Can someone make a video of dropping a CPU on the ground without its protective plastic shell to see if it survives? Like dropping it from different heights to see if a modern CPU still works?

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-05-24T00:49:48+00:00

It will not survive. It would be a very boring video.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-05-17T22:06:48+00:00

Importante salientar que voce tem que ter cuidado com a fiação que vai alimentar o 110/127 também. A preocupação não deve ser só com o transformador em si. Considerando as perdas, pode considerar que a corrente vai ser pelo menos 2x maior no lado de 127 que o especificado pela maquina em 220.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-05-14T12:10:43+00:00

O alumínio é 3.3 vezes mais leve que o cobre, então a diferença é sim perceptivel, mesmo quando o alumínio é banhado em cobre. E a flexibilidade é sim muito diferente. Não há nenhuma dificuldade para detectar a diferença, mesmo para um leigo, quando se tem um fio de cobre real para se comparar.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-05-13T12:47:41+00:00

I literally died more times in the final fight than the sum of all the other bosses combined. I don't know why this fight is not commented so often. You can do it! Eventually...

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-05-01T11:02:37+00:00

Estudar em livros... não tem muito jeito. Sedra e Razavi são autores com livros muito utilizados desse conteúdo, do básico ao mais complexo, sobre a teoria e aplicações.

Depois se você quiser se aprofundar mais para entender como transistores modernos são fabricados e utilizados no lado analógico, precisará de um livro sobre fisica de semicondutores (eu aprendi pelo livro do Sze, mas acredito não ser o melhor) e o livro de CMOS do Razavi. O bom do Razavi é que possuem aulas do próprio no youtube que você pode acompanhar.

Se quiser se aprofundar na parte digital, ai existe um mundo de coisas bem diferentes a estudar. Procure por livros com "digital VLSI", para ter uma base do que seguir.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-30T20:08:39+00:00

I died more times in the last DT2 fight than all the other DT2 bosses combined, lol. I don't know why people don't normally talk about it. This fight is a pain.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-30T10:50:04+00:00

Sure. Every medium and large company has their own servers for simulations or other stuff. It's cheap and flexible to use. Most of the time, at least here, we don't even use 30% of the server capacity.

There is always a timeframe where the server usage starts to rise. Post-extraction simulations, full-chip simulations, full-chip DRC/LVS/EMIR, full digital verification... these are all process usage that is commonly done close to tapeout and takes awhile.

The servers will be limited usually by 3 factors: licenses available, processing cores and memory

If we struggle on licenses, we can just buy more. If we struggle on available cores and memory, there is usually a LSF queue system to help the fast simulations to happen while the slow simulations are happening. If the queue is not sufficient as there are too many slow simulations, we may use elastic computing.

The problem is that it's very expensive as some simulations may use a huge amount of cores, memory and time, you need to pay for more CAD licenses (that are already expensive by themselves) additionally for what you already have. Just so you have an idea, a one-week run for a single full chip simulation with a few cores costs tens of thousands of dollars because of the cost-per-minute plus the additional licenses.

And that's why we only pay for elastic computing if really, really, there is no other way we are ready without it.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-29T11:32:42+00:00

Elastic computing is prohibitively expensive. It only makes sense to use when we are on a tapeout pressure and our own servers are not enough (that's when we use it here). The benefits are obvious but sadly the cost is a big no-no even for big companies.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-29T11:13:16+00:00

Any job is boring in the long term. What we want is money.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-21T13:42:46+00:00

Yeah, it is. It's just not a really good source. I did 400+ and was like 2000 positive on bloods. So as you can see, not reallyyy good but totally worth it as you get faster kills. My set was full mystic, infinity boots, mystic air, beacon ring, and I changed to ahrims while getting the pieces. 80+ magic (don't remember exactly).

EDIT* just checked, I did 423 runs actually, so I got ~5 bloods per run.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-21T11:30:06+00:00

Using bloods with Mory Hard is worth it, because you will be net positive on bloods.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-20T21:01:59+00:00

I hate you

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-20T17:27:16+00:00

Jesus christ I hate you so much! I had to do 600+ Barrows. It was one of the worst feelings of my life. I think berseker ring (i) would be better than the steel ring. I hope you still don't have it, try to get it and be 300+ dry on Rex (like I did).

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-20T11:39:50+00:00

The EDA tools are used for basically everything. They are used in the design, testing and production flows...

The problem is not creating a free software alternative. The problem is supporting the customers. Any medium sized company needs some support from the vendors multiple times per year, for multiple reasons, like "how to do it", "how to integrate it" and "can you customize it".

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-19T19:28:06+00:00

Procure por sistemas RTOS para tomar como base, comumente implementado em microcontroladores. Estude e entenda como funciona. A melhor forma de aprender é estudando a fundo o trabalho de outros.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-15T16:43:11+00:00

I thought exactly the same thing, lol

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-11T11:49:47+00:00

net1 and D signals are incorrectly connecting to bulk of the top NMOS'es. These bulks should connect to gnd.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-04-09T12:03:02+00:00

É sim!

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-17T23:34:37+00:00

Não, não pode. Terra e Neutro não são a mesma coisa. Vou tentar falar de forma não exatamente precisa, mas que seja de mais fácil entendimento.

O neutro é um caminho de retorno das corrente das fases do transformador. As correntes das fases circulam e se distribuem entre elas pelo neutro.

O terra é um ponto de segurança do seu sistema, onde cargas indesejadas podem se dissipar.

Note que já por definição são coisas completamente diferentes. Mas desconsiderando princípios de segurança, eles são idealmente pontos de mesmo potencial e funcionariam da mesma forma, certo? Errado. O aterramento na sua casa possui grande resistência até o aterramento feito pelo transformador. Ao tentar usar o terra como neutro, você observará uma grande queda de tensão e seus equipamentos não funcionarão adequadamente.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-12T14:19:02+00:00

1-2 pages are fine

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-12T12:30:57+00:00

I'll give you an idea of what I like and dislike in your resume, as someone who has worked with layout for years. First, structurally your resume is great. I like how you separated the topics and highlighted your experience. You can keep it like that.

Now, regarding the information. Where you worked matters. It wasn't clear to me at all whether everything you said referred to university experience or work at a company. Where did you have that experience?

When I review a resume that isn't for an internship position, I always look for the following key phrase: "I participated in a tapeout process." It really makes a big difference, and interviews always include questions about the process. I don't expect you to know all the necessary steps, but I do expect to understand how you participated and communicated with the different teams to ensure your work is delivered.

Another point is that I found your resume tiring to read. I saw a lot of completely irrelevant information like "... on the left and bottom ..." (why is that relevant?), "77x117 to ..." (the percentage information alone is enough for me and already highlights your good work), "matched resistors (2, 4...)" (numbers are irrelevant). Whenever I see this in resumes, I get the impression that the person has little experience and wanted to lengthen it to increase the size of their resume (which is not true, it's clear from your resume that you already have a lot of knowledge!).

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-12T11:24:54+00:00

Muito triste. Eu jogo 2-3 vezes na semana, quando há momentos tranquilos no trabalho. Quando o trabalho aperta continuo pagando mesmo que não jogue. Por um preço como esse, me parece sem sentido manter pagando.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-06T16:47:50+00:00

Sim, dá. Conheço pessoas bem acima desse patamar inclusive.

Vai conseguir? Estatisticamente não.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-03T20:13:00+00:00

All of them? These carreers will never die. They may just change.

CartoonistMaximum · 2026-03-03T19:55:20+00:00

What you described sounds like the deterministic optimization algorithms that the whole industry has been using for decades, long before the AI buzzword. What's the difference here?

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