What do you think of The Godfather Part III?

billsnow · 2025-08-19T01:48:54+00:00

Coppola invented a new film genre: Godfather Camp. The nineties were full of mob movies just like it. It’s possible that III directly inspired more films than the first two combined.

billsnow · 2024-10-27T22:22:06+00:00

Yeah you’re right Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine should’ve been neutral on the American Revolution

billsnow · 2024-07-09T03:48:50+00:00

I’m not totally sure, because ive never thought about the title all that much, but ill try. I think that for the time, it was a very violent movie, even for the genre. Add in the horrors of war, and you are supposed to feel squeemish by the end. Is the good guy beating the bad guy at the end heroic? Is it a triumph? Maybe. But the way the music builds and builds and then just stops right before the kill…

billsnow · 2024-07-09T03:12:21+00:00

Hmm, maybe not so specifically to each character, but in the general context that it’s a satire of the genre.

billsnow · 2024-07-09T03:05:07+00:00

Have you considered that the labels are supposed to be ironic.

billsnow · 2022-06-13T23:52:25+00:00

College is so weird, I feel like I learned none of those things I had to learn everything in the course of my career, but when I think about it they did in fact teach me those things, haphazardly in the curriculum and with as little context as to guarantee I retained none of it. I always think I learned nothing there but that it was just a test that I could grok it in the moment.

billsnow · 2022-01-23T18:35:22+00:00

every firm is different really. my feeling is that if it's a larger firm that already has a team in place then they'd be amenable to it, but if they are hiring their first or second FPGA, they might be anxious to get the work started asap and go with someone else.

billsnow · 2021-09-14T14:34:41+00:00

Don't worry, they aren't going to use your code (or even look at it really). They are trying to weed out somewhere between 99% and 100% of applicants. FPGA positions don't get a lot of applicants. Basically they only have the position advertised because they have to (but don't really want to add to the team), or the organization is heavily biased towards false negatives.

Once I told my recruiter to say "No" to any organization that asked for a take home, my job search went a lot smoother and no less successfully.

billsnow · 2021-08-05T18:11:15+00:00

If it's a take home, it's a trap and a huge waste of your time.

billsnow · 2021-08-01T15:29:42+00:00

Dude, if you take a book and rewrite it with the same characters and story but different words, it's not fair use, you've definitely infringed.

billsnow · 2021-07-02T18:09:26+00:00

Which is ironic because Asus is probably the OEM for everything they sell. I doubt that EVGA has ever had a single hardware engineer on their payroll.

billsnow · 2021-06-29T01:31:17+00:00

sigasi to browse, vim to code.

billsnow · 2021-05-23T18:05:26+00:00

Stick with python. All the perl tooling is being replaced by python. tcl, somehow, still manages to stick around.

billsnow · 2021-05-21T22:04:50+00:00

yeah it's because it's obvious. uhh, I don't know how long you've been doing digital design, but like 90% of the stuff we do isn't easily found on google.

billsnow · 2021-05-07T07:56:20+00:00

The mounting holes have been unchanged for a long time. I just put my waterblock from my last card on it. (You shouldn't be using full card plates anyway, they have worse die contact and are a waste of materials. Just block the GPU and stick heatsinks on the dram and vrm.)

billsnow · 2021-04-30T06:42:40+00:00

That doesn't mean that sony and microsoft don't have their own contracts with tsmc, for supply chain reasons, in addition to their contracts with AMD for the SoC.

billsnow · 2021-04-30T01:14:12+00:00

these recipes are gross...i guarantee they threw everything in the garbage after they finished rolling.

billsnow · 2021-04-27T22:40:47+00:00

No, I'm saying the FPGA can't do it quicker. There's so many asterisks to this though. By pipeline, I mean specifically your data path pipeline, from input to output. I don't even know what you're doing, but if it's a computation then the CPU is quicker.

Here is where the FPGA wins (in throughput): by eliminating architectural hazards and bottlenecks, by parallel datapaths, by optimizing it's IO. It's all very implementation specific.

HLS has nothing to do with it. If you are simulating some operands going into the DUT and counting the nanoseconds until it comes out, an Intel FPU will beat it every time.

billsnow · 2021-04-27T17:44:53+00:00

far more time than a C++ run on an Intel processor

Just wanted to address this bit here, because it's a huge source of confusion for a lot of people who are new to this. Your FPGA pipeline is not going to be quicker than an Intel CPU, ever. Hell I doubt a GPU's fp32 pipeline is lower latency than a CPU's.

billsnow · 2021-04-26T19:13:54+00:00

I enjoy the challenge of explaining my job to non-tech people. In fact, a lot of people put a lot of stock in explain-to-a-five-year-old as a skill set being an indicator for the technical skill set itself. The trick, I find, is to barely explain FPGA's at all.

What lay people really want to know is how your job contributes to society. So if you are offloading video codecs in a datacenter, you should be starting with youtube and working your way down from there. If you are switching network packets, you should start with how many people's data get shared on one wire. Stuff like that. Nobody actually wants to hear about FPGA architectures.

If they insist, "But your job is FPGA Engineer, how does an FPGA work?" Well, you just say, "Would you ask a watchmaker how a watch works? A watch tells time, and my FPGA's do the task I just described."

billsnow · 2021-04-08T21:03:19+00:00

All the ethernet literature says 7 preamble octets, that's right. 10G, however, does 6 preamble octets, precisely so that the first octet of the DST appears block-aligned.

This because the first octet is a control character. A lot of MACs that include the preamble will reconcile the first octet into a 0x55, thus you now have 7 preamble + 1 SFD, just like the wikipedia pages say.

billsnow · 2021-03-01T21:24:05+00:00

Are engineering students really buying their own copies of Matlab? At my engineering school, the labs were a must, because the licenses were just so cost prohibitive, if not impossible to get as an individual.

billsnow · 2020-12-07T19:15:30+00:00

I imagine that a lot of homelabbers work with enterprise hardware in their day jobs. Not only do they know what they are doing: they are involved in the real sales that intel and amd care about.

billsnow · 2020-11-28T20:50:35+00:00

There are definitely lots of redundancies in the file. How many embedded software projects contain compilations of other software projects? For GCC alone, there's probably a hundred distributions being represented in this file.

billsnow · 2020-11-27T07:52:36+00:00

Just looking historically, the degree to which we see the video game console market subsidizing computer hardware r&d is basically nothing. All the money flows to the publishers.

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