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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by raverbashing on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:02AM (#31311982)
> and we only use microcontrollers we can get and read datasheets for, so we pay at least 20x that price.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

And even if google translate can help, there are of course other problems

20x might be the actual cheaper option

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by sverhagen on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:11AM (#31312046)
Sure, but you have a manager who thinks... against better judgement... again... that they are gonna sell 20 million units of the thing, so their math suggests that you should... yep... prematurely optimize.
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