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New comment by typewithrhythm in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

typewithrhythm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:14:47 +0000

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 time, but not really even one hairy issue a year.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

typewithrhythm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:35:43 +0000

I saw a Matic, seemed impressive, but I have very few points to compare with personally.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

typewithrhythm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:52:01 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

typewithrhythm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:47:01 +0000

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, construction assemblys (like double glazed window units), consumer electronics like quadcopters.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

typewithrhythm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:15:48 +0000

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 iterate fairly quickly.

So far anyway, being on a specialised architecture is a disadvantage; it's much easier to use the advances that come from research and competitors. Unless you really think that you are ahead of the completion, and can sell some fairly inflexible solution for a while.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:47:12 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:42:16 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:36:14 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

typewithrhythm — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:47:58 +0000

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 that the existing apple ecosystem is not a meaningful advantage.

Best case Apple is among the fast copies of whoever is actually innovative, but I don't see anything interesting coming from apple or apple devs anytime soon.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "The past was not that cute"

typewithrhythm — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:50:12 +0000

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 wasn't so callously targeting veneers and pleathers that last just long enough to loose the receipt.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "How America's "truck-driver shortage""

typewithrhythm — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:02:44 +0000

Labour centric protectionism.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:39:32 +0000

I've at least found that the wifi+Bluetooth chips seem to be significantly more robust than the standalone bt ones.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:36:55 +0000

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 prototypes to nail RFI issues".

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

typewithrhythm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:51:37 +0000

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 understand quality, and want to implement it. Independent almost adversarial QA is required when you can't trust the devs.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

typewithrhythm — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:45:02 +0000

Before the AI stuff it seemed people assumed everything would get smaller and more portable continuously.

Not consumer computing, but desktop computers would disappear.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

typewithrhythm — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:03:05 +0000

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.

Rather than some inherent sized for safety idea.

Jamming might be interesting, I suspect that it's easy enough (and a much bigger crime) to follow a very loud jamming signal though.

Every practical metric a drone surpasses a helicopter; they are so much simpler to operate that you can easily offset any perceived downside with more drones. And you don't get a tested solution without trying it out.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:41:19 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

typewithrhythm — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:39:25 +0000

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.

New comment by typewithrhythm in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

typewithrhythm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:32:17 +0000

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).

New comment by typewithrhythm in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

typewithrhythm — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:27:47 +0000

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.