SnAgCu [he/him, any]

sometimes bunny-vibe but mostly sicko-wistful

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Cake day: September 8th, 2020

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  • Thanks for the insight. Damn, it’s a real weight to work on some shit you just don’t care for. That is brutal, sorry. For me, instead of having a job I don’t like, I’m just unemployed. Naturally some part of me wishes I just had anything.

    The programming I do is mostly lower level. Microcontrollers and some FPGA stuff. As it happens I got pretty familiar with Eclipse 🙃. I used it first when working with AVR microcontrollers, and the MSP430 and STM32 platforms both have their own IDEs based on Eclipse (CCS and STM32Cube). Vendor provided embedded IDEs and minimalism do not go together.






  • If you had a bad feeling about it before you even started there then there’s a 99% chance that you were going to hate it if you took the job.

    That’s exactly what I was feeling. There’s a chance I wouldn’t hate it because I never had a job exactly like it, but I can’t even look forward to it. (I’m obfuscating details here) I have experience in both hardware and software/firmware domains, but my interest is mostly on the hardware side and this job is almost pure software. I can do it, but sicko-wistful





  • Trump is speaking mandarin and Harris is speaking cantonese.

    TRUMP: Maybe I should just reflect, and not speak more. I’ve been abandoned, do I deserve that? If I really was a bad shepherd, can I try again? Can I hold you again?

    HARRIS: When I look back, walking with you, I’ve never been happy.

    TRUMP: Too much hate, it’s no use. To bring up the past only torments us.

    HARRIS: Looking ahead, if I’m with you, I don’t think there will be much happiness either.

    TRUMP: I hurt you, and caused you pain.













  • too much ranting about cooler testing

    man CPU cooler reviews. I’m usually interested in two things:

    1. how is the performance of this cooler relative to others?
    2. how could I expect this cooler to perform on my system?

    I’ve read a lot of cooler test reports and at least in the older ones, I remember so often they could present useful comparative data but not absolute data. For instance, straight up not measuring the CPU power draw so that unless you have this exact CPU it wouldn’t tell you much about how the cooler would perform on your system.

    I mean look at this - how much power is “Idle”? and “load”? STOP TELLING ME WHAT THE VOLTAGE AND CLOCKSPEED IS I DON’T CARE. HOW MUCH POWER IS IT

    I remember I would have to dig up other reviews of the CPU where they report the power draw at different clock speeds so I could guess at how much power was being dissipated in the cooler tests.

    This review kind of has the same issue, though it tries to do better. I do appreciate the attempt at doing a standardized constant power testing, but the results are unrealistically low for core temps. The Hyper 212 absolutely does not hold 32.8C over ambient at 200W of real CPU heat dissipation (at least, unless the ambient temperature is like 50C. what is ambient? I don’t think they specified). This doesn’t seem like a good approximation of any modern CPU and is still only useful for a comparative test. Or maybe this is more of a Tcase estimate, which is much less useful than Tdie.