rkangel

Norway has done a great job with what they've been given, but remember that they've had the national equivalent of being born into a rich family - they have had enormous wealth from natural resources in the form of North Sea oil.

Are you also building the bare PCBs? The video and words only talk about board assembly.

99% of prototype boards I've done involve a fine pitch BGA for which via-in-pad is fairly required. This is for prototypes of the product hardware, and doesn't include boards for test hardware etc which is more flexible.

>> with CNC and robots we can achieve far superior results for a fraction of the cost.

> This is only true for mass production, where the set-up costs are spread across thousands of units. For small batches, the cost of automation often exceeds the cost of the batch itself. CNC machines are not magic; they require qualified and competent staff.

This isn't right.

CNC machines aren't magic and they do require skilled people to design for them and operate them.

BUT: they are an enormous advance on capability compared to 30 years ago and are absolutely not limited to mass production. 3D CNC milling is how most prototyping of metal parts is done and can be done to extraordinary precision, repeatably. It was always a low volume technology - it was Apple that started applying it in volume as part of mass manufacture.

The problem is that it ISN'T a fee for services as it should be. Their platform power means that they can levy a tax, and they don't feel the need to do anything on exchange for that.

I (as someone British and from an Army family) read that as - "You know you screwed up right? Please reassure me you know that and won't do anything like it again". Followed by an admission that we all screw up sometimes (implied by the stories).

GPDR fines in the EU are NOT trivial.

These companies have displayed zero respect for everyone's intellectual property getting these models trained.

I think not giving them your complete trust is reasonable! I'm not saying zero trust, and ZDR is fine for most things but I understand the people who don't want to stream their whole codebase out token by token.

It is absolutely not worth buying hardware to run models for purely (long term) cost reasons. For open weights models the economies of scale means the cloud beats local significantly and your payback time is like 10 years.

However there are other reasons (e.g. privacy) that might make it worth running locally for some people.

The performance of the recent open weight models is making it harder for the bug players to justify their pricing.

It's the domestic policy version of "commoditise your complement".

Yeah, and Stripe is "just" a payments platform.

Openrouter is easy, reliable and performant (like Stripe).

Yes this is how jj does it, except that jj is more powerful because it does automatic rebase of all the downstream commits.

If you have any descendants of the gir history split (i.e. it's not the most recent) you'll have to do some more work (a rebase) to get back to a useful history. I think you can do this in the middle of an interactive rebase which is ok, but still not as easy.