plugging Osh Park as a non overseas PCB alternative (no affiliation)

[0] https://oshpark.com/

I'm aware of osh park, but it's immediately apparent how they are not cost competitive to China, and that this is a structural issue

As we become acclimated to non deterministic responses from computers it may not even matter if some of that comes from the hardware.

Eventually it will be seen as a feature.

It has been a viable strategy at least since Taylor 1911

Pre industrial revolution something like 80+ percent of the population was involved in agriculture. I question the assertion of more farmers now especially since an ever growing percentage of farms are not even owned by corporeal entities never mind actual farmers.

ooohhh I think I missed the intent of the statement... well done!

80% of the world population back then is less than 50% of the current number of people working in farming, so the assertion isn’t wrong, even if fewer people are working on farming proportionally (as it should be, as more complex, desirable and higher paid options exist)

You might be underestimating complexity and pay. What is and isn’t desirable, and to whom, is also complicated.

I am not sure if this is sarcasm or a commentary on the explosion of the number of humans out there.

i don't think you missed it. Perhaps sarcasm, but the main comment is specifically about programming and seems so many sub comments want to say "what about X" that's nothing to do with programming.

from how to be a plumber --

  Shit flows downhill, payday is on Friday.

You forgot the most important rule of plumbing: Don’t bite your fingernails.

replaced the broken spring on an ABANA style treadle hammer.

breaking it in the first place was more fun

just carry the one back

just checked and AmiNet is still up!

https://www.aminet.net/

maybe start your searching there

Those interstate highways are starting to look pretty good as the fuel guage drops

I'd always been told this was planned into the implementation of the US Interstate Highway System. There are dead straight and level sections ever so many linear miles or per some gridsquare measure to serve as ad hoc landing strips in a national crisis. That's been 35+ years ago that I heard it and I haven't sought any supporting documentation since the dawn of the Internet. Any insight would be appreciated.

even a small country like Switzerland uses its highways to land fighterjets[0], wouldn't be weird to me if the US with their humongous highways uses them for the same reason. difference is that the swiss have to remove the middle crash barriers before landing, so less spontaneous.

[0]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-air-force-lands-fighter-p...

flock is a YC startup

We have met the enemy and he is us -Pogo

Are we the baddies?

Yep

I am the "Y-combinator". Do you have any questions?