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by sokoloff 1y ago
I haven’t quoted Aisler, but I did talk to three or four US-based PCB/PCBA houses for a hobby project I was working on that ended up selling around 100 units. The US houses were 20-50x JLC/PCBWay at prototype volume and 10-25x at
842.
by sokoloff 1y ago
> ultimately it's just doing a day job that millions of people can do sleep deprived and hungover. Doing for < $10 and under an hour what could be done in a few weeks by $10K+ worth of senior staff time is pretty valuable.
843.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I always wondered why Amazon would show me ads for vacuums after I just bought a vacuum from them. This sheds (no pun intended) some light on why they think there are avid vacuum collectors.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The first startup I worked at was in typography. Writing a full typographic rendering engine in webGL shaders is going to result in code that is difficult for others not experienced in webGL and typography. It’s inherently (and likely irred
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don't think there's a 10+ year old house in existence that doesn't need 1-2% or more of the building value in repairs. For the two properties I bought, I had an inspection report for over 10% and around 3% of the purchase p
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The "singling out" I read as because the topic of this article that we're discussing is model trains. If this article was about $OTHER_HOBBY, there would be a citation of someone who spent a ton of money on $OTHER_HOBBY.
847.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Having IT roll up into me, I've seen way, way more batteries fail than SSDs. Screen failure [and hinge failure] is far more common than SSDs failing. Keyboard/touchpads fail more often. Charging bricks/cables also fail some
848.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I always thought of it the other way around: Everyone has prod; some also have dev.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In any company with 100 possible projects and resources to chase only 25, they’re probably working on numbers 1-25 (or at least all from the top 35 or so). Interview a random employee and that employee is unlikely to be working on the numbe
850.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Sane companies are working in a decreasing RoI order of projects. The ideas not being worked on now are “worse” ideas than the ones being worked on, at least by the priorities the company is using. At some point, you cut off the investment
851.
by sokoloff 1y ago
If I want to, I can readily buy a cola from several other companies today , with trademark law as-is. I can get a Coke from only one. Are you arguing that I’d be somehow better off if any company could sell me an “equivalent” Coke, Toyota
852.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Trademark law is what allows me as a consumer to buy a Coke and know I’ll get a Coke. I find that convenient, despite owning no trademarks.
853.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I don't think anyone would argue against the fact that the Geneva Conventions require combatants to distinguish themselves from the civilian population. When Hamas fighters repeatedly, strategically, and intentionally fail to do so, I
854.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I would say that more than one view exists of whether Israel is an Occupying Power in Gaza. One is that Hamas governs Gaza and Israel is not occupying Gaza via a sustained and continuous military control of the territory and population, b
855.
by sokoloff 1y ago
> The very existence of guidance change on civilian casualties should constitute a war crime Surely a change in tactics by Hamas could lead to a legitimate reason to change the proportion of civilian risks. Imagine if Hamas were scrupulo
856.
by sokoloff 1y ago
When Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes (or any purpose "harmful to their enemy" [other than solely medical care of injured Hamas combatants]), those hospitals lose their protected status otherwise provided by the Geneva C
857.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Thanks! I did skip a big chunk of the original, I can only assume by clicking on a footnote hyperlink while scroll-reading on my phone.
858.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Or the chips/pretzels aisle which is often different from the cookies aisle which is often different from the candy and chocolate aisle…
859.
by sokoloff 1y ago
> Typical estimates for adult IQ [from twin studies] found it was about 60% genetic, 40% unpredictable, and barely related at all to parenting or family environment. I’m surprised to the point of near disbelief that home/family envi
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3D printed Kumiko (-style) panels [video](youtube.com)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You are only required to log time required for 61.51.a.1 or .a.2, but are not required to log “all [your] flying hours” by the FAA. (Your airline might require it and it’s a good idea to log all your flights, but it’s not a law.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Terrible Maps “Literally every US statistic ever”: https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/1933586469207036321
863.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Annual sales of Pepto Bismol look to be well under $0.50 per person, so while the American diet and food quality is appallingly worse than Europe, I suspect your one week of stomach upset is not be a great source from which to extrapolate.
864.
by sokoloff 1y ago
There have been allegations of the same in well-developed economies as well.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That was exactly the point of the protest that was couched as totally-not-a-protest. (I skipped clarifying in the GP post that they took the soft drinks out of the fridge and emailed the new policy, rather than merely being a little slow in
866.
by sokoloff 1y ago
That included lab work, talking to the front desk people, the nurse who took the blood, the GP, the drivers, the janitors, the record-keepers, the lab techs, and the calibration work on equipment and who knows who else. That is way, way mor
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by sokoloff 1y ago
We had free soft drinks in the fridges at one place I worked. Cost-cutting measures were coming and I sent an email to all of engineering (including the VP) asking who wanted to join me in a shopping trip at 10AM to restock the fridge. In t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Real or not, I’m not sharing an offer letter with another prospective employer. I have shared them with my current employer to let them know the market and what I was considering.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Interviewing while employed, I’ll happily give my “I’m not considering anything lower than <this> ” number in the first 15 minutes of discussion. I’m not interested in spending more time without general alignment on that. The few tim
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by sokoloff 1y ago
LLMs have the massive advantage of low latency. If you have a team on the other side of the clock, you get one cycle a day. With an LLM, you get a cycle every 2-15 minutes. And LLMs are improving faster than outsourcing companies’ employees

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