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Thank you! I’m bored of “moving goalposts” arguments as I think “looks different than we expected” is the _ordinary_ way revolutions happen.

We have achieved AGI no more than we have achieved human flight.

Why did Ireland export food while the people were starving? Capitalism. The poor tenant farmers had to export food to… pay rent!

> Potatoes quickly became an integral part of Irish life, so essential to the food systems of the island that when a blight hit them in the mid-1840s it led to one of the most devastating famines in history. The failure of the potato crops created starvation and emigration so profound in scale that the population of the island still has not recovered to its 1845 level almost two centuries later.

Ireland was exporting food throughout the famine, enough to have fed all of its people. The story there is one of economics and hands-off capitalism as much or more than it is about crop failure.

Like we had for music on the radio, compulsory licensing

Yea, I wonder if this was an ai interaction.

I think the killer app for this genre of on demand app creation is BI.

Mulligan Post, Inc - On-Site near Millbrae BART/CalTrain Station in Burlingame - $60-120/hour Contract - Mechanical Design Engineer / Mechatronics / Industrial Automation.

Software hacker seeking hardware hacker to make custom robots for Magic: The Gathering automated storage and retrieval system to power an online e-commerce store (think CardKingdom competitor or eventual TCGPlayer competitor.) In terms of scale, the eventual target is >100k different _skus_, million items in inventory, tens of thousands picks per day. The industry is large; eBay bought TCGPlayer for $300M about 3 years ago.

I am looking for a mechanical/electrical/hardware generalist to complement my software expertise. Someone who knows how to integrate off the shelf parts into custom automation to solve problems. If fast iterations, direct connection with the project in use, autonomy and minimal bullshit overhead appeals to you then this could be a great fit. You are: someone who makes stuff and solves problems, is a clear communicator and fast study. You know how to challenge a requirement, source an off-the-shelf-part or design custom manufacturable part and when to do each. I don't really care where or when or what your degree is in if you have demonstrated driving things to completion and we vibe well enough.

We will use OnShape (license/seat will be provided) for collaboration and document management reasons. Much of what we need to build is integrating FUYU linear rails, Clearpath motors, pneumatics with some custom Send Cut Send / Xometry parts, 8020 frames, etc.

Pros: Small team / minimal overhead and wide scope. Clear guidance on what to build. Flexible-ish schedule (core hours 9-5 in office, flexibility for school breaks, etc.) Real problem with established market.

While I'm primarily looking for a contractor for now, I am open to the possibility of bringing the right person on full-time with equity if they are interested and invested in the space, but that is not a requirement and it probably makes sense to establish that after working together for a bit.

No recruiters or third parties, not able to sponsor at this time. Compensation dependent on experience.

Hiring process: resume/project review, vc chat < 1 hour, then paid 1-day work trial where we see if we fit.

If you're interested, send me an email - hiring@mulliganpost.com

FI is more valuable than RE. After three years or so I got the itch again and decided to self fund my own thing. Also looking back on around 10 years ago more fondly..

Especially if it is illiquid

Rust works fine on 32 bit, (and 16 bit) that’s not what they mean…

yea, they tend to want to take in tmc2209s or other low-power stepper driver chips.. my use case is to drive bigger (3A+) motors with external stepper drivers. I'd also like to easily use 24v sensors and stuff (hence level shifting and not just mosfets..)

something like the teknic clear core but esp32-based.

I use seaorm and migrations already.. I don't really believe in micro services unless you are in a very large company so I'm not your target audience.

very thin, too.. good if you want to create a LOT of rust micro services I suppose..

Ars longa, vita brevis

I wish there was a esp32 board with optically isolated 24v level shifters and screw terminals…

measure before implementing "improvements", you'll develop a sense over time of what is taking too long.

You're absolutely right.

Yes indeed you did succeed. I totally want to try gaslighting an LLM now! Ah to find the time…

THEY SEND THE WHOLE CONTEXT EVERY TIME? Man that seems... not great. sometimes it will go off and spin on something.. seems like it would be a LOT better to roll back than to send a corrective message. hmmm...... this article is nerd-sniping on a massive scale ;D

Pruning

Do you have any reasoning to support the notion that this market is winner takes all?

I wish ksp 2 hadn't been a boondoggle

play KSP, it will click after a few days.

I think this is a generational thing. To a bunch of people now practicing, JSON isn’t just an encoding but has come to mean “nested basic data types”.

Yes, about 14 years ago I made http://the.endoftimezones.com as a lark. its probably the thing I've made that's been in prod the longest.

what's the most effective model you've seen?

to add on to that, it is that the resolution is the same regardless of the order in which the nodes get the information that led to the conflict so there is no "out of sync". your resolution strategy could involve considering the potential conflict unresolved until a resolution element is created (but then you have to figure out what to do if you get more than one of those.. its conflicts all the way down!)

Are you using something like spec-kit?

It makes me waaayyyy faster but, like you, that’s because I already know what has to be done.