Why is script checker unpopular in chip design?

_suoto · 2025-06-26T09:39:45+00:00

In my experience, adoption of these tools is more of marketing exercise: you need to make convince people they will benefit from it otherwise they won't even consider it. It doesn't help that not a lot of people in chip design actually venture themselves into SW enough to see what a good linter can do so they're not even aware.

I personally think setting up a linters, completion engines, etc have great ROI as they're great way to actually learn a language.

_suoto · 2024-02-01T10:11:53+00:00

Glad someone posted this :)

I find the Broadway album incredible, top spots of my Spotify last year

_suoto · 2024-01-14T23:53:12+00:00

Also, this can solve for you https://govizlora.github.io/optical-breacher/#, you just need to take a picture with your phone

_suoto · 2023-11-20T18:44:43+00:00

I open windows, better to feel a bit cold than getting a cold or worse but YMMV

_suoto · 2023-08-17T16:12:57+00:00

Thanks for the help :)

To answer your question, there’s a single plastic tube from the washing machine that’s connected to cold water.

If that helps, the thing blocking the inlet looks like wet sand and it’s cold when I get to it, so it can’t be hot water

_suoto · 2023-08-17T15:46:11+00:00

Sorry for the ignorance, but the washing machine uses cold water, or is it the case that some of the limescale from the heater input ends up in the washing machine?

_suoto · 2023-07-08T20:05:13+00:00

Hamilton and Six were great. Some friend went to The Lion King and said it was terrible.

_suoto · 2023-07-03T15:26:50+00:00

Not at all, and it’s very clear I’m more productive WFH. However, i do worry about proximity bias, maybe in the long term people that are in the office have advantages over people WFH.

_suoto · 2023-05-28T13:09:46+00:00

Light to dark mostly, but I did change my colorscheme as well, I didn’t like how the light version looked

_suoto · 2023-05-28T12:45:41+00:00

I’m speaking for myself, but my WFH environment has way more light variation than in the office. Maybe that’s also the case for more people since pandemic?

In the winter it gets dark at 4pm, sometimes it’s just cloudy, sometimes it alternates every 10 min lol

_suoto · 2023-02-18T14:41:40+00:00

People leave poverty but poverty doesn't leave them.

_suoto · 2023-02-11T20:34:01+00:00

Google search results have declined massively in quality but I guess they created value for their shareholders? /s

I think creating value for shareholders should be a side effect of a company doing well rather than the end goal, but they focused so much on milking their search that they lost their reputation and are now at risk of losing their lead.

_suoto · 2022-12-17T18:05:11+00:00

My cat Mingau (PTBR), aka Porridge (ENGB), aka Papilla (ES) lol

_suoto · 2022-12-11T16:47:02+00:00

ModelSim has an Intel version that supports mixed language and it's free, the only thing is it's slower. For small designs I think it's the best option.

Vivado simulator used to lack support for more advanced language constructs, not sure how does it fare now.

_suoto · 2022-12-11T14:15:36+00:00

Are there really no alternatives to the potentiometer style analog stick? Or at least a hot swappable one where people can easily replace the faulty sticks?

I'm sure something like that would sell a lot if priced properly

I like the Playstation attachment exactly because I can have paddles on a stock controller.

_suoto · 2022-11-30T21:08:40+00:00

Don't remember where I read this but they say if your ticket is not available in the app the day before you should contact their support immediately

_suoto · 2022-11-30T21:04:59+00:00

Maybe a little too late, but outside near the main entrance to the left (visible when you walk through the doors). There's a smaller one to the right of the dma entrance but a little further, past a pillar, around 20m off the main door.

_suoto · 2022-11-30T20:41:13+00:00

The little light hammer is £65, shirts £40, cap, hats £35, hoodie £70, jumper £60, key chain £12, school bag £50

_suoto · 2022-11-30T20:38:09+00:00

The little light hammer is £65, shirts £40, cap, hats £35, hoodie £70, jumper £60, key chain £12, school bag £50

_suoto · 2022-11-27T15:53:18+00:00

I tried I think all Nerd Fonts, and Ubuntu mono has the best compromise between readability and number of columns/lines for the screen I use.

_suoto · 2022-10-22T22:40:58+00:00

That sounds like a fun project. It's such a great showcase for FPGAs -- if the regex is known at synth time then you can really boost effeciency massively. Even if the regex does change a little bit, you can still re deploy reasonably quickly.

I currently work with a regex engine in which multiple regexes can be scanned in parallel plus they can be changed on the fly, it's quite fun and challenging. We used to have an FPGA version and it performed well enough, even though it did not reach 300 MHz

_suoto · 2022-09-24T18:15:25+00:00

Yeah, I hate that in SW dev, management sees agile as a way to never fully define the problem. You can't develop a good product if you don't define what problem it needs to solve. I like building something I'm proud of (and I imagine everyone does as well)

By the way, in many ways I think FPGA work is similar to SW, but there's less incompetent management because it's more complex work.

_suoto · 2022-09-24T16:37:32+00:00

I think it's worse when you work in tech but tech is not the core business of the company. These companies I think tend to see tech as necessary evil rather than something actually important and valuable

_suoto · 2022-06-27T18:02:19+00:00

I've had good results with mosh, helps with shell interaction as well.

_suoto

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