frankplow · HackerTrans

This post treats being an expert as an unambiguously good thing. Richard Hamming's essay Experts has a bit more of a nuanced take on the topic. He talks how paradigm shifts in fields often come from outsiders, while at the same time acknowledging how increasing complexity neccessitates specialisation. I suppose Hamming's essay focuses on scientific and social gain, whereas this post focuses on personal gain.

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FFmpeg has had multithreading for codecs for years. What's been added is multithreading in the transcode pipeline of the command line application. See https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#cli_threading and https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2423-mult... for details.

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Yeah it’s certainly possible, it’s just personally I found it tedious.

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KiCad is by far the best. It is not as powerful as commercial tools: a lot of its high frequency design tools are simple calculators, and so a lot of manual work is required where you would simply set constraints in other packages. It has a neat design rule scripting language which you can use to ensure your requirements are met though. I’ve done a couple boards with frequencies up to the UHF band and don’t think I’d want to go any higher in KiCad. That being said, for simple boards it’s plenty powerful.

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