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> issue with this is the amount of time it takes to load the bitstream, but I thought I saw some things recently where progress was being made on this front

You saw correctly, work is indeed being done to build "shells" that can accept workloads without the user having to go through the FPGA tooling/build process.

>I think the problem is vendors see FPGA tooling as a cost center and a necessary evil

Yes to a degree, but another part of the problem is the "physical constraints" you mention. FPGA tooling has to solve multiple hard problems, on the fly, at large scale (some of the latest chips are edging up to 10M logic elements). Unfortunately for the FPGA industry, I think that this is unavoidable - though a lot of interesting work is being done around partial reconfiguration, which should allow for users to work with smaller designs on a large chip.

>or better yet, 2560x1600

I couldn't agree more, I was given 16:10 monitors for my current job and I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to 16:9 if I can avoid it. Next laptop is a 13" MBP for sure too.

I'm going into the final year of my computer engineering undergrad and my tuition is $1,500 cheaper than last year - $15,800 vs. $17,300. However, that might be due to the politicking of our province's government rather than any generosity on the school's part.

Indeed, I didn't think this was a good move until I found that eBay owns Kijiji. I'm also Canadian and I'm pretty sure Kijiji is way more popular for private buy/sell than Craigslist - at least anecdotally from the people I know.

I'm moving to move in with my significant other, but I've noticed rents taking a dip here in Toronto. Not sure how it is in SF, but here all buildings older than November 2018 are rent controlled - leading to good opportunities when rent dips, especially if you didn't have a great rate to begin with.

My SO and I "saved" around $400/month thanks to COVID - identical 2bd/2bth units to the one we got were renting for ~$3100/month pre-COVID, we got ours for $2700/month.

> Back in 2016 in Toronto, I chose a condominium specifically because it had Beanfield fiber

I'm in Toronto, thank goodness this is becoming more common, not less. I was recently condo hunting and I noticed most new buildings had Beanfield or their competitor, FibreStream. The building we ended up with has the latter, so we're getting 500Mbps symmetric/no cap.

Yay for not having to annually fight with Bell for a "promotional" rate anymore!

> They are creative idea-generators—a lot of the ideas may be terrible, but there is never a shortage.

I feel like I almost never have creative ideas - the entirety of my (short) engineering career has been spent working on school projects, contributing to a design team, or set projects at work.

Am I screwed if I want to be successful as a computer engineer? (specifically hardware)

> I noticed that having multiple monitors resulted in me having a dedicated screen for email (usually the smallest, my laptop screen)

I'm currently using two external monitors, with my laptop docked and closed. I find the "dedicated screen for <distraction>" was a problem for me when I had my laptop screen open, because it's a different size/resolution/position than my actual monitors. On the other hand, I never have that problem with my dedicated monitors - in my mind they're a part of the same "workspace" because they're the same size, resolution, and positioned together - so I could see myself going to 3 desktop monitors one day.

> What do you think happens [to] the tenants when the landlord's properties go into foreclosure

That actually depends on where you live - here in Ontario, we have laws that give tenants the right to stay even if the landlord sells/loses the property. The new owner must allow the tenants to stay, with the same lease terms, even if the new owner is a bank.

> If you get stuck, you tell yourself in whatever way you want, and honestly, some version of the following: "I don't understand this thing that is happening, but I know there is a cause. It does not happen without cause."

Seconding this, a quote I have from a past computer science teacher of mine is: "Someone with a brain wrote this code, so you - as someone with a brain - can understand it". Definitely helps me when I'm really stuck on a problem.

Yup, after some thinking I've come to quite like commander/worker.

Incredible post! I've been struggling with anxiety, depression, and a lack of motivation at work for the past year or so, and slowly coagulating towards the feeling that I needed to focus on my work.

This article feels like it gives me the how - thank you.

I just went through my settings on my work machine and:

* Disabled transparency

* Disabled animations

* Disabled scroll-bars being auto-hidden

Unfortunately, I couldn't find "Fade or slide menus into view", but the rest of the settings are night and day! Thank you.

In my field (FPGAs) master/slave is used correctly fairly often - having one module command another module is really common in HDL design. Although I'm happy to see "master/slave" gone, I haven't yet seen a good widely-adopted alternative.

For example, "primary/secondary" is slowly being adopted, but I find it very confusing because it can also mean two modules that perform the same function in parallel, but have a different priority for receiving input.

> it could also imply she's thought superior based on gender

From talking to the women in my life, that would also be bad. They've told me that being treated as "superior" for their gender makes them feel that the rest of who they are - their accomplishments, knowledge, skills, etc. - is invalidated.

> saying "ladies first" is not ipso facto indicative of a misogynist view

You're right, but saying "ladies first" makes many women feel patronized - not a good thing.

> especially among people who were taught it is good manners

I'd say to those people: even if you learned that "ladies first" is good manners, that doesn't mean it still is. It's important to listen to the people around you to hear how they want to be treated, and what we're arguing in this thread is that women these days don't want to hear "ladies first" because - as stated before - it makes them feel patronized.

Echoing what bobthepanda also replied - I hold the door open for _everyone_ when it makes sense for me to do so. It becomes weird when you specifically do it for women, or say words indicating that you're doing it because she's a woman - it comes across as patronizing, in my opinion.

Hmm, to me the problem is the question of _why_ a man would do that "nice gesture" for the woman. To me, if you don't have reason to be doing it besides "she's a woman", it smacks that the gesture is being done because she's inferior based on her gender (or at least, that's what's being implied).

At the same time, people definitely can be happy without sex - various religious factions have been doing it for ages with vows of celibacy, and today there's a non-negligible "volcel" (voluntarily celibate) movement.

> instead there's a winner take all effect where a small number of men are having a lot of sex with a lot of women

If true, I wonder how much of that is due to self-selection by men who aren't having sex. Having once upon a time been lonely and bitter, I know that men often end up in positive feedback loops that strengthen their not having sexual partners - due to the attitudes they develop towards women.

Young man here. "Ladies first" is flat out weird to me, the only time I ever use it is jokingly with my girlfriend, sisters, or close female friends. I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to call it sexist, but it's an odd thing to say for sure.

As someone who values their hearing - I religiously wear earplugs at concerts and muffs at the gun range - these absolutely terrify me. Good to see solutions, even if they're just initial prototypes that may/may not work, being developed.

Catch-22. It's not at all related to tech, but it's the funniest book I've ever read and I feel it helps keep me grounded.

My PC never broke, but for the first ~2 years of my undergrad (I'm about to start my final year) I didn't have time to play games at all because I completely overloaded myself with work.

It might be some combination of burnout and depression, but I haven't had much of that addictive urge either, since. When I have a free evening on a weekend I might put a few hours into a story-based single player game - finishing it in a month or two, compared to ~1 week at the peak of my gaming habits in high school.

It's interesting to hear to me that there's other people with similar experiences :)

> that dude who makes low production quality lightsaber fight videos in his garden (can't remember his name)

His online handle is Airsoftfatty, and his story is actually kinda tragic. iDubbz visited him and made a "documentary" of sorts about him, it's a fascinating watch [1].

[1] Full Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfwPL-bd_mk

A baby step you can take if you want to leave Facebook is to disable (I forget if that's the exact term, it might be deactivate) your account. This removes your access to the site, and hides your profile - while leaving the Messenger half of your account untouched: messages, contacts, etc.

I've done it before for mental health reasons, and found it really refreshing.

>do not believe that it actually exists on the moment

Precisely. People have been voting and non-violently protesting for decades, and it hasn't worked.

>blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime

Odd, my dogs are barking

If you used these words with their original, negative, meanings, sure.

But that's missing the point - words like "bitch", "queer", and the n-word are used to mean positive things in their respective communities.

An approach for people who are marginalized to feel stronger is to reclaim language that was previously used against them, and to repurpose it to mean something positive when applied to themselves.

See: "queer" to the LGBTQ+ community, "bitch" for women, and the "n-word" for the black community. In this specific case, my understanding - I'm not a woman, but am an ally to them - is that "bitch" means a strong woman who does what she wants, regardless of societal expectations.