I think this is where you’ll define the company culture. Maybe in the first 10, but certainly in the first 100. If you want to design the corporate culture, this is where it starts.

That’s interesting. If you join 8 trits do you get a trite?

> In modern NVIDIA chips, this RCM mode no longer exists. The new recovery modes meanwhile are running across multiple physically separate CPUs verifying each other (glitch one, the other notices), all running formally verified firmware written in SPARK (the thing you use for nuclear reactors and avionics).

I guess that, when you absolutely want zero surprises, Ada is the language of choice.

I would imagine jail breaking modern PlayStations and Xboxes would not be as interesting as the PS3 or Xbox 360. The modern generations are too close to PCs. I miss the time when console makers were also making interesting CPUs and, sometimes, GPUs.

BTW, what would be the specs for a Xbox 360? I remember the PS3 was a rather limited Linux workstation because it lacked RAM (and tge hypervisor limited access to the GPU - a limitation gone when jailbroken), but I haven’t read much about the 360 and its own weird PowerPC.

> an industry China has monopolized through sustained investments over decades.

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of everyone's own inaction...

> all the small and medium-sized businesses which support the Japanese auto industry will be absolutely gutted when vehicles contain drastically fewer parts.

EVs have lots of the same parts as an ICEV - the differences are engine and power systems, fuel tank, transmission... Most of the car is still there. There is a lot of churn - lead-acid is out, fuel injection, sensors are different and sense different things, and so on, but it's still a car.

Is this a global direction or just the US market? If it's only US, this might make sense - they might just want to cut their losses and wait for a scenario where they could better compete in the US.

If this is a global direction, it sounds suicidal.