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I don't have a horse in this argument but catching up doesn't imply the one in the lead has stagnated
made me irate. It was very clear! Read the issues and be accountable for fixing them?
The author is making the argument about minimizing reflections across a medium. The trumpet, and AR coating land. The other points are more tortured. The transformer example in particular invites nitpicking.
The abstraction of impedance matching should be to "tune things to make them more efficient in their usability".
Their examples don't sit with impedance matching to me. They're all conversions or filters. The first thing was either not usable or they purely chopped off a part, not pointed it in the right direction.
In fact, the examples more or less all sit in a group in which impedance matching does not belong
Edit: the car transmission I'll give since there's a power vs speed decision that needs to be coupled
I'm all for finding the joy in things, but the author starts with the comparison and then uses the ability to find creativity with it being a requisite part of the job.
Surely the person with more pertage of trdious work has a more tedious and less creative job.
Imagine if someone made this argument about dollars per hour, and the exec said they work overtime often so the valet has no right to complain about pay since they can look harder for tips.
Nothing meaningful was said for 9 words.
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that the words appearing here could be anything
Good points should be rewarded confidence. I read so many not X it's Y where the distinction beteeen X and Y isn't relevant to the discussion!
Like with an LLM I would rewind the conversation. What do I do, shame them?
I can only assume the only realistic way to get all the federated data will be a ton of massivr vertical consolidation of industry by hubris laden tech execs crossing industry domains.