Tarik Ansari

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. — Bill Gates

@mattparlmer Besides servos & die cast/raw materials, I’d think the cost in concentrated on (1) joints/collets, and (2) point to point tolerances / GD&T. Your joints will have bushings, bearings, press-fits etc. and their longevity/reliability will be tolerance-driven. It’s all tolerances.

$6895 10kg payload 6dof robot arm from China We can't let this sort of thing slide, time for a $5000 robot arm from America

@TeamYouTube This doesn't help! Also 2FA was never enabled on the account. I have been talking with support and stuck in circles being referred back to the doc. No matter what I do can't get back in the account without sending a code to a phone number I no longer have. I need an escalation.

@tarikjn here to help! if you're having issues w/ 2-factor authentication, it's best to check this resource for more tips: goo.gle/3yOyFea this troubleshooter might help too: goo.gle/3Rj0Po6

@TeamYouTube I am trying to access my Starting-Up in America YT account w a film I directed 13 years ago youtube.com/watch?v=5Nz4N2… — I have the correct ID & password + access to emails send on the account. I cannot login as Google insist on sending a code on an old phone #. Help!

@SpaceX Starship:

Watch Starship’s fourth flight test → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@elonmusk Few understand this, but at some point Starlink will have latencies on major paths beating fiber & undersea cables. Huge deal for high frequency trading, and could pretty much make up Starlink’s bottom line for decades to come. See: speed of light in glass vs vacuum.

Median latency for Starlink Internet in the US will get below 20ms

@kamilkazani Not surprising. A lot of prev American machine tools in the US are now European. The US rolled on WW2 machine tool tech until it also had a discontinuity when it went through offshoring. Europe rebuilt its industries after WW2. China started with and still has a ton of EU tools.

Now that is because those toy, irrelevant countries are, in fact, the Old Industrial Powers. And the Old Industrial Powers control the key, strategic industries that constitute the fabric of our industrial civilisation. They produce the means of production, for everyone.

Waldrich Coburg 🇩🇪 Speedram 🇮🇹 Toshulin 🇨🇿 Again, all Western Europe with only rare inclusions of Japan/Taiwan

@benjamin_bolte Great engineering culture can be found more often that you’d think among small groups but is by nature somewhat under the radar. It becomes more renowned but rarified when companies become large. On a long enough timeline it becomes extinct from almost all large organizations.

I was chatting with a former friend from Tesla about how he needs to keep the flickering candle of great engineering alive - there are a very, very small number of organizations that can capture this. Team at K-Scale feels Tesla-level imo

Geomagnetic solar storm seen over Nevada a few hours ago at 37,000ft.

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies Although — if your goal is to run factories and an integrated design can be proven to work & can be tooled easily, your calculus might move towards raw material in vs off the shelf parts.

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies It looks messy if ran as an off the shelf component, but I’m wondering if it could work well if the whole process is integrated like an “engine”. Understandably not what you are going after.

@CJHandmer love following @TerraformIndies 's progress. Question: why did you choose going with CaCO3 cycle for CO2 capture vs a staged Cryocooler collecting both moisture + CO2 with the hot side helping out the Sabatier reactor? Is it cost? It could potentially be made for less.

@AdamHertz I hope it all turns out alright Adam, praying for your health ❤️

@jeremybernier @JoelEngardio love those writeups, keep them coming! 💪 we need more problem-solvers involved in local politics

Went to SF Politics 101 by SF Board supervisor @JoelEngardio. Fantastic and highly recommended to anyone interested in SF politics and history I asked him why they haven't fixed the outrageous open drug problem in San Francisco that everyone is fed up with. He mentioned things like: - Voters electing Board members who are against forcing drug addicts into rehab against their will - Voters electing judges who don't punish criminals - Lack of police officers He said SF needs 2-3 more Board Members on our side to be able to change the situation now so that these fentanyl addicts dying on the streets can finally be forced into rehab and given treatment. I hope that this election cycle we'll finally be able to kick out these ideologue idiots like Dean Preston who've destroyed the city and turned it into I Am Legend zombieland. Their experiment has failed, and they need to be kicked out and replaced with sane people with real, practical solutions. Last year there were 2-3 fentanyl deaths/day in SF - enough is enough. Another takeaway I had from the lecture was that SF progressives are idiots and destroying the city. Progressives are the NIMBYs voting against all development of new housing unless the housing is only accessible to poor people, something progressives call "affordable housing" to make this sound noble when the reality is that it's "non-market rate housing that only people under a certain income threshold can qualify for via some lottery system". There's a giant parking lot downtown that would've been used to build new housing, but progressives blocked it on the grounds that it would gentrify the neighborhood and price out low income residents. Progressives would essentially rather keep neighborhoods in depressed conditions of squalor just to keep rents affordable (I suppose that's another theory for why the Tenderloin is such a dumpster fire). It's the equivalent of dumping on your lawn in a desperate attempt to keep the rent down. Progressives seem to lack the basic intelligence to grasp the simple concept of supply and demand. More supply leads to reduced prices. Blocking new housing development in a city with a housing crisis in the name of affordable housing is like blocking new farmland development when there's a famine in the name of keeping food affordable - utter stupidity that should have us all seriously questioning our education system if our citizens are this inept in basic logic and critical thinking. On an unrelated note: I didn't know that there used to be a big ugly highway in front of the Ferry building, and that it's demolition in 1991 only passed by a single vote. Also that ugly Geary expressway was built by demolishing buildings in the Fillmore District, once dubbed the "Harlem of the West", an African American area famous for its jazz scene. Japantown was also affected, further disrupting and displacing the Japanese Americans (mostly U.S citizens) who'd already been sent to prison camps during WWII. It's amazing what implications a single decision can have over the course of history.

@MarieArm @ShopifySupport Got the same issue. Went like this: found a checkout bug > open chat assistant > file attach crashes the chat while talking to an advisor > refresh the window, chat bot is like f'u you need to start again but you can email > email is like f'u use the chat 🤡

@ShopifySupport LOL They actually told me to send an email to support. I had already tried that and got an auto response that emails are not longer accepted.

@ShopifySupport Where can I find inventory adjustment history now?

@BanksLee13 @rossiadam Look into color temperature and CRI.

@rossiadam My wife won’t let me use anything but incandescent. Says the LED is cold and depressing. She’s not wrong

The LED light bulbs I put all over the house were advertised to last 25 years. At the ten year mark now and many are developing a flickering, which is even more annoying than burning out.

@rossiadam There is a wide range in LED bulb quality. The main factor affecting longevity is heat dissipation. If your LEDs get hot they won’t last long. Often an issue when using LEDs in fixtures primarly designed for incandescent.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Been learning a bit more about @southpkcommons & I love to see a community focusing exclusively on -1 to 0 with funding to back it up. Without funding & time, the best talents are doomed to work on optimizing ads, implementing features for B2B SaaS and building ChatGPT layers.

@ankurnagpal @teachable I made a film about this issue 14 years ago: youtube.com/watch?v=5Nz4N2… Some rules have been clarified & tweaked, but the system is fundamentally the same. The more someone has been in the US, the less options they have which is backward.

Curious what an immigrant to America has to go through before they can legally start a startup? Here was my insane journey before starting @teachable at 24: - Moved here for college at 17 - Graduated college at 20. Found a loophole to create my own LLC and sponsor my “training” after my degree for 12 months - Because I was in a technical field, I could then extend it for another 17 months Then, I ran out of time. Now what? - Googled the cheapest community college nearby (go Foothill Owls!) and enrolled in random songwriting classes to stay in America - Got threatened with deportation when the USCIS saw I was only enrolled in online classes - Realized driving to Los Altos for classes I didn’t care for was insane and begged a friend to hire me so that I could apply for an O-1 visa - Used my successful O-1 application to finally apply for a green card Only then could I finally start the startup I always wanted to —— As insane as this sounds, most successful immigrants in America have a similar story. And for every one of us that stuck it out, countless others end up leaving or not coming here in the first place Can you imagine what it would be like if we made it super easy for high potential immigrants to start businesses in America?

@stripesco_ your public-facing email is down (i**o@stripes.co)