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by protastus 3y ago
VP and GM are not middle manager titles at Boeing.
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by protastus 3y ago
It makes sense. Engineers who get MBAs (or any second degree) usually do it early in their careers, so it's not like they have deep experiences to anchor them after they switch career path.
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by protastus 3y ago
You claimed it wasn't clear how Qualcomm could help. I pointed out how they could help. There's precedent too, with ARM supporting panfrost. QC is not a low level employee lacking agency over their job description. They're a
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by protastus 3y ago
There are so many ways they could help. For GPU, they could support freedreno (both the kernel and Mesa parts) instead of KGSL and the closed source Adreno libraries. A great start would be to make the user space Adreno GLES libraries talk
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by protastus 3y ago
100% agree with you. Qualcomm historically wrote awful OSS code that couldn't be upstreamed because it barely worked on a subset of their own SoCs, and broke basic function for everything else. Typically featuring incredibly invasive a
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by protastus 3y ago
I love ramen, it's one of my favorite foods. There seems to be a pattern of ramen shop owners/operators who are obsessed about every aspect of their product, work insane hours and refuse to relinquish control because nobody else c
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by protastus 3y ago
Tesla has the valuation of a tech company. Traditional automakers have the valuation of heavy industries. Traditional automaker execs want Big Tech valuations. So they've loaded up their products with tech, in areas they have no track
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by protastus 3y ago
I'm always happy to see views of human exceptionalism getting torn down. Animals show behaviors that are very close to human, often identical modulo anatomical differences. Animals lack a language that we can understand, and therefore
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by protastus 3y ago
I think most of us would love to preserve the rainforest, but lack the tools to do it. We are therefore working on parts of the problem that are still very real, very consequential, and that we can control. Solving climate change requires s
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by protastus 3y ago
> Theres no scenario I can think of where it actually makes sense to use 5000 units of energy to clean up the CO2 generated by the production of 100 units of energy This line of thinking comes from the fossil fuel industry. Nobody in cle
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by protastus 3y ago
Inspecting planes does require a lot of skill and knowledge. But one doesn't need deep expertise to detect loose bolts. My experience is that when quality breaks down, the effects are visible at multiple scales and multiple places. Who
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by protastus 3y ago
Solar is super cheap, making it a very effective complement to the matrix even though it's not enough by itself, for reasons you mentioned. Every kWh from solar is one kWh less from fossil fuels. It seems inevitable that electricity be
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by protastus 3y ago
I think my thesis is non-controversial and entirely obvious. So I suspect we diverge on definitions rather than have a factual disagreement. Tesla is big tech (today). SpaceX isn't only because it is niche, and hasn't gone publi
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by protastus 3y ago
Or maybe he's alive and well under a new identity.
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by protastus 3y ago
In the US, tech sucks all the oxygen out of the room (no pun intended). When so much top talent is locked up by big tech, who's left to design planes at Boeing, write software for GM, run for office?
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by protastus 3y ago
Yes, and allegedly the issue was root caused and fixed. The cost to investigate and recall has been sunk.
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by protastus 3y ago
Are they time travelers from the late 20th century? This attitude was very prevalent in the 1990's. There's no excuse for being ignorant about software in 2023 though.
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by protastus 3y ago
There's something missing from this narrative that GM is not disclosing. It's very rare for a manufacturer to pause sales of a product that works well, is well received and in demand. GM has hyped their EV strategy and the Bolt is
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by protastus 3y ago
More likely and easier scenario: instead of hijacking, brick the cars. Cars have become computers with a different form factor. I'm not confident that automakers can keep their SW/FW stack up to date and secure, given their comple
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by protastus 3y ago
Rudely stated yet true. I've used Firefox as my main browser for as long as it has existed (and Netscape before). It's very concerning to see it slip into irrelevance, putting more users every year under the control of big tech.
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by protastus 3y ago
Yup. The bar keeps going up. First everyone started driving SUVs and pickup trucks. Then the SUVs and trucks got bigger and heavier until they could barely fit in a parking spot or highway lane. So obviously the next step was to make a truc
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by protastus 3y ago
This is from Tesla, the U.S. company which has been shipping a half baked safety critical feature under the name Autopilot/Full Self Driving for years, with no government pushback. America is basically the wild west. Whether you'r
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by protastus 3y ago
Preserve your reputation without getting sued.
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by protastus 3y ago
> Does she see herself as more trustworthy? She can't even be bothered to give an excuse for the firing. I agree that outsiders can't weigh in on this topic without statements from the board. But as the (former) board member of
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by protastus 3y ago
Also: - Apollo simple with many redundancies, design for failure, culture of risk management (after Apollo 1) - Artemis very complex, many unknowns, unanswered questions, poor communication
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by protastus 3y ago
Does NASA and their contractors have any true believers in leadership positions? The complexity and safety concerns have been pointed out multiple times. I stopped paying attention because this program appears to be on bureaucratic autopilo
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by protastus 3y ago
If we're discussing garbage content from the NY Times, then their criticism of Robert Goddard tops the list for me https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/19/the-corre...
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by protastus 3y ago
Not only that, the State Department revoked his only citizenship and made him stateless. This is a huge deal and it's crazy this is possible (legally and bureaucratically) in the United States. The article makes it sound like an anonym
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by protastus 3y ago
It's a prototype at the edge of what state of the art battery technology allows. Kudos to Tesla for having the guts and endurance to try. This is relevant for Tesla and for the industry.
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by protastus 3y ago
Big companies are pathologically inefficient and bureaucratic. A big part of the reason people are paid multiples of six figures is to put up with an unhealthy amount of stressful bullshit.

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