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Just send someone in the other team a message saying you're interested in learning more about what they do, and would like to grab a coffee.

I think you could decrease the costs a lot. I don't see the value in using aluminium extrusions to stand it off from the wall. You could use softwood for that, and glue, and negate the need for expensive custom connectors.

> The case is CNC milled from a solid block of aluminium

What a waste of material and machining time!

There's nothing clever about being "smart".

And being smart on its own really should not be seen as any kind of good thing.

Being smart _can_, however, be an enabler to achieving certain positive qualities (helping people, being considerate, being kind). But being smart can also enable negative qualities (exploiting people, being manipulative etc).

I used to think of myself as "smart" (top marks in high school, Oxbridge degree, PhD), but actually now I think I'm probably fairly average in objective intelligence, but I just try and think hard, and work hard.

I'm now surrounded by people that I think are smarter than me, but that doesn't mean I just give up thinking. Sure, it might take me longer to think of something, but that doesn't mean I still can't contribute.

I have found it a bit frustrating that I am more junior on the company scale than most people my age. In some respects, I have lots more experience with people my pay grade, but in others, not so much.

I have a PhD, because at the time I wanted a career in academia, and I enjoyed research. I did a short post-doc, because I still wanted a career in academia, and enjoyed research. I quit academia because I no longer wanted a career in academia, and I didn't enjoy the research (or my boss).

I don't regret my wasted years. Sure, I would have likely earned more money, but it was fun, and made me who I am.

I do find it a bit of a shame that my current and previous employers couldn't give two hoots that I have a PhD etc, but oh well.

EDIT: I have a PhD and post-doc experience in Cell Biology, and now work as a software engineer at a fairly large hardware company.

I've used an INOGON entering a marina in the UK, and it really did have a very narrow dredged channel, not a wider safe area.

One problem with lights or marks is that they can be very hard to see. At night, there are lots of other lights to confuse things, and it can be easy to mistake on light for another.

I know my city well, but if I drive anywhere in it, I still put on GPS because roads are really often closed for roadworks here.

Good on you for creating something fun, but vibing something up and then trying to charge for it, when anyone else could produce the same product for less, is poor taste.

Multiple people I know, and myself included, have experience failure of their USB-C port on their phones.

I don't think they are really durable enough.

> You know those really annoying shower controls in fancy hotels when you need to adjust two separate knobs for the pressure and temperature separately? That's clunky.

I like being able to control those two variables separately.

What are the advantages to putting them between the rails, where you need trains to stop running in order to access them?

If it's about using wasted land, why not put them beside the rails, which would make access easier? There is usually a generous margin beside the tracks.

This would also allow bigger panels to be used.

I used to read it every week, and always liked the fact they stated their biases upfront - "This newspaper believes XYZ".

Now I just live under a rock, and don't read any news.