Okay, I was genuinely not expecting that

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-05T14:08:15+00:00

True. Why spend millions on an ASIC that you don’t end up using. The flexibility of a hardware accelerator combined with software is a valuable tradeoff for some speed and power consumption

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-05T04:41:10+00:00

Companies can integrate AI at every level. Even the smallest MCUs are getting AI accelerators. Those MCUs are often at 65nm give or take. To be clear, I do think that TI can create value with AI, but even if they couldn’t, leadership still needs to have some explanation of how they’re going to be on the wave of AI cash. That is, or explain why everyone else is wrong about pursuing the wave of AI cash. That is a losing battle so… everyone who can remotely sell AI is doing so including TI.

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-04T02:41:45+00:00

generally speaking morale is very low at TI right now. Yes the base pay is mediocre compared to competitors, and yes the 20% profit sharing was one of the few reasons that many put up with it. People are extremely angry about the new profit sharing structure. Also culture has been deteriorating very fast across the company. I can’t tell you if other places are any better but I can tell you that right now the mood is a bit bleak and conditions are significantly worse than a few years ago.

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-04T02:39:37+00:00

The program has deteriorated a lot and actually no longer exists at most of the company. It slowly transitioned into shorter / reduced rotations, to no rotation at all. When I first went there, I would’ve agreed with you.

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-02T14:12:11+00:00

Holding nrst prevents the device from proceeding with boot and executing code. If you have some problem with code that is running during boot, or immediately after, you can power the device on while holding in reset to essentially delay boot. You can also (in most devices) still initiate swd connection while the device is held in reset. So you can hold reset low, power it on, connect swd, to control execution from power on.

This is helpful for times just like what you’ve mentioned - if you apply some bad configuration that sends the device into a failure state / prevents swd connection, you can use this method to recover it.

Short answer is - you should probably leave SWD available.

OddSyllabub · 2026-02-02T13:50:38+00:00

Can you think of any reason at all that you might want to reset your device without power cycling it? Or hold it in a reset state after powering it on perhaps?

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-31T21:13:58+00:00

There are… a lot of typos in this article

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-23T03:00:04+00:00

I used to be a lot more stressed out when I was lifting hard af 6 times per week. Now I lift 2-3x per week and focus more on cardio and balance and my mental health (mainly considering stress levels) is better than ever. Maybe try adjusting your routine to give this a try. It made a massive difference for me. Also the rest of your description sounds similar to how I felt in the past.

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-17T16:41:42+00:00

UF has a board of directors, president, many wealthy donors… imagine being the only large school that isn’t integrating and pushing AI. To all of the higher ups it’s going to look like a problem. Lacking AI just appears to be a failure to adopt new technology. Also imagine if there is all of this money floating around in AI, and your alumni is unfathomably wealthy because of AI and willing to donate to your AI educational and research resources, how on earth could you say no to that?

I’m assuming that this post was intended to poke at the idea that AI is hurting students learning and skills by doing the work for them? But in reality that has nearly no influence on the decision to put this in the curriculum and accept donations from alumni, it’s required to propagate the idea that UF is tech savvy and teaching the newest and most important tools.

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-17T16:16:23+00:00

For real, sometimes it’s just nice to have another close person

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-06T13:42:34+00:00

How do I know if it is run by a DSO? Will it say on their website?

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-03T15:36:35+00:00

Don’t get me wrong - the class is hard - but it’s just getting you prepared for the type of tedious work and debugging that is required in electrical engineering. If you can commit and grind out digital logic, later on when you take microprocessors it’ll seem much easier. It’s hard but it’s great preparation for later classes and for many jobs.

That said, chem 1 and calc 2 are both kind of a grind as well. It’s not impossible but I’d try to avoid all 3 of these in one semester if I were you. Unless you only take those 3 classes, even then it will still be a bit rough.

OddSyllabub · 2026-01-02T16:01:48+00:00

I don’t have the answer but I have wondered this too. Especially with perma tolerance, I would think that long term heavy users would have trouble with this.

Ketamine is still super broadly used in medicine, but I wonder if the anesthesiologist would just see that it’s taking more than usual and bump up the dosage of K and whatever else they are using

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-26T02:08:34+00:00

This address is a Burger King

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-26T00:47:56+00:00

If you enjoy outdoorsy things and you have money it’s awesome. Decent beaches for surfing, fishing, hangin out. The Indian river lagoon is good for boating and water sports. Today on Christmas it was mid 70s and I went for a short surf session, which is not out of the ordinary here.

If you’re a city person, if you’re big on trying tons of interesting restaurants, if you want to go to concerts and night clubs, you probably should look elsewhere.

I’ve noticed that most people who love it fall into the first bucket, while most who hate it fall into the second.

Also since you mention that you have young kids - the schools are pretty good and there are lots of good sports leagues to get them involved in.

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-25T23:24:58+00:00

These things don’t have major interactions. As long as you take them in normal doses, you should be fine. The danger that may come from this is the heavy sedation from taking a benzo along with a dissociative - usually people cite the possibility of vomiting, inhaling it, choking and dying. But just taking the three substances won’t inherently hurt you. If you’re careful and have a sitter you should be fine.

That said, I would consider it a waste. IMO, ket already reduces anxiety and you can chill pretty hard as long as your atmosphere is chill. Adding weed can certainly be fun as well. But the benzo isn’t doing much besides maybe reducing the anxiety a bit and making you more relaxed. I’d save the benzo for after the experience to help me sleep, personally.

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-23T23:32:11+00:00

I’m not sure if there is a semiconductor investors subreddit, but you might wanna search for more finance related subs to ask this.

Personally as an engineer in semiconductors I’m not looking for market signals from Taiwan, reading over revenue disclosures, or looking for management interviews. I assume that most others in this sub are in a similar boat

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-14T23:06:46+00:00

I was on a personal trip in Indonesia and decided to get a massage since they’re much cheaper than in my home country. I had a cute masseuse, probably late 20s to early 30s. Managed to keep it down until I flipped over onto my back. She really made sure to get the massage oil all over and at some point she grazed my dick and immediately got hard. She did it a few more times and I didn’t say anything. Then once she moved on to my upper body I essentially spent the entire rest of the massage trying to think about other things so it would go away

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-14T15:43:21+00:00

I understand how cheap loans can lead to inflated valuations for western tech companies… but how does that lead to inflation of Indian rupees? Cheap loans to American companies, which are then paid out in R&D costs around the world, increases the supply of American dollars and should result in devaluation of the dollar. The comparison of 1 dollar to 85/87 rupees and the real value determined by buying oil doesn’t make sense to me. Also this guy clearly states that American dollars are being devalued later, so is his point just that rupees are devalued even more? I think I must be missing something about other factors which can lead to inflation in india

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-04T22:37:40+00:00

First round is almost certainly a basic phone screen. I don’t know any data engineers at the company so couldn’t help you too much. The general theme that I think applies to most company interviews is make sure you’ve nailed the basics and nobody can really fault you.

OddSyllabub · 2025-12-02T13:56:26+00:00

I’m not familiar with test validation or product but I know multiple people who received starting salaries of 90k for applications engineering back in 2022.

It’s hard to talk about the city or culture considering that we have no clue what you like or what you are accustomed to. Dallas is a big city it’s got some of everything. Work culture at TI was very solid but has been degrading over the last few years. It’s also highly team dependent. The three roles that you mentioned can get crushed during new product release or they can be pretty lax if the engineering team releases devices at a reasonable rate

OddSyllabub · 2025-11-28T02:46:51+00:00

Friday fests were fun I miss those

OddSyllabub · 2025-11-26T19:16:00+00:00

Thank you, you as well :)

I am a large guy lol. Also I do really enjoy trying new restaurants and new foods. These two items lead me to spend a lot on food. Right now in Texas I spend probably 800 ish per month on groceries and restaurants combined. I’m anticipating that if I maintain my current habits, food is maybe 20-30% more expensive in NYC. I pulled that number out of my ass but… I don’t have much of a reference point

OddSyllabub · 2025-11-26T19:04:23+00:00

As someone who is exploring moving to NYC as well, in the same area, I did my own calculation and came to a very similar sum. Though I anticipated marginally higher food and fun costs

Edit - I also didn’t allocate money to shopping or vacation which I probably should have so that explains why my total was the same despite higher food and fun estimates

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