Tagged “engineering”

commonly remember 4 things, rather than 7. losing focus or attention is easy.

Challenges of developing modern products, as components get more complicated and potential for lower reliability in SoCs.

You’d think that the tools got better but… honestly? Not really. The complexity of the chips has grown dramatically faster than the ability of the tools to simplify development.

Industrial ethernet, stands for “Process Field Network”

making the made-up bridges from Euro banknotes real

a 3 hour podcast about skunkworks

Slides and transcript on the challenges of designing with language models

learned about this on a video of “depth of different bodies of water”.

These are like something out of a game

Impurities (lime clasts) that heal cracks when water runs through them.

a giant concrete structure that was dragged through the sea then suctioned to the ocean floor to extract gas

On mining and building

Still don’t love the obsession with “tearing down the economic system that rejects it”. Funny that something talking about maintenance doesn’t think that existing systems could be improved…

lowering a building on jacks a floor at a time. 90% less dust!

Hacking coral sex to accelerate reef regrowth

From 2019!