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The author takes this into consideration: * yes, I know ‘low-level’ is a subjective term I used to work in the embedded world, and there C has historically been considered a "high-…

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This seems like a ham-fisted solution does it not? Channels like ChadTronic play on the nostalgia of being a kid back in the '80s and '90s, yet AFAIK has been unable to enable comm…

The capstone project and little pacman game look pretty interesting. Think you can spare a short portion of the book to show what the writing is like? I find them to be some of the…

Another one that's been around for decades at this point is the Inform[1] platform. There's still an active group of people who produce all sorts of interactive fiction books in th…

Choose your own adventure books, notably the RL Stein "Give Yourself Goosebumps" variety were the books that swept my imagination away and really lit the spark for reading as a you…

This happened to me. I started on a journey of transitioning to a woman and gathered a group of friends at work composed of women. They supported me for a few years helping me thro…

I recommend the 6502[1] if you're just starting. What you learn applies almost everywhere, and it's very much a what-you-write-is-what-happens sort of processor. No branch predicti…

I always recommend the DE0-Nano. It's getting a little old, but it's basically all right there, open for use. I'm a fan of the Arrow DECA which has a complete assortment of neat od…

I get the idea, and I agree in general. However, I've always struggled with DE's like i3 because they were so barren with visual information up front. I respect the power they pres…

For me, it's pure nostalgia. It's getting to relive the past that I loved with all new hardware, getting to do things that nobody from the time period could have imagined given the…

I think there's a glimmer of truth to this. And it's not that people are lazy because they're bad people. It's because the situation you're in is soul sucking. It's horrible. Imagi…

Ah, ok I get it now. My eyes somehow completely skipped that paragraph.

I will proudly confess I am not well versed on the history of EE :)

Is there a reason a Silicon transistor/diode wouldn't work here? I'm assuming it either has something to do with voltage sensitivity or frequency, but older computers like this ten…

In my small town, we have a long street that's just a strip of restaurants. Google and Bing get it right, Apple Maps lists the entire mile-long strip as KFC's. If you select one, i…

Did a search just to make sure this book is mentioned. It's a treasure of just-enough-of-everything to help you understand basic electronics and protocols, as well as little gotcha…

I have this laptop. If you find that the spacebar does not respond well if struck in the center, I've found that a small pressing of hot glue and a quick dab of your thumb on it on…

There's also this weird dynamic of not having number on paper. I once took off three weeks for vacation, first in a very long time, several years. When I got back, there was defini…

It's fairly dense nowadays by comparison. If you have the time, playing with DOSBOX or PCem with an emulation of the original IBM PC or XT is a less complex and more inviting intro…

My thoughts on why they failed, I feel, are a lot more simplistic. Maybe oversimplistic and based on my own anecdotal experiences, but I don't see myself as an outlier here, so I f…

In this case, it was cheating to beat Amazon by duping customers and investors. Hurting people innocent to the situation is not okay, even if it is in a try to topple a behemoth.

As kens said, and to expand, Xilinx's Vivado doesn't support the Spartan 6, however they _do_ still fully support the Spartan 6 and continue to produce new chips. To support this, …

Sircmpwn is a user on this site. There are so many times I've opened a link to a piece of software, an article, or a tutorial and thought "Wow, this is cool" or "Hey, this is fun t…

Right now judging from Cloudflare's benchmarks, the win will be in TDP. [1] Heat is a very nasty issue to handle in large datacenters, and can end up costing quite a bit in cooling…