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dailykoder commented on Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS   popovicu.com/posts/bare-m... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
eqvinox · 4 months ago
My sweet summer child… this is backwards compatibility to the I/O register set of NatSemi/Intel's 8250 UART chip…

…from 1978.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8250_UART

The definitions are correct, look up an 16550 datasheet if you want to lose some sanity :)

dailykoder · 4 months ago
Oh damn, thanks!
dailykoder commented on Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS   popovicu.com/posts/bare-m... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
dailykoder · 4 months ago

  // QEMU UART registers - these addresses are for QEMU's 16550A UART
  #define UART_BASE 0x10000000
  #define UART_THR  (*(volatile char *)(UART_BASE + 0x00)) // Transmit Holding Register
  #define UART_RBR  (*(volatile char *)(UART_BASE + 0x00)) // Receive Buffer Register
  #define UART_LSR  (*(volatile char *)(UART_BASE + 0x05)) // Line Status Register
This looks odd. Why are receive and transmit buffer the same and why would you use such a weird offset? Iirc RISC-V allows that, but my gut says I'd still align this to the word size.

dailykoder commented on SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces   serenityos.org/... · Posted by u/doener
dailykoder · 4 months ago
The UI in terms of space and usability looks great. Two "modern" things I don't want to miss: Good font rendering and a fast application launcher (mod -> type a few characters -> enter). What I dislike the most on modern UI, and maybe absolutely hate, are all those super slow animations. Just gimme the damn thing, I don't need those animations. (Yes I know on most plattforms I can disable them, but this often takes quite a few steps)
dailykoder commented on Googler... ex-Googler   nerdy.dev/ex-googler... · Posted by u/namukang
dailykoder · 5 months ago
> Just like that.

These statements always catch me a bit off-guard. Is there no such thing as a cancelation period in the US? When my employer wants to kick me out, he needs a good reason for that and I'd still be paid for 3 months. Which is often even longer, depending on how long you belong to a company.

Edit: I'm in germany

dailykoder commented on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro   missile-command-game.cent... · Posted by u/vbtechguy
dailykoder · 5 months ago
I started playing with vim, but neovim is another level. It's my goto for coding over vim. I don't expect them to put more effort into anything, because it just works as a editor/IDE.
dailykoder commented on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?    · Posted by u/davidkuennen
mips_avatar · 5 months ago
Yeah but it kind of kneecaps the model. They need tokens to "think". It's better to have them create a long response then distill it down later.
dailykoder · 5 months ago
You need tokens to create more revenue for the company that is running the LLM. Nothing more, nothing less
dailykoder commented on An FPGA-based LGP-30 Replica   e-basteln.de/computing/lg... · Posted by u/ofrzeta
dailykoder · 5 months ago
Cute project!

> Xilinx tech support page and a forum post explaining how to get the Xilinx ISE to run under Windows 8 or Windows 10. Unfortunately Xilinx no longer maintains this development suite, but has also considered it unnecessary to support their Spartan 6 platform in the successor software suite, Vivado…

Wasn't the Spartan 6 also supported by the open source toolchains? I just did a couple seconds of search and I could only find the yosys support, but no nextpnr. Sad. Xilinx/AMD should open that up

dailykoder commented on The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job   businessinsider.com/softw... · Posted by u/wallflower
dan-robertson · 5 months ago
It’s pretty normal for programmers to make over $100k in plenty of companies in much of the US. Big tech companies may pay a reasonable amount more when you consider equity, especially in high cost of living areas.

Programmer salaries have diverged a lot between the United States and Europe in the last 30 years. (This comes up basically every time remuneration is discussed on this forum). Hardware engineer pay has not seen such rises in the United States or Europe though I don’t know how much FPGA work ends up in the hardware bucket rather than the software one.

Some financial firms will pay well by American standards in Europe and also make use of FPGAs, though I don’t know how many you’d find in Germany.

Programmers are also well paid in Switzerland.

Maybe one thing to add: ‘bad humor’ is a bit hard to parse in English – it sounds like a cross between ‘bad humored’ which roughly means ‘unpleasant to be around’ and ‘bad sense of humor’, which is what I think you intend.

dailykoder · 5 months ago
Yeah sure, I know that a lot of people make 6 figures. The comparison to switzerland is not that great though, giving the cost of living. There is not much difference of me getting a 100k CHF in switzerland or 60k€ in germany
dailykoder commented on The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job   businessinsider.com/softw... · Posted by u/wallflower
zupa-hu · 5 months ago
Maybe you should repost here to reach a more qualified audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547609
dailykoder · 5 months ago
Yes, I'm preparing my portfolio right now. Got a bit more time
dailykoder commented on The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job   businessinsider.com/softw... · Posted by u/wallflower
dailykoder · 5 months ago
6 figures? I only take jobs with free fruit basket. That's the minimum.

PS, my references: I have never used cursor, I am quite bad at vibe coding and don't enjoy it at all. I rarely even use AI for help. But I am quite decent at FPGA design and embedded developemnt. If you have a job for me in germany or remote in europe, then I will pay you with very bad humor every week. Possibility of using linux+neovim is a requirement though. (Yes, I really need a job)

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