I found that programming concepts map really well to digital electronics. The objects in your object oriented language are real objects with their own internal physical state. A large fraction of what embedded engineers do is just APIs and protocols.
Controversial opinion but you do not need to learn electronics to have a good time. One can have plenty of fun simply writing software and plugging prebuilt modules together on a breadboard. Ohm and Maxwell need not apply.
We need to keep the physical dimensions and material properties of the quarter, but why not change the face value? Demote them to 20 cents, or even better, make them 50 cents because the real half dollar coin is obnoxiously huge and impractical.
What of the economic impact of doubling the value of all quarters? Eh, it'll probably be fine. We'll just write it off as an AI datacenter loan somehow
The issue is not the technology or the absolute brightness of a bulb.
The problem is that replacement bulbs have a different beam pattern and the headlight mount needs to be adjusted. That's it.
In the vast majority of cases, car headlights are blinding simply because they're aimed too high. On most(all?) vehichles there is an adjustment mechanism under the hood. Problem is it takes special tools and procedures that nobody knows or cares about.
As a sibling commenter said, we've managed to survive for the better part of a century with toggleable high beams. This isn't a complicated problem.
>In the vast majority of cases, car headlights are blinding simply because they're aimed too high.
No, it's almost always true that the light output is far, far too bright. Adjusting headlight aim is good and should be done, but it does not solve the problem, and notably is not effective in road conditions other than smooth (bumps cause lights to go up and down), flat (inclines cause the harmful light level to change), and dry (water or ice on the ground cause reflective glare).
Just last week I hacked my Echo Show to install a custom OS and hook it into HomeAssistant.
Even gave it a custom wake word, she's Janet now.
HA is pretty clunky and there's a lot of manual setup. But I have a voice assistant contained entirely within my local infrastructure. I'm even planning to wire it up to my local ollama server for actual AI inference behind it.
So far it's exactly as crappy as Alexa, but only because I haven't waded deep enough into configuration. I'm okay with tools being crap when it's my fault instead of the tool being crap because it doesn't make Amazon enough money.
The fundamental assumption is completely wrong. Code is not a cheap commodity. It is in fact so disastrously expensive that the entire US economy is about to implode while we're unbolting jet engines from old planes to fire up in the parking lots of datacenters for electricity.
It is massively cheaper than an overseas engineer. A cheap engineer can pump out maybe 1000 lines of low quality code in an hour. So like 10k tokens per hour for $50. So best case scenario $5/1000 tokens.
LLMS are charging like $5 per million of tokens. And even if it is subsidized 100x it is still cheaper an order of magnitude than an overseas engineer.
Not to mention speed. An LLM will spit out 1000 lines in seconds, not hours.
I trust my offshore engineers way more than the slop I get from the "AI"s. My team makes my life a lot easier, because I know they know what they are doing. The LLMs, not so much.
Now that entirely depends on app. A lot of software industry is popping out and maintaining relatively simple apps with small differences and customizations per client.
Everyone commenting about the strict definition is a very smart boy. Good job and gold stars all around for the productive conversation! You're solving the real problems of our times here.
Controversial opinion but you do not need to learn electronics to have a good time. One can have plenty of fun simply writing software and plugging prebuilt modules together on a breadboard. Ohm and Maxwell need not apply.
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