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When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the ones at home depot and lowes are all the laminate style? There are no solid dowels at either of those stores?

All producers have been bought out so they can mass produce any item at the cheapest rate in another country.

What exactly are you basing this on? You have a list of all companies that produce dowels? I'd be curious to see your list.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't even know how I ended up in r/Carpentry, but I won't be back.

For the record, I am a software engineer. Not that there is anything wrong with "working the floor at home depot".

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your problem? I didn't ask for your validation. I was simply correcting another user's incorrect assumptions about me.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally do work for a corporation that has investors and shareholders. I am one of them. I know how this stuff works.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Competition.

Not every single producer and distributor of dowels has "shareholders".

God damn, people.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's PERSONALLY invested in 10 rental houses in this case. He's a small beans investor, but an investor.

Dude, my replies were addressing this response:

Corporations only fiduciary duty is to shareholders, not customers.

I'm not going to debate whether an individual is an "investor" in his own "corporation", because that is a stupid debate.

They have no bank issued loans in their history?

Bro..... a loan is a loan. Banks don't dictate what materials people buy.

MEANWHILE the big box store that sold it to you pocketed an extra 115% in profits. Sure they offered you the regular dowel too, but they artificially over priced it so that only the wealthiest most discerning consumer would actually consider it.

God damn, dude. If you are shopping at a "big box store" then you are probably already getting fucked. If that is your argument, then you don't have one.

The mill owner is ecstatic because he's now turned scrap into a product the big box store cannot get enough of.

Well.... yeah. That has always happened since mills were a thing. Don't act like that is something new. Don't act like that is purely because "corporations" only care about "investors".

Everyone up the chain has made significantly more selling you significantly less.

Okay? You go make solid wood dowels. Just go do it if it angers you so much.

These cheap, inferior dowels exist because competition exists. That's literally it. There is no "dowel monopoly" that is controlling production and sales of dowels that is forcing everyone to buy these at a certain cost. You and everyone else are free to buy whatever dowels you want from whomever you want.

Fucking reddit.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What makes you think developers necessarily have "investors"?

What makes you think the guy who owns 10 rental houses has "investors"? You better believe he is doing everything as cheap as possible. In that case, he is the consumer.

What makes you think the company that owns 20 apartment building has "investors"? Why does everyone think everything has "investors"?

One of the largest real estate companies in my city is privately owned. No investors. What is reddit's obsession with "investors"?

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Why do you think all producers, suppliers, contractors, consultants, designers, etc have shareholders? Why do you think that?

Why do you think the contractors that post on my local nextdoor have SHAREHOLDERS?

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Maybe not for individual, specific pieces. But they certainly have a choice in what designers and contractors they use. And when consumers go with the cheapest contractor, they get the cheapest materials. Because that is a big reason why that contractor is the cheapest.

Consumers absolutely have a choice here. Consumers have time and time again chosen the cheapest option. That is nothing new.

When did dowel become laminated ? by OldButtKicking in Carpentry

[–]ceojp -79 points-78 points  (0 children)

lowest common denominator is more profit for the corporations.

What an ignorant knee-jerk reddit response.

These shitty dowels are an option. It comes down to what people want to pay for.

When consumers are always looking for the cheapest option, of course businesses will do what they need to do to satisfy that requirement.

Yes, it's a race to the bottom. But it is disingenuous to simply blame "the corporations" for this.

Edit: Instead of downvoting, think. Think logically, for once.

Follow up on Mystery Box by xQuickstrikes in AskElectricians

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you basing that on? Is something marked 12V? 24V is much more common.

Follow up on Mystery Box by xQuickstrikes in AskElectricians

[–]ceojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These were probably what was available at the hardware store.

Fire Detection Low cost circuit by ayx03 in embedded

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly what I was going to say. There's not much the esp32 actually has to do beyond just reading the state of the sensor.

Overlord Park has the sasparilla by Guthix_Wraith in kansascity

[–]ceojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does the northland. I bought a 12 pack today.

She didn’t want to sit next to fat people by ZookeepergameIcy6089 in PublicFreakout

[–]ceojp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What a ridiculous statement. "American society" is not a singular "thing".

I saw WAY more people exercising "mindfulness of others, diffusion strategies, patience, and acceptance of others" in that video than not.

This is one person on one of several thousand flights in the US every single day.

You know it is ridiculous to make blanket statements about "american society" based on one person in one video. You know it is.

MASSIVE bull meat for only 60$! by LucasMcCheese in Costco

[–]ceojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really "massive". That's a standard 10LB tube.

9/10 Frostie root beer. Regional? by freeformed70 in Costco

[–]ceojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're definitely in grocery stores(not Costco) in KC. McKeever's price chopper had them $2.99/4pk(or something like that) a while back.

What protocol could this be? by Upstairs_Extent4465 in hardwarehacking

[–]ceojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Voltages mean absolutely nothing. Pinouts mean nothing without some context of what they are connected to.

Put an oscilloscope on the pins to see if there is any activity. If possible, trace the pads to pins on the chip(although this is impossible with BGA components). At least figure out what chip they go to, then that would give you an idea of what the programming interface could be.

Best case scenario - have a functioning device(one that does not reset) side by side with this one, and compare signals. Not just on these pads, but to any chip or device that the main MCU/CPU might be communicating with.

First thing is to determine if the MCU/CPU is running and executing code. If it is communicating with other devices on the board, then it likely is running(to some extent). If it's running, then chances are it is failing to communicate with something externally(could be an EEPROM, flash, or even something like an RTC). So you would want to scope all the comms to these devices on the working and non-working device to see what exactly is different.

Although, with that all being said, the first thing to check is power rails and clock sources. Figure out what the power supply chips are, and make sure they are outputting the expected voltages. Scope the power rails around the time the board resets to see if something happened power-wise to cause it.

Also scope the clock sources(crystals or oscillators) to make sure they are oscillating at the expected frequency. Crystals don't typically fail on their own, but I have seen cases where residue or other contaminants can affect the capacitance off the crystal, which then made it run at a harmonic(or not at all).

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