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It's 24" 4k display with perfect 2x scaling. Good luck finding something similar. 24" != 24" HiDPI perfect 2x scaling.

This makes no sense. First, it’s ugly as hell. Second it looks just as labor intensive as a bent wood chair, which would be significantly nicer, more durable, and not break down into micro plastics.

I work in design services, basically build products for other people. I've worked with dozens of companies on dozens of products. Why don't we just create our own products? We certainly have the ability to make products.

Because building the product is the easy part. Most products and businesses fail because they build the wrong thing, have the wrong requirements, have poor market fit, etc.

LLMs can write code all day, they don't have the agency to know what to build.

I always prefer an Irish goodbye.

Interrupt driven super loops are very common on bare metal systems.

Companies haven't been well run in decades, if ever, especially American ones. I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business. I do design services now, and have worked with dozens of companies through that, and the pattern continues.

We don't have leaders, or people that can make hard decisions, or think for themselves. They all follow the same book of the day business trends. If you do think outside the box you aren't a team player and are rocking the boat.

Writing code was never the job. It was a small part of the job that can now be delegated to AI.

Eliciting the right requirements and user needs. Creating a sound architecture and design. Validating final product meets the requirements. Ensuring there is good test coverage. You know `Engineering`. Mechanical and Electrical engineers didn't go away because of CAD.

While that's true, the open / local models are getting good enough. Given time and the technology trend people may prefer a private local model for most use cases. Nobody is arguing that a Ferrari isn't a faster car, but the Honda is the more practical choice.

> 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 losing 40%-60% range.

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 combustion. Gasoline sitting in a sealed container wont spontaneously combust.

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 ratio and a spark.

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 use the patent system to prevent progress because the innovation would cut into their profits.

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, instead of building an advertising engine that has made us more lonely, more isolated, and more divided.

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 to work there. My answer is: "You called me, why should I want to work here."

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.