Hey, I need to pick y'all's collective brains. A friend of mine is working on getting a business together and they find themselves needing PCBs printed with their designs on em. I am certain such services exist, but I figure with the number of component-level peeps in here this'd be the best place to ask.
Are you guys in the prototyping phase or are you in the production run and need X100/10000/100000 of the board?
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laptop fan started clicking, force rebooted my laptop, and...now my VM doesn't connect to corporate network. yay. so far my best guess is something ldap related... but god this is not how i wanted to spend my day today.
Yeah there's a lot of places that will do that, but prices and shipping times will vary according to the bulk needed. If they only want a couple of dozen or low hundreds, I like OSHPark.
If theyre actually gearing up towards mass production then you'll probably need to look at Chinese factories, and covid has caused some serious delays with electronics and stock so better sooner than later. But in that case I would also ask where they're planning to do assembly, etc, because that will start to factor in.
Dude's putting together custom synth modules by hand, can't imagine he's doing mass production stuff at all. I'm also not involved, but he mentioned that as a future roadblock as he's getting this off the ground. Thanks for the tip, tynic, forwarded them to him.
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I'm sitting here trying to figure out an organizational strategy for our Confluence system for the University. I've identified 3 "Categories" of spaces we'll need - Organizational Units, Systems & Services, and "Areas of Interest."
So I'm trying to get my head around how many spaces we may end up with if we fully utilize this thing.
... 310. 310 is our minimum, based on how many departments and organizations we have on campus that serve various functions. And that's not accounting for teams inside departments that may want their own spaces for some reason.
Checking file hashes for downloaded files, everyone agrees it's pretty important right? Then why the hell is shasum so obtuse about letting you actually check a hash?
This clean example that let's you use copy/paste and tab completion? Not a chance
echo HASH | shasum -a 512 -c file_with_stupid_long_name.because.we.use.26.digit.minor.versioning
Have fun manually typing that filename because the apostrophe breaks tab completion. Oh, is the file in a different directory? Better handjam that path on the front. Hope you didn't forget to put two spaces in there
echo 'HASH file_with_stupid_long_name.because.we.use.26.digit.minor.versioning' | shasum -a 512 -c
There's a guy in this zoom meeting who appears to be standing up, perfectly still, about a metre or so away from his workstation or camera, with his eyes shut.
I wish I had to use zoom enough to troll it. Being on camera in unorthodox poses sounds like a great way to make everyone mildly uncomfortable without breaking any rules.
Dude's putting together custom synth modules by hand, can't imagine he's doing mass production stuff at all. I'm also not involved, but he mentioned that as a future roadblock as he's getting this off the ground. Thanks for the tip, tynic, forwarded them to him.
Related, but I know some goober with a robot that can machine pcb boards.
I'm watching a guy talk about trying not to be overly critical and negative while showing fMRI slides that are supporting "activating your medial pre-frontal cortex"
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Is he doing like, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy kind of thing?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
fMRI is a wonderful tool that has also been the basis of one hundred billion studies that amount to just nothing whatsoever of interest.
I had to read so many in my grad program that were just like "we see more bloodflow in the X area within... an... like does it count if it's an hour and a half of the stimuli?"
If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
The more I think on this the angrier I get. I'm missing both big and dire family things because pandemic. I'm not going to risk going to a graduation ceremony that's going to have limited slots allowed.
The more I think on this the angrier I get. I'm missing both big and dire family things because pandemic. I'm not going to risk going to a graduation ceremony that's going to have limited slots allowed.
Wild that your dog stole your car the same day as graduation. And your plumbing went out. And you got the flu. And an interdimensional portal opened up in your bedroom and sucked away all your give a shit. Dare them to call you out.
If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
Is he doing like, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy kind of thing?
It was part of a team development event which was supposed to encourage, I don't know, freely sharing ideas in a professional setting?
But it was framed around storytelling, and so while the guy was talking about not feeling anxious about speaking in public or worried that you were going to have to launch into a story without preparation, or some such, I was just trying desperately to turn off the part of my brain that constantly comes out with, to quote a friend, "that James Spader in Blacklist Bullshit".
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Hey I got an idea I can share in a professional setting, fMRI sucks unless you're really really careful about what you use it for and this doesn't seem to be that so yeah it sucks
Hey I got an idea I can share in a professional setting, fMRI sucks unless you're really really careful about what you use it for and this doesn't seem to be that so yeah it sucks
Well, yeah. If I remember correctly, they use Machine Learning algorithms to make sense of the data from the fMRI imaging. And you know how accurate those are!
That's right, they use electronic neural nets to analyze biological neural nets.
Children's rights are human rights.
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If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
If you want a fun time, find a neuroscientist and get them going on fMRI. I've gotten some hilarious rants out of my (molecular developmental neuroscientist) wife.
Hey I got an idea I can share in a professional setting, fMRI sucks unless you're really really careful about what you use it for and this doesn't seem to be that so yeah it sucks
Well, yeah. If I remember correctly, they use Machine Learning algorithms to make sense of the data from the fMRI imaging. And you know how accurate those are!
That's right, they use electronic neural nets to analyze biological neural nets.
I mean, given the type of data, it's actually ideal, you just need to be REALLLLLL careful around parameters and make sure you have some explainability tools to pull the data back apart.
Oh boy one of my friends, based on my going from being a construction worker to working at AWS, is coming to me for career advice to pivot from his current job into IT. We’ll be getting lunch on Saturday.
I’ll give the best advice that I can, but, kind of mentally reviewing my own path I’m not sure exactly what to say.
I had an English degree, spammed job apps on places like zip recruiter and happened to get hired by a dental software company that was terrible at staffing at a position that was really help desk but wasn’t called it. Realized we had some huge technical knowledge gaps so convinced management to give me study hours and also studied in my off hours to cert up.
Got more and more technical responsibility at work, kept studying, then the pandemic hit. I signed up for WGU and tore through an entire BS in 6 months, which was wonderful for me but I don’t think ploughing through a degree is for everyone.
At the advice of a long time friend I had a professional resume writer help me with my resume and linked in and then AWS student recruiting headhunted me via LinkedIn.
I am not sure how much is actionable or reproducible here. Have the sheer dumb luck to get your foot in the door at a tech job and then wake up at 5am to study like a maniac worked for me but it’s not a sure fire thing.
I guess I can mainly focus on how different shops value work experience vs certs vs degrees vs portfolios and how to build each?
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Oh boy one of my friends, based on my going from being a construction worker to working at AWS, is coming to me for career advice to pivot from his current job into IT. We’ll be getting lunch on Saturday.
I’ll give the best advice that I can, but, kind of mentally reviewing my own path I’m not sure exactly what to say.
I had an English degree, spammed job apps on places like zip recruiter and happened to get hired by a dental software company that was terrible at staffing at a position that was really help desk but wasn’t called it. Realized we had some huge technical knowledge gaps so convinced management to give me study hours and also studied in my off hours to cert up.
Got more and more technical responsibility at work, kept studying, then the pandemic hit. I signed up for WGU and tore through an entire BS in 6 months, which was wonderful for me but I don’t think ploughing through a degree is for everyone.
At the advice of a long time friend I had a professional resume writer help me with my resume and linked in and then AWS student recruiting headhunted me via LinkedIn.
I am not sure how much is actionable or reproducible here. Have the sheer dumb luck to get your foot in the door at a tech job and then wake up at 5am to study like a maniac worked for me but it’s not a sure fire thing.
I guess I can mainly focus on how different shops value work experience vs certs vs degrees vs portfolios and how to build each?
Yeah I feel like a lot of people's way into IT was sort of like this? My degree was in music performance and I applied everywhere after graduating getting basically zero bites. I only actually got an IT job because Verizon's call center was hiring anyone who could pass the three tests, and only one of them was IT related (basic networking). I knew enough IT + I studied my ass off and I got the job.
It seems like the general path is learn a bit of IT on your own then get lucky with a company that is willing to hiring you without experience.
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new job is great so far. 70 minute commute each way if there's no traffic, not so much.
Also, I started an LLC. Ask me about all of your Rapid Engineering needs.
There's a guy in this zoom meeting who appears to be standing up, perfectly still, about a metre or so away from his workstation or camera, with his eyes shut.
Respect, frankly.
What you're describing is a cardboard cutout figure attending a Zoom meeting
Well crap, this spreadsheet I was using has some wrong data in it, so when I used it to change other data I just fucked with a bunch of random entries instead of the specific entries I *wanted* to change.
Guess that's my afternoon sorted.
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Second time this year I've caught a field tech lying about making a site visit in the dispatch notes. I wonder how often they get away with this with people that don't check their own tickets when it gets closed and equipment is still busted.
Oh boy one of my friends, based on my going from being a construction worker to working at AWS, is coming to me for career advice to pivot from his current job into IT. We’ll be getting lunch on Saturday.
I’ll give the best advice that I can, but, kind of mentally reviewing my own path I’m not sure exactly what to say.
I had an English degree, spammed job apps on places like zip recruiter and happened to get hired by a dental software company that was terrible at staffing at a position that was really help desk but wasn’t called it. Realized we had some huge technical knowledge gaps so convinced management to give me study hours and also studied in my off hours to cert up.
Got more and more technical responsibility at work, kept studying, then the pandemic hit. I signed up for WGU and tore through an entire BS in 6 months, which was wonderful for me but I don’t think ploughing through a degree is for everyone.
At the advice of a long time friend I had a professional resume writer help me with my resume and linked in and then AWS student recruiting headhunted me via LinkedIn.
I am not sure how much is actionable or reproducible here. Have the sheer dumb luck to get your foot in the door at a tech job and then wake up at 5am to study like a maniac worked for me but it’s not a sure fire thing.
I guess I can mainly focus on how different shops value work experience vs certs vs degrees vs portfolios and how to build each?
Depends on what part - does he want to be a dev? If so, easiest path is a bootcamp with ties to specific employers as they often have near 100% placement rates and designated vacancies for those grads.
Support/Sysadmin? Pass the Azure/AWS cert exams and ramp up through a service provider - will give you the experience and they often are looking more for certs than degrees - though be warned you'll be worked like a rented mule (as they rent mules to companies).
Agile stuff - Certified Scrum Master/Product Owner, but you'll need work experience to back it up.
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Are you guys in the prototyping phase or are you in the production run and need X100/10000/100000 of the board?
"Yes, X is okay."
.........
If theyre actually gearing up towards mass production then you'll probably need to look at Chinese factories, and covid has caused some serious delays with electronics and stock so better sooner than later. But in that case I would also ask where they're planning to do assembly, etc, because that will start to factor in.
So I'm trying to get my head around how many spaces we may end up with if we fully utilize this thing.
... 310. 310 is our minimum, based on how many departments and organizations we have on campus that serve various functions. And that's not accounting for teams inside departments that may want their own spaces for some reason.
Let's do this.... Woo.
This clean example that let's you use copy/paste and tab completion? Not a chance
Have fun manually typing that filename because the apostrophe breaks tab completion. Oh, is the file in a different directory? Better handjam that path on the front. Hope you didn't forget to put two spaces in there
Respect, frankly.
Related, but I know some goober with a robot that can machine pcb boards.
Me:
I had to read so many in my grad program that were just like "we see more bloodflow in the X area within... an... like does it count if it's an hour and a half of the stimuli?"
Are you familiar with the Dead Salmon study?
I was not! That's a really interesting read.
I said I was figuring I'd attend virtually, since you know, large gathering of people, no way.
The reply was that it's a required event.
Y'know I think I'm still not going in person.
The more I think on this the angrier I get. I'm missing both big and dire family things because pandemic. I'm not going to risk going to a graduation ceremony that's going to have limited slots allowed.
Wild that your dog stole your car the same day as graduation. And your plumbing went out. And you got the flu. And an interdimensional portal opened up in your bedroom and sucked away all your give a shit. Dare them to call you out.
HMMMMM.
Wonder if this is better or worse than the outlet stuffed with literal shit yesterday.
I like that bit at the end. They were not reimbursed the cost of the salmon.
Because they ate it afterwards.
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Just hose it out with water. It'll be fine.
It was part of a team development event which was supposed to encourage, I don't know, freely sharing ideas in a professional setting?
But it was framed around storytelling, and so while the guy was talking about not feeling anxious about speaking in public or worried that you were going to have to launch into a story without preparation, or some such, I was just trying desperately to turn off the part of my brain that constantly comes out with, to quote a friend, "that James Spader in Blacklist Bullshit".
Well, yeah. If I remember correctly, they use Machine Learning algorithms to make sense of the data from the fMRI imaging. And you know how accurate those are!
That's right, they use electronic neural nets to analyze biological neural nets.
At great length (and volume).
that's full length.
Atlantic salmon.
for science.
(you monster.)
I mean, given the type of data, it's actually ideal, you just need to be REALLLLLL careful around parameters and make sure you have some explainability tools to pull the data back apart.
Capital idea, I'll just be over here in the next town while they give that a go.
I’ll give the best advice that I can, but, kind of mentally reviewing my own path I’m not sure exactly what to say.
I had an English degree, spammed job apps on places like zip recruiter and happened to get hired by a dental software company that was terrible at staffing at a position that was really help desk but wasn’t called it. Realized we had some huge technical knowledge gaps so convinced management to give me study hours and also studied in my off hours to cert up.
Got more and more technical responsibility at work, kept studying, then the pandemic hit. I signed up for WGU and tore through an entire BS in 6 months, which was wonderful for me but I don’t think ploughing through a degree is for everyone.
At the advice of a long time friend I had a professional resume writer help me with my resume and linked in and then AWS student recruiting headhunted me via LinkedIn.
I am not sure how much is actionable or reproducible here. Have the sheer dumb luck to get your foot in the door at a tech job and then wake up at 5am to study like a maniac worked for me but it’s not a sure fire thing.
I guess I can mainly focus on how different shops value work experience vs certs vs degrees vs portfolios and how to build each?
Yeah I feel like a lot of people's way into IT was sort of like this? My degree was in music performance and I applied everywhere after graduating getting basically zero bites. I only actually got an IT job because Verizon's call center was hiring anyone who could pass the three tests, and only one of them was IT related (basic networking). I knew enough IT + I studied my ass off and I got the job.
It seems like the general path is learn a bit of IT on your own then get lucky with a company that is willing to hiring you without experience.
Also, I started an LLC. Ask me about all of your Rapid Engineering needs.
Oh wonderful, I know exactly whom to turn to for when I'm building my white-water rafting park
What you're describing is a cardboard cutout figure attending a Zoom meeting
Which, I agree, ++Respect
Guess that's my afternoon sorted.
Depends on what part - does he want to be a dev? If so, easiest path is a bootcamp with ties to specific employers as they often have near 100% placement rates and designated vacancies for those grads.
Support/Sysadmin? Pass the Azure/AWS cert exams and ramp up through a service provider - will give you the experience and they often are looking more for certs than degrees - though be warned you'll be worked like a rented mule (as they rent mules to companies).
Agile stuff - Certified Scrum Master/Product Owner, but you'll need work experience to back it up.