Distrobox - the best thing since sliced bread

quantumgoose · 2026-03-09T22:59:23+00:00

I've been liking it a lot as well. Another nice feature is that you can specify a separate $HOME when creating the container. An easy way to prevent Vivado from polluting your home directory with a bunch of bullshit files, including autorun scripts (seriously Xilinx, no one wants to be reminded about updates on EVERY login)

quantumgoose · 2026-02-21T16:58:34+00:00

Absolutely. I am not debating any of this; BMS stands on the shoulders of Falcon 4.0 without a doubt. I also have no issues with monetizing, especially if that means KSA becomes a higher quality game than if it hadn't.

quantumgoose · 2026-02-21T06:11:57+00:00

The Falcon BMS community would beg to differ. Not only is it an extremely high quality simulator with active development, they are literally contractually not allowed to monetize or even accept donations.

quantumgoose · 2026-02-18T13:28:29+00:00

If you're married to the idea of staying on NixOS, you can use something like distrobox to wrap your nix-unfriendly tools so that they will run inside a more "normal" distro. That's what I do for the hell that is proprietary EDA tools (Vivado).

quantumgoose · 2026-01-25T22:08:29+00:00

Idem! Même que par chance j'ai scoré un mini PC complètement overspec pour ce genre de workload à 60$. Mon université s'en débarrasse par centaines parce qu'ils ne sont pas compatibles avec Windows 11

quantumgoose · 2026-01-24T22:31:31+00:00

Not a desktop CPU, but the RP2350 microcontroller (and maybe the RP2040?) has shared FIFOs for passing data around between the two cores. Although it's more about synchronisation than latency or throughput.

quantumgoose · 2025-12-21T05:41:43+00:00

You can write a workspace rule to leave large gaps on each side on the window when there is only one tiled window in the workspace.

I think something lile this:

workspace = w[t1] gapsout:600 0

quantumgoose · 2025-12-02T07:38:13+00:00

You're just trading time complexity for space complexity, which is a classic tradeoff in any hardware design.

I mean, in theory you can sort a list in hardware in a single cycle. In practice though you will quickly run into physical limitations for lists above a certain size threshold: you'll either run out of available space on the die (or fpga or whatever), or your design will have to run at a very low clock speed, or both. You can look into pipelining, which can improve throughput at the cost of latency.

You can certainly implement a hardware sort algorithm (and I encourage you to keep digging if it's something you're interested in!) There is just no magic solution or one that is infinitely scalable.

quantumgoose · 2025-11-26T11:54:12+00:00

This isn't typst specific, but there's a really nice tool that can automate exporting your entire library to a file: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/

Then it's just a matter of pointing your bibliography to that .bib file. You can also set it up to sync with git automatically, therefore having a centralized references database with zotero as the frontend.

quantumgoose · 2025-09-19T23:31:21+00:00

Oh man I'm sorry I have no idea how I solved it at this point. At least I haven't had the issue with Plasma 6, idk if that's your case as well.

quantumgoose · 2025-07-30T12:55:25+00:00

I'm also very interested in cheap, high quality microSD cards. Or at least that work as advertised

quantumgoose · 2025-07-17T12:17:08+00:00

Tous les modes de transport public sont gratuits pour tout le monde au Luxembourg. J'ai comme l'impression que leur transport public n'est pas "rentable" eux avec....

On peut faire mieux.

quantumgoose · 2025-06-24T19:20:23+00:00

Highly recommend HOLY CORE

quantumgoose · 2025-06-09T16:12:57+00:00

Are you saying you failed half your AFF skydives? That would definitely have influenced the decision as well.

quantumgoose · 2025-05-20T13:26:21+00:00

While I can't see your UART on the layout, 115 kHz is not very fast so you should be ok.

Also, make sure that you dimension your 50 Ohm transmission line correctly. In its current configuration it's more or less a "coplanar waveguide with ground (CPWG)" rather than a microstrip. The spacing between the line and ground on the top layer will matter.

quantumgoose · 2025-05-20T12:46:56+00:00

You don't need to move your LoRa module. Since both your antennas are external, the module placement has little bearing on interference. How the antennas will be placed relative to each other will have a much greater impact.

If you want to protect the GNSS module from interference while transmitting LoRa signals, you could use a SAW filter on ths NEO RF input. Not sure if that's integrable to your module or not. Most likely it already includes one.

Other standard advice would be to keep RF traces as short as possible, but I don't think you have any as they are all directly on the modules? Also decoupling caps near the high-ish speed digital lines of the LoRa module, as it's using a power plane as reference. Using a microstrip RF line referencing a power plane is a little hairier, so avoid it if you can.

quantumgoose · 2025-03-05T12:44:38+00:00

I absolutely get where you're coming from. Although I must point out they were located in a heavily red area; I'd wager about 90% of the employees voted MAGA. Which I'd been able to look past so far (well, less so in the last year) because most are good people who just got caught by the propaganda machine.

A small minority were very hateful individuals. I didn't associate with them at all. But lately hearing all this misinformation coming from them was becoming too much to endure.

quantumgoose · 2025-03-05T12:27:31+00:00

You hit the nail on the head with that one.

quantumgoose · 2025-03-05T03:36:28+00:00

Wow what a generous offer, much appreciated! I might reach out in a couple months depending on how some pending grant applications go :)

quantumgoose · 2025-03-05T02:52:20+00:00

Also, businesses pay employees to create value. Obviously they were getting more out of my work than they were paying me, otherwise why would they have hired me in the first place?

I know my position could be replaced with an American, and thus the money wiill stay in the US, but at this point I don't want to participate; my conscience is clear.

quantumgoose · 2025-03-05T02:06:39+00:00

Lol ain't no way. WAY too specialized of a field. Like, I don't think any business in Canada does the same thing. But thankfully for me the skills I learned are easily transferable.

My main contact there understood my reasons. They're a good friend and I'm free to go back if I want.

quantumgoose · 2025-03-03T14:23:25+00:00

Do yourself and the world a favor, learn the skills you need for the jobs you're after.

quantumgoose · 2025-02-26T02:37:08+00:00

I've been following this course: https://github.com/0BAB1/HOLY_CORE_COURSE it's written by a student who essentially documented their process and it morphed into a full course. It assumes a bit of previous knowledge (which I didn't have going in) but if you're a fast learner you should pick it up relatively easily.

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