Of all the bits of software from big tech companies that I use/encounter, there are very few that I would say are better now than they were a decade ago. If anything, I think most of them were better a decade ago than…
I don't think the last decade of tech (particularly SV) hiring can in any way be defined as "rationing". If anything, we have seen large software companies grossly over-hire for all of the expected dumb reasons (mostly…
The Zhoushan "Completion Center" is not an assembly line - it only handles interior fitment and exterior paint on aircraft that are otherwise fully assembled and have been flown from the production lines in Renton or…
> How many aircraft can the world need that it commonly tops the export chart of the wealthiest country? Airliners and military aircraft are expensive. Consider that nearly the entire aircraft production capacity of…
Because a truly massive portion of managers/leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. "System 1/system 2","agentic <buzzword>", etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it…
There is no mechanism. Finance and startup Bros want to dump their overvalued companies with deceitful accounting on public investors to make a quick profit and socialize the inevitable losses. SOX makes it harder for…
There's a range of DDS implementations, definitely a number that are compatible with embedded and spaceflight applications that don't require dynamic memory allocations. You're going to take a hit on some DDS features,…
Any of the integrated actuators on the market (e.g. Cubemars, zeroerr, myactuator, many more) do proper control and feedback.
In general implementing a weaker memory model (e.g. aarch64) on a stronger memory model (e.g. x86_64 or s390x) is fairly easy, while the reverse is more difficult (see Apple's processors which have a dedicated…
The "naive notion of system performance" is that the system is primarily operating in the ideal regime, and thus all deviations deserve alerts (and receive attention). The reality is that often the system is operating…
Either they believe their own hype and their reliability is a reflection of the real weaknesses of AI coding, or they're complete liars and doing far more traditional SWE than they claim. I think the former case is far…
To a first approximation, basically no one in the industry does. Users regularly report performance regressions in basically every major piece of software, most of which would have been caught by performance testing.
Indeed, regulation is the only way to protect passengers from market greed here, but the airplane makers play a critical role in what designs they make available to airlines. Airbus and Boeing both like to market their…
Not covered: the inevitable even-smaller lavatory to further insult the dignity of the flying public. At this point, the designers of narrow-body interiors should be actively shamed for how hostile they have made…
> Falklands war shows otherwise. Well, actually, the Argentinians had no trouble delivering high explosives to UK vessels, but they did have a great deal of trouble getting those explosives to sink those vessels ...…
If you look at larger multi-copters, 6 and 8 are quite common since they allow for some redundancy, allowing for safe landing and/or continued flight following the failure of one of the rotors. As other replies note, 4…
Yeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer to work with and easier to debug than…
Because these bodies want to maintain a moat for the products made by member companies. No more, no less. A great example of this is the GigE Vision/GenICam standards that are used by basically all machine vision…
> companies don't tend to be in the business of making highly advanced robots I think you've gotten hung up on the idea that making robots is the essential part of the problem. I'm not going to go as far as much of the…
> I don't need robotics experience, I need automaker experience. Their software is universally terrible. If you had any auto industry experience, you would know that the people responsible for the design and build of…
> Not that it has much to do with why automation fails to penetrate certain tasks. The reason why "long tail" tasks are often beyond automation is: piss poor ROI, calculated correctly. I actually don't think any of the…
Ford doesn't even make the top 5 - and however "low-tech" you think these companies are is the point, the overwhelming majority of new cars are being built by those "low-tech" automakers. The problem is not the limits…
> "Could be in principle" and "could be in practice, under technical and economical considerations in play" are two very, very different beasts. > Everyone in the industry learned that the hard way. The auto industry is…
> How long ago was your robotics experience? This is over the last decade at one of the largest automakers in the world. Naturally there is significant variation between individual lines and plants; some are newer and…
> Everything that could be done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor is already done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor. Hah! Hardly. I say this as someone whose…
Of all the bits of software from big tech companies that I use/encounter, there are very few that I would say are better now than they were a decade ago. If anything, I think most of them were better a decade ago than…
I don't think the last decade of tech (particularly SV) hiring can in any way be defined as "rationing". If anything, we have seen large software companies grossly over-hire for all of the expected dumb reasons (mostly…
The Zhoushan "Completion Center" is not an assembly line - it only handles interior fitment and exterior paint on aircraft that are otherwise fully assembled and have been flown from the production lines in Renton or…
> How many aircraft can the world need that it commonly tops the export chart of the wealthiest country? Airliners and military aircraft are expensive. Consider that nearly the entire aircraft production capacity of…
Because a truly massive portion of managers/leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. "System 1/system 2","agentic <buzzword>", etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it…
There is no mechanism. Finance and startup Bros want to dump their overvalued companies with deceitful accounting on public investors to make a quick profit and socialize the inevitable losses. SOX makes it harder for…
There's a range of DDS implementations, definitely a number that are compatible with embedded and spaceflight applications that don't require dynamic memory allocations. You're going to take a hit on some DDS features,…
Any of the integrated actuators on the market (e.g. Cubemars, zeroerr, myactuator, many more) do proper control and feedback.
In general implementing a weaker memory model (e.g. aarch64) on a stronger memory model (e.g. x86_64 or s390x) is fairly easy, while the reverse is more difficult (see Apple's processors which have a dedicated…
The "naive notion of system performance" is that the system is primarily operating in the ideal regime, and thus all deviations deserve alerts (and receive attention). The reality is that often the system is operating…
Either they believe their own hype and their reliability is a reflection of the real weaknesses of AI coding, or they're complete liars and doing far more traditional SWE than they claim. I think the former case is far…
To a first approximation, basically no one in the industry does. Users regularly report performance regressions in basically every major piece of software, most of which would have been caught by performance testing.
Indeed, regulation is the only way to protect passengers from market greed here, but the airplane makers play a critical role in what designs they make available to airlines. Airbus and Boeing both like to market their…
Not covered: the inevitable even-smaller lavatory to further insult the dignity of the flying public. At this point, the designers of narrow-body interiors should be actively shamed for how hostile they have made…
> Falklands war shows otherwise. Well, actually, the Argentinians had no trouble delivering high explosives to UK vessels, but they did have a great deal of trouble getting those explosives to sink those vessels ...…
If you look at larger multi-copters, 6 and 8 are quite common since they allow for some redundancy, allowing for safe landing and/or continued flight following the failure of one of the rotors. As other replies note, 4…
Yeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer to work with and easier to debug than…
Because these bodies want to maintain a moat for the products made by member companies. No more, no less. A great example of this is the GigE Vision/GenICam standards that are used by basically all machine vision…
> companies don't tend to be in the business of making highly advanced robots I think you've gotten hung up on the idea that making robots is the essential part of the problem. I'm not going to go as far as much of the…
> I don't need robotics experience, I need automaker experience. Their software is universally terrible. If you had any auto industry experience, you would know that the people responsible for the design and build of…
> Not that it has much to do with why automation fails to penetrate certain tasks. The reason why "long tail" tasks are often beyond automation is: piss poor ROI, calculated correctly. I actually don't think any of the…
Ford doesn't even make the top 5 - and however "low-tech" you think these companies are is the point, the overwhelming majority of new cars are being built by those "low-tech" automakers. The problem is not the limits…
> "Could be in principle" and "could be in practice, under technical and economical considerations in play" are two very, very different beasts. > Everyone in the industry learned that the hard way. The auto industry is…
> How long ago was your robotics experience? This is over the last decade at one of the largest automakers in the world. Naturally there is significant variation between individual lines and plants; some are newer and…
> Everything that could be done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor is already done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor. Hah! Hardly. I say this as someone whose…