cushychicken

Ah, if only.

Those damn intransigent Taiwanese!

It’s almost as if they don’t want to join the PRC.

…like most other independent nations.

I’m gonna need to see some immigration statistics on influx of foreigners into the PRC to believe that claim.

It's a well known creative / brainstorming trick that the best way to have a lot of good ideas is to have a lot of ideas.

Focus on genesis decoupled from critique, then critique later.

Also, somewhat spitefully, find it funny that he has multiple roommates.

Yep. I'm a director now. This is exactly how it is. A big part of being effective in this role is understanding how direct you can be in a given scenario.

A senior manager on reviewing a proposal asks them to synergize with existing efforts: Your work is redundant you're wasting your time.

Option 1 is how I'd say it to a peer whose org is duplicating effort. You can give your advice, but at the end of the day: not my circus, not my clowns.

Option 2 is a more-direct way of how I'd say it to someone in my own org. I'd rephrase to: "Someone else is already doing this; focus your efforts on something more impactful."

I hope I get to meet him someday.

OP gave the thread a very good and valid suggestion. Treating this as a societal problem - for "society" to solve - is lazy thinking.

If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

If it works... well, congratulations. You now have an edge that no one else knows about.

I can find systemd script gremlins all the live long day.

I can’t find anyone who can write device drivers for custom peripherals, then hook them to user space utilities in a sane way.

I’ve had a hell of a time finding good embedded Linux devs.

I got insanely lucky to hire two this year.

I think it’s a great conversational tool for evaluating and shaking out weak points in a design at an early phase.

Ah, and therein lies the problem.

I’ve seen companies frequently elect “none at all” as the right amount of spec to write.

I’d rather have far too many specs than none.

Nobody who delivers any system professionally thinks it’s a bad thing to plan out and codify every piece of the problem you’re trying to solve.

That’s part of what waterfall advocates for. Write a spec, and decompose to tasks until you can implement each piece in code.

Where the model breaks - and what software developers rightly hate - is unnecessarily rigid specifications.

If your project’s acceptance criteria are bound by a spec that has tasked you with the impossible, while simultaneously being impossible to change, then you, the dev, are screwed. This is doubly true in cases where you might not get to implementing the spec until months after the spec has been written - in which case, the spec has calcified into something immutable in stakeholders’ minds.

Agile is frequently used by weak product people and lousy project managers as an excuse to “figure it out when we get there”. It puts off any kind of strategic planning or decision making until the last possible second.

I’ve lost track of the number of times that this has caused rework in projects I’ve worked on.

So difficult to get the directionality right and also enable a JTAG bus

Hate these parts for that reason

He’s not a very nice person but he did at least used to own a tech company.

Single cycle readings defeat the point of sigma delta ADC setups.

You're taking many high noise samples and averaging them over time to get a better picture of the average voltage.

Y’all made a lot of smart choices to keep your timetable. Not least of which was finding - and listening to - a good CM partner.

I suspect that for every one job the government would subsidize for a daycare professional, that we’d see three women enter the workforce.

That’s a net of four people employed.

I have no proof of this aside from my own experience watching parents struggle to find care for their kids. Even well off ones where I live. In Massachusetts!

Good for you, New Mexico. I’m rooting for you.

Plenty of employers do not operate with this expectation. In the US, I’d replace “plenty” with “most”.

Plenty of employers recognize an opportunity to differentiate themselves to candidates by publicly not being 996’ers.

The transparency makes it that much easier to avoid them.

Most cybersecurity work in the US, by volume, rolls up to one of about five organizations - all of whom are US government entities.

Most cybersecurity work has nothing to do with keeping Russian bot farms out of outdated WordPress installs.

Not so much the fact that he was gone - the fact that he was here.

Jim Lovell made us all better just for existing.

I suspect it has nothing to do with the OSSW community; they give their software tools away.

It’s not a question of developer experience. We heartily agree that using Vivado sucks. My point is that there’s no way around using Vivado (or the Altera equivalent) if you want to use the most useful parts of modern FPGAs.

It’s simply not possible to do things like access the GTH transceivers or custom MAC blocks using open source FPGA tools. These are table stakes capabilities to make these chips useful. You can only use vendor tools to access them.

I suspect - but cannot prove - that Xilinx has agreements with IP vendors about how much they are allowed to reveal about the guts of the different devices they integrate into Zynq family die.

I also suspect that Xilinx has considerable intellectual property investment into the underlying architecture of their PL. Making 600MHz programmable fabric is no mean technical feat. Open sourcing their tools is probably something they judge a risk to revealing those technical advantages.

The statement “vendor tools are god” is a statement that they are all powerful, and not something you can work against. It’s not pleasant, but it’s a necessary evil.

You’re not going to be able to access any of the most cutting edge features of Xilinx or Intel chips without the vendor tools. Simple as that. They have no interest in open sourcing the tools. Fighting the vendors to change this is trying to fight a force you can’t fight against and win.