vorgol

The last sentence should be first, to put things in context:

> We’re entering the post-Moore era, I’m busy designing chips (and maybe a fab) for this new world. I’d be happy to talk to investors.

We were told in uni in the early 2000s that post-Moore era was just few years from then.

But be sure to join a non-toxic community.

Exactly. I immediately thought of the grug brain dev when I read that.

It nearly got raw socket support back in the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381755

You might also find the open source mechanical Swiss watch movement interesting: https://openmovement.org/

There was also a good thread about paper storage the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142565

> Data entry sucks

These are the kindest words I've heard about data entry.

Visual cryptography is really cool. Shamir and Naor came up with an algorithm in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cryptography#Example

Basically hand out transparencies to n people, and they all have to overlap to see the picture. It's like magic when you're playing with them.

> because it's not my job

I've worked with people who uttered this phrase many times. You really should put this on your CV because it's an incredibly helpful indicator of character trait.

> Make it easy people will use it, make it difficult and they won't.

It doesn't have to be difficult. It just has to be not easy.