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From who?

> Most white box appliance makers use zephyr

Most? Like who? Looking at Zephyr's member page it's just chip vendors

Zephyr is a baby project. From the embedded devs I know they have only started seriously considering Zephyr in the last 2-3 years for commercial projects.

And you may call it inertia sure, but in the mid 2000's everyone was doing their own hardware abstraction. You had to get books and stuff because documentation sucked. MCU vendors seemingly made a point of making especially stuff like ADCs and timers very hard to abstract away between vendors.

Back then you had a choice of GCC/IAR/KEIL/CCS/Codwarrior and probably more. Each worse and less standards-compliant than the next, except for GCC/avr-gcc as was the key enabler of Arduino

All that text to say: The situation was different, and Arduino showed that there's a wider unmet demand for custom embedded stuff and that people will sacrifice a bit of performance for something that's easy to develop

As someone else said in the previous thread when it was announced: it's about the software first. Qualcomm likely doesn't get this and likely never will

Writing traditional MCU software without an RTOS always sucked for a multitude of reasons. Vendor lockin, expensive specialty compilers, and so on

Arduino showed that it could be done differently with some not too expensive abstractions. Sure it is looked down on by traditional embedded engineers but the productivity gains and accessibility was hard to argue against

ESP didn't (only) grow huge because the hardware was cheap and available. The integration in the Arduino ecosystem was done brilliantly. It truly felt like a natural citizen in between usual Arduino code

Just tell whatever EU country to discard their ID card system?..

Denmark has no ID card for example. It might be the only one in the EU but it's not a problem. Noone is expected to to produce a proof of person on the spot to police here

Ukraine is holding because it's still being dripfed weapons and money by the remaining partners it has. If it dries up they will be steamrolled. Probably not immediately but it will become bad for them very quickly

One way it could dry up is to distract NATO or eu countries with a defense treaty, by something that feels like a real war but not serious enough. Enough that those countries finally say "Oh shit, no more weapons for UKR now we really need to bolster our own flank"

Then Ukraine falls and their 1 mil. of well experienced soldiers get force-conscripted into Putins army and Europe has a problem

Hmm interesting. That is true about the labelling of jumpers, I couldn't even find any images with other naming schemes

For IDE you are mixing up 2 separate concepts. The addressing primary/secondary is purely addressing, I don't recall seeing "Master/Slave" in relation to that. Labeling on HDDs I've seen always used primary/secondary

Where the master terminology comes in is that a certain version of ATA added bus mastering DMA from the drive. Maybe some harddisks had a jumper to disable or enable that

A minimum wage only guarantees that all citizens can race towards a collective bottom determined by some easily bribable elites.

Companies do not have to do a conscious effort to determine the lowest amount they can go. "Everyone else pays that rate too"

The concept of a "Minimum wage" in itself is anti-worker. The state is not a workers friend. The union is.

I think America will persevere. Men will just have to take over typically women dominated careers such as child-bearing

Interesting numbers, especially compared to the OECD ones

The next big question is "Are they actually moving?"

Agreed with your last point. I'll disagree with everything else (except for the part about Proton, not really up to date on their operations)

RISC-V cemented their own deathsentence when they brought seasoned MIPS software developers into their fold early on.

The calling convention was botched, just like it had been for 10s of different MIPS ones And it was hyperoptimized before there was existing silicon, just like the SysV AMD64 calling convention was fucked up by Suse developers before there was existing silicon

> "I will never give up customer data" is a very tough promise to keep

If you don't have a spine, sure

That's what US companies are seen as from a European perspective: Spineless and untrustable

It's a great sales argument for locally grown software though, so I'm not complaining :)

> Lol I realize this is tongue in cheek but Denmark has no ability to administer or protect anything that far away

Does the US? They don't seem to have a great track record of that

I mean do you even remember Pearl Harbor?

/S :^)

> Frozen wasteland or not, they should do something to enforce laws against cruelty to animals.

There are animal welfare laws, as well as a special unit responsible for specifically sleddogs. People are told to call snitch lines if they see animal cruelty

What is animal cruelty? The sleddogs talked about in the post were dead, you don't know how they died. In the wild or on trips sled drivers will often kill sleddogs themselves if they notice one slowing the pack down. It's a different world

Or is it just the part about throwing them off a cliff you don't like?

Maybe they forgot to bribe the right people? Did they offer something of gold to the president?

Hmm I didn't hear about this. Would mandating daily ketamine use for my cofounders improve our chances for success?

I believe most LLM's should at least be able to produce the same level of paranoid, *-pilled populist nonsense as in this investor letter. But it's just coming up with the ideas that's hard

Yes. Russia has been threatening invasions for years. Now for 7 months America has started doing it too.

It's a much worse feeling being threatened with military invasion by someone your own government tries to continue insisting is a close ally

Went down so hard that their status report page (https://www.nets.eu/dk-da/Pages/driftstatus.aspx) took 2 minutes to load a blank page. Later it started reporting an azure 504 after minutes

"Don't know why, but now it works. Problem solved"

Absolutely embarrassing. They need to be nationalised..

I can confirm that ChatGPT is laughably bad at Verilog

So they are warning that they might have to move if Europe don't help them do what? And move to where?

Probably they are rather suggesting that there are a lot of unscrupulous western companies with a lot to lose who might have an interest in convincing certain people to skip responsible disclosure

Hmm of course erasure codes would always need to solve these problems. Not sure what modern applications need that in the X86 world

I really think it's only AES since thats the only place I've seen that polynomial used. But of course maybe there's an obscure tape backup FEC algo used somewhere in datacenters?

Important subject, but impossible to read on a phone due to animated ads for every second paragraph

It has a fixed polynomial, so not really that useful for anything but AES

The only case where I've had use of GF(2^8) inverses is in FEC algorithms (Forney's algorithm) and then you need some kind of weird polynomial. But all of those needs are rarely in the hot-path, and the FEC algo's are way outdated

Fun historical incident, but the "Spanish Flu" was traced back to Fort Riley Kansas. I think some people highlight a specific pig farm even. Now, the CDC do not list any infections of H1N5 in Kansas yet, but... Worth looking out for in anticipation maybe?

Is there any reason why Kansas would be different than other states in particular?