bluGill

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by bluGill 5d ago
I gave up on my book because after a couple decades I didn't have a good answer. Sure I could brag about the one full-up where I got 57mpg, and I knew about the one where it was only 36 - who cares. Back in the 1930s the book was proba
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by bluGill 5d ago
Pensions were never common though. I can't find numbers but from what I can tell more people have useful 401k than ever had a pension.
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by bluGill 5d ago
Fiber was all installed long after we knew locating it was important. I suspect it all had a tracer wire installed with it. Of course sometimes the tracer wire can break. Before fiber a lot of things were put into the ground with no thought
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by bluGill 5d ago
The latest low power Intel is very nice. ARM beats it for doing nothing, but when getting things done things are more complex.
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by bluGill 5d ago
I'm guessing it is the size of your company or datacenter. You have to be throwing around millions of dollars to get the opened ended contracts.
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by bluGill 5d ago
When traffic is really heavy humans are better than machines at getting traffic through. However they cost a lot of money and so are only rarely worth the cost.
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by bluGill 5d ago
Yes. There were lots of other things they could have done.
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by bluGill 5d ago
They should have seen commodity hardware coming and built cheaper hardware themselves. They could have. Other companies were making clone Spark machines for much less so it would have been possible.
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by bluGill 5d ago
There are lots of different support contracts. Some of them really do cover the entire site. You seem to not realize the scale of a large data center. If every device lasts 5 years you are replacing 10 per day is not unheard of.
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by bluGill 5d ago
Every excavator crew I've seen has a shovel on the truck. They sometimes pull it out of the truck and use it. Most of the time though you can get the excavator there and get the job done faster than any hand work. The most common use
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by bluGill 5d ago
That doesn't exist. No department is every completely at fault. No department has enough budget to sink a company alone. It is always a lot of departments that don't turn in expected results - often for reasons not in their cont
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by bluGill 5d ago
If you are only buying a single spare that is the case. Support contracts make sense when you would want several dozen spares.
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by bluGill 5d ago
Maybe - ask me in 20 years... Nobody knows how the future will be. There are lots of options. There are self hostable open models today - they are not as good, but some report they are good enough. Right now I don't have the hardwar
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by bluGill 5d ago
My local maker space exists, but it turns a 30 minute go if I have time to something I need to plan for. Most days by the time I'm done with work, supper... there isn't enough time before bed to go to the tools I have. If I had
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by bluGill 5d ago
More people have a 401k today than ever had a private pension. While a pension does have advantages (and not everybody has a useful amount in their 401k), your odds of having a good retirement plan are higher today than ever. That still le
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by bluGill 5d ago
That is the meme, but there are plenty of third spaces. They have changed, and will likely continue to change, but people who live in the US find them.
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by bluGill 5d ago
> is the disappearance of the hobby garage a real phenomenon Not in the US. The suburbs are still growing, and all of them feature large garages. It might not fit your lifestyle though, and so you don't see it. There are plenty of
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by bluGill 5d ago
There is a lot more demand for software engineers and doctors. (I'm not sure about lawyers - it used to be good, but last I heard it wasn't as good) The world doesn't need many machinists anymore since CNC can do such a goo
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by bluGill 5d ago
I've reached the point where I know I'll die before I get a faction of my todo list done. Building PCBs is on of those required steps for several parts of my todo list, and so I'll be glad to outsource if that is affordable.
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by bluGill 5d ago
> And what happens if China decides that it is no longer in their interest to allow Americans access to cheap aluminum extrusions, hotends, motors, and controllers? We make our own. You seem to be under the common delusion that because
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by bluGill 5d ago
Also I have a hobby that requires tools. If I'm fixing my 3d printer that means I'm not using that printer to make parts for my hot rod (or whatever it is I'm doing for fun)
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by bluGill 5d ago
The pi is useful because it is well supported. Either buy a x86, or buy pi - anything else and good luck keeping it working. You need to plan on spending your time writing/maintain the drivers to keep your system working. Even for pi
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by bluGill 5d ago
Sherline made tools for hobbyist. While they were high quality such that a professional could use them, professionals typically would buy larger more expensive machines (which can still to the small jobs when that is they got, but could al
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by bluGill 5d ago
There is a continuum. As iron became cheaper (even before the industrial revolution) peasants started trading for iron tools. It started with "the big man" owning a plow that everybody borrowed, but eventually the richer in the vi
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by bluGill 5d ago
I have to simplify to to a children's book to fit into a comment. The full picture of the complexity fills many many books. There are many different cultures in history with many different levels of monetization. However for 95-99% of
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by bluGill 5d ago
The peasants had little use for anything else. They grew their own food and made their own clothes. What else did they need? Tools - either make it or do without.
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by bluGill 5d ago
Not nowadays, it always was like that. Nothing is different today.
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by bluGill 6d ago
A vanishing small number of people ever did those things. Many people owned tablesaws but they rarely used them to make something for fun. They owned the dream and subscribed to the magazines but they only rarely made anything.
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by bluGill 6d ago
They produce good code when I'm personally reviewing them. There are a few other people who work with who likewise know how to review code and thus can get good code out of an LLM. There are, however, a lot of people who just accept th
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by bluGill 7d ago
The hope is they levy few fines. When you want to make money you set the fines such that they are "a cost of doing business". Most often you don't even call them fines, you call them a permit/license fee (though fines

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