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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Focus on university course over “private certication” which are often full of bullshit and paid by companies anyway. The foundation you learn is what stays valid no matter what’s the technique you use.

    To give a word on agile, it’s about having shorter development cycles and more intermediate release which are used by actual users. It works well in prototyping phase (when you have proper tools) and in software. However, many PM end-up making agile heavier more complicated/heavy than regular cycle with daily stand-up meeting and boards full of post-it. I would advise going in these type of projects without some technical background.

    Also note that while project management looks cool (and is a way to grow your carrer quickly) it’s a field where you deal with a lot of bullshit out of your control. A person is sick for the week ? How do your re-organize the project ? A truck delivering a critical part has an accident ? How do you deal with it The certification lab asks finds that your cable at the European fire safety norm but not the US ones (or the other way around ? ) adding two month delay to change everything ? How do you announce the customer that the final delivery is postponed due to some paperwork ? You often end-up sitting between the engineer knowing what needs to be done, the upper management cutting down the budget and the customer wanting more. So not a job for everyone



  • I still don’t get how is Telsa 20 times bigger than Toyota.

    It’s great thanks to Musk, Telsa could become a viable auto maker which in the current industrial context is already amazing, especially with production in place with expensive labour (Which is a great thing too)

    However, it’s not like other auto manufacturer would disappear from the market and it seems easier to add an electric system over an existing basis than to build a new car from scratch, let alone Chinese trying to enter the global market (and BYD is growing quickly in Europe) and Indian which will do the same at the point.

    So not really a surprise that Tesla sales start to drop, especially when adding that nazi did good car isn’t a reason to support nazi




    • GPS receiver are passive device, they do not transmit your position. However, we’ve seen in Ukraine and middle-east that GPS are easy to jam.

    • As other have stated ham radio are simple to build, long range, and reliable. However, once you emmit it’s fairly easy to pinpoint your position

    • I am not sure why Local peer to peer network haven’t been a thing. i am old enough to remember the era where we had network cable hanging from the windows of student residency to build a kind of building-wide LAN, looks so much easier with wifi

    • Be careful with encrypted mobile phones, The Enro-chat network let the police listen to drug-lord in clear for like 2 years leading to a massive arrest. I believe it requewstd a huge work for the police to arrest them, but they’ve done-it Encryption may still help though, just don’t over estimate the budget government can put to break-it if needed (let alone all the backdoors in commercial-grade devices).

    • Pigeon, dead-drop, and courrier are very efficient, it doesn’t look as cool as space hacker. but this works