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gonzoon High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

I have a number of concerns with CSU Ft. Collins. I know people who transferred to Billings because FtC was losing accreditation in some majors. (This was years ago.)

FRCC only offers machining in Boulder Co. Welding (only mentioned because that’s what this tread is about) is offered in Larimer though.

I know of several job opportunities today in the northern part of the Front Range that need toolpath programming.

The kid built a CNC router for his HS FRC/FTC club as an Eagle Scout project, then ended up at Mines.

p.s. We have 100 series product now.

gonzoon High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

Do you weld?

Good welding requires intense focus/nondistractions, which some people on the spectrum really enjoy.

gonzoon High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

They missed mathematics

2,000 hours / year (straight time, 10 paid days PTO), $35/hour is $70k base.

gonzoon High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

I own Netgate (hat tip to the haters who will comment), the company that does pfsense and tsnr.

I also own Bump It Offroad in Windsor, CO. We do some CNC (plasma table) as well. I pay welders about $70k/year plus benefits, to start. They’re both college drop-outs, but smart and willing to learn.

Though I grew up in the trades, it’s not about “dues” for me, but more work ethic and willingness to learn.

gonzoon Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results

The OSI emphatically does NOT:

own the trademark of “Open Source”.

They tried, and the USPTO denied their application for same. As such they have any such right to exercise.

They own a trademark for “Open Source Initiative”, and attempt to persuade the public that they alone define the term “Open Source”.

https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines

gonzoon Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation

Silver Lake took Dell private.

gonzoon xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

> Of course Robotaxi isn't close to existing.

Musk announced in January that it was to launch in June, in Austin.

gonzoon xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

"Beyond a reasonable doubt" is the legal standard in criminal cases. "Preponderance of the evidence" is the standard in civil cases.

gonzoon Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

how do you license ... light?

gonzoon Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers

fission != fusion, but yeah

gonzoon FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US

how does canceling a meeting to pick a flu strain for development of a flu vaccine help them to acquire money?

gonzoon Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport

Only one wing separated

gonzoon Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky

“Hyperthreading” is a write pipe hack.

If the core stalls on a write then the other thread gets run.

gonzoon Das Blinkenlights

First time I saw it was 1981 on the front of a DEC-10

gonzoon /bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

If enough time passes and we don’t die, we get old.

1984 was 40 years ago.

gonzoon VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor

That was a time when gates were not as plentiful as they are now. Both the new Nordic SoCs are designed at 22nm.

It can be a challenge as to what to use all the gates for.

gonzoon Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

> Remember when IPv6 decided on 128 bit addreses and defaulting to /64 blocks because someone thought using a 48-bit MAC address as the IPv6 equivalent of a port was a good idea?

No, I don’t, and I’m well-aware of EUI-64.

IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing because some on the design committee or making comments on the drafts thought that 64 bits might not be enough.

gonzoon Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]

A bit of background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_Pistol

Link is from here: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-end-of-the-mamba-a-tale...

gonzoon FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

Yes, they only cost more and have greater power consumption

gonzoon FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

47 CFR 95.931(a)(2):"CBRS Channel 9 may be used only for emergency communications or traveler assistance. It must not be used for any other purpose."

Since the goal of hide and seek is to get home (before found) I’d call that traveler assistance. <grin>

gonzoon FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

PARP has entered the chat

Translated the linearity of your PA (nevermind LNA for RX) is unlikely to support even 20dBm, and the higher rate modulations for even 802.11a/g (nevermind any MIMO/SDMA workings) are EVM limited, not received power limited

gonzoon Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel

That’s not quite the truth. Parts of Lunar Lake and most of Arrow Lake will be built at TSMC, but Intel still plans to use its own 18a process for Panther Lake

gonzoon Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

it shows up in papers from a decade ago.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ongoingly-redesigning-...

I agree that it's not in common use.

gonzoon Bitcoin miner purchases 112-megawatt North Texas wind farm

https://crusoe.ai/energy#dfm

I don't know a lot about it, but remembered that there was a company in Colorado doing something very similar. Seems they've branched out into data centers and AI

gonzoon Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

They had to. Outside a few vocations, women weren’t allowed to work.

gonzoon Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

> It takes months of perfectly hitting ovulation windows to get pregnant

30% of couples who don’t use birth control and who have regular sex get pregnant within one month.

60% get pregnant within three months.

80% get pregnant within six months.

gonzoon WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

Kernel wirguard may be (and often is) faster than OpenVPN without DCO, but OpenVPN with DCO is oftent substantially faster than kernel WireGuard.

DCO is available for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.

gonzoon Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

> (2g for every 1kg of body weight each day)

This equates to a 300lb male consuming 272g of protein per day. There are 139g of protein in 1lb of chicken breast.

The RDA to prevent deficiency for an average sedentary adult is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight. A 300lb male needs about 110g/day at this RDA.