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It's 24" 4k display with perfect 2x scaling. Good luck finding something similar. 24" != 24" HiDPI perfect 2x scaling.

This makes no sense. First, it’s ugly as hell. Second it looks just as labor intensive as a bent wood chair, which would be significantly nicer, more durable, and not break down into micro plastics.

I work in design services, basically build products for other people. I've worked with dozens of companies on dozens of products. Why don't we just create our own products? We certainly have the ability to make products.

Because building the product is the easy part. Most products and businesses fail because they build the wrong thing, have the wrong requirements, have poor market fit, etc.

LLMs can write code all day, they don't have the agency to know what to build.

I always prefer an Irish goodbye.

Interrupt driven super loops are very common on bare metal systems.

Companies haven't been well run in decades, if ever, especially American ones. I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business. I do design services now, and have worked with dozens of companies through that, and the pattern continues.

We don't have leaders, or people that can make hard decisions, or think for themselves. They all follow the same book of the day business trends. If you do think outside the box you aren't a team player and are rocking the boat.

Writing code was never the job. It was a small part of the job that can now be delegated to AI.

Eliciting the right requirements and user needs. Creating a sound architecture and design. Validating final product meets the requirements. Ensuring there is good test coverage. You know `Engineering`. Mechanical and Electrical engineers didn't go away because of CAD.

While that's true, the open / local models are getting good enough. Given time and the technology trend people may prefer a private local model for most use cases. Nobody is arguing that a Ferrari isn't a faster car, but the Honda is the more practical choice.

> The latest battery chemistries perform incredibly well in cold and hot climates.

Depends on your definition of cold. California cold sure. Wisconsin cold you are looking at losing 40%-60% range.

Seiko had a whole line microprocessors. I remember working with the S1C33 with a broken C compiler. We ended up using C macros and assembly. Never want to do that again.

No it can't. To combust it needs ~ 500F. If you left it out uncovered in the open and allowed the it to vaporize with a spark nearby, it might explode, but thats not spontaneous combustion. Gasoline sitting in a sealed container wont spontaneously combust.

Gasoline isn't that explosive. You can shoot up a gas tank and it will just burn. What you see on TV is movie magic. Gasoline vapor can explode, but you need the right air to fuel ratio and a spark.

Its a huge issue in cold climates.

If your doing firmware you probably shouldn't be doing much memory allocation at runtime anyway to prevent memory fragmentation.

The RPi Compute Module is mush better with on board flash. Completely removes the SD Flash Achilles heel of the RPi.