RicoElectrico

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Comment · 1 day ago
I am tired, even if I don't use AI too much for my day job designing HW, mostly for disposable scripts if at all. The utter lack of stability in the market, not even 5 years out, is sad. That is even though I have savings to weather the storm and no major liabilities.

AI is a boon for learning, but the result will heavily depend on mental capability of the user; having a depression-induced brainrot doesn't help though.

And, in the last year clankers have started coming for us EEs.

The reality is that many people are more fucked than I am, but I can't stop the bad thoughts.

Comment · 3 days ago
Fix your certs please.
Comment · 3 days ago
There are RF connectors by Hirose which are bypassable due to a built-in switch, but I don't think pigtails with them are common.
Comment · 5 days ago
Very depressing to see the rent seekers trying to corner yet another part of the market. If IT is any indicator, for a HW engineer it's either layoffs or a pressure on velocity.

Artists, at least, can make the process be the product itself. But who cares what story is attached to a piece of hardware? Not on a meaningful scale, at least.

Comment · 5 days ago
We don't need more chip designers, ZIRP is over, people from low cost of life economies flooded the job market. Have mercy.
Comment · 6 days ago
I'm gonna be controversial, probably? The reason why AI is so tasteless and superficial may be that they contract it out to evaluators who otherwise are unemployed and averaged over the whole pool (this being the load-bearing qualifier XD) less skilled or tasteful than those who retained their job.
Comment · 7 days ago
"lives in", "ledger" - The most obvious of the obvious claudisms :/
Comment · 8 days ago
Not all, but there are such cases. My coworker was an example and they did not renew his contract, probably for that reason among others.
Comment · 8 days ago
Sadly, we're in the tribalism era where it doesn't matter in the sligtest to the voters.
Comment · 8 days ago
In Poland at least, the default investment of capital for such people (and doctors, and lawyers etc.) is real estate. No matter what, they will get a soft landing with rent income.

Back then the real estate market was non-existent. Consumer mortgages weren't a thing up until early 2000s.

Then again, I was talking about companies that have had some potential for scaling, like processed food, manufacturing etc. - not businesses that are inherently local.

Comment · 8 days ago
In the recent history, the closest to capitalists actually taking the risk I can think of is family business owners in 90s Poland. While there were new export markets opening up and domesting demand growing as well, for some reason (I presume lending market was barely there) there were multiple stories of entrepreneurs quite literally betting the farm, mortgaging their houses etc. Some succeeded, some not quite.
Comment · 9 days ago
The coolers are quite loud, though. And DCs compete for electricity with households.
Comment · 9 days ago
And in the process obsoleting the work of many very dedicated fans who went to great lengths in order to record the Mario Kart World soundtrack (iykyk)
Comment · 10 days ago
Now we need a mission to bring back home prices from Mars down to Earth.
Comment · 12 days ago
Really that's the point, the issue is that people take "I made a fly brain do X" as more than mere shitposts they are.

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