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Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller...

First of all it's crawfish not crayfish. Second of all that's a hermit crab not a crawfish.

This will be in v2. The player in fact will not work unless said attachment is within suitable lashing distance of a llama. CRM (camelid rights management).

AIUI JITX has potential to serve non-mainstream markets, including hobbyists, in ways that people aren't really imagining at this point.

Unfortunately for them, though, the mainstream market, along with all of the incumbents, is where the $$ is that would fund non-mainstream support. If the prime rate was still ~0% you might see a strategy out of JITX wherein they'd first take some spectacular swings for the fences in smaller markets. Those kind of successes would make quite the splash here.

But now they've got to go fight it out for the enterprise seats, and, for a half-dozen reasons, post-haste. If they can manage that successfully, I expect they'll soon also be able to do great things for hobbyists, on hobbyist budgets.

T-Mobile is solid all around (>>> AT&T or shudder Verizon), but US Consumer Cellular has one of the best customer service operations I've ever dealt with.

Hey! How did you find me on here lol???

Give my luv to the kitt-ehs ~~~~~ and count the biscuits for me too XD

Not the worst parallel to draw, I reckon, especially in the wake of Copilot, GPT-3, etc.

And I'm sure that circuit designers who'd invested the majority of their career in that async paradigm, only to see it facing obsolescence due to 'inexorable' tooling (digital EDA being that era's Copilot/GPT) advances, would've also downvoted an analogous comment :D

FWIW this is how async paradigms will be looked back upon a few decades from now. Droll, pathos-laden gawk-bait.

Sure; every company effectively does, by way of the "cost of capital:" https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/cost-of-capital#:~:text=Wha....

But regardless of whether any big tech co. needs loans or not, the cost of any investment they make, as well as the referred-to-present value of any payoff from it, are anchored to the interest rate. And the recent upward movement in the interest rate -- not to mention high inflation -- has drastically (relative to the ~0% interest days) raised the costs and lowered the payoffs.

Tech (both Big Tech & startups) is also getting hammered hardest first here mostly because those are the ventures that attracted investment of the lion's share of 0%-minted dollars, and that investment is vaporizing at the same time that the ROI (payoffs - costs) on lots of those firms' WIP has gone negative.

Peter Zeihan is basically always right in terms of first principles. Where there is time & opportunity for others to course-correct is where I've seen most of his predictions go awry.

A great example is the price cap -- enacted via insurers -- on Russian oil, which was a remarkably creative measure. PZ was spot-on about the precursive factors, specifically a) that insurance concerns dominate global shipping, and b) that the world was in for some serious pain if Russian oil stops abruptly.

LOLOL I wasted $900 on a "high end" Acer laptop once. _Never_ again will I trust them.

Anyone foolish enough to buy from Acer something where defects & cheap design can injure you deserves to, well, at least, lose the $$$ they fork over. They don't deserve the myriad injuries they will get though.

IOW: personal injury lawyers, start your engines!

Obligatory Key & Peele prior art reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRSm_SJP58

Neither AMAT nor ASML sell complimentary equipment. They sell vituperative, emotionally eviscerating, angry-at-the-world equipment.

Now I think their product lines complement each other nicely on a fab floor.

LOL @ NBC ad-walling the article. Reminds me of when CNN wanted people to pay $20/month to watch videos on cnn.com.

Anyway I was wondering if this was the Aura-Lima Jevremovic-Amanda-Soft White Underbelly saga. I guess not.

I for one welcome our new Orbeez overlords.

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It seems someone is feeling rather pessimistic about the tech job market...

The key to reaching a real solution is to build _consensus_ behind an _accounting_ solution that traces tax dollars all the way through to economic outcomes for these people. Otherwise any discussion about this is just people getting into the favorite parts of their feelings. e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU1V2GM1oTI&t=801s

Metastable scenario is metastable. Which quantum of energy or momentum broke the metastability is simply not an important question.

Peter Zeihan has repeatedly pointed out that permanently ending Russian oil exports is now within the reach of even Latvia's navy.

IOW the "principle of least surprise" is not even expected to be observed in the ME world. We're talking about a product category -- machine screws -- that has been full standardized for over 100 years. And when McMaster still manages to crap the bed, the rebuttal is "why didn't you load up the CAD model and verify things yourself?"

Awesome! Thank you!

OMG I frikkin hate McMaster's navigation and comparison options. Their standardization is even quite sloppy, i.e. some screw vendors apparently include the head height in the length spec, and you don't find this out until your box of #2-56's show up for your precision fixture and are ~1mm too short.

I always tolerated McMaster's crappy UX as just a symptom of how MEs are willing to tolerate more shaggery than CS types.

Meh UML was always the Sun Chips of the software world.

https://www.theonion.com/sun-chips-abandons-biodegradable-ba...

"Are you kidding me? I crafted my entire freshman year persona around being the 'Sun Chips Asshole.'"

PAUL KENEMORE • STUDENT

How is what that paper describes different from how herpes zoster, HIV, and hepatitis C stick around forever?

The llama, throughout its many years of living deliciously and carefree, somehow always knew this day would come...