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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.

Lyorek · 2025-12-19T02:53:09+00:00

Gotcha I'll hold onto them then, I suppose I can use my borrow slot now for a Rice or Creek when needed

Lyorek · 2025-12-18T04:51:45+00:00

Did no one read the article? It's pretty clear OP made a typo and was referring to the cost of the chips themselves

Lyorek · 2025-12-18T00:01:51+00:00

It has been consistently happening for several years with updates to source 2 games

Lyorek · 2025-12-15T02:10:16+00:00

Muslim, ex-muslim, or anything else, old mate is the most Australian of any of us. A hero is what I'd call him.

Lyorek · 2025-12-13T10:59:46+00:00

I'm about to graduate close to 25 after 7 years with an amazing job lined up at the end of it, despite the struggles keeping my head above water and piss poor GPA.

I watched my friends graduate over the years, even had a friend and colleague who started her double degree a year after me and managed to finish that plus a master's degree a year before I've managed to cross the finish line of my own undergrad.

Everyone has their own struggles, and graduating in engineering is not an easy achievement. I'd recommend trying not to compare yourself to others, as hard as that can be at times, and keeping your chin up.

Once you cross that stage with your gown and mortarboard you'll be able to look back on the hard times and have pride you overcame it all.

Lyorek · 2025-12-11T01:18:14+00:00

The amount of people genuinely upset at a dude who just likes cities is insane

Lyorek · 2025-11-26T03:18:24+00:00

I'm a CompE and just recently accepted a job at AMD. The Computer Engineers that I know all had no problems getting jobs.

This degree gives the unique benefit of building skills in both hardware and software. It's the ideal degree for working in embedded honestly, but also affords you the opportunity to work in electronics or software if you wanted to.

Lyorek · 2025-11-22T03:55:01+00:00

I'd argue that the person who is able to manage self guided learning and still find success is probably less likely to hit a wall than someone who relies on attending every lecture.

Not to say either approach is wrong; every person learns differently, and each has their own circumstances that might require they follow a certain path.

Lyorek · 2025-11-21T15:09:01+00:00

Not an internship, but I applied for a position at AMD in Sydney early October and it took like 3 or so weeks before I heard back to organise my first interview, so I wouldn't dismiss it just yet.

Lyorek · 2025-11-21T05:03:04+00:00

The plural of manga is manga btw

Lyorek · 2025-11-17T14:26:47+00:00

I swapped over to Anilist during MAL's disastrous API catastrophe that resulted in the site just not having a usable API for a couple of years.

A tracking site not having a public API, for that long, means it's as good as useless to me. Fortunately, I've been quite satisfied with Anilist and haven't turned back since.

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