMD just not responding. I'm not sure they have the ability to actually handle this in a timely manner
8.
by oscillonoscope 4mo ago
This might have made sense for the original 13 colonies but after westward expansion, it clearly does not. Most of the western state borders were formed for administrative reasons
9.
by oscillonoscope 5mo ago
There is no legal mechanism left that could correct course at this point. You would need to have a constitutional amendment to drastically reshape government and that's DOA. All that's left is snow decline and eventual dissolution
10.
by oscillonoscope 5mo ago
That might be what you intended but saying "outperforming the academic nerds with zero experience" comes across as bitter and arrogant.
11.
by oscillonoscope 5mo ago
Why are people who don't have degrees always so weird about it?
12.
by oscillonoscope 9mo ago
Language really isn't the difficulty. That's why there's a thousand alt-HDLs that have been used for little more than blinking LEDs.
13.
by oscillonoscope 9mo ago
Its both depending on context. If HDL becomes custom silicon then it needs to be treated like hardware. If you can easily deploy field updates to your device then it's no different than any other firmware
14.
by oscillonoscope 10mo ago
You are mistaken. In the workflow I described, I am making changes on top of all branches at once and then deciding which branch to send the new commit to. This allows me to make changes simultaneously to both branches without friction.
15.
by oscillonoscope 10mo ago
I more or less use the method described [here]( https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/advanced/sim... ) for branches. One thing I do change is that I set the bookmark to an empty commit that serves as the
16.
by oscillonoscope 10mo ago
I worked in nim for a little bit and it truly has a lot of potential but ultimately abandoned it for the same reason. It's never going to grow beyond the founder's playground.
17.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
I don't really agree with that unless you redefine the ego as being synonymous with 'being egotistical' or 'sinful pride'. You need a sense of self to feel pride and something more than base passion. For practical p
18.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that ego-less is even a better way of doing things. Sure, the ego can go overboard but it also gives a sense of drive and direction. It isn't just the bad stuff. Without it, there's nobody taking ow
19.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
I think that's hyperbolic. There are several designs advertised as being designed in KiCAD that have DDR which means there are way more not being advertised. https://www.kicad.org/made-with-kicad/categories/Si
20.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
You can route DDR in KiCad and there are some online reports of people doing that. KiCad is not as nice as the paid software and there are shortcomings but I think 'pretty useable' covers its status accurately.
21.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
It's also tooling. Professional grade PCB design software can be acquired for a few kilobucks per year and OSS versions (KiCAD) are pretty useable. Professional grade IC design software is hundreds of thousands per year and open source
22.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
It's partly because you're not paying attention. Next time you're out in the woods, try to still hunt for a while. It's a hunting method where you move extremely slowly throughout the woods from cover to cover while watc
23.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
If you haven't checked it out, nim sits at a really good middle ground for ergonomics, safety, and speed.
24.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
I don't know enough about LLMs to understand if its feasible or not but it seems like it would be useful to make certain tasks hard-coded or add some fundamental constraints on it. Like when making footprints, it should always check th
25.
by oscillonoscope 2y ago
There are schematic analysis tools which do that now just based on the netlist
26.
by oscillonoscope 3y ago
It also depends on what you're the go-to person on and what the promoted position is. Being the expert on some low-level technology isn't necessarily going to help you get promoted to a managerial position or the upper tiers of te
27.
by oscillonoscope 3y ago
While full bandwidth applications certainly exist, it is rare. Most direct sampling schemes are used for having a purely digital RF front end within the Nyquist range of the ADC/DACs. It's cheaper and easier to develop firmware&#x
28.
by oscillonoscope 3y ago
It's very rare to actually utilize the full bandwidth of the ADC to do any processing in these. The data gets immediately decimated down.
29.
by oscillonoscope 3y ago
I have noticed it is harder for getting people straight out of college used to a professional working environment. However, I haven't noticed any difference in getting them up to speed technically.
30.
by oscillonoscope 3y ago
This type of debugging is fine for people just starting out or hobbyists but won't be useful if you're trying to design HDL professionally. You really need to be able to create accurate simulations so you're not debugging on

More ›