But what you know can make you know who matters

Slightly different take: first you get te generation of caution, followed by the generation of all-in. As with any novelty that replaces “something requiring effort” with “something low barrier”, it’s going to result in people that followed the wrong learning curve.

The sci-fi fan in me wonders if this is the faulty sprocket that mis-taught the social skills that lowered Japan’s population numbers.

This looks very appealing. I’m using a google spreadsheet, which also maps to grids in small parts drawers. I will give your software a try.

One suggestion: for smd resistors and capacitors I’m using plastic mini vials:

https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S69e6442d03074cd0b...

They come in all sizes and if you drill holes in a thick piece of plastic you can arrange them and put them in a single drawer.

Let me know if you encounter any issues. The software is very much a beta program.

Love your idea of using vials. How do you get a controlled amount of resistors out of there? Do you pour them out onto a tray or can you get pliers in there?

I open the vial and tap it slightly so a few fall out. Then I place the on the PCB with paste on the pads. I’m finishing up a high precision impedance meter to be able to sort out capacitors if I mix them up.

One final thing maybe: I stick to the smallest smd size I’m comfortable with: 0805. I keep those stocked and I have a small stock of 1206 and 0603 for repair work.

Depends on the branch predictor: correct branch, everything’s loaded and set. Wrong branch: flush it all and load again.

If you know the branch predictor algorithm you can optimise for it.

Edit: it’s on p27

Near-topic: does anyone know of automated deconstruction attempts? i.e. dented car goe in one end, parts come out the other?

I love science fiction, so I could imagine decomposition machine where dented car goes in and buckets with rubber/plastic/steel/copper/aluminium/glass come out. Identify materials and cut them piece by piece should be doable. Identifying individual greasy parts and removing them maybe in 25 years.

It starts looks like a solution in the Fermi Paradox: intelligent species that aren’t intelligent enough will cut themselves of from space travel.

Has he ever hinted about successors?

I did a quick search. Names were named by him here [1] in 2024 - but not as successors per se. More like candidates for important roles in the future. This [2] interview from 2020 touches the subject as well.

I interpret it in a way that he tries to cultivate an environment where a good leader/successor/main-whatever emerges somewhat naturally.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/990534/ [2] https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/torvalds-say...

(Prime example of my personal behavior which I really don't like: Put a half-baked assumption/hearsay on the internet. Get 2 replies. Start actually researching the topic only afterwards.)

Offloading the liability for a compiler sounds like common sense to me. How many heads did this company pay? 100, 1000?

Related, compiler bugs aren’t uncommon in the arm-none-eabi family. Especially the cortex m0 seems to have a few that recur every few years.

You know those cigarette lighters with an electric spark? Start a download over wifi, press the lighter a number of times in quick succession. Wifi disconnects.

One of the projects I intend to make some day is a metal detector with 2 pickup coils(*), one in or around the sole of each shoe. Instead of an auditory signal, a vibrating element strapped to my leg or ankle. That way you can metaldetect difficult terrain/non-stop/inconspicuously.

(*) they each work independently, like two metaldetectors. Not the detector type with an RX and TX coil.