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Your takeaway from that was that the Green Hills CEO is a crackpot? Tesla's attitude toward automotive engineering and safety would be a funny joke if fucking t
by seabird 3y ago
Your takeaway from that was that the Green Hills CEO is a crackpot? Tesla's attitude toward automotive engineering and safety would be a funny joke if fucking these things up didn't get people killed. Tesla may be rigorous by Silicon Valley junkware standards, but they would be laughed out of the room in the places where Green Hills operates.
- jtwaleson 3y agoNo he came across as one. Look at his website and tell me you don’t think the way he presents himself is weird: https://danodowd.com/ https://danodowd.com/ I’ve met engineers with a similar attitude and they were the worst people to work with. But then again, his accomplishments are incredible. So: I’m confused.
- mighmi 3y agoDon't be confused. He just needs a better copywriter. Realize that in aerospace etc. this is possible where 9-12 9s of reliability are the common minimum accepted. Communicating this to a field which strives towards 5 9s and is used to charlatans is difficult, and he isn't succeeding. His chosen expressions sound bombastic and conversation ("can't be hacked") compared to the technical equivalents, but developers and engineers outside of this subfield wouldn't fully understand them. > I can make any program run much faster, often 4x does sound baffling but when backed up by his laurels, we can charitably imagine what he really means - and it's not so difficult either. From the bottom of the barrel, using slightly better algos in python to rewriting it in rust, we can all do this. His company presumably goes further with Ada, formal methods and exotic tooling to get extra performance out of microcontrolers.