I remember one intern who didn't stopped fucking up one day long, a shitload of components burned. It really wasn't his day.

or even Analog Devices

I'd love to work at AD

What's up with that ?

they're such a proficient and comfy corporation that doesn't give a fuck about shareholders

How did he burn stuff

Overvolted the board?

I have no idea, I just saw a load of burned components.

That sucks but that's why you have plenty of spares, unless that was some expensive on-off prototype

>hardware for fun

[CHOKING NOISES IN THE DISTANCE]

One-off prototyping is bad tho

Some things can only be done in hardware though

Yeah, he got a lot of spares anyway, but he didn't liked to break many things.

They're getting to be a thin crowd but they exist heh

@Tendril maybe Ishould stick to software then

>stick to

Doing something to pay your bills doesn't necessitate doing it for fun.

yeah, but i'm still at uni doing CompEng

I could go either way in my area

Yeah no legit; when kids ask me if they should get into hardware I generally tell them to get good with software instead. Save the hardware stuff for building hobby drones or whatever.

Yeah, I agree.

I know more than one old man who has jumped the fence for greener pastures, myself included

It's a lot more fun as a hobby.

I think a programmer should know a little bit of hardware at least.

If you're a masochist you can write verilog for high frequency trading firms and make a shitton heh

You're still into hardware then, *kinda*

I took one class with FPGA design on VHDL

Or work in medical decices

I hated it

Devices

Verilog is a little better

Not that much

yeah, it was suppose to teach you the basics to design your own logic gates and make a mux

really bad teacher

that would kill it yea. Most people use fpgas for glue logic anyways, which makes sense I guess. Pair a big fast chip with a bunch of programmable logic

yeah, I used a spartan for another project almost drag and dropping example code

depends on what you intend

But yea what a world we live in where the most economically viable things are usb power banks, not even a radio

Pretty stale

Where is my cyberpunk distopia?