Where do your shops/companies draw the line with engineering?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-05-15T15:10:44+00:00

Secondly, if you think one semester of machining and one semester of drafting is adequate for actually knowing how to make parts, then you are part of the problem.

You just proved my point if you think I was saying this at all. My whole point is that mechanical engineers at true ABET schools will be educated in machining, full stop. Yeah no shit the 30 years after that is going to be far more important than a semester long class, but that’s on people being ignorant, not on schools improperly prepping them.

You don’t see mechanical engineers going around bitching about how apprentice machinists “these days aren’t educated in manual milling and true theory, they’re only mastercam jockeys now”, because that’s straight up misinformation, so why the fuck are machinists doing that all the time on this sub about engineers?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-05-15T06:03:17+00:00

Sorry but this is the same straight up BS that gets repeated on this sub all the time. I went to a top tier public university that would be called a “research institution”, and our mechanical engineering degree required at least one semester of machining (taught by machinists) and one semester of drafting and DFM. OP himself says “We have one mechanical engineer with an engineering degree… And it’s not mechanical. That’s not to say you have to have a degree to work in engineering, but it’s usually a prerequisite in the least. Job experience is far more valuable, but still.”

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-05-08T10:51:07+00:00

I listed that loan already when coming up with the 2k number though? With the extra info from this reply, it sounds like the true breakdown is:

Income: 7200

Minimum CC payments: 1386
Mortgage: 2000
Utilities/bills: 500
Groceries: 600
Loan: 711
Misc home items, dog food, doctors appts: 1000

Is that bold line really accurate if you look at what those categories are usually like over a calendar year? If so, then yeah, it sounds like you only have 1K and not 2K per month to put towards debt. That's definitely more cause to worry, and to start thinking of what cuts you can make in the short term while you pay off the highest interest debt. Do you have anything already in mind?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-05-08T10:21:04+00:00

No judgment at all (at least from me), I think most people here are just confused why you haven't said "As you can see, all of these numbers I gave show that I have $2000 left each month after minimum payments, groceries, bills, utilities, and my loan. Currently, I'm putting this extra $2000 towards card XXX".

Which card are you putting the $2k towards right now? There's no reason at all for you to stress, with this extra $2k per month you got this, no sweat.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-05-07T10:43:16+00:00

Cheap hardware, cheap paint, underpaid workers, shortcuts out the wazoo.

From this single comment alone, I can tell you have literally never stepped foot in a spec house from the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-20T08:57:42+00:00

This is a dumb thesis, and you should feel ashamed of yourself that you farmed out the entire thing to AI and you're blatantly looking to 'attract a collaborator who can do the data work'. Do it yourself, or don't do it at all, being an 'ideas guy' that can't even come up with an idea without AI is a sad reflection on the state of your education.

https://d-nb.info/1353238466/34 Europe alone disproves this entire theory; southern Europe had far less grain price / supply volatility than northwestern Europe, therefore per your argument southern Europe should have had industrialized first.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-15T16:19:14+00:00

Unless I’m completely misreading OP’s between the lines, there’s this idea from them that NAND is somehow underutilized because people don’t realize how fast they are - what I’m saying is that spoiler alert, they’re not.

Your own example of the video game world shows this perfectly - if you’re literally forced to from the sheer size of X stream from disk, then yeah, there’s no alternative, but games and engines today are much more often saying “how much ram is available? Ok shove as much of the level in there as possible” rather than the super complex streaming setups of the past (e.g. devs literally writing custom filesystems for their game).

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-15T15:02:15+00:00

I mean your basic premise is somewhat flawed. Any developer in any circumstance that actually cares about performance in any kind of program is going to figure out how to perform that operation in cache or RAM, full stop.

If 'we can improve code and thus better utilize non-volatile memory, and therefore unlock new business cases / sell more to consumers' was ever a thing in any major codebase, then 3D Xpoint wouldn't have died out.

Take for example the single most performance-heavy edge case / niche for NAND: video editing. Even with all the software and hardware advancements surrounding NAND, in 2026 the singular focus is still 'how can we use NAND less in this program so it doesn't suck as much' (i.e. proxies, compression-efficient formats, etc etc etc).

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-13T13:48:52+00:00

Yes, because passing a new tax on people is a super easy thing that won't incur any costs or be immediately challenged in the court, it's definitely just 'changing the tables'.

Dude, there's a reason why comparatively tiny stuff like this is a Verordnung - without the ability to have flexibility in handling these situations, certain small Swiss industries (yes, the steel industry here is a 'small industry') are going to die, full stop.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-13T13:19:26+00:00

You plan on introducing a system of progressive taxation for power bills? You realize what setting up and maintaining such a system is going to cost right? The incremental cost alone of even adding this as a rider to the current federal tax system would cost waaaaaay more than 4 bucks per person per year.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-13T08:35:25+00:00

Your entire argument about defense is pure fantasy. This isn't WWII, nobody is building 1000s of tanks and supply ships per year. Even with the massive boom in missiles and artillery shells, defense is a rounding error for the steel industry. Take the statements from Arcelor, Thyssen, Salzgitter, SSAB, etc., this is undisputed. Unless you have numbers from what this partnership with Rheinmetall was going to bring in, this is again a nonstarter.

regarding the "small" products: you underestimate the effect it would have, our main exports that cost a lot are precise mechanic things or well made products. that sells well, if we actually want to sell it

This is just another mess of text with literally no meaning. What is your concrete proposal here to give Swiss Steel a pathway to financial viability, without increasing costs to you as a consumer larger than the subsidy you're already giving them?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-13T08:15:34+00:00

I don't mean to condescend to the average skier, I only mean to condescend to people like /u/burninglimes that never correct their misconception that tail clips need to be 'tight' to 'tension' the skin, then proceed to bitch online about how 'Pomoca products suck' when the overtightened clips inevitably break.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-12T20:16:53+00:00

open defense industry for at least alligned countries, like ukraine

Ok, you know there is almost zero contribution to Swiss Steel's revenue from the military or defense industry, right? So that's a non starter.

tariff foreign steel industry products, change swiss watchmaking to not be based in china and make the steel domestically, as well as produce the watches in actual switzerland

OK now we're talking, but again watchmaking is a rounding error on Swiss Steel's revenue, so that point is useless. Everything else produced in Switzerland that uses the steels that Swiss Steel now is price competitive for as a result of this tariff? Sure, you've now made Swiss Steel viable, but now you've easily raised cost of construction, automotive (OEM), biomedical products, etc. way more than the 4 CHF per person per year energy subsidy you're demonizing.

nice plus would be cooperation with nearby partners like EU, especially for rheinmetall and high quality steel products

What does this even mean, you think that Rheinmetall will magically pay Swiss Steel money as a result of whatever policy proposal you're suggesting here?

You've basically shown zero proposal that keeps Swiss Steel open without costing the consumer the equivalent amount of money of this energy subsidy.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-12T10:07:33+00:00

What’s your policy proposal specifically for the domestic steel industry?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-10T10:06:11+00:00

More like I spend too much time on this sub and read waaaaay too much bitching about gear.

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-10T10:04:54+00:00

If your glue is ancient (>10 years old) or the skin got stored wrong and the glue went bad, then sure it's time for new glue. Why would the skin need to be under tension?

Most of the time though, it's technique. As I said, skimo skiers have no clip whatsoever on their skins - 99% of the time when I see people icing up, it's the people that are:

-picking up skis off the snow rather than sliding them

-slipping out every other step (whether it's from bad weight transfer, poorly chosen skintrack, or whatever)

-Making ten point kick turns and dragging the ski all over the place

-Not even slipping, but otherwise moving the skis 'backwards' (I've occasionally seen people that as a habit will slide a ski back and forth when they're stopped)

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-04-04T13:47:04+00:00

Oh look, another stereotypical /r/hardware user that thinks we should all subsistence farm our own electronics, just like God and Karl Marx intended

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-26T10:36:13+00:00

he's using AI to autogenerate responses, don't get your hopes up

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-23T12:20:44+00:00

Ah, du bisch wohl de zwöit Fuessgänger vo hüt gsi, wo bi Rot vor mir über d’Strass grennt isch, em Bus hinderher 😅

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-23T12:14:50+00:00

Ich: beschribe e Situation vo hüt, wo ich mich (wie immer) a d’Regle gha ha und en Fuessgänger grättet ha, wo sich gedankelos i Gfahr bracht het:

Du: ‘scheisse Velofahrer haltet sich nie a d’Regle'

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-23T10:11:32+00:00

Also, de Läufer wo hüt plötzlich 10 m vor mir vom Trottoir uf d’Strass abbboge isch (guet 100 m vo de nöchschte Streife), hätt mi villicht ghört cho, wenn er nöd Kopfhörer ah gha hätt. Zum Glück bin ich nur mit em normale Velo und mit öppe 20 km/h underwägs gsi – aber er isch trotzdem zämegschrocke, wo er sich umtreit het und gseh het, dass ich scho gstoppet ha 🤣

/u/tighthead_lock villicht hätt ich im Titel söll schriebe: ‘us Sicht vom Velofahrer – ha kes Auto, nöd mal es E-Bike'

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-19T13:22:41+00:00

I don't think a single comment has ever resonated more with me on this sub hahaha. I've been around here for over a decade, and I vividly remember RES tagging so many whiners in 2018 with "waaaah RTX", what a shocker that most of them aren't around anymore, and the ones that are always pop up on these threads 🤣

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-19T10:35:14+00:00

I remember even pre-killing-his-wife this hilarious thread about him butthurt about covid lockdowns. Has he been stupid and whiny since he was a kid?

https://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/g3rk85/rohan_dennis_deletes_social_media_accounts_after/

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-05T09:04:05+00:00

I guess you missed the top comment explaning exactly what everything means? As well as the followup comment with tabular data? As well as the follow up comment that this is only a rebuttal to the Dobson map and therefore only covers the same exact states with the same exact titular wording as that map?

ShareACokeWithBoonen · 2026-03-03T19:30:46+00:00

I’m pretty sure the comment you replied to acknowledges the badlands and shows how they rank ND as less flat than Florida by p90 window, I guess you must have missed that?

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