typewithrhythm

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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 code bases. I can do the boilerplate in a few days. It saves
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
I saw a Matic, seemed impressive, but I have very few points to compare with personally.
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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.
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 outstandingly better value though. Things like automotive lidar
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 their marketing hints at... Not to mention that they also
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 benchmarking.
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 adjusted cost of developing a chip.
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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.
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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 there, AI integration is enough of a different paradigm th
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
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, but sometimes it would be nice if the cheap thing store
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by typewithrhythm 9mo ago
Labour centric protectionism.
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
I've at least found that the wifi+Bluetooth chips seem to be significantly more robust than the standalone bt ones.
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
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 otherwise only if you have the ability to make many prototyp
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
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 own quality only works if you can trust the dev to under
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
Before the AI stuff it seemed people assumed everything would get smaller and more portable continuously. Not consumer computing, but desktop computers would disappear.
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
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 significant competition in that size pushing down prices. Rathe
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by typewithrhythm 10mo ago
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 taste.
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by typewithrhythm 11mo ago
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; not special status.
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by typewithrhythm 11mo ago
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 directive (and hopefully oversight).
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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.
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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 environment, just due to its size. You end up with not
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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 being judged on a team outcome -> where an individual not
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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 incentives and interest rates making entrenched players feel more sa
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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-term infrastructure being built beyond the quickly obsolete
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
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 lower wages for high skill work is not an issue. However high
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
It's so hard to study; one of the key things you loose in an environment where you bring in bulk migrants is a cultural expectation to interact with juniors that are part of your community. It's not just a supply and demand equati
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
It's really not that simple; the environment that allowed for the kind of appealing interactions blogs offered is much harder to come by. Early days had a barrier to entry that made the public who would read and engage much more enjoya
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
Because the idea of productivity per employee its relevant to look at capital spending as well. Otherwise people claim Microsoft is successful and hires well (with outsourcing or RTO or whatever), but in reality they are in a shift to a mor
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
How much of that is product engineering and how much is leasing access to capital during a GPU demand spike?
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by typewithrhythm 1y ago
More likely they have decided popularity is irrelevant since they are so entrenched, so may as well try to find the cheapest possible maintenance engineer to manage the value extraction.

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