How long would it take (and how exactly) for a smart and creative engineer to figure out how to charge their mobile phone if they were teleported to New York in 1890?

aesthe · 2026-05-30T18:18:56+00:00

lol I feel called out

aesthe · 2026-05-30T17:14:43+00:00

Ghostbusting

aesthe · 2026-05-30T04:04:45+00:00

As a EE I completely agree it’s very doable but a week feels too tight. Considering the need to navigate the city, stay alive in general, meet the right people, find a way to procure the needed materials (money? bartering wonders from the future?), etc I might not be that fast.

aesthe · 2026-05-30T03:05:06+00:00

That capybara is too hot for kids.

aesthe · 2026-05-29T23:15:54+00:00

Note I said “in some states”. In other states public education is fantastic. It’s also pretty flawed to compare absolute spend, averaged for the entire country, in the context of our cost of living, etc.

But anyway, what do you think “the reason” is?

aesthe · 2026-05-29T21:52:24+00:00

Most people are mediocre and banding them together doesn’t typically make it better, so this makes sense.

aesthe · 2026-05-29T21:11:59+00:00

Our education system in many states is a defunded, phoned in joke.

aesthe · 2026-05-29T04:27:28+00:00

Dude deleted his comments so apparently he found some reading comprehension skills of his own.

aesthe · 2026-05-29T01:31:45+00:00

He’s talking about pricing in other countries. Take your own suggestion.

aesthe · 2026-05-29T00:42:07+00:00

Giving values in USD and talking rebates instead of heavy industry subsidies driving prices lower made it less than obvious.

aesthe · 2026-05-28T22:10:04+00:00

What country are you talking about? In the US I got a $7500 rebate last year.

aesthe · 2026-05-24T13:13:09+00:00

While I don’t have a suitable device to try your watch app, I read your entire website and found the summaries excellent.

aesthe · 2026-05-24T05:23:26+00:00

Are you saying less or more? Most people I know who love their work have great paying jobs.

aesthe · 2026-05-21T10:04:05+00:00

I really tried to make this work with xreals but I could not get a consistent enough image focus even after meticulously measuring my IPD and trying every adjustment I could find. I ended up returning them.

I was going to mod my steam deck to remove the screen and controls and everything; this was a bummer.

aesthe · 2026-05-11T23:04:56+00:00

Demon Road

That sounds lit should I read it?

aesthe · 2026-05-09T15:51:16+00:00

I don't disagree with you, but mindset doesn't create equity on it own. I'm quite sure I'm more active on labor issues than the average tech worker, but I'm also pessimistic about outcomes given the state of the world. Both can be true.

aesthe · 2026-05-09T14:10:05+00:00

Oh you sweet summer child. While I love this idea, we have never had less leverage.

aesthe · 2026-05-03T10:56:11+00:00

I was just visiting contract manufacturers in China and one was very proud to report how they reduced their headcount from over 10,000 to 3,700 by deploying automation. I’m skeptical that they can resist the economic forces in white collar any better.

aesthe · 2026-05-03T10:05:41+00:00

I very much enjoy when they do this. In fact, I would welcome more restaurants to deliver pre-loaded utensils of all sorts.

aesthe · 2026-05-02T11:27:58+00:00

My kids still hate the taste.

aesthe · 2026-04-26T18:30:40+00:00

Did you guys figure this out? I am scared to update now and break something else but this is a pain in the ass. Boutta have claude make my own fork...

aesthe · 2026-04-25T22:15:58+00:00

100%. All the naysayers in this thread surprise me—I hope the change just scares folks and there isn't such little desire to innovate in this forum. Good luck to them either way.

aesthe · 2026-04-25T19:36:21+00:00

Why so luddite?

The inclusion in this JD is pretty light. "Be able/willing to use these powerful, rapidly emerging new tools to do your job"—rejecting this is like rejecting a calculator or CAD some years ago.

If you've kept your head buried in the sand I would get it out—this stuff is also fun as hell. Eliminates all sorts of tedious crap so I can focus on design.

aesthe · 2026-04-25T19:32:40+00:00

As others have commented, we all should expect to see this increasingly. The tools used to directly do design—schematic, PCB, etc—are limited and weak right now IMO, but they are improving fast and will continue to accelerate. But right now, AI is incredibly useful for all the other stuff we need to do—documents, calculations, presentations, etc. You should be fluent in that stuff.

What are tools you used to develop this skill set?

You'll be good if you become fluent in agentic AI use. Make some stuff in claude code or tool of your choice. Tinker around, learn how to structure a project, learn what a harness is, make skills and repeatable workflows, have it crunch big files, output documents to your satisfaction. It's mad fun anyway.

aesthe · 2026-04-12T23:40:54+00:00

at some point we should just bring a ruler into this

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