I'm actually dealing with exactly this problem on an old project right now :-(

Bad memory from a couple years ago. Debugging a machine under development at a customer site, which was luckily only a few blocks from the office, since I was there a lot, I would get random resets, hangs, and loss of debug information from the SWD probe. Swapping boards, debug probes, nothing we could think of fixed it and it was so random it was hard to track down.

Long story short, after it happened on one occasion when the project EE was also debugging something and he touched one of my probes, we found that there was conformal coat residue on some of the debug pins and the probes would occasionally vibrate onto an insulated section, causing loss of signal.

No idea why the board house put it on a prototype, but we probably lost a few dozen hours due to that one problem.

Anything to save a few bucks on a 6264 SRAM component :-)

This is a non-starter for the US.

And minimum speed on US interstates is typically 40mph, so that reduces its usability even more.

A similar argument was made in the early 90's/late 80's for using Fuzzy Logic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic) instead of classical control algorithms, including PID.

I'm sure many here will remember the late Bob Pease of National Semiconductor writing articles[1] against this, mainly due to the inability of the designer to predict the behavior of the system. Believe it or not, being able to logically reason about how an algorithm that's controlling tens of thousands of $$$ of product in process is actually important.

[1] https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded/digit...

When I was in nautical school, I was taught to always be aware of sea state regardless of where I was/what I was doing so I'd get in the habit of always knowing what the sea was doing.

Now I live on a farm. We are always very aware of the weather and instinctively comparing what we see around us to what the forecasts say.

When I lived in a city, I was barely aware of even if it was supposed to rain later or not. Going from your climate-controlled house to your climate-controlled car, to your climate-controlled job, you simply don't notice those things except superficially.

But then it occurred to me that if we're using AI more and more to generate code, does it really matter what language is used? If an agent is writing most of my code from prompts, I just need to understand the language well enough to verify that the reviewing agent is doing a good enough job and maybe tweak it a bit when I have to. If we can trust the AI to avoid the common problems, then what difference does the language make?

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For us lovers of Old Iron :-)

Every so often I see a yellow Piper Cub flying by just above window height (we live on top of a hill with no obstructions nearby) and I've wondered if it was flying out of a nearby airfield that I had never seen but saw signs for.

It turns out that airfield is now closed, but as I was browsing, I came across a photo of a yellow Cub at another nearby airfield. Wrong angle to see reg. numbers but I wonder if it's the same one?