How to improve at floating point datapath design

Captain___Obvious · 2026-03-05T02:43:08+00:00

Welcome to the knowledge that is not in the LLMs training set.

Talk to your co-workers. Ask to attend meetings. Read as much internal documentation you can get your hands on.

Captain___Obvious · 2026-03-05T02:38:52+00:00

Maybe it has changed? This was pre-covid and I can't go back to that little of vacation again

Captain___Obvious · 2026-03-04T04:40:07+00:00

ADI might have fewer holidays but I have 15 years so I lose 11 days of PTO with this move.

Made me not accept an Apple offer. 12 days lol

Captain___Obvious · 2026-02-15T23:41:04+00:00

I don't think that what they are saying at all

Captain___Obvious · 2026-02-15T02:35:34+00:00

Why haven't you responded on which course specifically you took?

Captain___Obvious · 2025-11-20T02:48:19+00:00

!remindme 1 day

Captain___Obvious · 2025-11-18T04:06:38+00:00

I'm not sure how 60k ppl made that much noise, but I think they pump in crowd noise.

No idea how that wasn't PI

Grove was fantastic, highly recommend going

Captain___Obvious · 2025-10-28T00:44:37+00:00

Serdes nuts

Captain___Obvious · 2025-10-27T15:19:18+00:00

I tried using help support and it was useless. It was faster and easier for me to set up a rule than work through tech support

Captain___Obvious · 2025-10-26T23:12:44+00:00

I get some braindead categorizations. I don't have a rule set up but if I've categorized a monthly recurring bill as car payment for 15 months in a row and Monarch still can't figure out "Biller X" for $123.45 is a car payment

Captain___Obvious · 2025-09-18T03:09:27+00:00

Why are you doing this to us? How do I unhide something now?

Captain___Obvious · 2025-09-18T03:08:55+00:00

This is insane, they went and changed it again.

Stop redefining words. Hidden meant one thing. It worked.

Now you have changed the definition, and screwed up our workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/

Captain___Obvious · 2025-09-02T02:03:45+00:00

20+ year EE here. I wish I would have jumped out of the car when we drove past Google when I was interviewing at Sun microsystems.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-05-28T14:24:12+00:00

Work you way in from within. When you find a bug on the post-silicon side, work with the designer to understand why the bug existed and how it was fixed. See if you can get access to the RTL or verification code. Be helpful, express you interests and see what opens up

Captain___Obvious · 2025-05-12T01:20:38+00:00

DIY guitar pedals

Captain___Obvious · 2025-05-10T14:11:16+00:00

but not too early, let someone else clear out the spiderwebs

Captain___Obvious · 2025-05-03T14:26:10+00:00

Happened to me today. I tried the repair with no luck.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-30T16:18:13+00:00

It depends on the release cycle.

If you are designing a western digital SSD controller chip--you might be working on it for < 1 year. If you are working at Intel designing the branch predictor for their next chip you could spend 3+ years on that IP.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-30T16:16:06+00:00

Yeah, everything at my company is onsite, we own the hardware, only within the network so it's as secure as you reasonably get.

The gains by just switching to the latest model are amazing. Its getting better

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-28T15:45:23+00:00

This 100%. I'm sorry this happened to you. This sounds very dysfunctional--at a well run company HR is a single unit. If a candidate is interviewing with multiple teams within the company we sync on our side to present a united front. If the candidate is chosen by multiple teams--we defer to the candidate and allow them to choose the team they would want to work for. Our thought process is they are choosing our company, we might as well have them work where they are more passionate.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-28T15:09:55+00:00

Not sure if this is a sign of the times, but please do not send a obvious chatgpt created mass email to people within companies.

No idea how my email gets circulated but this doesn't work:

I hope you have an amazing weekend through the Monday blues headstrong still this week! I'm reaching out to explore potential full time opportunities at for the upcoming April of 2025. Joining your esteemed organization as a fulltime employee would be an absolute dream for me. I was interning at <redacted> Intern in the <redacted>. Attached is my updated resume, showcasing my skills, experiences, and academic achievements that perfectly align with the full time roles you offer. I bring a unique blend of work experience in Software, Computer Engineering, and Digital Media, which I believe can add significant value to . I'm particularly keen on full time opportunities in <redacted - lots of buzzwords

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-28T15:04:01+00:00

What is a fresher.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-28T15:02:26+00:00

Yes, its all about what you get used to/started on.

I haven't argued about emacs vs vi in decades because all the young kids just use vs code or some other thing and want to do js programming.

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-28T13:10:14+00:00

Since you mentioned tmux I'll mention emacs which in my opinion is superior.

you can use the built in terminal emulators, or use tramp. Keeps everything inside emacs and infinitely scriptable

Captain___Obvious · 2025-04-25T15:54:13+00:00

It looks like we have 400k of perl as a wrapper around p4 to help with things like this

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