I'm looking for a cheap ARM MCU with I2S support and one that I found was a Chinese part from GigaDevices which is $0.50.
On the other hand, lots of software is written for STM devices so spending a couple of bucks more for their parts will save you development costs and time.
From an employer's perspective, the extra cost of a ready-to-roll development target is always worth it in terms of productivity.
Today's constraints are not tomorrow's constraints; I'd rather be hustling to acquire the skills necessary to earn 500x (or greater) that $100 USD per month.
I'm very surprised that China would take the risk of fueling a political firestorm when these balloons are only marginally more effective than the satellites they already have.
These intrusions are clearly a violation of our airspace and could even be considered an act of war.
What the hell was Xi thinking? Is he trying to communicate that China can do whatever it wants with impunity? Did he even authorize this flight or was this someone else's decision?
You are levelling yourself to think someone whose education ends with grade school to be actually thinking. He has done so many stupid things over the last decade.
And in China, all foreign politics are internal politics. Playing strong against the rest of world, at least by how it looks, will bring more power to him within CCP.
Yes, it is definitely a silly move if it's really a spy balloon.
But I think it's still too early to draw the conclusion, given the strong Bayesian prior that how unlikely it is for China, with advanced spy satellites and a spy network in the US as accused by three-letter-agencies, to fly a huge, visible by naked-eye, balloon for spying and for starting an international incident.
So are you saying there was a chance someone else would win? I don't understand your priors to be honest. Elections don't really matter all that much in China. And it's not as though he has much opposition inside the party either. Would love to know your thoughts
I've been using Firefox for twenty odd years now. It's performance is comparable to that of other browsers.
But the pilfering of Mozilla by its management (giving themselves million dollar bonuses and pretending they're managing a billion dollar corporation) and their illogical and fickle decisions has reduced IMHO the need for an independent open-source browser.
The only rationale for having a browser like Firefox now is to push back against megacorps like Google adding extensions to prop up their agenda (like preventing ad-blockers from working).
Mozilla had its day in the sun. I still use it but if it were to go away I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.
> here are abundant reasons why Google would want a non-Linux operating system internally.
You may be in the right, but I personally don't see no reason for it. Linux is the best supported operating system in the world and Google always has the option to alter the OS if need be.
I do believe Fuchsia is vastly more secure and stabler than Linux, which could be a benefit, but Google isn't exactly being pilfered by miscreants on a daily basis, so that benefit is in doubt.
Google pays for hundreds of engineers working on the Linux kernel, who spend a lot of their time arguing with Linux maintainers about what should or should not be upstreamed, and painstakingly grooming their internal diffs vs upstream. You can imagine why not having to do that would be easier.
I don't see why this would make the experience better. Java has been a huge part of Android's success allowing for backwards compatibility in a smooth manner. Java should also be given credit for Android's stability, due to its lack of memory safety errors.
IMHO Google shouldn't pull-back from using Java (or Kotlin). Rust could be an option but that would certainly degrade Android's developer experience.
I see Fuchsia's benefit mostly in security and stability. Linux is one big blob with potentially huge security holes in it, many of which simply haven't yet been discovered (except maybe by intelligence agencies).
Fuchsia's architecture is extremely resilient and secure by design and there's very little change culprits will be able to breach its security.
Fuchsia is one of Google's most interesting products, so these layoffs put out a huge question mark.
The company will soon have to decide how to move forward since replacing Linux will require a sizeable investment in manpower. My suggestion would be to focus on only replacing the Linux kernel whilst keeping other parts of the Android stack intact as much as feasible.
They should be able to do this in relatively short order, say two years.
On the other hand, lots of software is written for STM devices so spending a couple of bucks more for their parts will save you development costs and time.