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Nice to see a clear example of doing this entirely locally on a MBP. It ran >2x faster on my M2 MBP compared to the numbers they showed for an M1. Only 23/25 of the test cases pass…

Any example(s) you can point to?

Thanks for posting. I've always had an appreciation for language, particularly concise, poignant, highly-visual word images that seem to snap you out of your mental lull in a handf…

As someone with dual citizenship through marriage, and having lived 15 years in France (and speaking French at home despite English being my mother tongue), I'm amused and dismayed…

I can empathize with the gut reaction, and the title is clickbait-y, but the article does elaborate that it's not the same tired trope of privileged kid drops out of Stanford/MIT/H…

Indeed, I'd hate to be the recruiter for that. I can't imagine the kind of psychological profile you'd need for something like that. The end of the article describes the psychologi…

Thanks for taking the time to post this, and I'm sorry you had such a sh*tty start to life. I think it's important to repeat this over and over that the lines are so blurry with co…

Sorry if this is too long form for HN, but if you read the article you clearly have some patience as well. I'm surprised all the comments here seem to be solely around the technica…

For the past two years, I've been working on and off on a basic, open source scientific computing library in C (basic linear algebra on embedded devices, etc.), and hired a student…

The same concept is also used in smaller embedded systems, like Zephyr RTOS: https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/guides/dts/index.html Useful video if you're interested in how DT…

There clearly aren't a lot of good bedfellows to be had in the region. US engagement in ME politics is rife with contradictions and blind self-interest, as are political calculatio…

Historically, this hasn't always been the case, and the US were actively opposed to Israel's covert Nuclear program, for example, which was built with French support against the wi…

It tends to be a very small world where you get to know everyone after a certain point, or you know someone who knows someone, and jobs tend to be had by word of mouth. If you have…

The number of PRs and committers is what boggles my mind ... it's an endless stream, which is highly unusual for an embedded project. This is where the momentum and technical inves…

I guess it depends on the problem you are debugging. I rarely fire up my oscilliscope anymore (maybe once or twice the past year), but it's hard to replace a cheap logic analyzer w…

I certainly don't disagree, and wrote many an Arduino library and drivers and tutorials myself. As long as you eventually take the training wheels off, and know that Arduino isn't …

Update since I should have mentionned HW as well. If you're looking for something to play with at the HW level, it can be overwhelming to know what to start with. Stick to Arm Cort…

Like any niche, it's hard to know where to start and it also depends if you are more interested in HW design, or the firmware side of things. You need some knowledge of both since …

Exactly. Measuring things at 10-200 MHz is easy and relatively accessible, and there are only so many things that can go wrong. Dealing with anything in the GHz range is not only e…

If you want to improve, look at an open source project with a lot of momentum, and learn from what people are doing there. I'm actively involved with Zephyr RTOS, for example, whic…

A logic analyser (Saleae Logic, etc.), a HW debugger (J-Link for Arm/RISC-V), a good quality multimeter (spend the extra money here, don't get the $10-20 crap DMM off Amazon), and …

Similar route myself, though I've been in embedded longer. I do appreciate the relative stability of embedded, where in many ways I feel like we're still living in the 90s when you…

This looks like it has a few additional post-processing steps, although those aren't complicated to do yourself either.

I've had to do this semi-manually several times based on plots in sensor datasheets, and this would have saved me some effort. I've previously used: https://automeris.io/WebPlotDig…