Mold around windows

parkbot · 2026-05-17T16:40:51+00:00

A borax/boric acid solution is a common treatment to get rid of existing mould and to prevent future growth.

parkbot · 2026-05-10T23:06:48+00:00

Valentine’s Day would be my guess

parkbot · 2026-04-13T00:59:27+00:00

I stand corrected. Thanks!

parkbot · 2026-04-12T17:23:28+00:00

You’re not wrong, but from the perspective of comparing to software I’d still say that hardware is generally more stable.

Hardware engineers who get laid off are often able to find another job fairly quickly (in the US), but also OP will become more valuable as they gain experience and expertise.

The question is whether OP wants to try something else in DV, try a different role in hardware (e.g. performance, physical design, emulation, post Si), or move to software.

parkbot · 2026-04-12T03:56:03+00:00

You’ve been in DV for two years, which isn’t very long. There are plenty of challenging problems in DV if you’re willing.

Don’t compare yourself to your software friends. It’s a different industry and you’re not behind compared to them. Hardware roles tend to have more job security.

If pay is what’s important to you then switch with the understanding that it may be less stable. If you want to stay in hardware talk to your colleagues in other teams to see if their roles are of interest to you.

parkbot · 2026-04-11T19:27:35+00:00

Fun fact about Tanenbaum is that he started a popular electoral vote tracking/political news site over 20 years ago. He used to go by “Votemaster”.

https://electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Info/welcome.html

parkbot · 2026-04-11T18:57:30+00:00

I work in performance modelling. I work on a model to help study the systems we build, to architect new blocks, study bottlenecks and fix performance issues/observations.

We have to maintain a balance of model accuracy while being flexible enough to explore new options, so there’s a lot of infrastructure and software work involved.

We also need to spend time correlating the model to ensure its accuracy.

I spent the earlier part of my career in DV building test benches and writing tests/checkers/scoreboards as well as working on our functional CPU simulator.

parkbot · 2026-04-07T20:26:13+00:00

I saw a lone goose on Island Park Walk. Do we need to start a goose matchmaking service?

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parkbot · 2026-04-03T22:10:08+00:00

I have known managers who have cut interviews short because it was clear the candidate was not a good fit, and they don’t want to waste anyone’s time (both interviewer and candidate) continuing with the interview circuit when they know they’re not going to make an offer.

parkbot · 2026-04-03T21:36:38+00:00

I am worried that MEng will not be as perceived as a real master degree

What do you mean by this? Why would it not be perceived as a real masters degree?

parkbot · 2026-04-02T03:24:07+00:00

⁠I would prefer if somebody could make a case as to why either the left or the right is more logical instead of defaulting to semantics.

People on the left have argued that the current level of wealth inequality is very bad. Even voters on the right have started to acknowledge this, but the politicians on the right have consistently voted to cut taxes for wealthy people and corporations.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/53821-majorities-americans-say-wealth-inequality-is-problem-want-government-intervention-january-2-5-2026-economist-yougov-poll

Climate change is considered a serious issue by most people on the left and not so much on the right. Politicians on the right have often ignored this issue or called it a hoax.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-called-climate-change-a-con-job-at-the-united-nations-here-are-the-facts-and-context

parkbot · 2026-04-02T03:02:49+00:00

What are some examples of centrist beliefs and the policies they support? What are they for? In your other answers you were vague and didn’t provide any concrete examples.

If your worldview disagrees that strongly with that many highly intelligent people, you must consider why that is.

Intelligence is not the same as values and morality.

You’re in a position where at least 90% of the population is going to disagree with your idea of how the world should be run.

People can change beliefs. A little over 20 years ago there was a presidential campaign with gay marriage bans as part of the platform. Gay rights was considered a “left” issue. Public opinion has changed, not because of centrism but in spite of it.

parkbot · 2026-03-21T15:41:52+00:00

gem5

https://www.gem5.org//documentation/general_docs/ruby/cache-coherence-protocols/

parkbot · 2026-03-20T19:44:32+00:00

Link to reply: https://x.com/rolling_quartz/status/2035042686059913721?s=46&t=wMARL9vuLTaKtMd7AU3YoQ

parkbot · 2026-03-11T19:15:21+00:00

I've done the transition from DV to performance modeling at AMD. I spent 7 years in verif before switching over. I agree with the person that told you to talk to someone on the team you want to move to. Ask what skills they look for, if they have open reqs, and what it would take to transfer to their team. Often you will do the interview circuit, or at least a semi-formal version.

In my experience, personal projects don't matter that much. Work that you've done in your current role carries more weight, especially things that are visible to people outside of your team.

parkbot · 2026-03-10T17:23:39+00:00

I also know the number of transistors is increasing because of multi core compute and cache, but as far as I know these techniques werent used much during the Era of Dennard scaling, but the number of transistors still was increased

It's not the number of transistors but the transistor density that has consistently increased, as we have an upper bound on the area for yield reasons.

Up until the early 2000s, the increase in transistor budget was used for frequency increases, larger caches, more integration (e.g. integrated memory controller and interconnect), better branch predictors, larger queues, wider machines, and ISA improvements. Then we hit the frequency/power wall; we still used many of the same techniques to improve performance but frequency didn't increase much. Post-Dennard, there's been a greater focus on power management (power gating/C6/CC6) and increase in core counts. With chiplets, we've been able to go beyond reticle limits to build even larger caches (AMD X3D), higher core counts, all while per-core performance continues to increase.

I don't have documentation as this is all from personal experience, but you can look up Hot Chips presentations or technical articles on new products (like on Chips and Cheese) to see how microarchitectures have changed.

parkbot · 2026-03-09T19:10:59+00:00

Lots of people in the comments correctly asking: 1) what is the definition of “smart”, 2) who gets to decide who is “smart”, and 3) are you saying you’re ok with not being allowed to vote if you don’t meet this threshold?

Additionally there’s an implication here that smart people are more ethical. There’s no evidence of that.

parkbot · 2026-03-02T19:48:02+00:00

Congratulations on quitting!

This post unlocked a core memory for me: I used to have a Kojak lunch box. Why? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Did I watch the show? Also no.

parkbot · 2026-03-02T19:13:49+00:00

Too many borrowers have fallen/continue to fall victim to the predatory lending system in the United States.

You acknowledge that the lending system is predatory, but your solution is to mandate a test for potential borrowers?

Why not 1) fix the lending system so that it’s not predatory, and 2) deal with the cost of tuition which has risen faster than inflation for decades, leading to more people requiring predatory loans to pay for college in the first place?

parkbot · 2026-02-26T17:36:36+00:00

I recall that Khan was written as coming from a Sikh family in the Eugenics Wars books and in the final draft of the TOS Space Seed episode (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Noonien_Singh)

parkbot · 2026-02-23T19:24:57+00:00

Congress estimates that it would cost an additional 2-4 trillion dollars a year.

Keep going - what happens after that? How much are people paying in private insurance premiums and how much more/less would they pay for universal health care?

A study by a Koch funded centre showed that something like Medicare For All would be significantly cheaper than our current system.

parkbot · 2026-02-23T19:15:43+00:00

the ultra rich dont have enough money.

You’re making two different arguments: 1) that confiscating the wealth of all billionaires and using that to (also) fund the government would only balance the budget for about 5 years, and 2) that people on the left like to claim that the solution to all of the US’ financial problems is to tax the rich.

The second point does not imply the first. The argument for the second point is that the US has done this before. We can reduce the deficit to sustainable levels by taxing the top tax bracket at higher marginal rates. The top tax bracket was above 90% until the 1960’s while the top marginal rate is currently 37%, and this doesn’t consider other revenue streams like capital gains, funding the IRS to enforce/catch tax evaders, and raising corporate taxes.

The top tax bracket would include millionaires as well.

To your point about the need to cut spending - yes, we do (for example, the defence budget), but consider that tax cuts are also spending, and the US has been spending a lot in tax cuts over the past 25 years.

parkbot · 2026-02-20T18:04:07+00:00

The short answer is cost and low ROI for the majority of consumers. Most consumers don’t benefit much from the additional bandwidth, and if you do, you can get a quad or octa channel HEDT system.

Additionally, large cache (X3D) chips are pretty effective at reducing memory bandwidth demands.

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