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I lived in China for a while, and my wife is from China. We moved out almost 5 years ago, and she still was a bit freaked out about a picture of Xi Jinping's book next to Winnie Pooh book I took at a Book Expo here in Germany. Once you lived 1-2 generations with censorship, this gets from "chilling" (as in, you're aware of the thought but suppress it) to "not even thinking about it".

I don't know if it's a net negative on society, in the end in China people are very apathetic towards all of this, their lives are fine, they can get food delivered in 5 minutes, trains run on time, flying cars, and all that. Bread and circuses, bread and circuses.

Why ESP-NOW and not ESP-WIFI-MESH (that has routing, self status, retries, etc. builtin)?

At this point there's a room in the elephant.

I guess it also depends on the location. I loved running in Thailand, past the flowers and smiling people. I ran 2-3 times in Germany, past the broken bottles and narco bums crawling in the bushes, and decided to stick to the weightlifting.

Didn't they position it as a "development board" that happens to be a router?

Personally I find vanilla Sinovoip (aka "BananaPi") products to be more interesting. OpenWRT One adds strange connectors but for some reason removes R2/3/4's cellular-focused PCIe-but-actually-USB slot, M.2 slot, and leaves just one LAN port.

Just a personal anecdote. I was living in China, my father was visiting and fell ill (anemia). We needed to go to the hospital and decided to call an ambulance vs. calling a car because it could enter the gated compound. For a 3 km ride the price difference wasn't even a concern. A car would cost ~$3 and an ambulance ended up about $30.

PS: An average net salary in that city was about $1700/month at the time.

Great! Now ask it to rewrite it in CSS!

I think the misunderstanding here might be "skilled people who come to work in Germany for N years" (which Germany sorely needs) vs. "people who immigrate to Germany forever to make it their Sacred Motherland" and bring their grandma and 3 cats.

As above comment mentions, N-years people sometimes have circumstances that make language learning difficult. My initial comment proposes to be polite (in my own definition, admittedly) and make effort to include them in conversations (in work environments - you do you in social env), especially when all parties know that all parties can speak perfect English.

accomodate their laziness forever, not just until they'll get settled in

Do expats in Germany walk around with "I've been in Germany X months" clock on their foreheads? :) Of course you learn eventually... some faster than others. And some not fast enough before "maybe I should just work in Switzerland" kicks in.

Let me play a bit of devil's advocate here. This is not what I really think but it's a point that has merit.

Germany is in deep demographic and economic crisis, mostly due to talent shortage. If it has any ambition to maintain being #3 economy (by GDP), while simultaneously paying cushy pensions to a growing pool of retirees, it must either very quickly build talent (but it has a very limited pool due to demographic), or accept high levels of immigration. The US is in better position because, let's face it, English is the widest spoken language professionally. If Germany's pitch is just "please come here to work for less money, speak German day #1, and enjoy batshit crazy bureaucracy with years to process residency", it's just not going to work. Something has to give.

I'm definitely making a judgement :) It is not a social situation, but a work-related event in an international team, where people have varying German language skills (some have almost none, like me). In a true social situation, of course, I will not expect by default a cashier in a shop or a clerk in a bank to speak English to me (though it's appreciated).

understand as much as you can, and say what little bits you can, in German, not in English. Then study, study, study as much as you can in your time alone

That's the whole point to add to "why people leave Germany". It's a difficult language and not everyone have time to "study, study, study". It leads to isolation, expat bubble, and leaving.

It's an international team that is specifically hired this way. I wouldn't expect people switching for me in a bar or in an informal setting, but at work or work-related event, it's common courtesy (to me), especially if you're aware.

Isn't it a bit of a chicken and egg problem? You cannot join a fluent conversation without being fluent. You cannot become fluent without practicing.

I can add my anecdote to the language barrier points.

At work we speak English, everybody speak English all the time, all docs are in English, all meetings are in English. There's an occasional German email every now and then but people will switch.

When we go to a "team building" retreat, all the same teammates that happily chatted with us expats in English just switch to German 100%, full stop. You can come and stand at the edge of a group chatting in German and they will look at you and continue, knowing you stand there not understanding, without batting an eye.

In Asia people with communicable diseases usually wear masks. They're not obliged to wear them, it's just common courtesy.

I lived and worked in China for 10+ years. It is very very rare that people take sick leaves there, or any kind of vacation. Partly it's considered "not good for the team" if someone is missing, so it's peer pressure to stay and grind. Partly its the fact that everything there is efficient - you can go to the hospital in the morning, see any doctor within 15 min, and do whatever tests within another 15 min. (In Germany in April I booked the closest endoscopy slot... in November.)

Now I work in Germany. Vacation and sick leaves here are... very generous. In fact I'm writing this while on vacation. In my company it's often hard to set up a meeting with 4+ people because for months in advance at least 1-2 are on vacation.

I don't want to express any opinion on this.

One interesting thing is how people here say "work smarter, not harder". I don't know how they imagine China, but I promise you people work smart AND hard there.

The results are obvious.

So you can place your attention on a single session of Claude Code, count to 21, and switch to another? :)

I see. "My" (double checked) information is:

- Arc discrete (!) gaming (!!) GPUs are canceled,

- consumer gaming (!) SoC Serpent Lake w/RTX in 2028,

- Arc is continued in mobile, professional, iGPU, and DC GPUs,

- Arc team is just fine, Intel cut some jobs but not "the whole team".

"Intel has fired their entire Arc team"? "All future Intel products will have Nvidia graphics tiles"?

Can you point to a source of these wild claims?

This is a good observation. Antirez is one my favorite authors and software developers. I'm 100% sure he could have made the same Redis PR and ds4 (or something else) without LLMs in about the same time with the same quality or higher.

AFAIK _most_ of German personal customers are still only covered by DSL.

- Happy Vodafone customer having 40 Mbps on a good day.

I wish my manager's calendar was purely 1:1s.

I switched to a large company from a series of startups (including my own), it is definitely a big change, and "efficiency" is not the thing anymore.

Now I can spend days fighting with some gnarly IT security problem to load an internal Python package cross-org with a Managed Identity token issued to Build Pipeline that is scoped to a Service Principal with a wrong checkbox, or something equally cryptic and useless. Nothing of it would be even remotely possible in a startup. Is it "performative"?.. I think not. Is it efficient or necessary? Probably not, but who knows. Chesterton's Fence and all that.

Surprised nobody mentioned Intel vPro AMT so far. It is basically an always-on KVM that's part of CPU firmware, powered by an always-on 5V PSU rail. There is a scary amount of options, including unattended periodic (or alarm based) phone home, user acceptance or full user override, boot media spoofing, Serial over WiFi... All built-in into consumer(-ish) CPUs.

Hence the Head of Engineering job post!

It's fine. People will always find something to be publicly unhappy about.

Example 1. Someone reached out to me on LinkedIn "from HN", when I replied to their initial message they just said "You look like an AI trawler" and disconnected.

Example 2. I read a popular non-English tech blog aggregator which also encourages comments and discussion. Since ~1.5 years ago every other comment is "thank you author, but if I wanted to read AI I would as AI" or some variation thereof.

Would it be some kind of "reverse psychosis"?

Phone accelerometers don't have enough range and sampling frequency to even begin with. Raw, on some rare phones you can sample 800 Hz (enough-ish), but on most 100 Hz max, Web API is capped at 60 Hz, this is all way too low for any quaternion math. They also have much higher noise density which is the silent killer of all kinds of IMU navigation.

I also wouldn't trust a strap to drop a loaded bar from snatch :D https://youtu.be/nrgnH9fTfGo?si=6LLeu3y02iFrwfis&t=65

For me it's a bit of an inverse problem. I go to a public gym (hard to sustain motivation at home) and I absolutely don't want to film myself there.

Thanks! Working on it, for now it's literally a taped breadboard. :D

Thanks! I think for "canonical" lifts (squat, deadlift, row, to some extent military press) the vertical bar path is mathematically optimal, and for all kinds of lateral or sagittal movements you do more work with weak stabilizing muscles and load joints laterally too. Is it productive work that strengthens your core? Possibly, but it's hard to quantify. It it something that can lead to injury? Absolutely yes.

For more complicated lifts like bench press (J-shaped) or snatch (S-shaped), for example, I would rather set a "golden sample" path with a coach and compare to that.

It's unlikely to be the sole metric, especially given the inverse kinematics of different body types (long/short femur, etc), but together with bar speed, over time, it can provide a lot of good feedback.

Wouldn't wifi settings (antenna, Tx power, freq, bw, encryption, etc) be the bigger driver here?