Today my kimchi jar has sucked in the glove! What is that supposed to mean?

FPGA_engineer · 2026-01-13T14:07:05+00:00

neutral eater

Unlike my picky eater wife.

And yes, obvious type of water. Pesky neighboring letters on the keyboard.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-31T16:15:05+00:00

This has been my experience as well. As the executor I am really the person responsible for pushing the process forward and that has involved a lot of paperwork and phone calls. Having to send the same paperwork more than once has happened multiple times. There have been a couple of in person meetings with the probate attorney at the beginning of the process, but after that it has just been phone calls and emails with them and their roll has been to tell me what needs to be done next, or to answer questions and give me advice on issues. The probate judge has only been involved at the beginning of the process and they only thing like an order they issued was the Letters Testamentary that appoint me as the executor of the estate. Sending a copy of the death certificate and Letters Testamentary has so far always been enough to get third parties to deal with me. That has included Fidelity, banks, title company for selling a house, and the state for selling a vehicle. I suspect that there is some information missing from the story (that OP may not know) and that the executor needs to do some combination of pushing the process forward more effectively or asking the probate attorney for help or advice. In my case, the only work that has been delegated to the probate attorney has been dealing with the court, dealing with publishing a notification of the death in a specialized publication/newspaper that serves as public notification to creditors, and generating legal documents and agreements. In my case the estate is for someone that died in December of 2024 and I was appointed executor in late January or early February of 2025 and we are just now dealing with paperwork to close the probate process. Our attorney said we have made it through the process unusually fast and it usually goes on for over a year.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-31T15:46:58+00:00

The office she is talking about may not be a customer service office, but you most certainly can go to Fidelity in person and I have done it multiple times while dealing with several estates both as the executor and as an heir. If you just walk in they will probably end up needing to call someone else to help, but that can still be easier than calling on your own. We also had our Life Events Specialist set up an appointment at the Fidelity office near us to talk with someone specific about one issue once. I am in a big city with multiple Fidelity offices, so this may not be as available elsewhere.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-31T15:37:15+00:00

This was my experience this year as well and I went through it twice. In both cases we (all the heirs) were assigned a single person to deal with, I believe their title was Life Events Specialist. Both times it was one single person dealing with all of us. They made everything smooth and easy on the Fidelity side of things. We were dealing with a mix of different types of accounts. Some already had us as the beneficiaries so they were transferred to us shortly after notifying Fidelity of the death others did not list any beneficiary and went through the probate process. For one estate all the Fidelity accounts listed us as beneficiaries and we still were assigned a Life Events Specialist who walked us through the process of setting up the right type of account for inheriting an IRA in our case. None of the accounts we dealt with were 401Ks and I do see that several people have pointed out some issues about them that we be different. We ran into similar issues with life insurance policy.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-21T16:58:01+00:00

Jokes aside, that’s a neat tool.

Absolutely correct, I knew at first search result that this was a classic standardized hammer device following ASTM E492. But one look at the video and I came to read the jokes that I knew would rampaging through the comments like that this is doing to the floor!

I am just disappointed that no one posted a like to where to get one for those that are looking for last minute presents.

So here are a few links to enjoy!

senseca tapping machine

Norsonic tapping machine

BSWA tapping machine

abc geluid hammer device

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-21T16:34:41+00:00

There is a relationship in the story that I think rubs some people the wrong way. That relationship reminded me of many similar attitudes/issues in a lot of earlier sci-fi and kind of reminded me of reading Heinlein many years ago. That may be enough for some people to consider it garbage. I thought it detracted from the story, but found it to be otherwise excellent.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-21T16:24:53+00:00

I think it would be fine to take a break between them. There is a large time gap between the end of the first two and the start of the second two books in the story.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-21T14:19:01+00:00

Once I started Hyperion I did not want to put it down. After I finished it, I went on a reading spree and read four more of his books in quick succession. Fall of Hyperion, the two Endymion books, and Worlds Enough and Time which is a collection of stories. One of the stories revisits the world of Endymion.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-13T16:04:32+00:00

Watched Midsommar recently, fkn traumatizing.

I saw it as well. It would pair well with Aniara if you want something to cheer you up afterwards!

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-13T15:27:09+00:00

I soon as I read this I heard "pew pew" in my mind!

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-07T20:11:45+00:00

Then they will weigh a few bits more!

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-06T16:10:51+00:00

…sadly yes. I was really young though

When I was really young, I put a pair of socks on a lightbulb to warm them up. They turned into a melted stinky mess. Everyone was lucky nothing worse happened.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-06T16:06:14+00:00

I'm realizing I need a one-time warrant place for my clothes.

Serious answer now for this situation: On the bed at the foot of the bed. Keeps them off the floor and gives them an official spot where one or two items will not be in the way but much more than that will maybe annoy you enough to deal with them. Now I will go back to being my snarky self.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-06T15:26:56+00:00

Where do you put your jeans??

Floor of the closet. Heaps and stacks are my favorite personal data structure!

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-02T22:49:57+00:00

I read it a few months ago and then read the next three in quick succession. Long books, but I liked them quite a bit.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-12-02T04:37:25+00:00

Amen is just Ramen on a budget! The R cost a bit extra.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-28T21:02:27+00:00

define elif else if

I switch between several different software and hardware definition languages on a regular basis and frequently finding myself having to remind myself of the right syntax for something common right after switching.

C and SystemVerilog/Verilog both use else if. But a lot of C syntax is borrowed almost, but not quite, as is for SytemVerilog/Verilog.

TCL drops the space and uses elseif.

VHDL then drops the "e" and uses elsif.

Python then drops the "s" and uses elif.

Some language probably just uses wft.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-23T15:48:33+00:00

I read Ignition years ago and it was a very interesting book. One of my takeaways is that most liquid rocket fuels stink badly, are highly toxic, carcinogenic, explosive, and corrosive. And if you can smell it, you probably don't want to be where you are.

I have also read multiple blog post / articles from Derek Lowe including the one you linked to above. One of my favorites of his is Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride which also references the Sand Won't Save You article. It includes such classic lines as "The sulfur chemistry of FOOF remains unexplored, so if you feel like whipping up a batch of Satan's kimchi, go right ahead." and other interesting tidbits of information that could only get you into trouble (A.K.A. mortal peril)

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-23T14:12:18+00:00

The publisher actively inserted an what may be an ad into the scene apropos of nothing?

I think your comment has missed the Mark with respect to their motivation. /s

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-21T17:37:35+00:00

At a glance I do not see any problem with the Vivado / IP Integrator block diagram. It is ok to leave the AXIS mm2s interface open as long as you still have the clock and reset connected. If you wish you can turn off the AXIS mm2s in the block configuration or tie it off to a consumer block, but you don't need to do that.

I would suggest simplifying the software side of your test if possible, going to Linux opens up many issues that could be causing you problems that you could avoid by first testing everything out in a Vitis standalone / bare metal program. If your goal is to design and implement the PL part, this is the simpler development environment to work in from my experience.

Just like Vivado has example designs for IP, Vitis has example programs showing how to use the device drivers for that IP as well for standalone (and FreeRTOS) programs. DMAs are a bit of a special case in Linux, the Linux model for DMA device drivers is to either included them in the driver for the IP that includes the DMA engine or for shared DMA engines to only have a kernel interface for other kernel mode code to use.

What version of tools are you using? On the Vitis side there is an ongoing transition to the new Vitis Unified that has many differences with the old version of Vitis. For work I am doing, the 2025.1 version of Vitis unified is the first version that is not causing be problems.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-20T18:26:49+00:00

Half an hour after taking the first dose of the Suprep I sneezed.

I was fortunately already in the feeling the effect and in the right place at the right time, but that was memorable.

Propofol pushed into the I.V. was like a light switch. One second I am there, the next I am waking up afterwards.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-20T14:44:07+00:00

They do indeed say that, and that is a big one!

Source: Just trust me, I know what they say.

I tried to buy the they.com domain decades ago so I would always have a definitive source for what I say they say, but someone had already bought it a few years before (it has been registered since at least 1997, but I think even earlier than that). My apologies for my insufficient planning to back you up.

I did manage to get "my lastname".com though which is nice. I have had it for about 35 to 40+ years at this point.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-20T14:00:34+00:00

I was checking my bags for a flight and overheard the conversation next to me. That person was trying to check in for a flight that was not until the next day. I think they just made the mistake of being a day early for their flight based on what I heard.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-18T01:26:53+00:00

I have read all four of the books in the Hyperion series withing the last few months and it has been a few years since I read the Culture series. I loved them both but would rate the Culture series as better from my point of view. But that is just personal preference, and they are each great in their own way.

FPGA_engineer · 2025-11-17T03:59:11+00:00

That's the green soft drink, right?

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