464: Please Make This Monster Look Scary

11/16/23 • 59 min

Chris and Elecia talk about their favorite processors, their breakfast preferences, large language model ethics, presents, and Eeyore's birthday.

Elecia’s new edition of her book Making Embedded Systems is finished! (Except for a couple months of tech reviews, updating, copyediting, and drawings.) It will be out in March.

All of the back issues of Byte Magazine

Chris’ radio kit that he mentioned but didn’t name is the QRP Labs QCX+ 5W CW Transceiver.

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Chris and Elecia talk about their favorite processors, their breakfast preferences, large language model ethics, presents, and Eeyore's birthday.

Elecia’s new edition of her book Making Embedded Systems is finished! (Except for a couple months of tech reviews, updating, copyediting, and drawings.) It will be out in March.

All of the back issues of Byte Magazine

Chris’ radio kit that he mentioned but didn’t name is the QRP Labs QCX+ 5W CW Transceiver.

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