lightedman

Literally 95% of 2D games on a PC were controlled via arrow keys. Not many allowed rebinding. Even in emulators, until later on.

You sure you're a gamer? I've been at it since about 1986.

I think Sam Altman is wasting space - as in he needs to get the hell off this planet.

I use my RAM how the hell I want and nobody else better damn well think about telling me otherwise.

"What makes software any more or less of a profession than working at your favorite burger joint in terms of industry wide criteria?"

Many states require you to pass a test and get a license/certification before working in fast food.

That is not a requirement in the SWE world.

The sheer lack of accreditation and standards-enforcing body is what makes sofware engineering a non-profession.

You don't accept industry standard formats and require source... that rules you right out of the aerospace company I work for. That's billions of dollars gone from your potential pool.

You spent 5 years developing this fab and somehow ignored regular industry standards the entire time? That does not instill confidence in your services, at least from my standpoint.

Needing to sign up for a quote? Who are you selling this data to?

"Not being familiar with this, I'm curious where the humans are still required in the process of doing a dozen or hundred of each board."

Some components have large amounts of mass and need to be manually placed because the PNP doesn't have the vertical space for pickup and movement to the pad or do not have feeders which can successfully hold onto the part.

And some times it's just faster to have the human place the part because they're faster than the machine due to physical limitations (like needing to move slowly so as to not drop the component or throw it at the end of travel.) Many board shops will have the PNP places the ICs/Caps/Resistors/diodes and then the placement of connectors (especially zierich) or inductors gets done manually. That is how it worked where I worked. This also provided an opportunity mid-process to do quality checks instead of just letting things go from the PNP straight into the oven.

"unless you wire up a debug-message callback via the optional KHR_debug extension which isn't available everywhere"

The beauty of OpenGL versus say Direct3D is that OpenGL is extensible and thus you can add that feature should you so choose.

"Most people cannot install the equipment themselves"

This is highly untrue, until you get to the task mounting on a roof. Barring that, making a solar array system is dead simple. Most anyone can turn a screwdriver or build a frame or connect very distinct connectors together (they just snap together for daisy-chaining solar panels) or insert a power plug into a NEMA receptacle (for balcony solar installs.)

It is the install on the roof itself which most people cannot do (because they lack roofing knowledge.) Every other thing is absolutely DIY by pretty much anyone with hands and eyes.

"Who cares what the person describes themselves as."

Because quite often, when done very vocally and publicly, it tends to be a lie or a cover for some other nefarious thing happening behind the scenes. See Donald Trump.

And that fact taints everything from the get-go.

" but I kind of wince everytime people are trying to say it's better than nuclear"

Solar is the superior form of nuclear energy. You're using a big ass nuclear fusion reactor in the center of our solar system to generate energy, and you harvest that energy by capturing its photonic output.

As far as storing the energy for peak demand/nighttime usage, we've got literally hundreds of methods to do it, from pure mechanical to electrochemical.

"Residential solar in the US is very expensive, $3-4/watt versus utility scale closer to $1/watt."

Yea, if you go to an installer instead of buying from the OEM and installing yourself. I likely made your panels at SunSpark (We made panels for everyone, Renogy, Juinko Solar, Samsung, etc.) They were sold for $80 at 330w - 4.125 watts per dollar, or a quarter per watt.

Solar isn't expensive - you are.

"But no such cheaper options exist"

Untrue, at Sunspark we sold to both individuals and companies. If you can install the stuff yourself, buying it direct from the manufacturer is ungodly cheap (~330w panels at $80 a piece when I worked there almost decade ago.)

Sure you can. Code is code. I took a machine without brush cleaning for transfer sheets and hand-tapped, mounted motors and controllers and brush assemblies, ran the connections into the PLC, install and connect the power relays, reflashed the PLC firmware with custom code, BAM it works.

As long as you have room in memory, you can add functionality.

"The PLC is fixed hardware, you can't simply patch that."

Oh yes you can patch it - that's how I got the 20 year old laminator working where I work. If the hardware is still good you can absolutely change firmware if you have the PLC control software (like RockWell ControlFlash) or know how to manipulate the ladder logic directly.

"Of course it can't do anything useful for the amount of power that it consumes"

Until about the top-end of the 3000 RTX series released, the GTX 1080 was still king of raster performance.

I'm playing modern games like Marvel Rivals at 1440p no problem. Risk of Rain 2 4k no problem. STALKER 2 1080p no problem. It even runs most of my VR games perfectly fine, with me only needing to switch to my RTX 5060 machine for Into the Radius 2.

Even today, it is a very capable card, despite the power draw.

This was a solved problem long ago - page/text the person responsible for that facility. If Fac. Man. is too lazy to properly-staff critical things, they deserve every pain they encounter.

All of this remote crap is meant to try to eliminate a physical presence on-site, which is stupid because when things eventually break, a physical presence is required on-site anyways.

One of my jobs in aerospace is systems reliability - an unstaffed system is not a reliable one.