rchowe

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by rchowe 2mo ago
One of the ways that the AMA gatekeeps is to limit the number of medical school seats and residency slots in the US (residency is run by Medicare). Quality of life (at work) for many physicians is arguably pretty bad due to long hours, admi
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by rchowe 3mo ago
My father, who worked as a market research analyst, said that the trick to the job was "point out the obvious before anyone else does". Web sites and web content are trending towards being enshittified until it just barely becomes
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by rchowe 4mo ago
Python has a much more mature ecosystem than Rust, especially for AI/ML stuff. I ran into a rust crate that purported to do a certain ML algorithm but did not do it correctly. I managed to write a replacement with Claude though. I do t
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by rchowe 9mo ago
Using either Calibri or Times New Roman makes it look like you did not put any thought into your brand and chose the default in Microsoft Word. The State department probably has certain constraints (i.e. they likely have to choose one of th
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by rchowe 1y ago
I don't think I was specific enough on what kind of structured data. The idea is that it extracts information from the text/HTML content of emails (e.g. a flight itinerary from an airline booking email or an ingredient list from a
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by rchowe 1y ago
I have two: The first is a preventive maintenance and calibration tracker ( https://pmcal.net ) that was born out of my day job as an engineer in small business manufacturing. The second is an AI engine for pulling structured data
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by rchowe 1y ago
I discovered I liked business planning, strategy, and marketing pretty early in my technical career. I also discovered that one of the thing business people bring to a company are connections, especially if they have already worked in a ver
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by rchowe 1y ago
The quality of store management seems to affect a lot when it comes to Walmart. I have been to some Walmart stores where I have never seen any unfolded clothing. I have been to some Walmart stores where I have never seen any folded clothing
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by rchowe 1y ago
Thank you for this. I have been on r/manufacturing and if someone asks for a solution like this I am ready with a link :) I will check out the forum.
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by rchowe 1y ago
Thank you. My day job is as an engineer in manufacturing so I felt like I had a unique opportunity to "build what I know" and have seen people use and enjoy. It's a worthwhile project to build yourself. If nothing else I foun
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by rchowe 1y ago
I wrote a small business preventive maintenance and calibration tracker ( https://pmcal.net ) as a side project. A few manufacturing companies that I have a close relationship with are using it and love it, but I have kind of hit
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by rchowe 2y ago
Walmart having a very large fleet of corporate private jets likely made the decision and trip easier for him.
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by rchowe 2y ago
I played with OpenHands for a few days (using gpt-4o since I already had an OpenAI account). I found it to be decent at writing new code, but then it had a hard time making changes when there was a lot of repetitive code (in a TypeScript &#
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by rchowe 2y ago
I heard a story of a fishing boat in the eastern US that was "fighting a fish" for miles but could never get any traction. When another fisherman looked at their chart, he noted that they were dragged miles in a straight line towa
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by rchowe 2y ago
Our area measurement application did not require that tight a tolerance (we were estimating yield on broken material). If I needed that tight a tolerance, I could have gotten proof coins from the mint, or potentially switched to using a rea
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by rchowe 2y ago
I built a computer vision device that used the top-down area of a penny as a calibration standard. Coins are useful, easy-to-get items that have relatively tight manufacturing tolerances.
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by rchowe 2y ago
Generally in order to ticket an itinerary, there needs to be at least one flight marketed (e.g. with the airline's flight number) by the "plating carrier" whose ticket stock the flights are issued on. I can't buy an itin
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by rchowe 2y ago
I'm not as familiar with foil resistors, but if you apply the same rules as thin film I would expect that you could trim this with a normal meter (the ± is 0.1 ohms) and the major cost driver is laser trim time and the space cost of so
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by rchowe 2y ago
It depends on the component and the company/process. Laser trim time for thin film is a significant cost-driver, so if possible you want to aim for a specific value and reject or bin-sort the rest out. My company only makes 1% toleranc
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by rchowe 2y ago
Thin-film resistor design engineer here! It's dependent on value and geometry -- if you order a 0.5 ohm resistor the meters on our trimming lasers only go down to 20 mΩ and you're getting a 5% part at best.
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by rchowe 2y ago
Recipes aren't copyrightable, so websites add some filler that is copyrightable to the start.
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by rchowe 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | BOSTON, MA and PROVIDENCE, RI | REMOTE POSSIBLE | PART TIME Technologies: ASP.NET Core, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS are the most common I'm a full-stack engineer and I've manag
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by rchowe 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | BOSTON, MA and PROVIDENCE, RI | REMOTE POSSIBLE | PART TIME Technologies: ASP.NET Core, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS are the most common I'm a full-stack engineer and I've manag
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by rchowe 3y ago
I believe the economics of VPN companies is that they have a quite inexpensive, commodity product which has a lot of churn. The ads get people to sign up for a month or two at any price, which pays for the cost of the ads. Tom Scott’s video
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by rchowe 3y ago
This happened to my grandmother during the end of her life. Most people don't realize that many blind people retain some sort of vision or light perception. - If you write her letters or need to write anything on paper for her, buy som
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by rchowe 3y ago
What always bothered me about "B corps" was that the name suggests something analogous to C corp or S corp, which in most states is not actually the case. I think my home state of Massachusetts does it well and labels them as &quo
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by rchowe 3y ago
The US government had its own issues faking Soviet passports — Soviet staples were made of regular steel but US staples were made of stainless steel, so a genuine Soviet passport would have rust stains in it while a fake passport made by th
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by rchowe 3y ago
I like that the Tesla connector is smaller than J1772 or CCS. Since DC fast charging is still a pretty new technology, if companies were required to defer to a standard we would still have giant CHAdeMO connectors. I don't think we sho
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by rchowe 3y ago
I think many more people are going to use the vendor-supported updates than jailbreak their device.
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by rchowe 3y ago
Also that the order of columns matters in multi-column indices (although some index types can technically use any column), so the first column in the list should be something like a partition key or something that will slice down the data a

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