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by starky 3y ago
Machining time is expensive, so at some point it makes a lot more sense to just pay for the tool that will produce the exact part you want for a fraction of the price. For low volume stuff Hammond Manufacturing makes a variety of plastic an
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by starky 3y ago
Yeah, at this point in my career I'm tired of the bullshit that management spouts. I know they don't believe one bit of what they are saying except as a method to get product out quicker. We aren't even necessarily labour bou
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by starky 3y ago
You are taking the wrong lesson from the article if you think they are saying every (or even most) senior developers should be doing this. You absolutely don't want every senior developer spending their time mentoring/working with
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by starky 3y ago
Regarding the example at the start of the article I haven't found that new design engineers are less capable than ones in the past. Hiring interested and capable of learning junior designers isn't a problem at all. If anything, wi
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by starky 3y ago
In general with injection molded parts the process has a few steps: 1. Design Starting from a set of requirements and what has to go into the enclosure you start working on the design. Here you are often working with other teams that influe
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by starky 3y ago
Fully agreed, though the exact proportion may or may not be applicable for the particular position. I've progressed in my career by doing exactly this and see how it has benefited me relative to those who don't do it (or just aren
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by starky 3y ago
It is always a great day when I open my mailbox and see a Lee Valley catalog sitting there. I don't order from them very often, but they are always interesting to browse through.
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by starky 3y ago
I'm wondering what the benefit is here. Pretty much every job site has a pole with security cameras installed already. What does this do that wouldn't be done with building an integration for your analytics for the major VMS out t
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by starky 3y ago
>Bowling technique is used as an example of something you can abuse in order to get quick wins and easy improvement on bowling ability, yet quickly hit a skill ceiling and you must relearn correct technique from the beginning (actively g
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by starky 3y ago
I've been feeling burnt out with my current job and this pretty much summarizes the reasons why. Number 2 especially, I feel like I've gotten to see how the sausage is made over the past few years and have become incredibly jaded
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by starky 3y ago
The security camera industry works through a network of integrators that install the cameras for end customers. These companies are primarily B2B, they don't have any interest in B2C sales of just a couple cameras.
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by starky 3y ago
I'm not going to recommend specific cameras (as I work for a company that sells them), but one tip is to look for industrial cameras with ONVIF certification and them look them up in the conformant cameras database [1]. They have a pag
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by starky 3y ago
My comment was based on visual acuity limits. A person with 20/20 vision and a 32" 4K display will hit that limit at around 2ft. Going to a higher resolution you won't be able to see individual pixels anymore unless you have
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by starky 3y ago
Pentile is a pox on the entire phone industry that they use to justify using crappy low resolution displays under the guise of something higher resolution. "1080p" Pentile is really like an 880p RGB matrix display.
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by starky 3y ago
There really isn't much benefit of going above 4K with either TVs or desktop displays and multiple drawbacks. I run dual 4K monitors on my desktop and the pixel size is smaller than you can resolve at reasonable viewing distances, whil
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by starky 3y ago
The price a product sells for is driven purely by the market that you are selling it into. If the market will bear a higher price to maximize profit then it is in the company's best interest (and is indeed their responsibility to their
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by starky 3y ago
I still maintain that the person who wrote that article was either doing it just to drive traffic by making bold claims about the design, or was completely unqualified to be discussing the topic and happened to touch on something viral. At
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by starky 3y ago
Reading this thread had me questioning my own understanding of what a Product Manager is. Engineering has little day-to-day involvement with the product managers as they are busy working with customers, setting roadmaps, and determining req
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by starky 3y ago
Mind that I work with physical products so often collaboration involves talking about and handling actual objects, but I've found that the team I'm on has lost something when relying on virtual collaboration sessions where only on
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by starky 3y ago
I've been using vertical tabs for well over a decade starting with Opera, then tree style tabs for Firefox, and now Vivaldi. I refuse to use a browser without the ability. Arc hasn't innovated anything there.
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by starky 3y ago
Agreed that interviewing is largely broken and pointless. Often due to companies trying to standardize their process. I once went to interview at a company where a few former colleagues work and they had standardized their interview process
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by starky 3y ago
Dropbox lost me years ago when they removed the 15GB or whatever limit I had with bonus space. I got the message about what they wanted and uninstalled when they started hounding me through app notifications to pay for extra space because I
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by starky 3y ago
It has nothing to do with coding. His failings are that Google's product management is horrendous. Sundar has completely failed to set a clear long term product strategy for the company and doesn't seem to be making any moves to f
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by starky 4y ago
This is one of my favourite features on my Framework laptop. I use it primarily for video conferencing when working from home. It is no nice that I can flip the switches and then don't have to worry about Google trying to automatically
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by starky 4y ago
If you look at a quantum efficiency chart you will find that CMOS sensors are actually sensitive to 850nm IR light almost identically at all photosites regardless of the colour filter and then they gradually decline together as the waveleng
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by starky 4y ago
As someone with experience in this area I always find these proposals to add IREDs to block identification hilarious. First, almost every security camera on the market these days has a IR cut filter switcher which means these aren't go
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by starky 4y ago
It is a lot about building relationships with vendors in China. I've dealt with the same issues you describe here with most of my Chinese vendors, usually putting up with them because they were cheap. Those we stuck with are now our be
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by starky 4y ago
Yeah, I bought one and am pretty disappointed by it. Not only does the Amazon app suck for looking at the data, but it has CO instead of CO2 for some idiotic reason. At least it convinced me to finally figure out how to get my AirGradient w
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by starky 4y ago
Its the old "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all other types that have been tried."
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by starky 4y ago
The extension to this is shareholders have made everything worse. Instead of a company making a product that does what the customer needs driving purchasing decisions and thus revenue, companies are now being held hostage to be constantly d

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