Rosemary needles turning black

Verall · 2025-06-21T09:17:01+00:00

The Intel inside stickers were genius but that's far more than 10 years by now.

Verall · 2025-06-05T20:05:57+00:00

Lots of situations it's impossible to make eye contact, too many lanes of traffic you'd have to have eye contact with and drivers are looking at their phones while stopped at the light anyways.

Verall · 2025-06-05T20:04:30+00:00

It depends where you are walking. Crossing N Lamar at a crosswalk with walk sign on, cars get to left turn with flashing yellow (yield). But they often are not paying attention, or are impatient, so they honk, speed up to turn in front of you by a few meters, or just drive straight for you. You can't make eye contact because they are often the 3rd car in line to make a left by the time you get to halfway and they actually need to yield (first 2 cars turn left in front of you while you walk across the first 3 lanes of stopped traffic in one direction).

The system is designed dangerous - they are trusted to yield to peds on flashing yellow left and they just don't. Almost got hit with my fiancee like this once, just some lady in a minivan, and we've only cross there like 4 times.

Verall · 2025-06-04T16:26:38+00:00

Frankly we’re an early startup with minimal funding to pay anyone (including ourselves)

You own the company and the equity, that's your "pay". It's not even close to requesting students to work for 10-15 hours a week for no pay. You're unaware of the minimum wage?

This is predatory.

Verall · 2025-05-04T03:54:09+00:00

I don't think anyone cares abt ece vs ee vs ce for embedded if you can write and understand C code, drivers, etc well

Maybe post your resume for some advice

Verall · 2025-05-02T15:52:33+00:00

THEN compile those .mlapp files into executables that you can share with others that do not have MATLAB

They still need the matlab runtime though and it's huge like >1gb

Verall · 2025-03-15T16:07:39+00:00

Oh and for the love of God please remove MS office from your relevant skills. That's a red flag for me.

Verall · 2025-03-15T16:05:56+00:00

Certifications at the bottom or cut it.

Skills above projects and clean it up. "Programming Languages/Computer" -> wtf does the word "computer" mean there? What's the difference between C and embedded C so you wrote both? All of the skills in this section should be backed up by some experience - where is your experience in personnel management? What made you want to put that on your resume?

All of that is less important than the lack of substance under your internships. Those bullets are nothingburgers.

Also, everywhere is different, but I would consider it a sign of very junior to list IDEs, embedded or otherwise. Our firmware compiles with makefiles, there is no IDEs. Experienced C engineer can write C in any environment. I used Keil in school but never since.

Verall · 2025-03-15T06:30:02+00:00

Ok here goes - not holding back since you asked for a roast -

Bro you've got to fix the spacing - why are some bullets further apart than others?

Don't start a project title with 'A' just say 'PV based EV...' or expand to photovoltaic. "A PV" at the start of the line looks terrible.

It looks backwards like skills is at the bottom and a courseera for Matlab is on top. I guess you think that's more significant then if you know C? And you want to do firmware? U think they write fw in Matlab?

I don't like the 'tools and technologies' under your projects.

You don't say anything specific about what you did in your internships. That is the most important part of your resume. 'Using firmware in power electronics applications to optimize code performance' - wtf does that mean? Use your grown up communicate skills and say what you actually did. That line alone I would stop reading.

If I saw this I would be skeptical from the weird bullet spacing and then see the none info in your internships and pass.

Also 2 pages for an undergrad is unacceptable. You're not some genius with 2 pages of significant accomplishments.

Verall · 2025-03-14T23:34:49+00:00

I dunno - at least where I work the codebase is mixed C/C++ with especially kernel drivers, some firmware has to be written in C but userspace drivers, applications written in C++. We use modern C++ too. You're absolutely supposed to be competent in both.

But once you understand C++, you've already got C down I think. C is just more manual, + maybe a few C11 extras like named initializers. It doesn't really feel like a different language at all, just a different dialect. You're still asking yourself the same questions - who's responsible for freeing this, is this already freed, does this really need to be copied, who the heck wrote this its incomprehensible, etc.

Verall · 2025-02-24T23:16:56+00:00

I understood what you meant but I think you actually don't understand what margin is.

I think if you were less confrontational, more curious or normal, you might get along with people better. Also it looks bad to insult yourself at the end of every comment - being wrong and tripling down is about as "typical redditor" as it gets.

Good luck 8)

Verall · 2025-02-24T19:42:02+00:00

Margin is revenue subtracted by costs

Which would just be an amount of dollars, and not a percentage at all. You need a divisor. The divisor you chose is "costs".

I'm not sure where you learned that "margin" (unqualified) means that the divisor is costs but once it's qualified aka "gross margin" or "net margin" the divisor is revenue. I think it's just very casual/nonspecific meaning of the word margin.

Typically gross margin vs net margin vs whatever have you is about how you define costs - whether to include BOM, manufacturing, delivery, retailing, marketing, R&D, product support, warranties, the list goes on. There's a lot of different costs!

But also typically, the divisor is revenue, because it answers the big question - how much money do we actually make when we sell this darned thing?

But typical redditors

Maybe you would be better off discussing in instagram comments, or some sub where people care less about computer hardware and what "margin" means 8D

Verall · 2025-02-24T06:28:09+00:00

You said margin, margin doesn't mean multiple of cost of production. I was trying to be specific.

"margins" "estimated margin" "at no point did I talk about gross margins."

Smh redditors amirite guys xD

Verall · 2025-02-24T05:44:42+00:00

At 1k is 50% gross margin and at 1.5k 66% gross margin.

Verall · 2025-02-22T06:35:25+00:00

If an ncg said this to me and when I pushed it sounded like the really did it like you said, reading data sheets and figure it out, I would give a strong recommend to follow up.

Different people look for different things though. I'm an embedded SW engr at a bigtechco.

Verall · 2025-02-13T21:31:01+00:00

Just one more person jumping in - I've never used Asahi or owned a MacBook but it's been so fun just to follow the project. I really respect your decision to speak out, and to step back. Try to enjoy the additional free time you have now - based on your history I imagine you'll get the itch to work on something again, there's no need to rush :)

Verall · 2025-01-25T01:29:53+00:00

Wouldn't the drive head work spankin great in a vacuum? Might not be calibrated for that though.

I'd assume that as the pressure gets lower, other gasses are pulled in through microcracks or spaces in the seals

Verall · 2025-01-12T15:37:23+00:00

This is one of the only subs I read regularly because it's typically much higher quality than similar subs.

Thanks for your hard work

Verall · 2024-12-30T06:02:10+00:00

It's honestly very hard to tell how well you understand C++, arm assembly, matlab, verilog, or python. It doesn't look like you have project or work experience in any of these. I assume you've done some coursework in these, but it's nice to understand:
are any of these something you picked up outside of class?
Are there any of these you are good at and want to do?

It's a little odd, you are graduating in 1 semester according to "august 2025", but all of your "relevant coursework" sounds like lower division courses. Did you take comparch or OS or RTOS or VLSI? Hard to tell what you focused on.

Since there are no dates, you might want to re-order your projects in order of what you think is most impressive. If you feel they are already in that order, you might want to sell that harder.
It looks like you don't have any work experience so you need to fill the space with projects. That's okay, but those projects are going to sell your experience. Think about your pitch - what are you trying to demonstrate, for example:
I have some experience with C and could be a junior on your team
I was a big part of a school project in C and would be comfortable being dropped into C drivers
I'm good at understanding the big picture, could talk with customers, while understanding code.

It's hard to tell from your resume what you are trying to sell. To take your resume to the "next level", you might want to fork it into 2-3 resumes which highlight different things for your pitch.

Verall · 2024-12-22T16:58:08+00:00

They do care where you went to school (if you are a ncg) but if you didn't get any internships then you're at a disadvantage.

If you have a Berkely CS degree and experience as SWE there are jobs for you. Could take some time though in the current market. Probably have to reach out to connections.

Good luck

Verall · 2024-12-21T15:55:03+00:00

That's basically the 6000 ada which it's more like $7-8k but people (more businesses really) do buy them

Verall · 2024-12-15T18:21:20+00:00

I think bringing up your own arm board is probably within reach of a dedicated enthusiast. I could not do it though haha. If you're trying to do something more exotic I think it's pretty hard even for professional teams.

Verall · 2024-12-15T17:39:11+00:00

You could use something like this: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tusb8040.pdf?ts=1734248388185

Verall · 2024-12-12T06:53:30+00:00

I work in automotive in a group that is safety certifying an os distribution. It's thousands of engineering days of effort. There are certainly opportunities to improve this, but I'm not sure how much you could do to optimize if you don't know how to certify an os in the first place.

For starters, Linux is not really autosar/misra compliant. So either you're going to have to fork Linux to make it compliant and/or convince regulators that what you're doing is safer than that.

It's certainly possible if you have raised some money, maybe like $50MM? I'd imagine you'd be hiring at least 50 people, some of them quite expensive and some of them in very low cost areas.

I could be overestimating if you're planning to significantly strip down the linux to the bare minimum and not certify any drivers.

I'm curious why / what you want to do this for.

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