The study that defined the 10x engineer defined him as 10x as good as the worst engineer. If there is a 0.1x engineer, and a 1x engineer, that 1x engineer is the very definition of a 10x engineer.
I've long thought a 10x engineer is one with just the right amount of analysis paralysis - not too much or too little. It's not that they're 10x engineers, it's that everyone else is 0.1x due to a confluence of reasons. And the ones we call 0.1x are 0.01x.
Some famous examples of a "10x developer" state: Linus Torvalds writing Git, Brendan Eich writing JavaScript. Somewhat less famously, I get that feeling often when I stop thinking and start doing on an electronics project, a wooden shed or even a cosplay. Every hackathon ever, same principle - stop thinking, start doing.
But it's only a 10x state if you're doing the right thing, otherwise it's a -10x state, and that means you need to have already done the right amount of thinking and have a good intuition for what you're trying to do. (As long as you can recognize a failed experiment and revert, risk of being -10x isn't that terrible)
This is such an obvious observation that I’m surprised to find it often missing. 0.1X is nothing compared to the destruction (ie negative X) you can do with the right combination of recklessness and managerial pressure. Definitely happens with engineers. Perhaps even more with PMs.
> We’re all also discovering that many people’s idea of reviewing the output is to skim it and verify that it looks convincing enough.
I mean over time I've come to believe that most people are just _bad at reading_ - if you ask these people to compare two documents they'll say that they are the same if the wording or surface "feel" is at all similar, even if in the precision of the statement they say the opposite.
See also: People being generally bad at listening and hearing what they want to instead of anything quantitatively derivable from what the other person said.
Half the point of wanting the H2D for me was the a) cutting (which was unavailable without laser upgrade IIRC), and b) increased volume. This just blew away both reasons, for £310/£370. I'd love to make use of the multiple hotends with the H2*, but it's a big compromise over multi-head solutions like the Prusa XL, or the Snapmaker, such that it's not been persuasive enough yet.
Cutter does work on the H series without laser upgrade, their marketing is a bit unclear. What you dont get is the "birds eye camera" to scan the work surface and overlay cut out locations onto in software, you're flying a bit more blind sorta speak relying mostly on measurements for many materials.
Printed stuff adds locating targets that the nozzle camera scans for. Although it doesnt scan too intelligently, just somewhat within the expected region according to paper size rather than letting you place it anywhere on the bed. Not sure if the "birds eye camera" changes that much.
I guess your phone takes the place of that camera for the A2L, probably makes more sense for the average person who cares for such a feature.
We had some minor collaboration with Intel, went quite deep into SYCL/dpcpp a few years ago, even bought some fpga hardware.
Constantly ran into showstopping bugs in the compiler chain, that led us to think not many people were actually using in anger. Some of the bugs weren’t present on their devcloud, we assume they had livepatched some of them out.
And every few months they decide to reorganise or rename oneAPI, and every time they do this all the documentation URL change so it’s impossible to find old docs.
Then they deprecated the card we bought the month after, promised ongoing support, but the only available oneapi required RHEL8, whereas the drivers for the card only supported RHEL7. They removed the docs saying how to resolve this, and they didn’t work any more anyway if you had saved. And you couldn’t get old oneAPI without a paid support contract (and that had the bugs that we had proven to them anyway).
Long story short, will never, ever, ever touch anything INTEL software ever again.
> Which reduces the problem down to "is Bambu doing that"? Given the installer is 300 megabytes, it probably contains both the application and the plugin, but you go launch an international lawsuit over "probably".
No, the plugin is downloaded at runtime on first launch
The amount of outright obfuscation with this issue is absurd. Either many of the big names that have jumped on the bandwagon are credulous idiots or deliberately misrepresenting what has happened for their own gain.
Oh, I had no idea. It's been a few years since I used it in anger but it was a very pleasant package to use, with an extremely friendly licensing scheme (purchasing a permanent license for <current.X> got you all releases up until version <current+1.max>)
Not to mention it's about as easy to use without a license as WinRAR, so you can trial it indefinitely and then pay the mere $60 for it when you're ready to release some music commercially
But there are certainly 0.1x engineers
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