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New comment by pythonguython in "FPGAs Need a New Future"

pythonguython — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:15:26 +0000

Anything RF

New comment by pythonguython in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

pythonguython — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:46:16 +0000

A website called energy-storage dot news should not be mixing up energy and power

New comment by pythonguython in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

pythonguython — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:10:21 +0000

I’m not familiar with any HF comms channels other than military or broadcasting that get 20 kHz of bandwidth. Most HF modes get 3 kHz. You might be able to get 5 kbps at 3 kHz BW with some modern modes that can adapt to the frequency selective non stationary channel.

New comment by pythonguython in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

pythonguython — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:42:09 +0000

He’s giving advice about generic protocols - you could learn about them and make your own decision. The tools he mentioned are open source - you could read the source code or trust in the community. I don’t know what other guarantee you could hope to get. If he told you he’s an anti digital censorship expert he could just be lying to you. Anyone COULD be an agent, but at a certain point you have to choose to trust people, at some potential risk to yourself.

New comment by pythonguython in "TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process"

pythonguython — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:45:59 +0000

Spacex rocketry tech is subject to ITAR regulations. That restricts who they’re allowed to contract with, data encryption and handling, but altogether those regulations are quite bare. It likely wouldn’t be enough to stop a state actor or rogue employees.

New comment by pythonguython in "Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform"

pythonguython — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:43:33 +0000

Come be a DSP engineer. I take FFTs of IQ data almost every single day

New comment by pythonguython in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

pythonguython — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:41:15 +0000

Do you mind sharing what industry you’re in where you can fully rely on FOSS? In my industry we’re dependent on MATLAB, Xilinx tools, closed source embedded software and more. To name a few industries: game devs might be stuck with unity, finance quant devs might be stuck with Bloomberg terminals, iOS app devs are stuck with apple’s tooling etc… this isn’t just an LLM problem IMO.

New comment by pythonguython in "It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)"

pythonguython — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:11:53 +0000

If a contract requires RJ45 terminated Ethernet patch cables and the contractor delivers keyed RJ45, they have not delivered because RJ45 doesn’t even have the correct conductor layout to act as an Ethernet cable. Contracts call for RJ45 all the time and there are no mixups. You’d probably find it quite difficult to even find vendors for keyed RJ45

New comment by pythonguython in "It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)"

pythonguython — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:02:27 +0000

Well you definitely SHOULD say RJ45. We do a lot of networking at my job and if I asked for an 8P8C connector, I would get confused stares. Say Ethernet cable, Cat 6 cable (or whatever cat), or RJ45. Sometimes being correct isn’t the right thing to do.

New comment by pythonguython in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

pythonguython — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:44:46 +0000

They can make advanced chips in Arizona, but the bleeding edge is in Taiwan. Arizona can make TSMC’s 4nm process, but in Taiwan they’re doing 3nm and ramping up 2nm.

New comment by pythonguython in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

pythonguython — Sun, 04 May 2025 14:02:44 +0000

I imagine many people in 1970 were incredulous that we’d have transistors with 20 nm pitch width.

New comment by pythonguython in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

pythonguython — Sat, 03 May 2025 20:42:55 +0000

I agree, and I think most people would say the current models would rank low on creativity metrics however we define them. But to the main point, I don’t see how the quality we call creativity is unique to biological computing machines vs electronic computing machines. Maybe one day we’ll conclusively declare creativity to be a human trait only, but in 2025 that is not a closed question - however it is measured.

New comment by pythonguython in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

pythonguython — Sat, 03 May 2025 18:54:37 +0000

To the extent it’s measurable, LLMs are becoming more creative as the models improve. I think it’s a bold statement to say they’ll NEVER be creative. Once again, we’ll have to see. Creativity very well could be emergent from training on large datasets. But also it might not be. I recommend not speaking in such absolutes about a technology that is improving every day.

New comment by pythonguython in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

pythonguython — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:43:58 +0000

AI can’t do our jobs today, but we’re only 2.5 years from the release of chatGPT. The performance of these models might plateau today, but we simply don’t know. If they continue to improve at the current rate for 3-5 more years, it’s hard for me to see how human input would be useful at all in engineering.

New comment by pythonguython in "Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer"

pythonguython — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 02:13:51 +0000

We’re talking about spending a couple of hours learning the basics of negotiation for a likely 10-20% increase in salary/equity. That’s certainly not making the difference in solving the world’s problems.

If you’re speaking more broadly than just salary negotiation - I’d just say that humans aren’t perfect machines. We care about solving problems but we also have desire for money, power, status and following random rules.

New comment by pythonguython in "Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage"

pythonguython — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:22:07 +0000

The title sounds whimsical, but animals cause a significant amount of outages. Around 5-10% are caused by animals. When I interned at a power company I saw them install “squirrel guard” insulating equipment terminals

New comment by pythonguython in "U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report"

pythonguython — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:20:48 +0000

This is a classic security dilemma that is not easily resolvable. Suppose we just look at the US and China. Each side will discover some number of vulnerabilities. Some of those vulnerabilities will be discovered by both countries, some just by one party. If the US discloses every vulnerability, we’re left with no offensive capability and our adversary will have all of the vulnerabilities not mutually discovered. Everyone disclosing and patching vulnerabilities sounds nice, but is an unrealistic scenario in a world with states that have competing strategic interests.

New comment by pythonguython in "Show HN: Hold yourself accountable for gym visits with a $10 stake"

pythonguython — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:11:43 +0000

If the money went to a bad cause instead of a good cause, the incentive to go to the gym would be higher

New comment by pythonguython in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

pythonguython — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:42:29 +0000

I can’t relate to that. When I see a banner ad I find it obtrusive whether it’s from Bank of America or my favorite HAM radio company. If I’m in the market for a product I value hearing the testimonials of people in my life rather than an advertisement.

New comment by pythonguython in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

pythonguython — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:20:35 +0000

It sounded anecdotal because I shared an anecdote. I don’t have a research study on the topic. Still anecdotally, I’d say the same thing about my 3 internships, so I’ll say n = 4. Happy to hear your anecdotal experience or non anecdotal data.