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evancox10on Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant

The idea is that you would apply a high voltage to just the cable, with nothing else attached. If it's just a cable, no harm no foul. On the other hand, if you start seeing smoke from the embedded electronics, you may want to use a different cable.

evancox10on Command line interfaces are reified UIs

You also see this in chip design EDA tools, at least the good ones. Not only will they record the equivalent CLI command that affects the "data", but some will also record the commands that solely affect the GUI! (e.g. resize window)

evancox10on Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries

And that system maintains a hierarchical relationship, you and your neighbor share the first n words. Makes much more sens e

evancox10on I have no side code projects to show you

But why is it important to you? Do you think the other candidates are couldn't, or didn't, produce similarly impressive code?

evancox10on Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring

I'm not necessarily pro-big banks, but JP Morgan and GS were two of the banks LEAST in need of a bailout. GS was short MBS at the time, so your description is .

evancox10on Intel vs. NuFlare in multi-beam race

You are correct. Total # of masks for a modern IC can be 30-50 or possibly more. And with double and even quad patterning on the critical layers, that's 2 or 4 masks for a single layer.

evancox10on Intel vs. NuFlare in multi-beam race

Probably because the cost of the mask writers is so huge. As the article says, only 10 - 12 mask writers sales are expected in 2017. My guess is these machines will run 24/7, practically. The more masks it can make, the more units over which you can amortize the capital costs.

evancox10on Intel vs. NuFlare in multi-beam race

"Edit: well I was partially incorrect"

No, you were completely incorrect TBH.

evancox10on The License Zero Manifesto

Well project A is using B for a commercial purpose, namely the business of licensing out A. So it seems like it would be your first option, right?

evancox10on BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core

Yes, see Syntacore's SCR1, Clifford Wolf's PicoRV32,etc.

Granted these are smaller, microcontroller-class cores, but still in pure Verilog. I'm sure there are others out there with more/less performance

evancox10on Clocks for Software Engineers

And increasing the voltage reduces the propagation delay, letting you shorten the clock period (increase frequency). This only works so far, however, before you run into other problems.

evancox10on Cutting your salary by 40%

"he won't fire you"

OP literally starts the post saying he was fired.