Rob Ferrante

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Rob Ferrante

Rob Ferrante

@robferrante

Rational Optimist. Design engineer, EE, assembly-line worker. Working at the union of KiCad and FreeCad.

Beigetreten Şubat 2010
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Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
@OrevaZSN It has nothing to do with whether the person is poor or rich. It's about whether money was earned or given. If the latter, people tend to have opinions on how their public funds are spent. If it's earned, people tend to not care. That's the difference.
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Jonathan Blow
Jonathan Blow@Jonathan_Blow·
Is it just me, or did the Internet get milder for a while, but lately the anons went back to being huge a-holes who are egotistical-without-justificaiton and make no positive contribution? (Unrelated, I have been reading comments on YouTube clips...) x.com/ape_detective/…
Ben White@ape_detective

The chips all have to be identical within some small tolerances to work correctly. It doesn’t make sense to monkey with the recipe. If it looks like conservatism to you, then you need to look harder and at different parts. The changes happen on the research line, not the production line.

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Clifford Asness
Clifford Asness@CliffordAsness·
In Atlas Shrugged they passed laws to stop businessmen from quitting. Just saying.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@JBlunt1018 If it only increases the workforce by 0.5% (tech by 5%), why are we doing it?
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James Blunt
James Blunt@JBlunt1018·
For perspective: each dot is American workers. The tiny yellow cluster are the H-1B workers <0.5% of the workforce. That’s what’s being framed as a ‘crisis.’ There’s no Indian takeover. There are no talented unemployed Americans being replaced. This debate is being driven more by emotion than by the actual numbers.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@esjesjesj Except they don't "rejoin society". They just destroy it.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@davepl1968 @DavidBCollum But even the guy working for the electrician co. is getting $80.00 an hour. Quite a bit more than the average college grad.
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Dave W Plummer
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
@DavidBCollum Because running a business is hard. Getting a degree and working for a megacorp is easier. You pay your dues either way, if you're successful.
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Dave Collum
Dave Collum@DavidBCollum·
If my electrician charges $175 per hour, somebody is going to have to explain to me why you would spend four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@TheLaurenChen It's taking possibly 6 figures out of a person's after tax income, without having to provide any evidence.
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Lauren Chen
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen·
If a man needs to pay child support, he should be entitled to a paternity test. I've yet to hear an argument against this that doesn't come down to "But I want to take advantage of men."
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RJ@RJSprouse·
@Geiger_Capital Pretty soon these billionaires will have no where to hide their wealth. Tick tock.
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Geiger Capital
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital·
Ken Griffin says he's scaling down in NYC: "What the mayor of New York has made clear to us, is that we need to double down on Miami."
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo·
Imagine building your persona around studying the lives of the great Roman emperors and then adopting the language and mannerisms of a hysterical middle-aged woman who binges NPR and invents stories about her brave-and-stunning daughter resisting Trump. Ruthkanda Forever!
Ryan Holiday@RyanHoliday

It doesn’t matter who you voted for or what your political beliefs are; putting kids in detention centers is wrong. When I look at my two boys, I don’t think about them getting taken. No parent should. And it shouldn’t be a privilege that we have because of what we look like. Everyone deserves that right. This has to stop.

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No Farmers, No Food
No Farmers, No Food@NoFarmsNoFoods·
Switzerland 🇨🇭 Solar panels on train tracks. This makes a lot more sense than plastering them over prime farmland and reducing food supply.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@davepl1968 Start with the center pixel (x,y) and draw lines with a loop starting at x+1, x-1, y+1, y-1.
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Dave W Plummer
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
I'm going to give you a computer science problem, covered by a software patent (US 4,197,590). Let's see if it's "obvious" to experts in the field. You're on a monochrome display. You want to draw a PLUS sign cursor, like in a paint program, leaving the pixel in the middle unchanged. How do you draw the vertical and horizontal lines without stomping on the center pixel? Do you save the center and put it back later? Or what's your solution? No sprites, of course, all done via Get/SetPixel(x,y) only. Assume something like bool GetPixel(uint x, uint y); void SetPixel(uint x, uint y, bool b);
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David
David@DMHEconOwl·
Yes because markets are so stable and provide everyone with everything they need 😆🤣
Adam Taylor@ATaylorFPGA

@tonyannett Yes because statists and globalists have done so well for us all.

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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@JimDMiller Natural selection works on the current generation, in the present. Inheritance is a by-product of selection.
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James Miller
James Miller@JimDMiller·
Given that women have a strong preference for tall men, and given that height is highly heritable, why hasn't evolution given men a stronger preference for tall women?
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@TrueOnX In the world he wants, everyone thinks Covid-19 came from a Pangolin, and I go to jail for writing this tweet.
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Noah B. Price
Noah B. Price@TrueOnX·
🚨 EXTREMELY ALARMING: John Kerry at the WEF just said the quiet part out loud: "Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer "disinformation" out of existence... We need to win the right to govern so we’re free to implement change." They don’t want to debate ideas. They want to delete them. The elite’s war on free speech is now on full display. RETWEET if you still believe the 1st Amendment is NON-NEGOTIABLE. Let me know what you think, and SHARE THIS so that others may too!
Noah B. Price@TrueOnX

🚨 Klaus Schwab just admitted the quiet part out loud. "The world will no longer be run by superpowers like America… it will be run by the World Economic Forum and its stakeholders; BlackRock, Bill Gates, and the rest of the global elite." They're not even pretending anymore... National governments? Out. Your freedom? A subscription service. Your future? Managed by unelected billionaires in Davos. This is the Great Reset in real time... a corporate takeover of the planet. Wake up. Push back. Share this before they memory-hole it.

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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@TrueOnX Wow, can't believe John Kerry saying that. This guy was an American politician and now he wants to trash the constitution, for his version of "progress".
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@TheRabbitHole A parent will do anything they can to give their child an advantage, and rightly so. Been true since the beginning of parents.
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The Rabbit Hole
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole·
It’s good when parents do everything they can to set their kids up for success in life. This includes reading.
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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@HannahDCox @WomanDefiner You need the denominator. 90% of violent crimes could be committed by even 1% of males, easily. 6% is probably too high in fact.
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Hannah Cox
Hannah Cox@HannahDCox·
A majority of states have the dp. Study after study show it has no impact on violence rates. Again, this is an example of emotional thinking lol. Men commit over 90 PERCENT of all violent crimes, and no it isn’t just 6% doing it please be for real. Lastly, immigrants commit fewer crimes than natural born citizens. So here we have several examples of you applying emotional impulses to formulate your sociopolitical stances, not facts.
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Paul@WomanDefiner·
Crime rates would be drastically reduced if you allowed men to use capital punishments as we want but instead we are stuck with restorative justice and women judges feeling bad for rapist and murderers. Something like 6% of men commit a violent crime in America in their lifetime but violence isn't the only emotion is it? We have allowed in 200 million immigrants legal and illegal since 1990 and almost all of that was done because women feel bad for poor people.
Hannah Cox@HannahDCox

@WomanDefiner The fact you can believe this with the crime stats being what they are is insane.

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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@CooperZurad Tooling costs are so high that molding only makes sense for huge numbers, and you need the capital up-front.
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Cooper@CooperZurad·
I keep on wanting to do SLS, SLA, or MJF for parts, but I keep coming back to the fact that injection molding just beats printing economically so so hard
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Diane Yap
Diane Yap@RealDianeYap·
The gender far more likely to commit violent crime or kill people is better at controlling their emotions? That’s a funny joke.
Paul@WomanDefiner

My 24 year old niece asked me the other day if I thought men or women could control their emotions better. I explained that men can and one of the main contributing factors to that outside of genetics and biology is that when men act crazy its okay to use violence against them. That is untrue for women in 99.9% of cases. I got a "I can see that".

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Rob Ferrante@robferrante·
@123itsmeMary No one promoting STEM would ever de-prioritize reading and writing.
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