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> The latest battery chemistries perform incredibly well in cold and hot climates. Depends on your definition of cold. California cold sure. Wisconsin cold you are looking at losin…

Seiko had a whole line microprocessors. I remember working with the S1C33 with a broken C compiler. We ended up using C macros and assembly. Never want to do that again.

No it can't. To combust it needs ~ 500F. If you left it out uncovered in the open and allowed the it to vaporize with a spark nearby, it might explode, but thats not spontaneous co…

Gasoline isn't that explosive. You can shoot up a gas tank and it will just burn. What you see on TV is movie magic. Gasoline vapor can explode, but you need the right air to fuel …

Its a huge issue in cold climates.

If your doing firmware you probably shouldn't be doing much memory allocation at runtime anyway to prevent memory fragmentation.

The RPi Compute Module is mush better with on board flash. Completely removes the SD Flash Achilles heel of the RPi.

Patents actually hurt innovation. Patents are the tools of lawfare and are used to limit competition, keep lawyers employed, not improve innovation. I've seen too many companies us…

It might be new cars. I could see new car buyers having an iphone bias vs android.

It doesn't help the truck size is usually inversely proportional to driver height.

Tech hiring has been broken for decades. AI just makes it so obvious how broken it is.

I use time as a filter. There is more good stuff to read than time to read it. I have no need for slop.

If you are going to put Linux on a Laptop you must make sure its supported. Lenovo sells laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. Its a breeze with the right hardware.

We have a gym at work. We can have half the team generate tokens and half the team use the tokens. Put up a leader board in the gym on tokens generated.

The efficient mode of transportation is a human on a bicycle.

Surprisingly, I managed to pay off a house early, retire early, and put kids through college, all without working for Meta. And I manged to build cool stuff that saves lives, inste…

There is more to life than money. I've turned down FANG roles my entire career, especially Meta. There is lot of work out there.

Our hiring dis-function is because there a lot of people that dislike conflict and firing someone.

Thats the thing I love about recruiters. I won't be looking for a job, and a recruiter calls me about one that sounds interesting. Come interview time someone will ask why I want t…

They are using the resource the most.

"Operating profit" is a weasel word phrase. It doesn't include capital expenditures, financing, stock compensation dilution, or long-term infrastructure commitments.

They should get rid of the gas tax and tax all vehicles by weight and miles driven.

Automating white color work in the next couple years will cause the greatest demand destruction humans have ever seen.

I work in design services and see clients already being cost sensitive to AI bills. They have wait lists, rationing, push to lower tier / cheaper models. This is all with subsidize…

The french perfected it.