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> "Is it because he's working in a hardware division?" Likely? Certainly from all appearances from the outside there are many legitimate bones to pick about Me
by potatolicious 4y ago
> "Is it because he's working in a hardware division?"
Likely? Certainly from all appearances from the outside there are many legitimate bones to pick about Meta's organizational sclerosis, but part of this is structural to the product itself.
"I can fix the image quality issues with X relatively easily, I know exactly what needs to be done"
elicits (rightfully!)
"We operate on an intensely compute-constrained device where every cycle matters. Over-consumption of compute causes battery life to degrade significantly and the device to become uncomfortably warm to wear. How much compute will this solution cost?"
Then you have to balance the additional compute with drawing down compute somewhere else. Maybe the tracking camera algorithms can be optimized to consume less compute, which opens room for additional usage elsewhere, but now you've introduced a blocking dependency to delivering this enhancement.
Even in a well-functioning organization this prevent shipping as fast as a startup. Part of why startups ship fast isn't just organizational, it's because the products are simpler with fewer technical constraints.
Hardware (particularly embedded hardware - which Meta Quests are not precisely, but are pretty close) presents intense levels of constraints that most people who write code on servers (or even PCs) don't often appreciate.
- tormeh 4y agoMeta Quest 2 has 6GB of DDR4 RAM. It has a 64bit CPU. I'd say it has more in common with a server than with an embedded device.
- __anon-2023__ 4y ago> 6GB of DDR4 RAM. It has a 64bit CPU More like a phone from 2020. The Samsung Galaxy S20 base model has 8GB of RAM (the S20FE has 6GB)