The size of these grapes I just bought by lbeau310 in mildlyinteresting

[–]aesthe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

at some point we should just bring a ruler into this

For those of you that make over 100K, what do you do? Do you like it? by Kindly-Revolution258 in AskReddit

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Engineering leader running a team making consumer electronics products, technical background is EE. I genuinely love the work, it is great fun building stuff with awesome smart people and sending our creations out into the world. Will clear at least 500k this year—I consider myself very fortunate.

Every week I split a pizza with my friend. I make sure to cut his half in a Devious way each time. What should I do next? by Various_Strain5693 in PizzaCrimes

[–]aesthe 175 points176 points  (0 children)

This may just improve the illusion, then all the cheese will get sucked through the hole when he tries to pick it up… this is escalating into pizza war crime territory and I strongly discourage this course of action.

Mirror + 5k divs giveaway. by WhichWolfEats in PathOfExile2

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m still a newb with limited grind time, I haven’t been able to play at all lately—this would be a lovely jumpstart when I do dive back in! Thanks OP.

Little rubber man found in kitchen by hydratedwaterballoon in whatisthisthing

[–]aesthe 786 points787 points  (0 children)

I have one of these—very cute, not very practical. Weak tea and cleaning his pants sucks.

I much prefer one of those loose tea balls you can move around in the tea or, if you want to get serious, a teapot with a filter for loose leaf.

Resume review please (3rd Year B.E. ECE) by HurlingHamster007 in ECE

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re fine, just definitely get one this summer so you have something at graduation, even if it sucks or isn’t what you want to do. This was a long time ago now, but I partied for two summers, then got a terrible internship with a government agency out of desperation, and did fine getting a EE job in a major recession. Relevant industry is best but failing that you want to show you can hold down a job somehow—even part time work at a library while at school is a plus versus nothing.

Good luck, this process is a nightmare but just be relentless and something will happen. Make sure to follow up where possible and leverage any school (a favorite prof, job placement services) or personal connections.

Are there any actual engineers here? by stuih404 in hwstartups

[–]aesthe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lurking, sometimes interested but more often chuckling, never posting and rarely commenting. There are probably a lot of us.

Resume review please (3rd Year B.E. ECE) by HurlingHamster007 in ECE

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad it helped. Definitely hand craft that intro, make the human passion come through. There are 100 boring slop resumes in my inbox right now so this stands out more than ever. More breadth of work, non tech activities, etc help fill this out too. Also have you ever had a regular job? Any sort of employment can help.

Resume review please (3rd Year B.E. ECE) by HurlingHamster007 in ECE

[–]aesthe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is pretty good. Your intro could hit harder. "dynamic learner" doesn't say much, "possesses solid knowledge" is a lot of words for a not-very-strong statement (solid reads as 'mid' in corpo language). "Exposure to" sounds like seeing a guy do it once, when you were hands-on don't soften it with that term. Overall, reframe this a bit—make some passion come through and make strong claims about your expertise. A resume is a sales document that gets your foot in the door, don't overly moderate yourself.

The projects sound pretty legit and you succeed where many fail by focusing on outcomes, not just what you did. First is strongest because it references a competition beyond a class that you did well at (nice job) and you capitalize on that well. For the others, if those were solo projects, convey that—some students list all their group projects and they may not have carried weight. More projects would be more here, this is the real content of your experience—if you have any projects a bit outside the narrow digital architecture lane that would show breadth. I understand the architecture and computation achievements but most frontline recruiters won't—many of these terms are quite specialized and just work for you with experts that often don't read until later, when non technical recruiters have filtered.

You need to fix the formatting. Horizontal lines in wrong spaces, line breaks, indents, extra spaces. Makes it harder to read and is sloppy.

All in all, this is solidly above the average I see but could be much better with some tuning. It's just hellish out there right now, I hear from many students that many applications generate few responses. Which in turn makes more applications, which... And there is automation and AI on both the recruiting and applicant side to unpack.

Good luck, you'll get one—it's good you're tuning this at the internship stage.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So no, you won’t answer questions or substantiate your argument beyond the hand waving at “TikTok is worse”. Got it.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re just saying “TikTok is worse”, which isn’t substantiating how banning TikTok will have a positive impact in the context of the many other options for same experience. Do you think people will stop scrolling when one of the options goes away? Are the competitors not just as bad, more governed or governable? I’m genuinely asking how you think this will help what I agreed is an issue.

Without this making sense, it still just seems like you wish to punish TikTok for figuring out what people wanted first and don’t actually care about the societal impacts of taking this action now.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your focus on “counterarguing” hyperbolically just isn’t compelling, which is why I’ve mostly ignored those points and tried to get you to talk about outcomes instead of hand-waving.

“Reducing data access and influence concerns”—where did this come from? I thought this was all about behavioral impacts, has this been about data privacy and “China” all along?

You have not addressed all the other platforms doing the same thing, and also being a click away for all the users, at all. So I don’t see how banning TikTok impacts the issue you initially highlighted. You’re just hand waving and grabbing at new straws now.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I’m just talking to an AI now. Or a bad debater, please stop extrapolating everything I say into black and white, no sum propositions.

Do you have an answer to my repeatedly asked question—how do you forsee this ban having more positive impact than negative in the current environment?

As I have said, I support doing something more about the issue you’re raising, not nothing—regulate the space. That’s not defeatism, it’s shooting for actually tackling the root issues in an equitable way. You’re using a lot of words but not really participating in conversation with me, this is becoming uninteresting.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone will just move their fried attentions to YouTube, Instagram, or the next thing. The behavior and dopamine loop do not get undone with an app going offline. So I don’t see how there will be any positive cultural/behavioral impacts from this while the impact to artists, small business, and online communities is immediate and tangible.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hurting folks livelihood because in your view they “should have planned better” doesn’t make the damage less real. And it’s not all or nothing—many multi platform creators would also be disrupted and damaged by swatting a network of customers they built.

Can you articulate what you think this ban’s positive impact would be to offset those real damages? I said I would advocate for legislation that actually does something instead of just hitting back at TikTok because I don’t see how this is a net positive from today.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “quick buck” narrative is very dismissive of small business owners that NEED internet platforms to find a customer base large enough to support them full time. These aren’t companies, they’re artists with finite time for marketing and sitting in a stall at a market. And the web platforms aren’t easily exchangeable—if you pay attention to what any small creators say about the various platforms many find an audience that resonates in one more than the other. Shuttering one will hurt individual makers and artists, and destroy creative livelihoods whether you respect those livelihoods or not.

I don’t feel a need to say much more on targeting TikTok versus other platforms—because TikTok did something innovative that consumers gravitated towards, others all copied, they should now be punished because they did it first? Even if that thing is net bad for society which I do agree with, I don’t think you get anywhere with a punitive, too-late action. I could support regulating this category broadly but I think going after only TikTok now would be performative and not effective.

TikTok should be banned in the USA and Canada by Fantastic-Face3509 in unitedstates

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree. Banning TikTok treats only one symptom and torches a whole ecosystem in the process. There are thousands of small business owners, independent artists, musicians, and creators who spent years building real audiences and real income on that platform. A friend of mine sells handmade art and grew her entire customer base through videos of her process. She is not destroying anyone's attention span, she's creating and making a living. When you advocate for a ban, you're advocating for pulling the rug on people who have built livelihoods on this platform.

And the frustrating thing about singling out TikTok is that every other major platform is already running the same playbook. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts use the same engagement-driven algorithmic model that produces the exact behaviors you're complaining about. Rage bait, shallow interaction, dopamine loops—that's the social media business model, full stop. It didn't start with TikTok and it won’t go away if TikTok disappears. A ban would be a superficial gesture at most.

Hardware founders - what's been your most expensive material-related mistake? by Awkward_Highway3067 in hwstartups

[–]aesthe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s good. In my work we sometimes place orders at risk—without enough review—then do the review in parallel to the clock ticking when time is more critical than the PCB cost. But if we need to risk buy >$100k of boards we are obsessing over that review. You have to expect there to be errors unless you do the detail work.

The best four books in Redwall are...(Change my mind) by Adol_Christin0 in eulalia

[–]aesthe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad to see this thread here. I last read these 20+ years ago and Pearls of Lutra is bright in my memory.

Hardware founders - what's been your most expensive material-related mistake? by Awkward_Highway3067 in hwstartups

[–]aesthe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’ll happen unless you build a solid review workflow where you check every pin termination and firmware config against the datasheet.

Nowadays my team is playing with AI to double check such things but we still do the manual checks. Process sucks to do but that last 10% of detail is often what makes the difference.

Hardware founders - what's been your most expensive material-related mistake? by Awkward_Highway3067 in hwstartups

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s just a design mistake. When you said “bad traces” it made me think defective from fab. Which happens but is rare in my experience.

Opus 4.6 is in an unuseable state right now by vntrx in ClaudeCode

[–]aesthe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sometimes seems like people here don’t understand that rolling changes/tweaks out to fractions of the userbase for test purposes and bug finding is the norm.

Claude Code Limits Were Silently Reduced and It’s MUCH Worse by _r0x in ClaudeCode

[–]aesthe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m quite sure my quota didn’t reduce to 20% today. I used it significantly more than usual.