Kinda happened to me when I left one company. I documented everything, but they couldn't find a replacement before I left so there was no in-person hand-over. Ended up doing a bit of consulting work to get them up an running again with things I was maintaining. Not malicious, they just didn't have anyone else with the right knowledge/skills to take over. I don't think they realized how much I was doing, how complex the systems were.

I'm not sure about his methodology though. His website doesn't say if he allowed the cards to rest between heavy write sessions, which implies that he didn't.

That's an issue because some cards will be using idle time to shuffle data around, do flash conditioning passes to increase its lifespan, that sort of thing.

Depending on your use case it might not be realistic to have constant read/write cycles. In a dashcam, for example, the data rate is likely to be low enough that the card has plenty of idle time. In a camera, it definitely will.

Take flight as an example. You have two choices, you can book via a comparison site/broker, or you can book directly with the airline.

Sometimes you get a small discount on the comparison sites/brokers, but it tends to not be much. In return you lose a lot of your rights. Your transaction is with the comparison site/broker, not the airline, so if things go wrong the airline will often just direct you to them. Even just contacting those sites is difficult, let alone getting tickets refunded or rebooked.

Much better to book directly with the airline, even if it costs you a few quid more. Same with hotels.

That's why I don't got to the cinema now. Wait for it to come on streaming, then grab a decent copy off The Pirate Bay so I can watch it without the ads.

I've become super sensitive to ads. Can't stand them. Blocked everywhere.

Ugh this.

Everyone is trying to get in on the market place action, including stores I likes using specifically because they were not market places. Also FFS why can they not seem to let me order by "actually in stock in the shop", and "available for next day collection or delivery" when that information is available. That would remove basically all the market place listings and it's also why I use the shop in the first place.

It's a shame IMAX isn't that advanced.

I've got 800w sound system in something the size of an NES cartridge. I run three of those for surround sound off my computer.

If only sound codecs allowed for vertical positioning of audio. I'd add a fourth amp and roll 8.1 out the corners of the room.

My compiles do not cost the company millions of dollars per compile. Also there is no threat of anyone dying due to explosion when my compile does not work. Why in the world would you equivocate a compile attempt with a an exploding rocket as if they were exactly the same thing?

In your world. Not in everyone's world. The part you seem to ignore is that now you are relying on people's memory about important details unless you write down what happened like in a summary email or other documentation.

Bahahahahaha. Have you actually worked for a serious company? Meetings happen all the time. Sometimes key people are not available for every meeting. Should things be documented? Yes. In things called emails. You seem to still insist that work can ONLY be done in meetings. According to you.

The problem I have is your insistence that every thing must be done in person. That is not necessarily true. Things can be discussed over email, zooms, phone calls, messages, etc. I can count the number of the times where work was delayed because the requirements were specified verbally and no one wrote them down. And then a game of telephone happens when multiple people disagree on key requirements and deadlines. There were no emails, no texts: just everyone insisting that everyone agreed on their interpretation of what happened in a meeting.

It should be part of the written specifications as sometimes—hear me out on this—not everyone who works on the project can be present at a meeting. For example if they join the team later. My company is cheap and refuses to pay for a Time Machine so people can attend a meeting in the past.

The complaint was not that some people work better when physically located near team members. The complaint was Musk insisted that people work in open offices specifically or they cannot work for him.

So you would rather rely on people’s memory of verbal communications instead of relying on records of written communications? That seems more ripe for failure. However, part of every engineering project I have been a part is the insistence on written documentation for things like specifications. There are procedures for things like requests, changes, approvals, etc. These systems are now electronic so a piece of paper does not need to be located in a specific filing cabinet. That can be done remotely.

I'm talking about the IBM Simon from 1994(!), which apparently ran Datalight ROM-DOS on a NEC V20 CPU.

We all want to hear more about this.

It's incredible. You think of the evolution of evolution of smartphones from dumb ones through to clunky things with keyboards and weird limited, tiny apps, and so on and so forth.

No, the first smartphone was a slab (with concessions to the tech of the day with worse speakers and microphones and the need for an antenna) with featured a large touchscreen, with a grid-of-icons home screen, and hardware volume up/down buttons on the side and a lock slider.

Look up the IBM Simon. Loads of excellent links, consider yourself nerd sniped. The iPhone ripped it off 13 years later with state of the art (actually novel in some ways) 2007 era manufacturing tech rather than 1994 era tech, except the first release of the iPhone couldn't really be considered a smartphone until Cydia introduced their app store, since it didn't really have loadable apps, unlike the Simon.

We are not whining. We are warning people not to automatically believe ambitious promises that such efforts are easy. Here on slashdot, some people are already promoting Starship on how it can deliver 100 ton payloads cheaper than anyone else. The word "can" has not been demonstrated yet.

Er. No. People at SpaceX did. People seem to forget: Musk is not an engineer. He has limited understanding of the engineering. He just likes taking credit for the work his people do.