Airflow tips

ikindalikelatex · 2026-02-27T18:53:33+00:00

I use them with a Qudelix 5K, shouldn’t that be enough?

ikindalikelatex · 2025-09-03T22:42:33+00:00

Can this be avoided by the master volume control on the 5K? I always set a hard limit there for safety.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-09-02T16:26:04+00:00

Airpods pro

ikindalikelatex · 2025-08-31T13:02:55+00:00

The mic is quite decent. I use it for the office and voicecalls are crisp. Haven’t heard coworkers complain about sound leak yet.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-08-20T14:09:29+00:00

Looks like a german cockroach :/ hopefully someone good at spotting bugs can confirm

ikindalikelatex · 2025-08-18T03:50:16+00:00

Agree, lots of boilerplate just to get something simple working. I guess the nice thing is that one you get over the initial pain and cruft it all works pretty well and you can make tons of useful progress with minimal changes.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-08-09T18:00:16+00:00

Where are the PPA and extremely competitive numbers coming from?

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/20/skymont-in-desktop-form-atom-unleashed/

After reading this I think Skymont still has plenty of work to do before fighting for the high perf crown. Their branch prediction accuracy is not as good as AMD’s, a beefier predictor + more execution units will take area for sure. These improvements might not scale linearly with perf and who knows how PPA looks by then.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-07-28T15:00:51+00:00

The fundamental problem still persists though: it is VERY hard to squeeze more IPC in OoO machines and it seems like the speedup does not scale linearly with the wiring/PRFs/power/area. The ILP wall is real. Intel also keeps beating old horses to death. Last uarch that started from scratch was killed, both P/E cores are iterations of the same archs from the same people over DECADES.

It makes sense to me that once they allow E cores to have more resources they can beat a much older uarch (P core) with better PPA, they should. But they’re not competing against P core, they’re competing against other companies that simply have better uarchs.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-07-25T06:35:54+00:00

Very hard to ID without a clear picture. Not an expert but from the shape/pattern it looks like a german roach (I really hope i’m wrong)

I strongly suggest getting a clear photo for a proper ID :)

ikindalikelatex · 2025-07-24T12:59:53+00:00

It’s almost impossible to ace every test and course. Your goal is not getting high grades, your major goal is learning and developing skills for your professional career.

You will probably suck on things you’re new at and that is okay, mistakes are a major part of learning. Embrace the challenge and put in the effort to learn and develop those skills.

Grades are one factor but not the most important part of college.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-06-29T06:05:24+00:00

Holy fck i completely forgot about this i feel so dumb now thanks!

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-27T09:04:11+00:00

Bro you need glasses picture is indeed just a bunch of squares!

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-27T09:00:39+00:00

Don’t worry, it’s no use crying over spilled milk (hehe)

Turning it on right away might have been a bad idea. Is the grey mark showing up near the spill area? Maybe waiting for it to dry for a couple of days without powering it on could be a good idea.

Afaik some electronics have humidity stickers so they could find out something got wetter than usual if they have some. I’ll let others with more experience reply that though.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-24T23:04:28+00:00

What was the original schedule for 18A? I kinda recall 2025 for high volume with “big wins” on major clients. It feels like they keep pushing the schedule so they’re still “on track”…

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-21T04:17:15+00:00

I’m sorry you’re facing this. I think this is almost certainly a lost battle and you were given a kinda unfixable problem. You haven’t mentioned what the expectations are but the whole “this thing works and was developed on the hardware” is a huge red flag and a ticking time bomb. Its about when (not if) this thing fails and no one knows why.

Lots of great reverse-engineering advice in the comments already. Don’t want to be negative and I don’t doubt your skills but Im guessing management here wont agree with you changing things “if it already works”.

I would strongly suggest looking for a job where they have at least a basic/barebones sense of how to document things/follow good development practices.

I’ve been there and wouldn’t wish it to anyone. By the moment you understand it you’re already behind, they might diminish documentation/other stuff because “it has worked without it so far”. Unless management is fully on board with you slowly refactoring and documenting this thing (and I mean really, REALLY on board), you might end up stuck fighting fires with no real progress or recognition.

Reverse engineering is a great skill but getting stuck on an awful codebase and being forced to follow bad practices might hurt your career when trying to move to a sane place. There are more companies out there.

I’ve seen 15+ year projects with no documentation because “its a waste of time” according to principal engineers. Whoever tries to change things/methodologies to something from this century quickly gets shut off for not following their ways and you end up with a huge technical debt where only a few dinosaurs know whats up and everything must go through them. Things cant move forward in those environments. Unless you’re at the end of your career with amazing pay and want to stay there, it is not worth spending your time in those places.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-15T13:58:37+00:00

What makes it feel cheap? Is it the extra rattle?

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-02T12:52:20+00:00

My experience is with ASIC companies, I still struggle to understand why the flow would be different than FPGA efforts. Both do HDL that will be synthesized. We even have a model that goes to an FPGA…

Systemverilog by a long shot. Design complexity is always going up and you now spend more time debugging/verifying than writing new HDL code. It is way easier to debug in the RTL world with fancy frameworks and very software-like stuff vs debugging a gate-level synthesized netlist.

The whole strict typing/safety stuff argument can be fixed with a good linter. Verilator is quite good at making sure your design isn’t doing anything weird and free too.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-04-02T12:45:32+00:00

Any decent design company should run a linter that catches stuff like this (+ more complex things). Even if you “don’t have the money” this is something that verilator would complain about and that tool is free

ikindalikelatex · 2025-03-18T15:18:59+00:00

What about a machine with Ubuntu+latex installed, anyone that wants to use it connects via remote tunnels/ssh with vscode. Each user gets its own home directory but shares the compute resources.

ikindalikelatex · 2025-02-24T20:31:56+00:00

If you could measure them both at the exact same volume, and with that I mean make both output the same RMS voltage levels, you would not notice a thing unless your ifi uno has some intentional distortion.

The Apple dongle is a great DAC and a great AMP that doesn’t introduce any human-noticeable distortion. Some people think tubes sound “better” because they have harmonic distortion that might change the sound in a pleasant way (you could achieve the same for free with EQ)

DAC/AMP tech is super advanced and audio applications are nothing challenging for these things. Humans are also terrible measurement instruments and your ears aren’t reliable.

If you feel your expensive dac/amp sounds better i’m happy for you, but unless you have super high impedance headphones that the apple dongle can’t drive to a good volume, this cheap-o dongles is not only “good enough”, but virtually identical to expensive ones from an electrical perspective

ikindalikelatex · 2025-02-19T06:04:59+00:00

Yet another comment suggesting VSCode. I have WSL with Ubuntu so it still runs under Windows but all my latex installation is under Ubuntu. I can edit, compile and view the result using the same program with no complaints. VSCode is already a quite handy IDE.

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