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I guess I've been lucky.

I'm 60 in a few days. I slid into Verilog (now SystemVerilog) about 12 years ago, mostly on FPGAs. These days I've got more work than I know what to do with. I'm planning on retiri…

Yes on Ranger, however the first Surveyor completed a soft landing and returned image data.

My late father-in-law was a manager at Hughes working on Surveyor 1. My wife shared his (unpublished) notes and audio recordings of the the project with me. It was an absolutely re…

It's an 802-VLZ3. All inputs have MUTE ALT 3-4 selected. ALT 3-4 is selected for Control Room Source. Assign to Main Mix is selected. Ctl Room/Submix level is at the Unity detent. …

An ancient 8 channel Mackie sound mixer to the left and slightly north of my keyboard. Other than inputs from the main computer, it pulls in audio from a bunch of other stuff/compu…

Fixes for Pixel 6 were pushed today. https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2023...

For the hardware I was using, the downstream CDR was actually doing a reasonable job locking on the spread-spectrum clock, such that PCIe negotiations would sometimes work through …

From the comments: "Protip: don’t try to be fancy and provide a local REFCLK from an independent oscillator. Always use the host’s REFCLK as it may be spread spectrum modulated for…

Oddly enough, I never met any of the coders. The entire code base turned up on mag tapes from Belmont, CA. I was working in Toronto. I was very much a newbie, so I didn't form an e…

My first job in 1987 was porting all of Oracle's source code (entirely in C for 32 bit architectures) to a 64 bit Control Data mainframe. So, that.

I can't speak to security, but I bought a Mi Mix 2S some time ago and put LineageOS on it. Definitely check that the frequency bands the phone supports are utilized by your carrier…

Track down a syntax-aware code search/database tool (if your IDE doesn't have one). For me it was/is GNU ID Utils. At some point you'll be handed thousands or millions of lines of …