The notch has just made menu bar space more scarce than it used to be.

Note that this particular problem has existed for well over a decade. It's atrocious, but let's not pretend it's anything new.

Last I heard it's a morally objectionable thing at this point rather than something that's having any practical impact.

(Which of course doesn't make it ok... I'm just a little less inclined to judge people that still use archive links when needed.)

Similarly to how titles that start with "how" usually have that word automatically removed.

Easy enough for wifi enabled ones: a UDP broadcast to discover other clocks on the network, then sync how you will.

For non-wifi-enabled clocks, perhaps something like a CH572 would do the trick: a $0.20 RISC-V microcontroller with BLE support that all the clocks in the same vicinity could use to talk to each other.

You could really mess with your neighbors if they had the same clocks and you were within range...

  Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What are you talking about? Did one or the other have a different title when you wrote your comment?

They're still the best way we know of going about the business of building a flying machine, for various reasons.

At risk of sounding glib: have you heard of distillation?

https://github.com/giladoved/webcam-heart-rate-monitor

https://medium.com/dev-genius/remote-heart-rate-detection-us...

The Reddit comments on that second one have examples of people doing it with low quality webcams: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/llnv93/remote_...

It's honestly amazing that this is doable.

When you get to a company that's that big, the roles are much more finely specialized.

I forget the title now, but we had someone who interfaced with our team and did the whole "talk to customers" thing. Her feedback was then incorporated into our day-to-day roadmap through a complex series of people that ended with our team's product manager.

So people at Google do indeed do this, they just aren't engineers, usually aren't product managers, frequently are several layers removed from engineers, and as a consequence usually have all the problems GP described.

I've related elsewhere[0] my story about how Google laid me and half my team off 2 weeks before we were set to receive a six-figure retention bonus following an acquisition.

In the original Q&A with corp dev just after the acquisition was announced, someone pointed out that the contract we were offered allowed for that sort of thing. Google's representative said something similar to the parent comment: "Don't worry, that's not something we actually do."

It was especially galling because, after a round of layoffs a year or two prior to the acquisition, that startup had issued retention bonuses to those of us who were left. Unlike Google's subsequent post-acquisition bonus, contracts for those bonuses explicitly stated they were payable even if we were subsequently laid off or fired, as long as we weren't fired for one of a few specific reasons like embezzlement or harassment or other serious workplace misconduct.

It was such a marked contrast and, like the parent comment, it told me all I needed to know about how Google really feels about its employees, and how very literally true the old saying of "you can't trust what you don't have in writing" is.

Big companies are soulless.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680191

The industry draws a distinction between CPLDs and FPGAs, and rightly so, but most "Arduino-level" hobbyists think "I want something I can program so that it acts like such-and-such a circuit, I know, I need an FPGA!" when what they probably want is what the professional world would call a CPLD - and the distinction in terminology between the two does more to confuse than to clarify.

I don't know how to fix this; it'd be lovely if the two followed convergent paths, with FPGAs gaining on-board storage and the line between them blurring. Or maybe we need a common term that encompasses both. ("Programmable logic device" is technically that, but no-one knows that.)

Anyway. CPLDs are neat.

Edit: just saw your edit, sounds like we're on the same page!

Feel free to drop me a line - my email is firstname@website, where both can be found on my GitHub profile (same username as HN).

And yes, the A64 is still available! https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C3036453.html

It turns out it's actually not as hard as you'd expect to whip together your own board with one of those + LPDDR4 RAM + eMMC storage + fixings, and get yourself something like what you're talking about for... I dunno, sub $50? Maybe even sub $20 depending on how much RAM you put on it and what other capabilities you give it.

I'm in the middle of designing just such a board right now. Totally recommend taking a stab at it if you have any EE chops at all (or want to learn!)