A gesture on the watch that just starts the recorder seems a lot more practical, this ring just adds an unnecessary complication. Plus, $100 is a lot for something that they don't want you to service.

I'd rather much have a lot of big programmable buttons on the watch itself and have a smaller display or a separate BLE remote with lots of buttons.

There are ways to offset the feed costs by growing your own feed or tapping into waste streams like food/produce scraps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27796948 (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622767 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025852 (2016)

I would also argue he is not being singled out, here are some comments posted criticizing Steve Jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28295688 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578642

It really shouldn't come as a surprise that notable people related to a company or project are brought up when an article about it appears on HN.

In my view, Elon's spent most of his good will reputation capital. Of course, we still do have the super-fans who are willing to look past his petulant behavior and give him a pass for his bone-head business moves.

The other take is that he's a genius and a hostile takeover of Twitter was just a checkpoint on the way to making US government his puppet state. Congress is twiddling their thumbs while Musk is apparently preparing to siphon off taxpayer dollars into Space X, Tesla or other ventures.

Either way, it's bad. I loathe the man and fear what could happen.

People hate it and there has been a big effort from activists to turn it over to public hands. The local politicians are on board for the most part, but the company is of course fighting tooth and nail.

Y Combinator is really showing an incredible lack of judgement in even thinking this was a good idea. SV bubble I guess?

Now I would love to see him fulfill his dream of being a Martian pioneer - as long as he doesn't return to earth. In my view, he is an embarrassment to the tech community and the United States. His childish and petty behavior has no place in a civil society.

My reason for starting a channel was to have a discussion around some of the projects I was working on that I found interesting. This never materialized. I never had a ton of engagement, but if I did most questions asked by viewers that are answered in the video.

I monetized my videos and started making beer-money amounts of revenue. I put more and more time into them but never gained traction. I had a few "evergreen" videos that would make maybe a thousand bucks a year, the rest of the videos hardly got any views at all.

Eventually, I found myself making videos to feed the algorithm not because it was a project that I wanted to do. This is where I had to stop. I realized that I just don't like editing videos.

My channel makes no revenue now because YouTube requires an upload schedule and shorts. Mr Beast's job sounds awful to me. The videos I make now only get dozens to hundreds of views when they're published. I mostly share them with friends and in online communities where the info contained might be helpful.

I noticed he had a couple of packs of playing cards on his coffee table and upon closer inspection, I realized that each card in Uno maps to a card in 52 card deck. A standard Uno deck has 108 cards, which is a standard 52-card deck plus the jokers.

So we played Uno with his two decks of playing cards.

I used it to design an injection mold and I am still using it for 3d printing projects. It's a capable program and on-par with SolidWorks or Inventor for basic modeling.

I haven't tried OnShape yet, but if I didn't have Alibre I'd probably look into that or another web-based program for new hobby projects. I like the idea of perpetual licenses but it's only perpetual for as long as it runs on your operating system.

This notebook was filled with cartoons and illustrations representing what occurred during the meeting and it looked like I was diligently taking notes. Definitely helped me focus and stay tuned-in to what was going on in the meeting.

If you can find a firm that is capable of doing the work, then you can figure out how you will maintain the software. You'd have to determine whether it would be better to engage that firm for the maintenance or hire someone. Possibly a combination of both. This could be done while the software is being built.

Large software projects are more likely to take longer than estimated and go over budget, so be sure to factor this in to your calculations.

It's a bad idea to get pilots in the air with less training. People can't safely pilot cars in two dimensions.

Making the avionics easier to use and more affordable sounds like the actual winning product.

All the math, software, and mechanical folks had to "5S their work area". Our manager gave us rolls of tape and a label printer so we could mark off where everything on our desk was supposed to be put away. The instructions we were handed showed marking off staplers and tape dispensers for desk jobs. It really was absurd!

They furloughed everyone in the company a few weeks later and I decided it really wasn't the place for me.