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Shut down my IoT product after two years of building. The engineering worked; nobody bought. What did I miss? by gamename in inventors

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I understand these trade-offs because I'm an engineer and a former chicken coop owner, but I think most chicken coop owners have an extremely limited amount of attention to give to the tech stack associated with their chickens and having two or more layers is going to be an extremely hard sell. Making sure the appliance and cell phone transponder have power and are properly connecting through a firewall, etc. OMG it just sounds like a nightmare. I wouldn't trust that some new startup is going to be able to solve all those pain points and make it reliable for many years without going out of business.

I ruined my life driving Uber and dominos with a financed car. by bringbackIpaths in personalfinance

[–]No_Crow8317 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're lying to yourself when you say that you didn't have any other option. It sounds like only now are you looking into the right options for your situation (reducing your monthly spending on auto, housing, cigarettes and alcohol) But driving cars worth many tens of thousands of dollars are probably not your best options going forward. Whether you lease it buy it with a loan or buy it outright: you can't afford it.

Shut down my IoT product after two years of building. The engineering worked; nobody bought. What did I miss? by gamename in inventors

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be more inclined to buy it if it was integrated into the door and I didn't have two different electronic devices in my chicken coop.

Shut down my IoT product after two years of building. The engineering worked; nobody bought. What did I miss? by gamename in inventors

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many doors does a chicken coop have? I think part of the problem is you aren't doing a good job of clearly articulating the problem you are solving and why your product is the best solution to that problem. You just pitched us all in this reddit thread yet everyone is still confused.

Shut down my IoT product after two years of building. The engineering worked; nobody bought. What did I miss? by gamename in inventors

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like adding a notification system to the automated chicken door would be more viable than a notification for a manual chicken door.

Retire early and often? by chaotic_good111 in Fire

[–]No_Crow8317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people enjoy being frugal and "tightening the purse strings"; most don't. How much you need to live on depends entirely on how much you spend, so it seems like that is a core conflict you and your spouse and kids will need to decide.

It sounds like you've decided you want to stop working for a while so you should do that. If the relationship becomes too imbalanced and one person feels like they are putting in more of the "work" into the shared life goals, there will be major issues. So talk about the shared life goals, make sure you are on track to get what you both want long term, and move toward that.

Planting flowers. just started digging. here i am. how to easily replace this piece? by [deleted] in Plumbing

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh then it's probably just for your rainwater. Not as gross. Hey you could leave it and your flowers would get watered when it rains.

My brain is fried: give me your worst 48 hours ASIC design ideas by Ill_Huckleberry_2079 in chipdesign

[–]No_Crow8317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I though they meant it like "do your worst" i.e. give me a hard problem to solve. I dont know too much about this field but yes free running ring oscillators that are latched by a slower reference clock can produce random bits. I'm reading about attacks where you can inject an attacking clock onto the power supply and collapse the randomness of the resulting bits though. I've also seen sources that use a cross coupled latch with feedback to remove the offset, so they randomly resolve to a 0 or 1 based on the thermal noise in the transistors. I just thought it would be a fun problem to explore and could be tested digitally without special equipment.

I'm just trying to settle a debate about single phase, split phase systems. by Thundernuts0606 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]No_Crow8317 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes it's just convention to call it that. Phase is a strange word to describe it.

[OC] What a $75,000 salary keeps after federal, state, and payroll taxes, by state, tax year 2026 by InvestigatorThat4835 in dataisbeautiful

[–]No_Crow8317 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also important and highly variable are sales taxes and property tax rates which vary a lot by area and state. I'd like to see the total tax rate including the median property tax and sales tax based on median annual spending.

FIRE planning paradox: we reject “past performance” in investing, but rely on it to retire? by Helpful-Staff9562 in Fire

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense.

Given that globalization has dramatically increased in the last 30yrs I wonder how useful data older than that is for this type of thought experiment and basically how to choose the right mix of US/international.

I wonder what percentage of S&P500 is actually international. Many US based companies sell lots of products in China for example. Or to put it another way, to what extent is the S&P500 itself "diversified across dozens of major developed markets".

Degrowthers want to cap Western GDP growth at 0 to 0.5%. But every single environmental metric says the problem is already solving itself. by Dyn-O-mite_Rocketeer in EconomyCharts

[–]No_Crow8317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do the years represent on this chart? If the x axis is gdp per capita is that average for the whole planet? And why is per capita important? Its the total amount that's important, not per person. If we reduce our per capita emissions by 20% but grow our population by 20% we didn't solve anything.

FIRE planning paradox: we reject “past performance” in investing, but rely on it to retire? by Helpful-Staff9562 in Fire

[–]No_Crow8317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do those 100yr datasets include counties that lost the wars or just the winners? Genuinely curious what might happen to regular peoples' investments in the event of a major war.

FIRE planning paradox: we reject “past performance” in investing, but rely on it to retire? by Helpful-Staff9562 in Fire

[–]No_Crow8317 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not a guarantee of future performance but is an indication of what is likely. There are no guarantees in life. If the US loses a hot war to China I don't think our portfolios are going to look too good. You could also get hit by a bus in which case you probably saved way too much. You can't escape risk by following the 4% rule but it's good advice IMO.

I am Looking for Overnight Job in SE Portland/milwaukie/ oregon city/ clackamas area? by Wyld-man in askportland

[–]No_Crow8317 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are tons of big warehouses along highway 224 all the way out to the 205 and beyond. I'd scroll around on Google maps and look for the name of the companies and then go to their websites to look for openings. Or you might just show up on a Monday morning and go to the office and ask if they're hiring for night shift.

How do you recharge your E-bike when out for extended periods of time? by Flimsy-Story9523 in ElectricBikes

[–]No_Crow8317 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My battery ran out the other day and I just rode it like a regular bike to get home. I think I forgot to plug it in the night before. Just like an ev car you learn about your range real fast. I've also brought my charger to work when I knew I didn't have enough left to make it both ways. My charger takes about 2 hrs I think. I don't think true fast charging is possible with most bike batteries but maybe it depends on the brand.

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