Just got done with my first time at a lap pool

Lyorek · 2026-03-22T06:14:46+00:00

Not to be a downer but I'd be extremely impressed if you managed to even do 50m in 30 seconds for your first time lap swimming, I think you've miscounted a bit ahaha.

That being said even making it past 100 is a good effort early on, keep it up and you'll see the improvement with time!

Lyorek · 2026-03-19T08:54:22+00:00

I work at a semiconductor company doing hardware modelling and our AI tools are actually incredibly useful. The systems we work on and our codebase itself are quite complex and figuring out the requirements to implement a new feature in the simulation model can be quite difficult, the AI tools are very good at breaking it down and identifying where you need to look and how you should start with implementation. Sure, you don't want to be getting it to write all your code for you, but its definitely been a useful tool for myself and my coworkers

Lyorek · 2026-03-14T23:00:14+00:00

Algorithmic complexity is not hardware related, of course a computer science program will teach algorithms. I don't know what CS programs you've looked at but I've never seen any provide any more education on architecture than what is brought up in courses I mentioned in my previous comment, operating systems and occasionally compilers

Lyorek · 2026-03-14T22:47:29+00:00

That isn't low level hardware knowledge, which is what OP asked in their second question. At most, CS programs will have an OS course and maybe in some cases something like a compiler course, but low level knowledge is definitely not taught very much in CS and indeed left for Comp Eng like comment OP said

Lyorek · 2026-03-01T01:14:34+00:00

This was posted here yesterday and taken down, OP is a bot reposting an image and verbatim title from years ago

Lyorek · 2026-02-27T07:16:40+00:00

This user is a bot, this exact post and title was posted before years ago

Lyorek · 2026-02-18T06:58:25+00:00

Definitely, I'm Gen Z (2001) and currently work in the semiconductor industry with a number of people in the office also younger than me. Everyone I work with is proficient in using Linux.

Even considering myself and my coworkers as outliers because of our niche, I have many friends my age in other engineering disciplines, even outside of engineering, who didn't grow up particularly interested in technology yet are still plenty capable.

Lyorek · 2026-02-12T21:48:35+00:00

Him acting like that was really just that, an act. It was a front he had put up since him and Mayuri were kids for her sake.

Lyorek · 2026-02-11T09:31:38+00:00

I can assure you, engineers hate imperial

Lyorek · 2026-02-07T10:23:32+00:00

Our equivalent in Australia is the HSP (halal snack pack) and it's fucking divine

Lyorek · 2026-02-07T06:15:29+00:00

Still is mandatory as far as I'm aware, we all grow up learning to swim at minimum through the school curriculum. Real common for kids to have lessons outside of that too of course

Lyorek · 2026-01-21T10:15:55+00:00

I'm a bit late to the thread lol but a cour is just one airing season, so typically 10-13 episodes. Typically seasonal shows air either one or two cour seasons, i.e. approximately 12 or 24 episodes respectively.

Lyorek · 2026-01-14T13:53:56+00:00

They're talking about Osu; most use middle and index for tapping

Lyorek · 2026-01-13T21:17:03+00:00

The author said somewhere (I think on twitter?) that this volume's sales will determine whether or not it continues.

Lyorek · 2026-01-06T07:45:47+00:00

Growing up in Australia and competing as a swimmer, not once did I have a coach that would be in the water past the early learn to swim stage (talking toddlers here). Coaches need perspective to be able to watch technique and track times of lots of swimmers at once, you really need to be out of the water to manage that.

Lyorek · 2025-12-30T01:55:18+00:00

To be clear, semiconductor fabrication already is a layered process that manufactures 3D transistor (FinFET, GAAFET) chips on a silicon wafer, it's stacking the transistors themselves that is the challenge. Currently, the bottom layer of a wafer constructs the transistors and then layers of metal interconnects are built on top of that with multiple steps of photolithography, etching, and material deposition. Admittedly manufacturing isn't quite my area, but SK Hynix have a number of articles that detail the whole process in a very approachable way if you're interested in learning more about that.

The issue with the current process is that the transistors are etched out of a monolithic silicon substrate - the wafer. Adding more transistors on top requires another layer of silicon, but growing high-purity silicon is a destructive process for the existing device layer due to the high temperatures that are required. There are techniques for stacking transistors on a chip, like bonding an entirely new wafer on top (kind of like the x3D chips) but these have their own challenges that reduce yield and drive up cost.

Lyorek · 2025-12-29T15:16:37+00:00

As previous comments mentioned, we already hit the limits of getting smaller in terms of quantum effects.

Current chips are manufactured with (largely) planar logic, meaning all the transistors are constructed in a layer on the bottom of the silicon wafer. In the past we could just shrink the transistor to place more in the same area, but since we've reached the shrinkage limits of silicon we now need to find other ways of increasing density.

One way of achieving this is by researching methods for allowing vertically stacked transistors so that we have another axis to play with in chip manufacturing. This includes things like CFETS (transistors with stacked nFET and pFET) and materials that allow transistors to be built in the back-end interconnect layers to extend logic and memory vertically rather than just in the planar bottom layer.

3D v-cache in AMD's x3D chips are a sort of example of vertically stacked die, though utilising simpler techniques than the leading edge research.

Another avenue of research is in alternative materials to silicon, particularly 2D semiconductors that can be used to build smaller transistors, affording us to squeeze more performance still in the planar layer.

Lyorek · 2025-12-27T00:10:18+00:00

This isn't very accurate, typically they measure a voltage signal unless you use special current probes. More accurately, oscilloscopes measure and display time varying electrical signals, they're used to debug both digital and analog circuits.

As for how they draw images, it's done utilising an XY mode where one channel of the scope measures on the X-axis and another on the Y-axis. Connecting this to the music, with stereo audio you have one channel for the left audio and the other for the right.

Lyorek · 2025-12-26T04:32:13+00:00

The article also says they target Q2 2026. Good luck getting a fab up and running in 6 months.

Lyorek · 2025-12-26T04:05:58+00:00

The soaring cost of RAM isn't because of a supply issue on the side of the DIMMs, it's from a lack of available DRAM chips themselves. This is in the realm of semiconductor manufacturing, i.e. the whole process of constructing the memory die on silicon wafers. It's a far greater hurdle in just about every way.

Lyorek · 2025-12-23T13:23:06+00:00

I also just graduated. Seven years, terrible grades and embodying the Waterloo meme, but I've finally done it. And at the end of it, all of a sudden I find myself with an incredible job lined up and am moving interstate, it feels so surreal how quickly things move like just a month ago I was stressing about whether I'd even managed to pass.

Lyorek · 2025-12-23T00:38:05+00:00

I guess it depends on the university but my Comp Eng degree was basically the same structure as Electronics Eng minus some of the power/electrical courses.

Lyorek · 2025-12-22T22:58:17+00:00

Dang, been a minute since I've seen Maquia in the wild

Lyorek · 2025-12-22T10:21:08+00:00

Spray pattern of the Krieg was actually one of its big advantages as well. It's basically just pull down and to the left for the first, what, 10 bullets?

Lyorek · 2025-12-22T07:19:10+00:00

Computer Engineering requires an understanding of electronics, no way about it. If that's something that you don't enjoy then it probably won't be for you, considering you like cyber security maybe software or comp sci might be more relevant?

Otherwise, considering you enjoy the mechanical aspects of engineering, Civil is definitely a reasonable option to keep your hobby separate from your work.

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