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How often are you actually doing this though? I think I probably work in something greenfield about once a decade. The hard part is always going down a rabbit hole in established c…

I saw a Matic, seemed impressive, but I have very few points to compare with personally.

Why does anyone innovate? When I sell something I don't care if the dollars come from the end user or the subsidy, I just want more of them.

Every category I can think of where China is near-first there is some international manufacturer that has a better product. Several areas where there are much higher volumes or out…

Mostly it costs hundreds of millions to develop a chip; it relies on volume to recover the cost. NVIDIA also tailor their chips to customers. It's a more scalable platform than the…

The big lidars are for ground truth collection. They get used in projects ranging from autonomous development all the way down to budget adaptive cruise control or parking sensor b…

NVIDIA orin series is the big one for tensor horsepower. Horizon robotics and Qualcomm also have competitive automotive packages. They are all expensive, but less than the risk adj…

Tesla fsd is far from complete enough to be a data point; people who pay the 10k are gambling that when fsd is improved the cost will be much higher.

I don't think the throughput of a general purpose device will make a competitive offering; so being local is a joke. All the fun stuff is running on servers at the moment. From the…

It depends; it feels like in some categories the premium between a material that's very suitable, and some ersatz lookalike is massive and depressing. I love a good petrochemical, …

Labour centric protectionism.

I've at least found that the wifi+Bluetooth chips seem to be significantly more robust than the standalone bt ones.

Huh, I had no idea that cables would have their shield grounded at both ends... Single point ground is such a standard in electrical design that the guidance is generally "do other…

It's a case of high trust, high skill structures not being maintained while trying to introduce outsourcing and minimum viable skill lower cost employees. The idea of owning your o…

Before the AI stuff it seemed people assumed everything would get smaller and more portable continuously. Not consumer computing, but desktop computers would disappear.

Most of the small high speed drones are that size to fit under professional licencing requirements, often so that one racing spec can be viable across a wider area. Leading to sign…

Ai interfaces are going the same way the public internet has; initially it's audience was a subset of educated westerners, now it's the general public. "Most people" have trash tas…

You cannot make a fair system by introducing subjective ideas like historical balance. A set of rules for fairness require that current decisions only account for individual merit;…

It's the anonymity and odd changes in who is moderating that makes it feel different. Standard setup to me would be consistently opinionated person, or team with some central direc…

It's the idea that if they leave more players idling in a lobby, but period, or animation, that it costs them less. It's a deceptive way to sell people less game.

I have spent a fair amount of time in very large companies (single projects involving thousands of devs). You end up producing a whole lot of management training (and managers) in …

This way of working really requires a small company, (and is one of the reasons I think small places have a chance of outsized impact). But at bigger places, either a manager is be…

You hire discount engineers when you want to move to a maintenance and value extraction stage, something widespread in the industry at the moment due to changes is startup incentiv…

How does the cost breakdown of all these new datacenters, cooling, and power delivery systems compare to the cost of the GPUs themselves? There is a surprising amount of real long-…

The economic benefits are really not clear; at least not without caveats and clear conditions for the advanced skills that make a migrant beneficial. This is if you believe that lo…