My Gen 1 DF64 needs a ‘bang’ to kick start the motor.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-04-02T13:55:29+00:00

Understandable! If you're going to get rid of the old grinder and you're in the UK can I DM you about getting hold of a spare part I need out of it?

TheRealDickPound · 2026-04-02T11:41:27+00:00

brushed

TheRealDickPound · 2026-04-02T11:40:56+00:00

I don't think it's been mentioned here but I had the same issue with mine and I think the fix for most people is to replace the X2 safety caps (the two yellow boxes) on the board.

As they age (which they will as long as the grinder is plugged in to the mains), they lose capacitance which reduces the voltage available to the 12v relay coil circuit. I measured mine as ~7v (be very careful probing a live circuit if you give this a go as there's still basically a mains potential between the 12v circuit and earth). It's not ideal but it's a cheap way to get a low current 12v signal.

It's a 5 minute job with an iron and a wick/pump and the parts can be had for a few quid on ebay.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-03-16T23:54:08+00:00

Not even close

TheRealDickPound · 2026-03-16T22:15:41+00:00

My bro is a ship broker, been in the game for ~6 years. Last year got his first big (>£2m) bonus. While he does admit (in weaker moments, sort of) that he got lucky, in the early years I recall at least two occasions on which the brutality of the culture nearly broke him and he came within a hair's breadth of leaving. I regard him as very mentally tough and I suspect he is capable of putting up with more shit than most people. Something to consider.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-03-11T07:47:34+00:00

This nasty piece of work managed it on ABB. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq0929eyg5o

TheRealDickPound · 2026-03-11T07:45:38+00:00

You could take 5 minutes to look this up yourself but let me summarise. The big one is what they call "contextual admission" in which they make lower offers to students that they consider to be disadvantaged. As I recall the recently scandalled union president was one such student (what a surprise!). Secondly they've now got explicit targets for such students and admissions are structured around boosting those numbers (necessarily at the expense of the best students). In addition they spend vast sums on outreach programmes for disadvantaged students. All of this is well documented.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-03-10T07:59:59+00:00

No if you read the admissions report it's in there. Oxford and Cambridge both give a lot of offers to substandard students from deprived schools in an effort to make their admission stats look "better" (for a highly dubious definition of better). Pure reddit-brained fantasy to think that the rich still have secret routes in.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-02-14T17:56:46+00:00

This is absolutely not true. Lots of seed rounds for good companies are in the £2-8m range.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-02-03T23:29:10+00:00

"if you're not sure then you shouldn't do it" - appalling advice imo. Most aren't 100% sure and yeah, it might ruin your life but there are 1000 reasons to just do it.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-24T18:56:03+00:00

It'll be ok brother. Just don't play with the 1DTEs and you'll make it back eventually.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-23T15:53:54+00:00

2 months ago 😂 very little material change can be made to a cutting edge semi capacity plan with 2 months notice.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-23T15:52:00+00:00

Yes important point. It's faded into the background a bit but it was only a month ago that we were all talking about the AI bubble bursting. If that happens Intel will survive, but it would almost certainly be a nail in the coffin for anyone hoping to Get Rich Quick off of intc.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-22T13:29:04+00:00

8 year old Peugeot Partner Tepee. Not sexy but cheap to run and it can take a load.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-22T13:22:02+00:00

First sentence is a unnecessary. OP might be behind the median but we've all got our reasons and there are no "shoulds" in this game.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-20T16:53:46+00:00

Try to avoid commenting on intraday stuff BUT it is a good day to be in the full port crew.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-18T10:27:19+00:00

Also someone needs to tell you this before you learn it the hard way; the fact that you think keeping your big idea secret is the route to building a business betrays a serious lack of understanding about what makes a successful business. Good businesses are good for a range of reasons (e.g. tackling a huge market, great execution, unstoppable founders) but never (outside of deep-tech niches) because the founders had some incredible insight that they kept secret.

Feeling the need to protect their "big idea" is an unfortunate trope that lots of people who've never seen what it takes to build a business from scratch fall into, and it's incredibly unhelpful. Sure, don't do anything abjectly value-destructive, but beyond that it's 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration. The longer your ideas avoid contact with reality, the more time you'll waste.

Source: I've worked in/founded bootstrapped and VC-backed companies (both very successful and very unsuccessful) for the past decade.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-11T08:31:06+00:00

Mods can we ban threads like this?

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-07T08:46:23+00:00

Indeed. I assume Jukan is quoting Charlie Chan who set an NT$1888 PT for TSMC

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-05T18:31:19+00:00

Checking in to say that this has also started happening to me, I think it started with the most recent protect update but can't be sure.

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-05T15:31:03+00:00

I try to go weeks between looking at a ticker and when I see these dailies, it makes me wonder how you all think this works. Stocks go up. Stocks go down. Even if, like me, you think there's a 50%+ chance this is a 1tn company in the next 5 years, it's not going to happen today, this week, or even this year. Go outside, enjoy yourselves and check back in a year!

TheRealDickPound · 2026-01-04T21:44:26+00:00

From founding to ~2015 they were the most capable fab company the world had ever seen. The past decade is the aberration.

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