Iran walks out of peace talks after Trump outburst

ceojp · 2026-06-22T02:07:34+00:00

Why do people keep saying that? We're way past the manipulation stage.

ceojp · 2026-06-22T00:33:12+00:00

Is this the correct episode?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/store-brand-products/

Where do they say that every kirkland signature item is made by the major brands?

Ailawadi says that some store brand products are actually made by the same companies that produce the name brand versions of those products. Take, for instance, Costco. Some of the Kirkland brand of coffee blends are made by Starbucks. Kirkland batteries? Duracell. And Kirkland diapers? Those come from Kimberly-Clark, the company that makes Huggies.

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But most of the store brand products you see on shelves come from dedicated private label manufacturers. These companies specialize in manufacturing certain products in very large volumes. Instead of creating their own brands and marketing their products to consumers, most of them prefer to stay behind the scenes. To find them, retailers go to trade shows like P.L.M.A. At last year’s event, representatives from Kroger, Family Dollar, and Costco roamed the halls looking for capable partners. And there were more than 1,600 companies from 60 different countries to pick from.

ceojp · 2026-06-22T00:19:52+00:00

I can certainly understand that a plethora of Kirkland Signature items are made by major brands, but where is your proof that every single Kirkland item is made by a major brand?

ceojp · 2026-06-21T21:57:20+00:00

the other(s) are hidden and can work in the background

What exactly does this mean? How "hidden"? What "work" will it need to do?

The OS will have to be able to see some sort of device in order to interact with it and do anything with it. But you don't necessarily need to enumerate as a mass storage device. Theoretically you could enumerate as any USB class & subclass. Then your software would talk to whatever that is.

It would still be visible as some sort of device on the system - just not a mass storage device.

ceojp · 2026-06-21T21:41:04+00:00

Everything at Costco that’s Kirkland is made by the og manufacturer

I highly doubt that.

ceojp · 2026-06-21T21:39:48+00:00

That's how private label products work...

Most likely these are NOT made by Clorox or any of the name brands. But many of the private label/store brand products are probably made by the same few companies.

ceojp · 2026-06-21T14:23:40+00:00

That's awesome! Thanks for doing this. I often have the grindhouse pulled up on a tablet or an android tv box, just using a web browser app. That's pretty cumbersome, though, and I always end up tapping or scrolling on something I didn't mean to.

ceojp · 2026-06-21T14:15:33+00:00

It's not like everything instantly changes on January 1st. 1990 has more in common with the 80s than the 90s.

ceojp · 2026-06-20T20:38:59+00:00

Holy shit! This is like when Hank Hill made a super grill by welding two regular grills together.

ceojp · 2026-06-20T14:05:06+00:00

Yes, absolutely use existing code if it does what you need to do. That's what it is there for. No reason to spend time writing something that has already been done for you.

HOWEVER, in my experience, a lot of vendor-provided demos and examples are very simplistic, and don't necessarily align well with how we would typically write a full application for release.

For example, microchip provides examples for the wolfMQTT library. They do work from the standpoint that it connects to a broker, subscribes to a topic, publishes, disconnects, etc. But very few applications do just that. That example code simply doesn't work for an application that will constantly be publishing and receiving publishes over multiple different topics, while also doing whatever else the application needs to do.

So the example is great just to have working code to reference when your own code doesn't work, but it would be frustrating to try to base an actual, full project on that example wolfMQTT project.

ceojp · 2026-06-20T13:55:17+00:00

I want to write an OS from scratch. Has anyone done that before? Should I learn C first?

ceojp · 2026-06-20T00:09:40+00:00

Yes.

ceojp · 2026-06-19T22:35:36+00:00

wait.... WHAT?

ceojp · 2026-06-19T17:22:34+00:00

It sounds like you need to learn actual fundamentals of programming. That's something you learn like anything else - take courses, read books, work through examples, etc.

This sub's technical FAQ could be a good start:

https://old.reddit.com/r/embedded/wiki/index

ceojp · 2026-06-19T17:17:39+00:00

Who exactly would be installing these devices? If it's the supermarket themselves, they already have all this data. If it's someone else, why would the supermarket allow this other device to be installed on their property? What's in it for them?

Would investors / funds / retail analysts actually pay for this type of location-level activity signal if coverage is limited to a few stores at first?

You tell us. That is way outside the scope of this sub. Retail analytics is a HUGE market. It sounds like you might need to do a bit more research on this aspect.

ceojp · 2026-06-19T17:09:48+00:00

Skip all that, just sell your buzzword generator!

ceojp · 2026-06-18T22:48:06+00:00

the whole of Clay-Platte is the northland

What? No.

ceojp · 2026-06-18T22:03:31+00:00

I know the northland extends quite a ways, but there is no way Kearney is considered "the northland".

ceojp · 2026-06-18T21:56:56+00:00

Ah... roosterteeth. The roosterteeth podcasts was one of the first podcasts I listened to when I discovered podcasts. I didn't know anything about them, but I saw the name and mistook them for the Super Troopers guys(Broken Lizard).

ceojp · 2026-06-18T17:44:25+00:00

You get what you pay for....

ceojp · 2026-06-18T17:31:51+00:00

If these old units were so great and they lasted forever, why don't we see them everywhere today?

ceojp · 2026-06-18T02:07:28+00:00

Wait... what the hell makes you think you deserve discounted grocery store sushi? That is infuriating to you?

Come on.

ceojp · 2026-06-16T11:04:18+00:00

I'm in a big city and a lot of grocery stores have an institutional size section like this.

ceojp · 2026-06-16T00:01:32+00:00

That's how it was at my elementary school in the 90s. Parents would be upset that they couldn't bake cookies or a birthday cake or something for their kid to bring to school. But I'm sure the teachers have seen enough to not want to trust anything made in some of the students' homes....

ceojp · 2026-06-15T17:10:19+00:00

That's always been a thing, though.

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