Altium is an enterprise level software that is just in a different league as kicad. Both are great products but it’s no sense comparing two very different products. I’ve never personally seen a company seriously use Kicad. I’m sure it’s possible but it’s not a tool you want your company to depend on. I find it hard to believe altiums ‘most commonly used’ claim. Maybe cadence just isn’t as worried about marketing? Haha.
I’m pretty sure much more damage is done yearly by fires started by PG&E but no one seems to constantly bash California’s power company. The focus on ERCOT is most certainly because of politics at least on Reddit and WaPo etc where we see the most noise.
Noise barriers aren’t a ‘US’ thing. It would be up to the local state or county or city to build them so your results may vary. If you catch yourself saying ‘the US does this or that’ then reconsider the question bc the US doesn’t ‘do’ anything one way or another. It’s a collection of 50 states and thousands of localities.
Since when? It may not be a good argument but should we be deplatforming people over it? Go to Reddit front page right now and try to find something that isn’t a poorly argued political post. What’s the difference? Just because you may disagree with someone it doesn’t mean they NEED to be silenced.
I mean there was a very sizable group that saw the mistakes in real time. Not necessarily the medical mistakes but the censorship mistakes. I’m not sure how anyone can know what to do in an uncertain situation like that but being unable to question authority isn’t good for most societies.
For firmware development I’ve done automated testing with the hardware on a fixture connected to JTAG, uart, and DAQ. It worked pretty well but every once in a while I’d have to press a button or something that the fixture couldn’t.
Dumb appliances still have firmware on their microcontrollers to control things like wash program, indicators, sensor feedback, you name it. Making a full functioning appliance without the micro would incur huge engineering and BOM costs that can be replaced with a $0.50 micro.
Do you honestly believe UT spends money on its sports? You realize their football team generates BILLIONS a year in sales and TV rights? Football isn’t why UT is overcrowded lol
As others have said, it’s now 7%. I’ve also gotten the bill 2 YEARS LATER! That’s two years of interest added. It still took another year to resolve it bc it’s quite literally impossible to call the IRS and the only way I could communicate was over fax with months long delays lol. So trust me you don’t want to go that route. Btw why are people paying for turbo tax???? For years I’ve been using free services such as credit karma tax (now cash app) which allow me to file complex forms like schedule C and stuff all for free. If you’re paying for anything it better be a CPA not TurboTax lol.
Yea people are going to hate Tesla because of musk or bc they’re always in the news. I’m not saying that there isn’t valid criticism it just seems that they’re held to a totally different standard than other companies. People really enjoy taking a moral stance against them like you’re doing but it really seems like an overreaction.