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Most of my development experience is in C/C++ and Python.

Know what I'd do if the interviewer asked me to debug PHP? Pretty much return the question:

"I've never used PHP. Are there logging macros/functions defined somewhere? Where do I see the output? syslog maybe? Is there a debugger of some sort I can use? How do I run each `piece` of code in isolation?"

(I am assuming the job listing did not explicitly mention PHP experience. If it did, both myself and the recruiter would absolutely deserve to fail me for this interview).


I realize FM radio is strictly an example, but would you not rely on bandpass sampling? Where you sample at some multiple of your bandwidth and rely on the spectral replication effect to get your waveform.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling (funny enough, this article explicitly calls out the FM radio use case).


You need a very stable clock for that, which was also called out as a thing. With some PLLs you could lower the needed frequency. I think you're really looking for a small FPGA though.

Tech employment had hockey stick growth from 2016-2021 and I suspect the number of HN users followed that curve. My guess is that the ratio of comments/users is the same or perhaps even slightly lower than 2016.


Since promoting a secure economic future is clearly not in the Democratic party game plan, maybe trick the Republicans into starting a war and then campaign on stopping it?

I am not sure what could hit at the self-interest of the 18-29M demographic other than the Selective Service.


> breathing low-grade gas fumes for years

I have been doing most of my cooking on a gas hob for 5 years now. Could you share more detail on this point?

I feel the need to be scared today (it is Halloween after all).



> any EMF above 60Hz.

Isn't that effectively all the EMF? You may be missing a prefix.

Edit: huh, turns out these frequencies do have some applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_low_frequency


Anything above 0Hz radiates. EMF is short for 'electromagnetic field' which even DC produces, so I guess I could have worded it better.

In any case, I would want to detect the emissions from the CPU, memory bus and SD card traffic. Not all cameras are WiFi. Sure, that won't detect passive listening devices or other advanced techniques, but most people now are worried about video and that will have certain characteristic emissions.

Edit: Something like CamRadar, presented here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569505


I replaced my own bottom bracket!

Ok well, first I destroyed the threads on the cranks meant to interface with the bottom bracket tool. Thus requiring a shop visit. And the shop, after consulting with the frame manufacturer, cut the destroyed cranks off with an angle grinder (and posted a video to their Facebook page - you don't usually see that many sparks in a bike shop).

But hey, I now have a nice, let-the-pros-do-this-job souvenir (the wrecked cranks). And my bracket/bearings are creak-free and spinning quite nicely three years later.


As a self-confessed "former punk", do you really deserve to make that assessment?


On holiday in Whistler back in 2019, I had a brief conversation with an Englishman in the hotel elevator.

A few days later, he recognizes me outside the hotel but I am noticeably slow to recognize back and he mentions "we chatted on the lift". I fake remembering while desperately searching my memory for the event of riding the chairlift with this English guy.

An hour later I remember that in the UK, "lift" == "elevator". Me, being North American and having spent plenty of time in ski towns, always associates "lift" with "chairlift".


Hah! But if you say “on holiday,” I would have expected you to know “lift.”

(or is there a region in the US where this is common? Everyone I know would say “on vacation,” but the US is very regional.)


Yeah, but in a ski town I could see making the same mistake.


in warehouse/trucking situations, lift is pretty common in the US


I have always taken both Taiwanese and TSMC culture to be fairly reserved. So if you see language like "podcasting bro" slipping out, it really means something like "fcking bullsht con artist".


Taiwanese culture has also never understood software which is why they are stuck in the lower margin business of hardware.

AMD and NVidia are important now because someone else struck gold on their property. Within 5 years they won't be because both are fucking up monumentally for different reasons: AMD for being AMD [0] and NVidia for expecting 10x markup to continue indefinitely.

People hate success but LLM swarms are the next wave of improving output and they consume compute on par with training for inference.

[0] https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1839219312952766942


>Taiwanese culture has also never understood software which is why they are stuck in the lower margin business of hardware.

What would have been the alternative for them? Excluding the US, software is not a high margin business.


Taiwanese culture to be fairly reserved

That's what you see. When you're out of earshot we refer to you by several infantilizing expressions that connote npcness.


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