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Not to negate your core points but almost all the HW engineers I've worked with who are experienced absolutely consider sourcing and availability in the decision making process. It…

No idea what you mean by "well built OS" when Android has so many corner cases and weird "hard coded work arounds" and crazy development process that its behavior is often unpredic…

I think you are in the minority of people that feel Android is a well built "OS". Maybe from an end-user point of view it "does what you want" but its underlying architecture I thi…

Except Motorola shipped an Android phone with an x86 CPU -- RAZR i (2GHz Atom) in 2012.

I think IF they had hired embedded software engineers with 40 years of experience, those people would have delivered a UI that meets or exceeds all UI needs (even if it didn't look…

Hi kens, Thanks so much for the information. I am familair with the voting logic (I've worked on systems that implemented the same thing, odd-number of processor cores and the majo…

Sadly, I think Craig might have done MORE for society by simply improving Craig's List and removing/reducing the amount of spam and junk posts it allows. I can't claim the changes …

Feel exactly the same way. All of the public money spent on going to the moon is really just a way to funnel $$ to a few sub-contractors the actual science value of going BACK to t…

1000% agree. Sadly, this view is considered antiquated and anti-technology by a younger generation of people who think what we see in sci-fi shows should be reality (good or bad). …

I used Sailfish OS and so did several of my family members for many years. The "vanilla" Linux OS aspect (besides using rpm) makes it trivial to set up things like dnsmasq-adblocki…

Frankly, the "need" for custom silicon seems self-imposed, with the idea of appearing to be a technology company first rather than a car / vehicle company. Cruise automation was al…

This.

Wow, super hard disagree, comment here sounds like the typical arrogance hardware engineers face from people in software who've never really done the job or have some superficial e…

If you look at modern FPGAs they have prodigous amounts of on-chip memories (BRAMs and URAM in Xilinx speak). You can buy Xilinx FPGAs on PCIe cards that could easily handle THOUSA…

If you're open to technical feedback your last comment, I've worked on these kinds of systems, have architected and built things even far "weirder" and these products have shipped …

Author: Thanks for taking the time to reply. I read the write-up with a LOT of interest, this is really amazing work, there's not a lot of good options for auto-routing with open-s…

I understand why someone might this this is a pay issue, but it's goes beyond that. Culturually, doing something "well"(quality oriented, mindful of end-users) vs. "got it done" (t…

Hi DannyW, I think it's super cool that you work at Canva and are taking the time to interact with your customer base. Maybe this isn't the right venue (I didn't see an e-mail addr…

This is really great work, but can you comment on whether or not any Google-based "safebrowsing", etc is still enabled in the code base? Have you thought about merging your efforts…

As a happy user of many KDE based programs (konsole, kate, dolphin, etc) it's great to see another KDE piece evangelized. But can someone state conclusively if Bluetooth-base conne…

Are you saying that Plasma Mobile runs on any device that is supported by libhybris? I was asking about Plasma Mobile ( https://plasma-mobile.org/get/ ) that the parent mentioned s…

The Sailfish guys are actually the creators of libhybris. If you run SailfishOS you have to first have Android flashed onto the phone. They use the same kernel, camera drivers, GPU…

I am not saying the gestures in Android and iOS (app switching, etc) are actually the value add, but in fact things like toggles for options, or a "=" where the options are availab…

Do you use Plasma on a phone or tablet? If phone, can you say which hardware platform and how "well" it works as an actual phone, making calls, texting, etc?

I've used it for several years and the feedback from a user point of view is not positive. My sample size includes me and several members of my family who used Sony Xperia devices …