Their parents probably have mixed feelings about the whole thing. Not super happy about the whole ICE thing, but delighted about the possibility of their newly employed 40 year old son possibly moving out of their basement.
As a matter of fact when looking at their own in country manufactured lithography, they are hoping to make a fab that can hit 350nm by 2030. That's the equivalent of a pentium II from 30 years ago. The raspberry pi 5 is a 16nm chip.
They had developed much faster chips but those relied on machines that are now under sanctions so they are trying to build their own sad fab.
It may be possible to design but near impossible to fab without having access to all the technologies in the fab pipeline. These are things you aren't likely to be able to quickly recreate. Hence why Russia and China, despite working on CPU's for a long time are still behind Taiwan.
I meant that with a Caterham or other kit cars you have to think about every little nut and bolt that goes into the car. You have to make sure everything is properly tightened and tuned or else something pretty catastrophic can happen. And that's entirely on you and your ability to do everything to spec.
Whereas with a Mercedes most of that stuff was figured out already, and if you do need to work on it it probably involves more about checking the diagnostics and taking it to the garage. You don't need to get every bolt perfectly tightened and tune the carbonator for every build. You take some off the shelf parts and bolt it on to what's already there.
If you are just talking about monitoring ink levels, a lot of printers are supported I think. I use an Epson 3260 ink tank and it's been the best ink jet I've owned. Ink is fairly cheap, reports ink levels to HA, and clogs less than other ink tank printers I've owned, the wireless printing works well with iOS too.
Python uses 10x the memory but probably 100x-1000x the CPU cycles to do the same thing. Also using libraries written for interpreted languages is going to bloat your memory footprint where c libraries are tiny and efficient.
You've obviously never looked at benchmarks because you're one or two orders of magnitude off.
The same reason you don't use assembly is the reason many use Python instead of C.
As someone who was trained in C and did most of my programming in it, yes it does everything you need but it's a major pain in the ass doing it well. It's slow to get things done and you need decades to get competent at it. Python allows you to get up and running a lot faster.
As cpu and ram are cheap compared to the days when C was a necessity, most programmers have made the decision that getting things going fast and easy was worth the trade off. The market has spoken. There is still a place for C or Rust, but there's also a place for Python and other interpreted languages. You can make good programs in both but it's a lot easier to make a garbage program in C.
I've used at least 20 computer OS' dating back to the '70s, and despite all your fearmongering, computers keep getting cheaper and easier to use, and for the most part, faster. I've got old Macs and PC's and Linux boxes laying around from 20-30 years ago, and trust me, they aren't faster or easier to use. There were some good OS' like AmigaOS or windowing systems like FVWM back in the day that were surprisingly responsive for the time, but Windows and MacOS were all pretty garbage until about windows 7 and Mac OS X. And they costed $4000+ in today's dollars. You can get laptops these days for $150.
Uses less memory until it inevitably springs a memory leak. And its not a million times the memory, its ~10x. You should check out assembly language, it beats C in all the metrics you care about.
As someone who studied C exclusively in school and used it for the majority of programming projects I had in the real world, coming to Python now is like moving from a kit car like a Caterham to a Mercedes S class.
I don't think that's true. I am just starting a large project and have no problem acquiring their products in medium to large quantities (16 units needed for this). Their web site is still up, no announcements. I think this is just a regional stocking issue if anything. The one supplier in my country (Czechia) who lists number of items in stock had 145 of the dimmer 2's in stock.
Too soon