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Yes, I know. This view is how these problems are always perceived, decade after decade, as our predecessors filled rooms with iron and silicon, unable to fathom that the equivalent…

"seems like baking models into silicon is speed-running obsolescence" Now maybe. When models are flying passenger aircraft, other prerogatives will assert themselves. When a 50TB R…

Common lawn tractors integrate a mower deck. They're heavy duty riding mowers, but the terms are ambiguous. Large, commercial units can tow mower decks, but most lawn tractors used…

Assuming the enclosure isn't armored (I wouldn't know...) a ladder and a power drill with a long bit would make very short work of these.

We people vary frequency with weather. Lawn tractors are heavy and, due to moisture, ground isn't always hard. On large properties some of the ground stays moist longer due to drai…

"but it's a good thing that folks are still willing to fight for it" This is at least as likely to be theft as much as civic action. There are far easier ways one might permanently…

"It’s oddly difficult to do nothing" This isn't always true. It's likely true only when there is no pressure. However, when there is pressure, one can "do nothing" for long periods…

> Would a cooling pond with controlled discharge... There are any number of methods of dealing with this. Using natural bodies of water is a lower cost (thus highly popular) method…

> These are probes. Judging responses and response times. Some, yes. Many are merely defective units. These weapons are being manufactured in enormous quantity and deployed rapidly…

> if the title is conflating The title is certainly a great conflation. Any seeker of capital would want to regroup after an unfiltered leak of this magnitude, if for no other reas…

All I can say for certain is that 10 years from now there will great OpenGL-to-VulcanMetalWhatever translators, at least as good as the ones already built-in to several graphics st…

Intel is doing well. They have 18A yields up to 85% at Fab 52. That's huge for the foundry business: the best foundries are not all in Asia now. Rumor is they're moving Nova Lake p…

Yes, the timelines are highly uncertain, but the AI boom and AI money are reinvigorating the entire fabrication ecosystem from top to bottom and causing innovation where there had …

> Meaning that in a couple of years you may There is no "may" here. You will see this. It's always difficult to see it from the present, but we're not at some end stage in hardware…

I don't want a mechanic. I want something basic enough I can fix it. REO marketing clearly reflects this. We'll have to wait and see if the actual product hits the mark.

This is correct. There are a number of excellent asymmetric multicore MCU platforms now. You don't have to choose between efficiency and performance today.

Betteridge enters the chat. GoPro's market is changing: strong competitors now make solid, low cost alternatives. GoPro is moving deep into professional markets where margins are h…

C++ is certainly a leader among the least feasible, but it's far from alone.

> Surely the RPM depends on the throttle? Partly. Another factor in the equation is load.

Oh dear. I got called a "cave man" for suggesting such a thing. Good luck with that. Running a VM is just a qemu-system-whatever command. They usually get pretty lengthy, but it's …

Indeed. We use similar gauges to judge each other, with no better precision.

> I am an engineering manager. Strange. A good engineering manager would see that "way too big" PoE daughter board design as exactly what one would want in a reference design that …

> This thing has no practical purpose. This is wrong. OpenWRT is fostering several manufacturers that are using OpenWRT as the factory platform for their products. This is a refere…

"Process node," in the sense of logic, RAM or Flash density, isn't relevant here. These are power devices. Silicon Carbide FETS and whatnot; bulk current switching and related devi…