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pinot··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
WA fab is verrry old and makes commodity products, think like small microcontrollers etc. 160-350nm processes.
pinot··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Those are all public projects except for one..
pinot··on The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands
Big Island never got superferry. Back in the 70s there was Seaflite on Boeing hydroplanes that was short lived as well.
pinot··on AIST Steel Wheel
my neck hurts lol
pinot··on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
All modern industrial machinery has safety features that often include shutting down the machine. Most machine owners are allowed to send mainteance in to evaluate the reason of the shutdown, resolve the issue and restart the machine, without calling the OEM.

Imagine if a walk-in cooler had a high-temp alarm, and the machine shut itself down, and locked the cooler as a result, then told the owner to call the cooler OEM. Thankfully it doesn't work that way, it might alarm then you diagnose (radiator fan not running, fan coils covered in leaves, whatever) resolve and restart.

pinot··on SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
Yuengling is "Craft" per the BA and older then Anchor. Author is wrong.
pinot··on Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant
That's kind of the point, if they didnt avoid that trajectory then what are they doing? Going down with the ship?
pinot··on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
Can't heat with gas without electricity, unless you have a genset or power wall kind of thing to provide epower.
pinot··on Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory
Evergreen Air’s empire was/is based in McMinnville.
pinot··on Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]
I rode the Cathlamet ferry recently. It was great except its cash only and I had no idea. I got super lucky that someone else in line just paid for my ride.
pinot··on Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]
https://img.atlasobscura.com/dmMEj9y780YXqaTupI_kf8Iin74JjtD...

For example, the Canby ferry

pinot··on iPad Pro M2
I’m just talking about basic worksheets to do some math in 5 minutes, let alone actual hard work.
pinot··on iPad Pro M2
My entire company (800+) runs on gsuite for better or worse. At least in browser on desktop its functional.
pinot··on iPad Pro M2
I wouldn’t say gmail is good if the compose button floats on top of my inbox, a new message opens up in a modal and covers anything you’re trying to read/refer to. No format buttons.

Sheets is terrible. Cannot use the magic keyboard to shift your active cell (ie click a cell, type = and use arrow keys to find the cell you want to reference.. it just quits the cell).

pinot··on iPad Pro M2
Anything in the gSuite is terrible on iPadOS. Excel is also fairly crippled. I can’t see how it’s usable at all.

Even just for emailing, GMail at least is a terrible application on iPad. For examples, cannot format anything, or view one email while writing another (that isn’t a reply).

I primarily use mine for

* Note taking

* Browsing/showing PDFs in a construction engineering setting. Nothing is faster or as flexible.

* Sketching for construction drawings

But the lack of good tabular worksheet and emails beyond quick replies pushes me back to my laptop all the time.

pinot··on Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
Yeah all that is true.. but what is even worse is the relationship between "account execs" and "Decision makers". Only reason they keep getting the work are those to players.
pinot··on Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares
The point is to take carbon out of the cycle. Not mining petroleum would of course have the same effect but good luck getting people to do that.
pinot··on Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
Annually
pinot··on System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
100% — including my ad for apple arcade free. Keyboards is buried under General>Keyboard>Keyboards but Notes gets a front page listing.
pinot··on Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price
IME car sales tax are captured by the registering arm (DMV).

You absolutely pay local sales tax on amazon, not Washington salestax. Taxation is about nexus of transaction.

pinot··on Grindr user data has been for sale for years
It’s perfectly clear given the context.. no one’s family member commits suicide over finding out their relative is gay.
pinot··on First Reflective LCD indoor monitor – 32“ FullHD true-color 60Hz
Wouldn’t my hand touching the screen of my phone block out the light that needs to reflect back to me?
pinot··on The 1950s miracle kitchen of the future
I need to see this
pinot··on Gen Z does not dream of labor
jman plumber in my town earns $47/hr+$32/hr in benefits. Not bad total comp especially if you add in OT.
pinot··on SketchUp for iPad: 3D Visualization on iPad
Downside to onshape is its generally a different use case than SketchUp. I use both for work and almost no overlap in their applications for me.
pinot··on The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering
Hubitat + Z-Wave or Zigbee switches is a little less hacky than HA+RPi+Dongles and ESP modules.

I wouldn’t want a non-UL listed doohicky switching 120v in walls.

Self-hosted, cloudless solution.

pinot··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
Ever? Hardly
pinot··on Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search
Flow meters need an operations range though. So any of those ranges would work for your application.

But trying to find a screw on Home Depot or Fastenal .. ugh

pinot··on Two new ways of extracting lithium from brine
If you need a desal plant, probably not a lot of water laying around to dilute your brine stream
pinot··on What a $500k grant proposal looks like
> You get extra credit points if you're active in visiting other universities and giving talks on the annual job circuit. You tend to do well if you advisors are well-connected. You have to sprinkle a bit of fad-ish topics into your research if even if it's a stretch to do so.

Sounds a bit like any job:

* Cross train in other departments

* Demonstrate your functionality/team’s functionality to other groups through talks, white papers, ‘internal consulting

* You do well when your boss does well, make your boss look good

* Buzzwords and trends make the world go round

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