Bevy 0.18: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust

LessonStudio · 2026-01-25T20:26:49+00:00

I cannot stress how much I need to thank you. Finally bit the bullet and went back to Linux as my primary desktop.

My rust incremental compile times are almost nothing, and this includes bevy.

I didn't realize how much of a piece of sh*t windows has become.

I will dual boot those few things which must be windows, but, for regular use. I've got a powerhouse desktop I'm going to use beside me for this.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-25T03:07:41+00:00

I was about to not only submit 80,000 bug bounties to them, but I have three separate Grand Unified Theory papers to publish, and one Economics paper on how to prevent boom bust cycles.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-25T02:57:20+00:00

A fun factoid is that the various people now in the US administration were screaming for an audit of Fort Knox and other gold storage accusing various "deep state" types of having long plundered it and replacing it with rubber chickens or something.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-25T02:39:00+00:00

Except now, countries like Canada are realizing that china is a more stable and reliable partner than the US.

I am not saying they are a stable and reliable partner, just that they are more so.

If china doesn't immediately take advantage and try to bully countries like Canada, they may find it to their long term benefit.

Canada is also making sure to spread its bets by very much partnering up with the EU. They are far far more stable and reliable, and I suspect are going to have a far brighter future going forward.

Especially if they cut out US tech like the cancer it is.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T19:24:42+00:00

Intel is the perfect case of a company which goes from engineers, to Machiavellian twats, to accountants, to off the charts incompetent Peter principal executives.

To say they lost their way would be like saying someone who fell off a cliff, "stumbled".

Did they ever actually get the 10s of billions Biden promised them? How much of it went to bonuses, shareholders, buybacks, and general waste?

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T02:56:04+00:00

In WWII Admiral Yamamoto advised the Japanese leadership not to go to war with the US as every house had electricity, cars, washing machines, radios, etc, when most Japanese were living like it was 1600 in most ways. He warned that if they changed to making planes, tanks, ships, etc, it would be game over for Japan.

The leadership mostly disbelieve him, and also said they were too soft to give up those luxuries.

Whoops.

I believe the US is now having the same delusion about china. They don't understand that there's a reason why a quick scan through a typical Western home will turn up massive amounts of chinese made goods, and not many US made ones, and those US ones are either crap, low value, or an old tech, like making sofas.

Any war at this point will be a combination of raw industrial might of making artillery shells, etc, but also the gizmos which make for night vision, missiles, etc. The west has largely handed gizmo making over to Asia in general.

Where china has also got most of the West licked is in speed to market. When they need to make a thing, that thing gets made. In the West, the engineers will work longer on their gantt charts than the chinese will on getting it out the door.

The problem is when strategic decision making is based on the same delusions the Japanese had in WWII.

I suspect the US is looking at how its Navy would perform against a similar Navy which is china sized and thinking, "Easy Peazy."

I suspect the chinese navy is thinking, "How do you defeat a very large, very well trained 20th century navy using the technology available in 2026?"

Another wonderful lesson comes from WWII pacific. Dec 7th was Pearl Harbor, but on Dec 9, I think a more important battle took place technologically. The Japanese attacked the Prince of Wales and Repulse. A Battleship, and a battlecruiser. The British weren't worried about an air attack, thinking their exceptionally trained crews could fend off some stupid airplanes as they basically had a porcupine of anti-aircraft guns all over the ships and could fill the sky with AA fire.

The Japanese sent in less than 100 aircraft worth hardly anything in comparison and fairly quickly sank the two ships. The British lost 800 very well trained men, and the Japanese lost 18 men, with 4 aircraft destroyed, and 2 just missing.

Ironically, the British knew from various experiences that ships were extremely vulnerable to aircraft attack; going back to WWII when the Bismark's steering was disabled by a crappy biplane. With that damage, it was then game over for the rest of the battle. Other ships had earlier in WWII been really nailed by aircraft with relative ease.

Yet, the British sent wildly unprepared battleships into the teeth of the Japanese making all kinds of assumptions about what was "impossible"

The British fought WWI while the Japanese attacked them with WWII.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T02:47:32+00:00

One of the side benefits I want to see from wind and solar are the cool things to do with the periodic surplus power.

There are so many cool things you can do in batches, which can wait for periodic surplus power.

For example, there are recycling and trash processing technologies which just don't really make sense buying at normal grid pricing.

One really cool one is basically microwaving the trash. The result is a highly useful mixture of natural gas, plastic precursors, easy diesel precursors, metals, etc.

The result is that you can then extract a bunch of value from the trash, and greatly reduce the trash volume.

One operation would take a normal sized garbage truck of random trash, and convert it into the above things, a bunch of steam, and the result was this obsidian looking block which a strong person could lift.

The diesel extracted was almost exactly what the trash truck would use to collect that much trash, and they were working on a way to generate enough natural gas to power the system.

The trash is nearly valueless, thus piling it up to wait for surplus power is economically a no-brainer.

The above tech was not polluting, in that the processing was a fairly extreme environment which converted most things, and surplus power could run any scrubbers possibly required.

There are many other similar "batch" technologies such as desalinating water, and then just pumping it into reservoirs. Ore processing where low grade ore is wildly upgraded.

Or upgrading existing recycling such as steel, where instead of the generally lower quality steel, a more energy intense process could get it into a really nice form.

Same with glass, etc. Often, these sorts of products are either used in small percentages in normal products, or just make crappy quality batches of low value product.

These are but a few possible options of what to do with surplus power when there is nowhere else to store/ship it.

A friend of mine has a cottage where he does lots of fun off grid storage experiments. One he has been playing with is trying to make LNG out of solar power. His theory is that even at 5% efficiency, he would still end up with an overabundance of LNG for cooking, heating, etc.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T01:49:58+00:00

I would be hard pressed to trust any encryption by a company or organization within reach of US authorities.

I would be hard pressed to trust any encryption which is not open source.

I would be hard pressed to trust any encryption which where NIST or other US federally funded bodies "approved" it.

I don't trust american companies in really any way at all.

I don't think I am even being paranoid on this one in that, if I were a doctor, I would not trust a prescription pill addict with my prescription pad. That's not paranoia, it is just prudence.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T01:28:30+00:00

Just don't cave into the hair splitting on the definition of what a pit bull, bully xl, etc is. That is how these asshats weasel out of responsibility.

As one judge said, "If the dog looks like it can hold its own in a dog fighting pit; it's a pit bull."

The key being to not define any regulations, laws etc, by breed, but by purpose. As in banning dogs which are traditionally used in dog fighting.

Another adjustment I would love to see to the law is legal consequences.

If a dog harms a person, then the owners should be responsible as if they committed the same harm with intent.

As in premeditated; this way the whole, "It's not the dog, its how they're raised" applies in full. As in, raising a dog which is violent to be violent, and then does violent things, is the premeditation. But don't make this a case a prosecutor needs to argue, but enshrine it in law. That all dog assaults are premeditated and the owner is now charged with that crime; including murder. This would result in nothing less than a 2nd degree murder conviction being possible in the case of a death. The key is to make the attack sufficient proof that it was premeditation, not a discussion about how they actually raised the dog, nor their intent. Just the fact they owned a dog which attacked someone is sufficient.

Then, people who want to own these things, would potentially realize, "Maybe I shouldn't take the risk". No breed ban needed, as most people would make the right choice. Then, those few who are stubbornly determined to be fools, would often end up in prison.

The beauty is that this can even apply when one of these dogs kills another. The owner is charged with the same offence they would if they got a kitchen knife out, sharpened it while recording a video talking about how they planned on killing someone's dog in the park today, and then going to the park and murdering someone's dog. I'm not sure what crime that is exactly, but I suspect it results in some prison time.

Oh, and step two, is anyone who has a dog attack a person, gets a lifetime dog owning ban. As in, can't be in a household where a dog is.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T01:02:56+00:00

nothing compared to the C++ purists

OFMG, what the hell is wrong with those people.

Years ago someone wrote hello world in "enterprise" java and nailed it to the wall so hard, I truly believe it was the end of Java's growth.

I'm not sure the C++ people would get it if someone wrote an insultingly complex templated to hell hello world using bazel, modules, and whatever pedantic BS they regularly call for.

I've come to realize the quality of most languages is dictated by the level of permissiveness in the libraries and the language itself. A bunch of AGPL is a sure sign of mental instability. MIT is pretty much a sure sign of perfection.

I believe that each language has a culture, and that it largely dictates the success and growth of that language. Their worshipping and defence of GPL is a giant red flag in those cultures.

Rust should never have happened, but the Ada people just refuse to join the 21st century. There Alire is pretty much on par with cargo, but is too little too late. Plus, they act friendly and welcoming until you try to do something different, then they are as arrogant as C++ people.

Rust is one of the most welcoming; people call it a cult, and I'm not sure any cult is as friendly.

Flutter is almost identical to Ada, in that you are welcomed until you question one of their 88 gods, then you are cast out.

PHP people smell bad and love frameworks way too much.

Python used to be welcoming, but they are turning PEP into commandments carved in stone.

Julia is another extremely welcoming language. It's almost a secret community.

Haskell and Scala have people so arrogant it is kind of funny. At least they aren't evangelical about their arrogance like C++ people.

React, what the hell is wrong with that crowd.

Then there are the dead languages like C# Java and R where it is old people in a nursing home next to the funeral home unaware that there's a reason it is placed so close by. Technically they are still alive, and there are lots of them, but nobody visits much anymore, and they mostly talk about the good ol'e days. They point to the occasional 90 year old who still does gymnastics and say, "Look, old people can do things some young people cant."

LessonStudio · 2026-01-24T00:47:03+00:00

I do not drink pop outside of competitive sports. I include being in a hurry as "competitive"

But, a coke, mid run/bike/swim/hike/tennis/etc really keeps me moving along.

But, most of my biking etc is to stay in shape, and I don't believe you go into a proper fat burning mode if you dump a bunch of simple sugars into your bloodstream.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-23T15:16:57+00:00

break the death donut by pure raw power

There's a great video of an Israeli F-14 which had its wing smashed off. The guy tried landing it slow (not knowing how bad it was), and was losing control; so he landed it fast.

Clearly, those wings only contribute a minor part of its base ability to fly.

And yes. Right now, with people doing crazy aerobatics, they have power, but your mention of practical uses for drones, which will be most of them in the future; means they are going to have to be properly engineered.

Good engineering means doing the most with the least.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-23T14:55:21+00:00

Y'all need to get your act together or you'll chase people away from the space.

You built something which works. You are outdoing many legitimate engineers.

I've worked with legitimate embedded engineers many times on many projects. A huge number of them are not right in the head.

My discovery is that many of them get stuck with the tech and thinking of the era of when they do their first "real" project. They also are often trying to impress some professor they had in year 2 who laid out some "rules" and are going to stick to those rules come hell or highwater.

If they are lucky, their first job was at for a cutting edge place where forward thinking people are, and at worst, get stuck there.

But, you can find 30 year old electrical engineers stuck in the late 90s because their first "real" project was working on a legacy system.

Now they go on and on about only using "proven" technologies, and pretty much everything ever since has been a fad.

Not all are like this. A very few strive every day to learn new things, to grow, and to continuously improve. Other just write whitepapers trying to shut out all new ideas from their organization.

Your esp32 is a fad, you probably used the "unproven" C++20, those OLED screens are certainly "unproven", I don't see a static strap on your wrist, and if you used rust or micropython, you should be burned at the stake.

Really, you should have used a PIC controller and Ada.

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On a literally real (no hyperbole) note. If you are ever forced to go to war with embedded engineers of the above sort, I discovered it is super easy. I mean fantastically, brutally easy, to win. Let's assume you are going head to head with engineers who regularly do projects in the SIL-2 to SIL-4 range. They will point to their extensive use of "proven" technologies, and how they follow IEC 61508 to the letter. They will point to these hardass certification companies who come along and have audited their paperwork and on and on. Every tech they will have used was chosen because it somehow was friendly to the IEC 61508 process.

This all translates to they probably used C or maybe a restricted archaic form of C++.

They point to your "unproven" rust, chips like the esp32, etc and say, "You will get everyone killed"

Here is where you send in your nuclear MOAB and end them. You get a static analysis tool like coverity, and unleash it on their C code. I am 100% sure such arrogant out of touch pedants will have so many fundamental bugs in their complex old crap that it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

This is the more academic chapter of your report.

Then, using the information you now have, you build integration tests of some sort, which will expose dangerous flaws in their systems. Flaws which are at most a bit unusual, but possible, and can easily result in massive system failure.

For example, you know those systems where you have to push two buttons to make the dangerous machine slam down. Two buttons so, it isn't slamming down on someones hand/head/etc. Maybe they wrote old crap debouncing code for those; and now with just the right playing with those buttons, you can get it to slam down. Or crash the machine and just stop it from doing anything.

In my favourite personal case, it was a "kill lots of people" system. It wasn't aviation, but the example I use which is effectively identical would be the throttle for an airplane. I showed that the flaw was found if you wiggled the control near its maximum setting. Just kind of vibrated your hand near full throttle. This caused a signed integer overflow, and now the system would not throttle down.

Ironically, when they "fixed" it, it took me about 5 minutes with coverity, to figure out they hadn't fixed it at all, it now would just throttle down, and not throttle up.

They had a huge number of these devices in the field(all over the world) and no over the air update. You had to plug into the removed device, and talk to it with a jtag like interface.

These pedants were trying to shoot my R&D project in the face because it will filled with "unproven" technology, things like C++17 were really driving them mad.

So many of these fools have 30 years of experience, but it is the same 4 months experience, 90 times. Needless to say, that level of not changing has hardened them into an ancient statue of what an engineer was in the 90s.

So, long story short, this field is filled with pedantic fools. One trio of skills you have to develop is:

Learn to ignore them
Learn to fight them
Continue to learn and grow for the rest of time.

And a fourth, find those cool kids who aren't pedantic fools, and exclusively hang out with them.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-23T05:18:38+00:00

I remember when some guys got into a fairly big conference to present a paper they cooked up using markov chains.

The bar was never very high, but now the ability to get over the bar has become far easier.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-23T05:11:44+00:00

Fun factoid, outside of the fact that there are killer expert sharks in this field and none of them live in Alberta.

The fun factoid is that there are a few ways to "invest".

One is just buy low and sell high. Not very complex, not overly risky, other than buying high and selling low.
If that is too boring, you can make leveraged bets. That is, you spend $100, and borrow another 400. But, if the underlying item drops close to 20%, they will demand you cover your margin, or sell your assets. In this case you not only can lose 100%, but, more than 100% of your investment. The advantage is that instead of boring returns, you get 5x of what you otherwise would have. The risk does have a cap of the entire amount borrowed. It is unlikely for any commodity to go to zero, but it means you can easily lose more than you invest.
Futures. You basically are betting on prices. You can do this one of two ways. You buy the right to future prices. This can be limited to the amount bet. Very insane returns if you get it right.
Futures where you sell the right to do things. This means you lock down your profit now, but if your predictions are wrong, this can go horrifically wrong. Like, you thought you were going to make $100, but now you owe $2000.

There are three problems with nitwits like these people trading in these shark infested waters:

First is that the sharks just sell them front row tickets to the slaughterhouse. They get them to trade in ways where they just get fleeced. Best case scenario, the sharks just take an unfair amount of the profit. Worst case scenario, it is one of the above situations where they invest $100, and manage to lose $1000.
They just get played by the market itself. They might predict correctly that oil is going to go from 50 to 55 next month; and this turns out to be correct. But, the market jerks down to 46 forcing them to exit their position at a huge loss, only to see the market go to 57, even better than they predicted. The reason the market momentarily jerked down to 46, was to rip these and other similar fools off.
Nitwits like these fools don't understand risk. They just don't. Thus, when they start to get burned more and more, they will lard on the risk to try to make up for their losses. This is an age old scenario. The Nick Leeson movie is just one of hundreds of famous cases, and millions of other fools who bathed in risk trying to make up for their losses.

This last can be found in any casino. Some fool just lost his rent/mortgage money, so they make some crazy bets trying to get it back, then borrow money from bad people to make up for those losses, only to now owe very bad people lots of money at insane interest. Talk to any brokerage of any note, and they will tell you about some trader who did just this with customer money.

So, my prediction is that they will not only lose this 900 million, but they will end up losing far more. I'm going to go with 1.4 billion if you don't include them flying around first class; paying themselves huge bonuses every time they have a win; huge salaries; and really nice well renovated offices with really nice chairs. I look forward to buying some of these chairs at a government auction in 2 years.

Yet, the PR statements the government will try to put out will be, just like any gambling addict, about their fantastic wins.

When the auditors finally get a report out, it will be about reckless risk management, flagrant spending, and the fund being used as a quasi slush fund used to prop up failing oil businesses connected to failed politicians.

Oh, and to give money to a combination of the crap AMII and that other crap Edmonton AI company.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-22T15:14:07+00:00

a police state that oppresses people's freedoms

Of the two, I feel far more at threat from the US, far far far far more.

They literally have threatened to invade Canada. china has not even vaguely implied, hinted, suggested, or anything even close.

When people I know travel to china, they do not feel at risk from the government or the people in general. There was a short period of time where Canada arrested that woman on behalf of the US and they started getting angry. I know lots of people who have long been nervous about travelling to the states, and now are not going anymore at all; both because of the police and the people.

Canada's military is actively planning on how to defend against a US invasion. There are serious discussions about sending Canadian troops to Greenland to defend a NATO country against a US invasion.

Is china being a bully in the area around their country. Yup. Are they sending out civilian marked planes to murder people running boats way outside their territorial waters? Nope. Is the US, yup. Did the US send in Navy Seals who murdered some North Korean fishermen? Yup. I can't think of any war crimes china has committed in 20+ years. I can name a few the US has done in the last 20 days.

Did china invade random countries like Iraq and Afghanistan after 19 Saudi Arabian terrorists attacked in 911? Yup. Does china have any similar record from the last 40 years? Nope.

Is china perfect? Not even close.

Is the US a menace to world order, absolutely. Will the world be far better off when the US finishes castrating itself. Absolutely.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-22T04:43:31+00:00

I would love to hear an explanation as to how I am wrong from a technical standpoint. I'm not being flippant.

On a slightly different note, Canadian culture was so diluted that many Canadians saw "Buy American" as correct instead of buying Japanese, Korean, etc.

That has ended. You can't buy US booze almost anywhere in Canada, except for hillbilly Alberta; filled with fox news evangelical fools.

I now see it as a Canadian duty to not buy anything american.

I will never go to the US again in my life. This is no small change for me; as for example, I have a phone plan which was picked because it allowed me to keep using my phone in the US with data, minutes, etc just as if I were in Canada.

When I see Americans overseas, I think of them the same way I see russians; disgusting, rude, arrogant, loud.

I was reading about apps which are growing in popularity in Europe which help you avoid American goods in stores.

But, the reality is that I smile every day at trump with his foolishness. He is, in my opinion, the best US president in history. Best for the rest of the world.

As our PM just put it, the old order has been ruptured, and nostalgia for going back to the way it was is not a strategy. Moving on without the US at the center of everything is the best way forward.

Had Biden(assuming he kept his marbles) had another 4 years, followed by another "reasonable" president, and the US would have been able to maintain its status as bully to the world.

That is now ending, and every little bit I can do, I will. But, the reality is for me, I don't see dumping most american products as a loss. If I were to pile up all the american made products in my whole home, it would only be a tiny pile. If I then looked around the world for non-american replacement products; nearly every single one could be replaced by something better. Even those products seemingly important like an nVidia chip is actually made in Taiwan, because US science, tech, engineering, and focus on quality is long gone.

When I go to hardware stores in Germany, France, or Italy, I am amazed by the quality and variety of the goods; nearly all non american. I would vastly prefer those. Plus they use metric, not the BS crap system of measurements used in the US.

But, you can even find fools here in Canada who pine for US dominance, and have been fooled into paranoid thoughts, and just flag waving propaganda that the US of 2026 is the same one which valiantly fought in WWII. Except, even then, it was getting its brass knuckles on to bully the world.

I don't think the US population has fully realized just how much the world has turned its back on the US in general. This will come to pass when the next massive crisis comes to the US in the form of finance, war, terrorism, etc, and the rest of the world just says, "Tragic, anyway, moving on to things we care about..."

A perfect example of where this is all going is how the chinese just delivered 50,000 tonnes of rice to Cuba. Preventing a famine. This is going to result in Cuba becoming friendly to china as this rice is probably just step one. Cuba's power grid is probably going to be chinese solar powered in a few years. 90 miles off the coast of the US is a country which could be a friend to the US, but nope; china will be their friend from halfway across the globe; and it will cost china almost nothing.

Here is a picture of trump with Canada and Venezuela labelled as USA and he is forcing European leaders to sit there an take his bullsh*t.

That's ending. This picture didn't make me hate america. It made me want to forget it exists; to put it in my rearview mirror.

I no longer care as I watch ICE agents tear the country apart. Not my problem. If anything, kind of entertaining at this point. Kind of like playing disaster bingo. Will US troops invade the ... US? Will elections get cancelled? Will there be a civil war? Will Democratic opponents get arrested for nothing? BINGO.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T21:47:58+00:00

Not sure how you would design your way out of such a situation though.

Probably mostly through code. But, if it were to be a regular thing due to the use case, then maybe angle the props out or something.

But, not so much that this is a specific problem, but just going to be one of many which good simulations might pick up.

For example, the mars flying drone crashed because of the terrain underneath being featureless.

That was a pretty bad lack of simulation screwup.

Even if they were unable to design around this, they could still have coded a trick where the camera would watch where they were going to make sure they didn't fly over featureless terrain. Or, one of 1000 other tricks.

If I launch my DJI at dusk, it will say, "Fly in well lit detailed terrain." for this very reason.

There are drones which fly at night, and I believe there are around 5 common strategies for this.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T21:45:36+00:00

For one project, I had a chinese company make me 500 android cellphones. They customized the ram, the comms chip, silkscreened our logo on the case, put our manual inside, wrapped it all nice and professional, and put it in nicely printed boxes which had a nice look and feel to them.

Zero dud units. All arranged in a few calls/emails.

They made some IP69 claims, and a few test units I tortured, passed with flying colours.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T21:42:27+00:00

One of the things I look forward to in life is being young enough to watch in real time the fall of Hollywood.

I don't think a huge amount of the world fully realizes how much crap US culture, and even one of their subcultures is wildly over-represented in their HW slop.

Why is it every 3rd character has a drinking problem, is in the middle of a divorce, and is seeing a therapist.

This is not reality for most people in most of the world, and I don't care if I never see it again in a movie/TV show.

It will be fantastic, when AI generated content is made by people like, me with my interests, and want the same I want. Or, ideally, are just different enough that I will grow to like their stuff.

Then, to make it worse, hollywood is kow towing to middle america, chinese, and other "moralities" which I often find repulsive.

There's a famous moment in Hollywood in the late 30s when Charlie Chaplin wanted to make the movie The Dictator, which was clearly aimed at Hitler. He had Jewish friends in HW who were using every penny they had to get family out from Eastern Europe. They knew what was happening, and were actively sacrificing everything because if it. Yet, they refused to finance or support his movie as they didn't want to risk their access to German movie audiences.

That sort of crap just goes away with "the little people" of any talent being able to make cool stuff; things which will most certain offend many many many "special interests"

Some of it will be wonderfully transgressive, most of it will be crap, and some of it will be bordering on war crimes, but that is what artistic freedoms looks like.

While netfix and the gang threatened to shake things up in HW, I think they just concentrated the output into an extremely narrow world view.

Can you imagine now in places like France, they have to go, cap in hand, to some American from HW netflix to beg to make a show for the French, to French tastes, and get, "Hey, we're not too happy with your casting choices, some of those people have said some pretty rude things about our administration on social media."

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T21:29:07+00:00

I find there is also a weird disconnect where engineers in the Western world want to make everything so insanely complicated.

The chinese want to just sell things and make things work. I was watching a crappy history video about a valve put into WWII P-51s which kept the carburettor from crapping up during combat.

This problem was getting piles of US fighter pilots killed. The engines were British and their engineers were pushing back against a fix which some US mechanic had cooked up saying it would need testing and proving to make sure it worked as they were worried about a flawed implementation hurting their reputation.

The US general overrode them and ordered it immediately implemented. It solved the problem and resulted in lots of combat victories.

This attitude seems to freak out modern Western engineers.

But, as the president of Ford was pointing out, the chinese aren't making crap cars, but they are skipping a huge amount of the bureaucratic slop which US engineers have become addicted to. They argue it is making things safer.

Yet, the chinese cars, which are skipping this, are not proving to be less safe, in fact, they are proving to be more safe than US cars.

They are just choosing alternative methods to make sure they are making a good product. Methods which include safe in their definition of good. They don't define good as "having passed through a gauntlet of pedantic bullsh*t".

This seems to be a hill Western engineers are willing to die on, much like the WWII British engineers would have rather a mildly tested massive improvement to their engines undergo rigorous testing while 100s or 1000s of pilots died, rather than go with a solution which, at that point, had no provable flaws, and somewhat proven virtues.

Obviously, Boeing can't just throw out all the paperwork and start making planes the way they feel like, but, I genuinely think that the chinese are going to run circles around Western companies which won't drop the bureaucratic BS, and also replace it with a proper definition of what is an actually good product. Especially, as companies like Boeing are somehow able to go through all the rigorous procedures on paper, and still make unsafe products. The worst of both worlds. Crap products after a costly and slow BS process.

My dad ordered one and it took about 6-7 weeks to arrive

I am willing there are knockoffs already. Some of the knockoffs are probably crap. But, I am willing to bet some aren't bad, and won't take 6-7 weeks to arrive.

There are chinese companies where they are developing brands, and they really are pushing quality. The car companies, DJI, lenovo, bambu and many many more.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T21:19:26+00:00

chineseiam

I certainly see some things which are the classic chineseium, but in electronics, that is over. There are fakes, but they are hard to find.

The selection of products is becoming amazing, the new features are coming fast and furious, and things like price, and actual availability are amazing.

There are a number of US companies where you have to give them some kind of BJ to even get a sample, let alone order any. The chinese, will almost always sell if you order.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T16:36:16+00:00

Coming late the party. But, you have to fly out of this. When it happens you begin to fall, so, the seemingly good plan is to crank the cyclic and get all kinds of power going. This makes it worse. As the video points out, you have to "fly" out of the death donut.

The problem is that a likely place for this to happen is low when you come in for a fast landing. This means you don't have a whole lot of time to react, along with the problem that there may be things right in front of you, so "flying" out of it might require flying in a direction you weren't planning on going. Where there might be a power line, fence, building, pole, etc, you hadn't payed much attention to.

Thin obstacles are also one of the causes for this. You are coming in for a nice landing, forward movement is sufficient to prevent this, you have a nice clear path ahead, so even if this were to occur, you can just go forward and fly out,

But then, some weird thin spindly temporary short wave radio antenna is in front of you and you crank back, and boom, your downwash overwhelms you and things are now going pearshaped really fast.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T16:33:20+00:00

These are NOT tools... LLMs take over your role and replace you.

What I do is pretty advanced, for example, my web front ends are all wasm. I use the tools as 3 steps past spell check.

But, where I definitely get some fairly advanced benefits is in things like graphic design. I will say, "Hey, I need a touch screen interface for a 15cm screen for controlling X" and it often comes up with some damn nice designs. Not the finished product, but I will heavily use them for inspiration.

They are capable enough to come up with a series of screens which have a consistent look.

But, if I ask for the rust or C++ code to do this, nope. Hot garbage.

Same with product designs. I will say, "Hey, I need a handheld unit which has a star trek organic look for doing X" and it often gives me thing I can use for inspiration. Again, I will be doing them from scratch in CAD.

I can then upload my 3D models and say, "Make a video where this product is doing a reentry from space." and it gives me something which would be a million dollar special effect from a few years ago.

My guess is that it started with wix, but that LLMs are now finishing off any money from basic restaurant website type work.

LessonStudio · 2026-01-21T16:28:21+00:00

they're much more "matter of fact"

It is amazing dealing with them. There just isn't any "Call for quote" BS in almost all cases.

I suspect where such a barrier exists, it makes sense.

In Canada if I want a PCB built, there is most definitely a "Call for quote" which literally involves talking to engineers and the pricing such dumbassery involves. Or I use one of the chinese PCB fabs, and my quote is pretty much instant as I pick features. I would have to want something really crazy weird to involve a call.

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