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After several weeks, between 2 and 3, the indexing process finished without failures. ... we could finally shut down the virtual machine. The cost was 184 euros on Hetzner, not cheap.

184euro is loose change after spending 3 man weeks working on the process!

Doesn't really bust the myth, though does it? Just says that the 10x engineer is a sign that the company may be in trouble, depending too heavily in such engineers. From 25 years in electronic engineering, I guarantee that there are some engineers that are 5x or 10x others.

"The board gets fairly warm, likely due to the overhead of the PoE+ power conversion (which consumes 6-7W on its own!"

7 W of losses? That's either wrong or insane for DC/DC regulation. Rough figures, pi4CM (5W) + NVMe (2W) = 7W. So regulation of 50% efficiency?

That's not the networking performance though. RP4 can hit line speed on Gb Ethernet: pi@kodi:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Rasp Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 pi@kodi:~ $ uname -a Linux kodi 5.4.72-v7l+ #1356 SMP Thu Oct 22 13:57:51 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux pi@kodi:~ $ iperf -c 192.168.0.39 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.0.39, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 214 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.0.214 port 44960 connected with 192.168.0.39 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 891 Mbits/sec

I've a PolarFire SOC eval board on my desk at the moment. 4x U54 cores. Only started to play with it but lots of kernel panics so far. Not sure where the issue is just yet but hopefully it'll get more stable over the next year

Sure but you have to use it long enough for the stings to get loose. What percentage of tennis racket purchases are used more than once?

All jobs will have downsides, I guess you just want to find one where you can live with the downsides and the upsides far out weight them. For me, I moved between a number of unfulfilling roles until I ended up in my current position.

The tech is pretty conservative and tame but projects are small, the scope is broad and the flexibility to be creative in the implementation is high. The industry is a real niche and the company of a "nice" size (100-200). I like this space as you have more room to bring your own solutions to the table. The weight of a massive process and procedure is not there which helps