Comments by "TheEVEInspiration" (@TheEVEInspiration) on "Asianometry" channel.

So customers do not want bigger masks (likely due to cost) and end up paying for a far more costly tool chain in return. Penny wise, pound foolish if you ask me.
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9:28 This looks pretty insane.
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Compared to the Amiga I was used to, the Macintosh was complete trash, it was terrible in every way. It was only the marketing that made it take off. Its successors were also trash, today I still hate the brand. It will never loose the stench of trash for me.
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@kazedcat That is so, but as the video explains, each of those tools is highly specialized for just this process. It has a limited reusability in that sense as well. Plus there are changing demands for the masks as a result as well + new problems that designs need to take into account. It all adds up. A less complex solution / fix the root of the problem approach looks better to me.
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About floor planning, seeing the problem I instantly see another solution. 1. Start by generating for each block N solutions with different edge interface layouts (it does not have to be perfect in this stage) 2. Do the usual optimization, but with the freedom to select the best fitting prepared versions. 3. Once a good overal layout is found, optimize the interfaces between the blocks and then the blocks internals to fit that interface. Overall, its an outside-in approach, but with a pre-processing step that optimized overal layout first.
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@PravinDahal Nonsense, home computers in the 80s for example sold without any ads, sure they did ads to, but the actual customers really were not seeing those or get swayed by it. All that was needed was to have these items on sale and accessible to the potential customer group to try them out (the youth mostly). It's is not ads that drive sales, it never was and never will be. Visibility and experience sells, ads are just a poor substitute for visibility. You can run ads all you want for a new electric vehicle, but if they cannot be conveniently tried and bought, it won't do anything!
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@PravinDahal Ads still have no impact on what I buy. But visibility, availability and experience does. As for home computer Ads in niche magazines. That came AFTER things took off. Advertisers seek an audience after all, ads played no relevant role at all in the computer boom. The biggest momentum came from people being able to buy and afford them. And software copying to make the experience happening. It was human interaction, shared experiences / thought sharing what made the tech take off. People made the tech useful, found new applications. It was and is an excellent tool for creativity for which there was no substitute. And that made it addictive too. The rest was just old people trying to chaise the momentum for easy money.
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