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A chip8 interpreter was a project that a lot of interviewers liked on my resume a few years back, obviously this is a few (read: many) levels above that. Good work.
I’ve use an P51 for about a year now with no issues. I initially bought 6bay DAS, but I’ve since moved to pure SSD storage inside the laptop.
Re:Stealing Debug Pretty Print from Vitis HLS on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:38PM (#45445859)
The author’s FPGA Placer post is also an interesting read
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:56PM (#44706138)
I’m working on a pretty simple rss-to-email service. Currently a few friends are beta testing it but anyone is free to check it out and give feedback: https://anomail.co/
Re:The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer on Monday April 07, 2025 @12:24PM (#43613185)
This was a fun read.

We’ll keep raising the amount of knowledge needed to be employed until it’s no longer sustainable. This is just the nature of capitalism: extracting as much value from someone’s salary as possible.

Re:The average college student today on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:05AM (#43534600)
As a student who graduates this year, I notice that something like 90% of students seem to rely on LLMs.

I’ve seen some students toss in 5+ files of code into GPT just to prompt it over and over again, hoping it produces a desirable output. When it fails too many times they open a new chat and try again. I’ve heard conversations about the best way to prompt the AI to do our assignments for us.

My supervisor once told me that if you want maximize your career earnings, only a masters is worth it. Of course he said this in regards to engineering, but I found it interesting at the time.