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No one can innovate when they can’t understand. No one can understand when they can’t read the data sheets for chips they don’t use. Want people to build thing
by swiley 7y ago
No one can innovate when they can’t understand. No one can understand when they can’t read the data sheets for chips they don’t use.
Want people to build things with your crap? Don’t fight them when they try.
- adammunich 7y agoThis absolutely. The chip people always make custom protocols for /everything/.
- swiley 7y agoCustom protocols are not really the end of the world, it’s when they make a custom protocol and then use copyright to force you to do certain things in order to use it.
- adammunich 7y agoThey really do slow down development though, and flrxe you to hire specialists who can make sense of the often terse datasheets.
- selectodude 7y agoWouldn't a lot of the complexity be due to the fact that these are likely the most complex pieces of engineering on earth?
- makapuf 7y agoComplexity and nicely written datasheets /doc are tractable. Obfuscated docs and average complexity is cryptic.
- lowdose 7y agoAre you talking about NVIDIA and their Cuda stack or some another manufacturer?