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@kenshirriff "thumbs up" is not the first thing I thought of upon seeing this

@kenshirriff Anything you want to add @jnl ?

@kenshirriff JNL — Jump if Not Less

@kenshirriff Thumbs up or goatsce?

@kenshirriff At a different scale and from a different era I etched my initials onto the distortion pedal circuit I built in high school in the early 1970s 😀 #germanium #fuzz #chipart

@kenshirriff Love that. Almost as much as I love that RealTek's never upgraded their original ugly PCB-style crab thing logo.

I imagine they have a budget sheet they approve every year, and it's got this line item:

Refresh corporate logo......0元

@kenshirriff 800nm min feature size. That would be the dots on the fingernails.

@kenshirriff You're sure those are not quantum transistors?

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You: “Hey neat, a thumbs up in an IC design.”

Literally everyone else: “Butthole guy in an IC design.”

@kenshirriff was this inside a computer?

@kenshirriff The Stanford MIPS project (precursor to MIPS Computer Systems) had a VLSI layout that included artwork of the cartoon Road Runner with a trailing cloud of dust. I remember Arturo Salz telling me that the artwork caused the design rule checker to fail, so he had to toggle random pixels until it passed! I believe this chip layout is on page 26 of this TR, but the image is too lossy to see the cartoon. 😞 http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/84/259/CSL-TR-84-259.pdf

@kenshirriff the silicon equivalent of “Kilroy was here”

@kenshirriff I hate the Internet so much for making me think that was something horrible at first glance

@kenshirriff https://faydoc.tripod.com/cpu/jnl.htm

@kenshirriff IC what they did there.