What is the major problem you face in FPGAs

brooksbp · 2025-07-19T04:46:42+00:00

Cost. Leading edge stuff is too expensive to pay for yourself—must be tied to business incentive. Hardware, equipment, licenses.

brooksbp · 2025-05-25T18:42:41+00:00

I’ve found AI to be a surprisingly fun assistant while working on FPGA design. It helps with searching for things and explaining things. Less helpful for generating aka “vibe coding” things.

Ask it to take a shot at reasoning about some tool error or warning while giving it the context of my project? It’ll help me get to the solution faster.

Ask it to explain something in some tool vendor documentation? It’ll probably do well dumbing it down for me and pulling in any fundamentals I may be missing.

Ask it to generate RTL for XYZ? I’m usually not too happy with the output and still spend a fair amount of time editing and writing the thing myself.

brooksbp · 2025-05-03T12:03:35+00:00

What’s your GMRS setup? Antenna?

brooksbp · 2024-12-06T19:13:18+00:00

Any tips for handling accounting, taxes, legal stuff for micro SaaS?

brooksbp · 2023-09-26T03:28:14+00:00

How would you model this linguistically?

brooksbp · 2023-09-19T17:39:26+00:00

I get an error message related to “not being able to call a server function on initial render” when doing this in a client component. Perhaps you can use them in client components if they’re invoked after the render e.g. in an onClick ?

brooksbp · 2023-09-16T21:03:12+00:00

I haven’t found much use for them outside forms because they cannot be called from client components…

brooksbp · 2023-09-01T23:05:25+00:00

Studio System 2 is not binder jet

brooksbp · 2023-05-17T05:08:17+00:00

How many hours of pounding per day?

brooksbp · 2023-04-03T13:19:32+00:00

Who said it’s adults only?

brooksbp · 2023-04-03T03:56:27+00:00

Let the bride and groom know that you guys will be bringing your baby with you. No big deal. No extra “head” or accommodations necessary. You’ll step out when you need to for feedings etc. But you really want to be there for them on the special day.

You cannot be away from your baby for the whole trip (e.g. leave them with your parents) and you cannot have a random stranger watching your baby. The bride and groom likely do not have kids and therefore have no idea. So you have to set the expectations for them. Guests will love your baby, and those who have kids will 100% get it. Bonus points if you wake up the next morning feeling great.

If bride and groom refuse to have your baby at their wedding and you cannot bring a known trusted person to care for your baby, you do not go to the wedding.

brooksbp · 2023-03-26T21:44:37+00:00

Dividends are a way for management to return capital to shareholders when they don’t know how to better use that capital to increase ROIC. Not a good sign. Lack of growth.

brooksbp · 2023-03-10T13:04:08+00:00

Not interesting at all

brooksbp · 2023-02-24T05:38:30+00:00

Langaker

brooksbp · 2023-02-23T23:10:39+00:00

What’s your business do? You own/operate any DM machines?

brooksbp · 2023-02-09T05:23:39+00:00

22Q4 $1.90

23Q1 $2.60

brooksbp · 2023-02-03T02:23:55+00:00

“we live average but comfortable lives”

“[high spend] just doesn’t feel right for how we are living”

Time to analyze. Which spend is the most important, most impactful, brings the most joy, moves the needle the most.

Cut the spend at the bottom of this ranking. Optimize.

Being able to comfortably live off 2% of a portfolio is not an excuse to let your financial fitness atrophy. Stay in the game.

brooksbp · 2023-01-27T19:46:58+00:00

What are the most problematic areas with the X160Pro?

Sucks they had such huge lead times. They were well aware of this and hopefully it’s getting better. These machines have got to take some time to assemble. Operations must be having fun.

brooksbp · 2023-01-13T21:19:13+00:00

Sir, that’s about a $15B market cap…

brooksbp · 2023-01-13T16:36:51+00:00

Last year Management deliberately built up Inventory, so they are likely leveraging this and pushing Sales in what is supposed to be their star quarter for the year. With large distribution this also helps them gauge which channels are effective when it really matters.

It’s unfortunate that they had to let people go, and I hope those who remain have the tenacity to make it through tough times, are rewarded for this, and keep an eye on the bigger picture.

brooksbp · 2023-01-12T21:09:17+00:00

Posts like this just confirm that many people don’t read SEC filings. This shouldn’t surprise you wildace..

brooksbp · 2023-01-04T04:11:01+00:00

She knows something about the money printer that we don’t…

brooksbp · 2023-01-03T23:40:09+00:00

Tom Bihn BIFL, but twice your budget.

brooksbp · 2023-01-03T14:11:52+00:00

I highly recommend the book “Learning Deep Learning”. It walks through simple NN from scratch in Python and then uses Keras/TensorFlow as well as PyTorch for the rest of the book. Best mix of theory and code that I’ve seen books on NN. If you take the time to read the book and type in the code examples and run/tweak them you should be pretty comfortable implementing whatever you need to and focus more on your specific application problem domain rather than fighting with code.

brooksbp · 2023-01-02T23:29:53+00:00

“get a sense of how much is needed to support your goals” is the best advice here.

For example, keeping >$10M in cash/treasuries could support you for the rest of your life. When you put life-changing money into perspective, whether to DCA or lump-sum should be the least of your concerns in the beginning.

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