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Someday Google Maps will learn not to pronounce County N as "County Road North"... That's not as hard as AGI right?

Thin CA will wick into the grain of thin veneers acting as a stabilizer. Epoxy is thicker and doesn't penetrate as deeply.

There are methods to get epoxy deeper, but they require significant equipment. Search for "stabilized wood" if you're curious.

I have current products using raspberrypi and i.MX parts, and have worked with teams using TI and Renesas parts. Some fully custom boards, some SoM based.

Their BSPs all suck to different degrees, but you can work around the issue with enough effort. If I had to choose ignoring cost, I'd pick an i.MX part, but they're priced for the industrial consumer where price isn't a big concern.

Stay away from any asian parts (Allwinner) or phone parts since they seem to have no vendor or community support.

Like others have said, some of the SoM vendors do a pretty decent job of hiding the evil, but that often comes with very opinionated BSP layers which limit your product design. We've had to ignore/replace all of our SoM vendor's layers, borrowing the few useful parts as needed.

I've installed doors with that system, or a very similar Menard's carries.

Given the choice, I'd opt for it since it is easier to fine tune, but I'm not convinced it's safer than the traditional way. You still have to secure the door against unintentional movement and ensure everything is assembled correctly before tensioning.

The only "safety" feature I see is it eliminates the appeal to use an inadequate tool to tension the spring, so resist the urge to use a flimsy old screwdriver and you'll probably have similar risk either way.

My experience with students that have used various learning software has been mixed.

They're not good for absolute beginners because it can't give you feedback on the bad physical habits that lead to repetitive strain injuries, or just make it hard to play.

Once you're past that point, you're usually far enough to find a tab or chord sheet and figure it out.

For a motivated intermediate level student there can be value in the smooth difficulty progression and forced introduction of new concepts, but that's a pretty small window where they add value.

I've been teaching beginning guitar lessons for about seven years. Guitar is a little different in that, outside of classical guitar, there's very little traditional pedagogy, but from experience I think these things are generally true about most instruments.

1. When you start learning you sound terrible... for a long time. It's very difficult to stay motivated when you can hear your problems.

2. It's very difficult to judge your own progress. I've started recording short videos during lessons which I can show to students weeks or months later when they're expressing frustration with their progress.

3. You have to enjoy practicing, since you have to pick up the instrument most days to maintain the dexterity, callouses, etc. It's very easy for a pushy parent to beat the joy out of practicing.

4. You have to understand the difference between playing that song you can play great, and practicing something you suck at so you improve. It's very easy to stagnate if you only play.

Really it boils down to, you're going to suck for a while, then you're going to think you suck even when you don't, and you have to keep enjoying the process even when you think you suck.

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As a full-stack web engineer who's ended up being competent with Yocto, I think a major factor is which companies need embedded Linux or proper microcontroller embedded work.

They're not you VC, SASS, zero marginal cost software first company. They're hardware manufacturers with physical product margins. The embedded project I work on only ships on a few thousand units/year, and it's only a small component of the overall system.

I think within that group of companies, the comp for embedded vs "software" isn't significantly different. "Software" just has FANG/VC backed salary inflation making the averages look crazy.

My grandparents owned a food processing business until the early 90s. One of their main businesses was slicing potatoes to be used in grocery store potato salad.

They had a room dedicated to removing eyes before running them through the peeler.

From the stories I've heard they'd use anything. Potatoes where half the bag is rotten mush, sure. Rotten potatoes where the sprouts have big enough spuds to process, use the sprouted spuds.

I think those were the extreme cases, since they're stories I've heard, but I doubt any similar facility isn't cutting out eyes and processing them today.