Low cost home IC development is something very needed for agriculture. If we think about current and future farming equipment, it's digital. We need to provide them the ability to repair themselves and mod.
You can just get finished Microcontrollers that you can program yourself for a fraction of a fraction of the price to make them yourself, and orders of magnitude more capable. You will not be able to make a chip more capable than an ESP32 for less than $2, so how would making an IC yourself help you?
I imagine it would be in preparedness for a time when you could no longer get such powerful chips so cheaply and quickly, or for one where you no longer trusted the chips you could get for some reason.
How about we let them flash the ICs that they have first? Or allow them to change the maximum speed on the vehicle without having to go to the service center and paying 300 to 500$.
Why are we talking about low cost at home IC development for farmers while we don't let them do even that.
Forcing companies to open source their software is not possible, but making sure we can replace each component after warranty? There are strong right to repair movements, it's just matter of time.
But you still have to reverse engineer the IC before you can replace it - and once you have that it's still cheaper to have it manufactured in an existing Fab than to build your own.
Forcing companies to open source their software is certainly possible for some senses of the word "possible". You could go a long way in that direction just by changing the copyright law to not cover software, or to only cover software if the source code is deposited with the Library of Congress. Or you could change product liability law to declare products shipped without complete, compilable source code for their firmware to be "defective". Right now the political support for such changes isn't there, but that can change over time.
More likely we're going to go in the opposite direction, though.
My father grew up on a farm and I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, this is a step in the right direction but the goal is still a long ways off. Farmers don't have a spare $50k sitting around to build hobbyist IC fabs in the barn.
Any IC that would be practical to DIY is available for <$1 and you could probably get something 1000x more powerful for nearly the same price. Making chips isn't the issue here.
If I understand correctly this tool focuses on ability to create easily extractors from documents.
I'm wondering who is your target audience?
If it's a company operations (accounting, procurement, etc),you missed it, they want to setup once then use it and access documents.
If it's for developers to quickly build extractors for different company ops, then I'm missing API, scoring, integrations.
I'm playing around a bit with 1 now. I've actually done a bit of 2 and I can tell you that the idea of growing enough calories to feed yourself is fairly daunting, which makes 3 a bit difficult (although I've had problems with that anyway I suppose).
Don't buy things you don't need and avoid products that don't last (i.e. break in a year or two). Try to repair a broken product first, before buying a new one.
Minimize commute & travel. Use public transport when you do.
Talk to other people how you did it, so that ideas can spread and norms change.
It reminds me of a scam they tried with my mom: and old person that apparently cannot read asks you about a lottery ticket, another “random” person comes and checks the lottery results from their phone, and you have a winning ticket for millions in your hand. Old person says it is hard for them to do cash it and asks for help, the random person pulls you in a corner and says you could offer some money to buy the ticket and cash it.
Well, mom was naive enough to believe it but honest enough to reject it.
It flips the who is scamming and who is the scammer around so that you think you are the one getting an advantage, much like here where you would withdraw some money that clearly is not yours. Much less likely to report.
Also makes the scammers feel less guilty when you also tries to scam another person.
This is exact same topic I was wondering.
Frame + electric motor + battery + gamepad + cpu.
From my research, it's boils down to:
1. Car is still a wealth marker. Not enough people think about it just as a means of transpiration. If they do they mostly use public transport or uber/escooters.
2. Car frame - you need to meet security standards, it cost a lot
3. Battery - current technology is expensive
4. Car lobby - especially in Europe, there are large tariffs to bring EV cars from Asia.
I like the idea. Pricing is a little bit odd, is small enough that I understand you will get other clients simultaneously, and large enough I want to gamble with East Europe dev agency.
I appreciate your feedback!
While some clients prefer to outsource development overseas, others prefer to work with "local" US agency, since I'm located in Texas. Some clients may also have a project with sensitive information they don't want to send offshore (I worked on such projects).
The local presence and commitment to client confidentiality can further differentiate SwiftAppLab from overseas outsourcing options.
Glad to see feedback from real users. My company was pitched by Paradox [1] to use their chatbot and this bizarre questionnaire to hire SW.
Their solution target mostly McDonalds workers and other bluecollar, where I believe it's "okeish to put human beings thru the mud first".
They claim [2] there is science behind it, but me and my partner's feedback was it will never work for IT workers.
Selecting people with low self-worth that can be easily broken. You don't want a free thinker with vocal opinions and entitlement (warranted or not) working at your McDonalds - you want a drone that is just good enough to do the job.
Hiring process often is a reflection of work culture. Shitty process will remove candidates that won't fit the culture.
I think most of the jobs that use this kind of filtering are also low wage / low prestige where churn and training represent a significant fraction of the labor cost. So they are probably simply selecting for a certain degree of precarity & economic desperation, trying to exclude people who are looking for a little extra money to meet personal goals or fill periods between better paid work.
I'm trying to phrase this neutrally but IMO this motive is just as bad.
I too miss when a job could just be agreed upon labor for income and not this attempt to shackle a worker to some quasi indentured servitude.
There's that meme of "no one wants to work anymore" and meanwhile these entry level labor jobs act like they want to test for government clearance just to flip a burger or deliver mail.
I took a more general test at a job agency, as there was warehouse work, cleaning, assembly line and so on available.
I argued at the end that I had 100%, since 295 × 3 (or something) could not possibly be the answer given on the answer sheet, as the last digit wasn't 5.
They eventually found a calculator and found their answer sheet was wrong. Supposedly, no-one had noticed before, though now I wonder if it's possible it was a test of personality.
Probably not, as many people probably would find that question difficult on a test with questions like "Put Smith, Jones and Patel in alphabetical order".
