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Highly recommend Mark Twain biography by Ron Chernow. I just finished it last week. Samuel Clemens' evolution from where he started to where he finished is something to be admired (just ignore his thoughts on Native Americans, how he treated his children, and his angelfish obsession).

I was surprised too, then I started thinking about his filmography

Marvel Movies, John Wick, Robert Eggers films, To Live and Die In LA, Streets of Fire, American Psycho, The Last Temptation of Christ, he was unforgettable in The Life Aquatic, and Wild at Heart!

The directors he's worked with: Robert Eggers, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, John Waters, William Friedkin, David Cronenberg, Sam Raimi... who am i forgetting?

edit: Yorgos Lanthimos!

What an incredible career; I think he spends a lot of time in Italy when he's not filming now

One culture thing I learned moving from an impoverished rural community to San Francisco was how little time the affluent spend on the necessities: cooking, cleaning, laundry, home improvement, shopping, etc.

Most of my free time was spent on the necessities.

Moving to SF and embracing that lifestyle (being able to afford that lifestyle...) freed me up for the pursuit of happiness.

I look at government the same way: public service should assume some of the burdens for the citizenry. utilities should be one of those things assumed by the state, paid for by taxes. The administration of which has a goal of driving down costs for customers, NOT for increasing profit

I started reading (listening to) Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

It was really strange. The author seemed to be shocked at (then) Facebook's culture of not getting involved in politics. The author was a part of the effort to convince zuck to be more politically involved. Getting him to meet with heads of state, starting with a junta responsible for atrocities.

In full disclaimer, I didn't finish the book. But it was shocking to me what the author was admitting to. It's like the scene in The Big Short where Steve Carell asks "Why are they confessing?" to which the answer was "They're not; they're bragging"

As I approach a transitional period in my career, I'm reflecting on the managerial effort of places like google. How on earth do they keep an engineering org on the 'right track'? I work on products that are not as complex: fewer moving parts, fewer egos, no where near as novel. It feels like nobody does anything and nobody has any expertise

is it just 'Hire the right people'?

I'm hoping that not having apps is a feature

Maybe companies will lean into making the most of whats possible within the apple ecosystem and leave the rest out

can iphones or ipads already 'recognize up to 6 people' like this thing can??

THe video has the girl check her messages and her brother trying to read them, and the mother checking her calendar. Without logging in or switching users.

That's really cool.

just like 'Nimrod' becoming an insult

If the only usecase is monitoring, then why make the fridges anything else but report-only?

No firmware updates. no admin configuration. no ssh backdoors. just a transmit-only system

Thank you for sharing. I have a similar experience with my father who was diagnosed a few years older than your mother. Chemo made it really difficult to do anything for a day or two after. Winters made it worse. I'm not sure how much exercise he could even participate in with a colostomy.

individual cases have so many differences. Cancer is a nightmare

11 years is a incredible. All the best to you and your family

I, too, one day dream of using my children as labor for my underground tunnel system. To fight the ant, you must become the ant

I'm joking, but it's heartening to see quirky hobbies by qualified people (he was a civil engineer).

Thanks!

what does 'Embedded' mean in this context?

forgive my ignorance on such a basic concept. I read 'Embedded' as in 'for Embedded systems'

Does it mean 'Embedded in your rust application'?

I'm not sure if the following has any point, really.

First, my father worked as an industrial mechanic in an amazon distribution hub. But he couldn't touch any of the automation. Amazon would bring in German contractors for months at a time to work on the robots, conveyor belts, automation hardware. They made 2.5-3x my father, had 6 weeks vacation, didn't pay for lodging in the US. To me, Amazon's idea of US jobs were the backbreaking labor 'pickers' and 'sorters'.

Second, half my professional career has been in office/factory configurations. Where the engineering offices are glued onto some factory. We're HEAVILY invested in automation. The factory workers are barebones crew designated by union minimums. We have a team of 2-5 people (really, 2 engineers, 3 technicians) who design, build, program, and maintain automated stations. Ranging from a robotic arm picking different components in the correct amounts and putting them in a box, heavy forklift-like robots moving product around, and robotic arms performing some manufacturing task.

What happens when those 2 engineers get sick? or retire? One guy who built half the factory is in his 50s. the line could go down with no backup.

Why haven't we hired like 3 junior people to apprentice with the senior guys? They make machines that make money! The new investment in people is happening in Germany, Poland, Scandinavia

Maybe I'm wayyyy off the mark, but investing in "US Manufacturing" by importing automation (whether it's from the EU or Asia or anywhere else) probably won't end well and seems like marketing.

> > American law rests on a joint agreement among the governed.

> No, it doesn't.

why do you say that?

I cant remember which, but a documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki said that after the first bomb, Japanese scientists were deployed to confirm or deny the US's claim of an atomic weapon.

If I remember right, the Japanese scientists confirmed signs of an atomic explosion, but the leaders were stuck in a debate as to whether or not to accept the findings

Maybe someone better educated can correct me if I didn't get that history quite right

Edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Nishina#Atomic_bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsaku_Arakatsu (check out his academic advisor!)

why do you think the article doesn't mean copper alloy?

The only use of the word 'pure' is right before iron.

it's pretty common to refer to Otzi's axe as a 'copper axe', right in the wiki page: "Ötzi's copper axe was of particular interest.". but it's 99.7% copper. It contains other materials

I really dont understand jumping from 'copper tools' to 'pure copper tools'. Otzi's axe was maybe both an example of his mastery of the profession and a useful tool (it shows signs of use and rework).

Location: New York, Boston

Remote: yes

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I am an Engineering Manager with 12+ years in a Firmware role. Transitioned to a managerial role this past year. Previously a Staff Firmware engineer at a 'unicorn' startup and an Architect at a large multinational based out of the EU.

I'm looking for a leadership position in consumer products. Prefer early stage. Recently started looking for founding opportunities. I have good access to high quality engineers, managers, exited executives who are also tooling around with starting something new.

Code I've written has shipped to over 500,000 users who interact with it daily. Recently the project I'm assigned has 100s of users who rely on it to support their day to day operations.

Team I've lead spearheaded wireless integration to a high security product.

I've overseen bringup of factory lines in-country (Taiwan) and remotely.

I would GUESS that someone tried figuring it out in 2023 and replaced the battery as troubleshooting. If it were me, I'd probably do the same then stop when I hit a wall so I didn't damage it further. I don't wanna be the guy who damages a 100+ year old public clock

I could just hear the clockmaker James Martin calling me a butcher in his disapproving manner

I'd love to vote for loan forgiveness for anyone who successfully qualifies and practices as a doctor

We have the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program where qualifying public servants pay 10 years of their loans and the rest is forgiven tax free.

Removing financial stress from doctors seems like a public good most people could get behind

I get a LOT of untagged NSFW and political posts in my For You. I'm guessing it's influenced by the likes of people I follow. I don't know WHO to unfollow... and I don't really want to unfollow anyone.

I kinda wish I could influence my For You with rules:

> No more than 2 degrees of separation from me

> Posts with fewer than 150 likes

I think you're probably right

Right now I have a mental block with reading ai written or ai enchanced text. So unless the article has a pre-2021 date... I'll ask ai to summarize it

I think I'll eventually have to get over that bias

thanks

I think this may be the first time I've wanted to buy merch

https://merch.audacityteam.org/

isnt it a major part of a star trek movie too?

The one with the purple space bazooka

Back when I first started my career, I generally disagreed. My first job was at a connected device startup in the IoT space. The whole ethos around data was pretty good. Maybe it was because the tech side of the company I worked for was 99% ex-gov contractors (aerospace, low level routers, submarines...).

We collected such minimal information. Basically only enough to allow for OTAs, functionality, and debugging. Thinking back, we could've collected so much more.

I remember when Alexa hit the market and we (as a company) thought there's NO WAY amazon was making any money on them.

Today... NO WAY. Along the way the value stopped being "This product is priced so we can make a profit" and became "The data we collect is more valuable than the sale".

huh, yesterday I vibe coded a similar tool. It lets me set my current savings, investment, retirement. Expected yearly savings, expected number of years of work left. After retirement, only withdrawals are allowed (investments, savings still get returns tho)

Codex suggested a bunch of improvements: monte carlo, investment volatility, expense inflation, capital gains tax etc. One thing codex didn't ask about was social security. So that's another factor that could be improved.

I wanted to know 'do I really need to work 30 more years?'

What would be really interesting is discovering an attainable formula where my investments outpace my expenses. Or, what variables let me die with basically $0 in the bank

At the end, I realized I had no idea what the calculator was REALLY doing. So it could be right... it could be really wrong too. Having historical data might help solve those issues

man what happened to loading bars?

I'm sitting here watching the block bounce in a circle and I have no idea if the game is actually loading or not. Tried turning off PopUpOff. Tried turning off adblock.

as it turns out it just isn't loading (firefox on win 11, if that matters)

I also disagree with OP.

It seems like (to my very uneducated mind) the founders were worried about the tyranny of government. We have the bill of rights and a constitution designed to limit government powers.

But then there are people who weaponize rights against the people in favor of the government.

A private company creating a mass-surveillance network of tracking everyone in public is absolutely a weaponization of rights. Rights designed to keep our government accountable. Our rights that give us tools to prevent government from weaponizing privacy against us (secret juries, secret trials, secret government employees, records etc citing 'privacy' as a reason for secrecy).

out of curiosity I overlaid this map with the zillow map of my city. It seems to be a good predictor for number of homes for sale

I suppose that shouldn't be surprising, but it was to me

> right to privacy is wrong

Even this isn't true (unless you meant morally, which I can't agree with) in the USA. There are times and situations where you absolutely have a right to privacy in public. For example, the government still needs a warrant to listen to you on a phone call in a public phone booth. The government needs a warrant to attach a gps tracker to your car even if it's on the public streets.

Personally, I would love extending protections against private corporations (not just government), and prevent the storage and aggregation of surveillance sensor data.