Daily Archives: 2025-11-19

Article note: Qualcomm gonna Qualcomm. It looks like it's just the cloud features and some of the stack of their new board that's closed down for now, but it's not a good sign. There has been plenty of drama in the Arduino world for a long time, hopefully the basic platform and community survives this round too.

Article note: American intelligence outsourced their insurance to a private third party, because American capitalism. One of the Chinese government's investment entities then purchased the insurance company and sucked all the information out of it, because modern Chinese pseudo-capitalist command economy.

Article note: I consider myself pretty bad at arithmetic, but I had some shocks on the embedded systems midterm I gave a few weeks ago, where otherwise capable students had a hard time with basic arithmetic, and especially the idea that the joy of SI notation is that you can work the base and the exponent separately. Especially weird position to be in because I'm not generally a supporter of forcing kids to learn mental math tricks to perform like a circus pony, if you need precise answers to complicated expressions, use a computer. However, being able to do basic "is this reasonable" checks on orders of magnitude and eyeball ratios and the like is super valuable.