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by yardie 5mo ago
Now I have another project for this weekend! I also have tons of video and not a lot of time to index them.
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by yardie 5mo ago
Let's not be overly dramatic about that period. Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away from filing bankruptcy. They were still a multi-billion dollar company even then. They just had very bad supply chain manage
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by yardie 5mo ago
While I was in uni, one of my friends was a young woman from a conservative East African family. She was pursuing multiple degrees and multiple majors. She got accepted to our school and it was the first taste of independence and freedom fo
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by yardie 5mo ago
I've been using Meshtastic for years. Still have a few Heltec v2 nodes running. It's been a lot of fun. It also encouraged me to get my HAM license since most of the local meshtastic/meshcore users are also in the radio clubs
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by yardie 5mo ago
The Blockchain is back, baby! /s
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by yardie 6mo ago
The reasoning gets worse the further you peel back that onion. Basically dumpsters are too large for sidewalks. Logically, it would make sense to put them on the curb. But no, drivers would complain because having to give up any curbside pa
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by yardie 6mo ago
Japan is well known in their acceptance of foreigners. Their economy is sputtering, the population is aging, and no matter how many economists tell the politicians they need to invigorate their economy they would rather build shitty robots.
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by yardie 6mo ago
$1200 for the kit https://www.seeedstudio.com/reBot-Arm-B601-DM-Bundle.html $830 for just the motors
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by yardie 6mo ago
Xennial here! Graduated after Y2K, 9-11, and the dot bomb era. A lot of us lost 3-4 years of early career advancement due to layoffs that primarily affected the tech industry. It was interesting times to go into job interviews as a new grad
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by yardie 6mo ago
> panning up at the right time… I've watched hours of athlete parents try to track their athlete kid and it's marginally useful at best. Lots of shaky cam even at Pop Warner football speeds. So panning at the right time, with t
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by yardie 6mo ago
A reminder that the illegal DOGE took a chainsaw to NASA personnel last year. If you're disappointed that the feed update wasn't as polished as a SpaceX launch it's because the later has an actual communications and marketing
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by yardie 7mo ago
I was more fascinated that a new wiring harness was $80! I've easily spent $30-50 for a single VAG cable 1ft pigtail.
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by yardie 7mo ago
The smart ones will own their shop outright. If not, they are on a longterm lease. Also, don't knock it, a quality vacuum like a Kirby or Miele will go decades, are incredibly quiet, and just need maintenance on wear and tear, which th
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by yardie 7mo ago
If you can you should go. Lived there for 12 years and my French was not amazing but no one gave me shit about it. English has been required in schools since 00s basically anyone under 40 should be able to communicate. But knowing some Fren
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by yardie 7mo ago
It's not even the infrastructure. It's generally a lot of FUD. Everyone fears they have to buy a 800-mile range SUV for the frequent roadtrips they take apparently. I commute 1000 miles every month. That is 4x DCFC every month vs
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by yardie 7mo ago
They are permitted to do business there. You just have to make a bargain with the devil. 50% of your domestically incorporated branch is Chinese owned. Then you have the requisite technology and IP transfer. Most sensible companies would no
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by yardie 7mo ago
In some states, like Georgia, you are considered an electric company if you bill in kWhs. So some DCFC companies simply billed in the time equivalent. $0.30/min-$0.50/min.
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by yardie 7mo ago
They send me an email every month stating I owe $0.28 or they 'll close the account. It's been 5 years now.
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by yardie 7mo ago
Airlines regularly change the operating base of their flight and cabin crew. Then the crew is either forced to uproot their lives or rent a "crashpad", usually a small apartment stacked full of beds near their airport base.
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by yardie 7mo ago
FCC Amateur Technician class and Marine Operator checking in. It's taken nearly 30 years, from buying the study guide in high school to finally sitting the test in my 40s. But glad I finally got it done.
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by yardie 7mo ago
Interesting website. "Semiconductor Fabrication (7nm/5nm) The main processor requires ultra-clean rooms, toxic gases (arsine, phosphine), and chemical etching. No new fabs have been built in CA in over a decade. Intel, TSMC, and S
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by yardie 7mo ago
Certainly true, but no one is dying because payroll is down.
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by yardie 7mo ago
On the other hand, if US tech businesses want to keep access to European markets they shouldn't support US politicians who want to override the sovereignty of those nations. Businesses exist to fill a demand. And the market will pay ac
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by yardie 8mo ago
A lot of hospitals and healthcare systems in Europe use the open source EMR platform. No ones charts are in .docx format, it is not life or death, lets be serious.
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by yardie 8mo ago
Not sure if you are aware but we rarely directly get to vote on these things. You vote for a representative and hope they vote in a way that serves your interests. But now, we have omnibus bills. And it's 50/50 loaded with things
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by yardie 8mo ago
You won't get to the kind of change you thought you would see until food runs low and the economy stalls. The American Revolution was rare in that it didn't need to happen. The Founders were just being giant assholes (j/k). W
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by yardie 8mo ago
I’ve started doing robotics again after decades working in software and systems engineering. For a few years I’ve been building robots with servos and arduinos as the controller. They weren’t very smart, the servos were too slow and too wea
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by yardie 8mo ago
We lived in one of those American planned communities shaped like a kidney. Our kid went to primary school just outside the HOA gates. He had been cutting through the bushes of our neighbor to get to school because it was faster than walkin
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by yardie 8mo ago
My wife found out her new card was Discover debit card right before her trip to France. Her bank sent her a new card unrequested. In an abundance of caution she activated the new card which automatically cancelled her debit Mastercard. Then
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by yardie 8mo ago
Trying to find the amendment in the bill of rights that guarantees your investment will go up. Can you point it out to me?

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