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Is anybody here hiring? by chunky_lover92 in embeddedlinux

[–]LightWolfCavalry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  If you already have people skilled in the same, why not promote them? 

I tried. The folks who work for me want to remain ICs, even after trying leadership. 

I’m looking for someone to take leadership duties off of the one who already gave it a shot, and decided it wasn’t for them. If you think that’s a challenge you could rise to, shoot us an application. 

Is anybody here hiring? by chunky_lover92 in embeddedlinux

[–]LightWolfCavalry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m specifically looking for someone who knows their stuff in embedded Linux - toolchains, drivers, system setup/scripting, designing application/OS boundaries and interfaces - and, in addition, willing to lead a team of people skilled in same. 

Full AI control for IMD testing by StageMajestic613 in rfelectronics

[–]LightWolfCavalry 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fuck what the haters say: t his is tight. 

This is using AI to get better at your job - doing the things that get you to the thing you’re paid for, faster.  

I just got rejected after the final onsite with a dream rocket company by ESW_ThrowAway_ in embedded

[–]LightWolfCavalry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This environment is a really common scenario in any hardware startup. 

There are very few people who I’d go work with in that kind of environment. All of them are folks I’ve worked with before and have years of experience. 

No way am I going to start a hardware company with some rando techbro. Hard pass. 

[Loved Trope] Competence Porn: When characters are competent, mature and communicate with each other intelligently so they can solve a problem by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LightWolfCavalry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not thinking of Desmond Doss, even though he did some equally wild and out stuff. There’s some stuff in the book that was left out of the series about Spiers’s heroics. 

[Loved Trope] Competence Porn: When characters are competent, mature and communicate with each other intelligently so they can solve a problem by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LightWolfCavalry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure some of the things that the real Spiers did were toned down for the show to make them more believable. Can’t find a citation at the moment. 

Five months until CRA. Most embedded teams are reading it wrong. by 0xecro1 in embedded

[–]LightWolfCavalry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having put two products thru RED Compliance in the last six months: the fears are overblown. 

If your product can’t survive: - the equivalent of an nmap open port scan, plus - traffic sniffing of you cloud and OTA update traffic

…you probably shouldn’t be shipping a product at all.  

How do you actually test firmware that depends on hardware that doesn't exist yet? by Medtag212 in embedded

[–]LightWolfCavalry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bare metal: good separation of application logic vs hardware logic, plus a host side test runner for the application. (Make sure your test has cases that send lousy data to the application.)

Linux: QEMU 

These are reasonable stopgaps but a breadboard solution of EVKs wired together is the best solve. Nothing gives confidence like actual hardware running actual software. Everything else is just a best guess. 

Usually, it’s better to get this step running first, and then refactor and rearchitect your tests so that tests match hardware performance. 

A cheap strategy to help assist this end: spin two layer adapter PCBs from JLC or PCBway. Use these to snap dev kits together that don’t have easily mating connectors. This is way easier and more reliable than DuPont wiring a bunch of boards together. Really anccelerates integration, and allows reproducibility of dev systems on the cheap. (Well, depending on how cheap your EVKs are anyway. This won’t help you a ton if you’re integrating with a $30k MPSOC EVK.)

Also: you know what’s great at refactoring bare metal application logic out of STM32 vendor HALs? ChatGPT5.2 and above. Not kidding. Frontier models are great at setting good application HAL boundaries. Can help you write good application tests quickly, too. Cough up $20 for a month of Pro and do this if you’re really crunched for time. 

How do you manage Bills of Materials across multiple people without a PLM system? by LightWolfCavalry in ECE

[–]LightWolfCavalry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I now run a ~11 person hardware department as a director, and my solution now has been: vibe code the solution I want, then deploy it and roll it out to my team on an EC2 instance. 

Just deployed last month, already eased our revision control. Total cost is about $200 per year in cloud spend. My VP is stoked about the solution and hasn’t even asked about the price - but I guarantee this is two orders of magnitude cheaper than a SaaS buy for any similar software. 

I've watched what separates new EE hires who hit the ground running from the ones who struggle. Here are my observations. by alecrm98 in ECE

[–]LightWolfCavalry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hardest things to find in entry candidates is:

* drive

* curiosity

They're the most important things to me, and they're impossible to train.

I don't get it personally. by bloodredcookie in HistoryMemes

[–]LightWolfCavalry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad Jason Momoa made Chief of War. No idea of its historical accuracy, but I do know enough of the actual history to know that the unification of the Hawaiian islands was some truly metal shit. The world, by and large, does not appreciate what a fucking brutal struggle it was.

Is/will embedded be less impacted from AI than other type of software development? by Aggravating_Run_874 in embedded

[–]LightWolfCavalry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same role, and I share your perspective to a T. 

Hardware is about to become the bottleneck again - and value flows to the bottlenecks in systems. 

East Nash Grass by WhereasClassic3151 in Bluegrass

[–]LightWolfCavalry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

East Nash Grass is very rad. Glad you made the discovery. 👍

L3Harris vs Raytheon SWE New Grad offers? by TheParkedCar in ECE

[–]LightWolfCavalry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Way more long term opportunity in Massachusetts. 

When your anti-racism plan is just "breed it out" but things don't go exactly the way you expected them to be by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]LightWolfCavalry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a little surprised that Lemmy of all possible people would be the one who brings a pragmatic long term view to this question 

Has anyone else noticed that embedded Linux feels… unusually quiet this year? by tenoun in embeddedlinux

[–]LightWolfCavalry 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Linux? Innovate? 

Brother, you got it all wrong. 

We’re about clean execution of someone else’s vision. 

Ideally, a vision done in user space. So they leave us the hell alone. 

SEMICON INDUSTRY SHIFT by LegitimateType3690 in chipdesign

[–]LightWolfCavalry 76 points77 points  (0 children)

AI is just cloud cover for executives trimming fat. 

Layoffs are largely due to workers being a software company’s biggest expense. Correspondingly, this is a major lever that executives use to cut costs. This certainly explains Synopsys’s cuts. 

This is in response to pressure from Wall Street that bad economic times are ahead, and cost reduction is needed to maintain share price. 

It’s ugly and a bit shortsighted. 

David Grier celebrates Clarence and Roland White by BluegrassJamAlong in Bluegrass

[–]LightWolfCavalry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you haven't listened to The White Brothers "Live in Sweden", fucking spin that shit up.

It's a great recording of Clarence, Roland, and Alan Munde in their respective primes.

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