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NextHendrix

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About NextHendrix

physics graduate, fpga engineer

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    Comment #46397801

    Likewise, the monogram of the sitting english monarch (as seen on postboxes and so forth) is the "Royal Cypher". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_cypher

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    Comment #38423741

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI The floppotron

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    Comment #38423714

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXwWbo_mX0 Maybe this is what you're referring to. There are similar examples where people do this with old disk drives and printers too.

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    Comment #38291527

    The speed of light in a vacuum is always the same, but not through dielectric media such as water or glass. In diamond it is less than half the speed.

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    Comment #38157577

    You can generate yourself a free Libero Silver license, which needs regenerating every year, but yes flexlm is annoying.

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    Comment #38157546

    Software engineers can sometimes find it difficult as with a HDL you (should) describe hardware that exhibits the intended behaviour, rather than just directly describing the behav…

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    Comment #38157175

    Have you tried the Emacs gdb mode?

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    Comment #37527038

    It's possible to gain bishops via promotion which may scupper this plan

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    Comment #37165687

    Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance: A Practitioner's Guide to RTCA/DO-254 by Randall Fulton and Roy Vandermolen Might sound a bit niche, and it is, but even if you ignor…

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    Comment #37039060

    Not immoral, just more culpable. Is it immoral not to kill oneself as being alive makes one more likely to kill someone?

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    Comment #35471802

    >Except it was never claimed to be any of those things. Not by its inventors, but by its management-type evangelists. Which do you think the mayor had in his ear?

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    Comment #35286892

    I can only grok land areas in terms of the size of Wales.

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    Comment #35171516

    He might've paired a bluetooth keyboard to your phone at some point.

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    Comment #35038832

    I love seeing teardowns of old space tech. Having worked on safety critical projects I know that if something is proven and works it is generally not replaced unless something subs…

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    Comment #34850744

    >$11,000 a month Is this not quite a lot of money?

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    Comment #34372397

    Scrolling quickly through the .txt version of this paper on my phone feels like a visual expression of the internet dial up sound.

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    Comment #34197623

    We had German aupairs when I was younger who introduced us to it. They were surprised we'd never heard of it before, but it's excellent.

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    Comment #34144533

    Spent many hours back in the day messing about in this. Glad to hear it's still going, superb timesink.

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    Comment #34063243

    These perovskites are notoriously difficult to deposit at scale in a uniform enough layer to be effective, with small variances causing dramatic drops in efficiency. On the cool si…

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    Comment #33564860

    On the whole, at this point in time, I agree. For general purpose NVM stuff you're better off going with the less exotic, but SRAM isn't suitable for this specific use case. Some e…

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    Comment #33564699

    That's partially true, there are other tradeoffs that can be made to optimise power and thermal dependence at the cost of something else but both specific use case and fab availabi…

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    Comment #33564264

    It depends, with ReRAM the ion mobility in the dielectric layer can be tuned, lower mobility means a higher voltage is required across the cell for filament growth but a lower ther…

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    Comment #33327845

    Good timing, it appears to be down in the UK this morning.

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    Ask HN: How do you effectively predict how long a task will take?

    Often when dealt a task by a client/project manager it's followed with a request for how long it will take. Also often, I find answering this request a considerably more difficult …