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New comment by gonzo in "Sitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise"

gonzo — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:31:25 +0000

Perhaps if you sit some more…

New comment by gonzo in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

gonzo — Mon, 12 May 2025 05:04:26 +0000

I have a number of concerns with CSU Ft. Collins. I know people who transferred to Billings because FtC was losing accreditation in some majors. (This was years ago.)

FRCC only offers machining in Boulder Co. Welding (only mentioned because that’s what this tread is about) is offered in Larimer though.

I know of several job opportunities today in the northern part of the Front Range that need toolpath programming.

The kid built a CNC router for his HS FRC/FTC club as an Eagle Scout project, then ended up at Mines.

p.s. We have 100 series product now.

New comment by gonzo in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

gonzo — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:01:33 +0000

Do you weld?

Good welding requires intense focus/nondistractions, which some people on the spectrum really enjoy.

New comment by gonzo in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

gonzo — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:59:32 +0000

They missed mathematics

2,000 hours / year (straight time, 10 paid days PTO), $35/hour is $70k base.

New comment by gonzo in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

gonzo — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:57:47 +0000

I own Netgate (hat tip to the haters who will comment), the company that does pfsense and tsnr.

I also own Bump It Offroad in Windsor, CO. We do some CNC (plasma table) as well. I pay welders about $70k/year plus benefits, to start. They’re both college drop-outs, but smart and willing to learn.

Though I grew up in the trades, it’s not about “dues” for me, but more work ethic and willingness to learn.

New comment by gonzo in "Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results"

gonzo — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:00:10 +0000

The OSI emphatically does NOT:

own the trademark of “Open Source”.

They tried, and the USPTO denied their application for same. As such they have any such right to exercise.

They own a trademark for “Open Source Initiative”, and attempt to persuade the public that they alone define the term “Open Source”.

https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines

New comment by gonzo in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

gonzo — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:43:16 +0000

Silver Lake took Dell private.

New comment by gonzo in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

gonzo — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:35:07 +0000

> Of course Robotaxi isn't close to existing.

Musk announced in January that it was to launch in June, in Austin.

New comment by gonzo in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

gonzo — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:31:39 +0000

"Beyond a reasonable doubt" is the legal standard in criminal cases. "Preponderance of the evidence" is the standard in civil cases.

New comment by gonzo in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

gonzo — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:54:44 +0000

how do you license ... light?

New comment by gonzo in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

gonzo — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:48:50 +0000

fission != fusion, but yeah

New comment by gonzo in "FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US"

gonzo — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:42:37 +0000

how does canceling a meeting to pick a flu strain for development of a flu vaccine help them to acquire money?

New comment by gonzo in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

gonzo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:53:11 +0000

Only one wing separated

New comment by gonzo in "Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky"

gonzo — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:13:34 +0000

“Hyperthreading” is a write pipe hack.

If the core stalls on a write then the other thread gets run.

New comment by gonzo in "Das Blinkenlights"

gonzo — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:42:48 +0000

First time I saw it was 1981 on the front of a DEC-10

New comment by gonzo in "/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]"

gonzo — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:00:32 +0000

If enough time passes and we don’t die, we get old.

1984 was 40 years ago.

New comment by gonzo in "VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor"

gonzo — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:33:08 +0000

That was a time when gates were not as plentiful as they are now. Both the new Nordic SoCs are designed at 22nm.

It can be a challenge as to what to use all the gates for.

New comment by gonzo in "Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks"

gonzo — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:52:25 +0000

> Remember when IPv6 decided on 128 bit addreses and defaulting to /64 blocks because someone thought using a 48-bit MAC address as the IPv6 equivalent of a port was a good idea?

No, I don’t, and I’m well-aware of EUI-64.

IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing because some on the design committee or making comments on the drafts thought that 64 bits might not be enough.

New comment by gonzo in "Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]"

gonzo — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:03:02 +0000

A bit of background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_Pistol

Link is from here: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-end-of-the-mamba-a-tale...

New comment by gonzo in "FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations"

gonzo — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:24:49 +0000

Yes, they only cost more and have greater power consumption