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One of the ways that the AMA gatekeeps is to limit the number of medical school seats and residency slots in the US (residency is run by Medicare). Quality of life (at work) for ma…

My father, who worked as a market research analyst, said that the trick to the job was "point out the obvious before anyone else does". Web sites and web content are trending towar…

Python has a much more mature ecosystem than Rust, especially for AI/ML stuff. I ran into a rust crate that purported to do a certain ML algorithm but did not do it correctly. I ma…

Using either Calibri or Times New Roman makes it look like you did not put any thought into your brand and chose the default in Microsoft Word. The State department probably has ce…

I don't think I was specific enough on what kind of structured data. The idea is that it extracts information from the text/HTML content of emails (e.g. a flight itinerary from an …

I have two: The first is a preventive maintenance and calibration tracker ( https://pmcal.net ) that was born out of my day job as an engineer in small business manufacturing. The …

I discovered I liked business planning, strategy, and marketing pretty early in my technical career. I also discovered that one of the thing business people bring to a company are …

The quality of store management seems to affect a lot when it comes to Walmart. I have been to some Walmart stores where I have never seen any unfolded clothing. I have been to som…

Thank you for this. I have been on r/manufacturing and if someone asks for a solution like this I am ready with a link :) I will check out the forum.

Thank you. My day job is as an engineer in manufacturing so I felt like I had a unique opportunity to "build what I know" and have seen people use and enjoy. It's a worthwhile proj…

I wrote a small business preventive maintenance and calibration tracker ( https://pmcal.net ) as a side project. A few manufacturing companies that I have a close relationship with…

Walmart having a very large fleet of corporate private jets likely made the decision and trip easier for him.

I played with OpenHands for a few days (using gpt-4o since I already had an OpenAI account). I found it to be decent at writing new code, but then it had a hard time making changes…

I heard a story of a fishing boat in the eastern US that was "fighting a fish" for miles but could never get any traction. When another fisherman looked at their chart, he noted th…

Our area measurement application did not require that tight a tolerance (we were estimating yield on broken material). If I needed that tight a tolerance, I could have gotten proof…

I built a computer vision device that used the top-down area of a penny as a calibration standard. Coins are useful, easy-to-get items that have relatively tight manufacturing tole…

Generally in order to ticket an itinerary, there needs to be at least one flight marketed (e.g. with the airline's flight number) by the "plating carrier" whose ticket stock the fl…

I'm not as familiar with foil resistors, but if you apply the same rules as thin film I would expect that you could trim this with a normal meter (the ± is 0.1 ohms) and the major …

It depends on the component and the company/process. Laser trim time for thin film is a significant cost-driver, so if possible you want to aim for a specific value and reject or b…

Thin-film resistor design engineer here! It's dependent on value and geometry -- if you order a 0.5 ohm resistor the meters on our trimming lasers only go down to 20 mΩ and you're …

Recipes aren't copyrightable, so websites add some filler that is copyrightable to the start.

SEEKING WORK | BOSTON, MA and PROVIDENCE, RI | REMOTE POSSIBLE | PART TIME Technologies: ASP.NET Core, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS are the most co…

SEEKING WORK | BOSTON, MA and PROVIDENCE, RI | REMOTE POSSIBLE | PART TIME Technologies: ASP.NET Core, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS are the most co…

I believe the economics of VPN companies is that they have a quite inexpensive, commodity product which has a lot of churn. The ads get people to sign up for a month or two at any …

This happened to my grandmother during the end of her life. Most people don't realize that many blind people retain some sort of vision or light perception. - If you write her lett…