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Which city are you in?
If we knew, we might all move there and ruin it ;P.
Exactly.
22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
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Nah, I'm joking, hopefully not antagonizing. My point was that since you're not downtown, you can park in the street. Minutes to downtown isn't a selling point I'm making. I don't typically go downtown. I've put 10k miles on my car in 3 years. This was in response to someone saying they can't get exercise in a suburb, which I find absurd.
> when you too are ready to grow up The antagonism is from effectively calling them immature (and thus implying that their opinion is coming from a place of naivety) and placing yourself above them. This is a pretty standard insult that people use to try to be persuasive. I suppose you could say that posting that insult itself is so immature that readers should recognize it as a joke, but I suggest that you should tr…
>and placing yourself above them.
Like you did by downvoting?
Are you young? Because this comment shouldn't be offensive unless you're harboring doubt about immature decisions you've made. For everyone else, it's a tongue in cheek poke at the bad decisions I made when I was younger. Statistically, people tend to leave the city when they get older. If you're insulted by that, you probably still belong in the city.
Maybe you should look inward instead of downvoting, or offering explanations that presume a lesser understanding in your audience.
Looking up to experience isn't a bad thing. It shows maturity. How's that for a punchy finish?
/Shrug.
Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
#183If you are wondering what Sam Zeloof is up to these days: he founded Atomic Semi [1] with Jim Keller (yes, _that_ Jim Keller). [1] https://atomicsemi.com/
Quite hard to grasp what they are really trying to achieve there. They are building what kind of tools, and for whom?
Think back to the 2021-2022 pandemic-triggered supply chain chaos, when the media widely reported that car companies, for example, were all having very painful experiences with parking lots full of $50k trucks they couldn't sell due to a lack of $5 chips.
At the time I saw some of Sam's videos (I think I originally found them here on HN), and I had a big question: If a hobbyist can build 1970's era chips for ~$10k in his garage, and Intel can build 2020's era chips for ~$10B in state-of-the-art factories, why doesn't someone start a startup building 1990's era chips in a ~$10M facility?
I'd assume Atomic Semi is that startup :)
Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
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Would you please share which city is this, that has everything within 10 minute walk in its suburbs? I'm a European who's lived in an "American downtown" because I was told the suburbs are horrible, but what you're describing sounds great.
Price is relative. That could be Los Altos, California. Which is very nice, walkable with garages, great parks and outdoors, but not what most people would call affordable. :)
I would argue that it's objectively cheaper to live in the suburbs.
And I can assert with confidence that $100/mo in HOA fees provides walkable parks, trails, pools, gyms, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. I vote on the financial management of all these things so I can be sure they are provided by that amount of money, objectively. Major builders do suburbs like this one across the country. And they make a killing managing them too.
Where are you? SF? SD? NY? Miami? You're paying a premium for the right to brag about it. Not for the amenities.
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I'm in a suburb. Not an expensive one. Downtown is a 20 minute drive in light traffic. Within a 10 minute walk there are office buildings, grocery stores, shopping mall, gyms, parks, hiking and biking trails, etc. There are many cities to choose from; some are better planned than others. Based on your comment I would guess that you've opted to live in one of the "cool" cities in America.
Would you please share which city is this, that has everything within 10 minute walk in its suburbs? I'm a European who's lived in an "American downtown" because I was told the suburbs are horrible, but what you're describing sounds great.
I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between.
For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country.
America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.
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This is the answer. Young people especially need to realise that this country doesn't want them.
Interestingly, as a young Australian, I've thought about this a lot and I genuinely struggle to find a better country to live in. We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but feel they're significantly less. A large part of it being how isolated we are from the rest of the world and all the benefits that provides. Not to mention the low population density of the cou…
> We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but feel they're significantly less
Covid camps and police take down for people jogging without masks did not convince you to move? I guess nothing will
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May I ask how you do this, specifically? What machine do you use for injection molding, and how do you make the moulds? Very interested in doing this myself. (Also interested in specific recommendations for a desktop pick n place if anyone has some)
I built a buster beagle. YouTube has a bunch of great guides from him plus what to buy. Mold making is a difficult science of itself. I can’t point you in a general direction beyond what worked for me. I started with OpenSCAD then moved to FreeCAD then eventually ended up with Fusion360. You need to have a vision for what you want to make, or else you won’t follow through till the end with learning. There is some dud…
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. There's probably $5,000 and 200 hours of tears saved just in this post.
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May I ask how you do this, specifically? What machine do you use for injection molding, and how do you make the moulds? Very interested in doing this myself. (Also interested in specific recommendations for a desktop pick n place if anyone has some)
https://www.smallsmt.biz/products/ or any similar Shenzhen special. Buy bigger over smaller. Buy, don't build. There will be a handful of recommendations for the Opulo Lumen/OpenPNP: avoid them. Avoid everything but ballscrew designs: you will spend an annoying amount of time trying to calibrate a belt-driven design and calibration will never stick. Please, do not make the mistake I did: get something with CL feeders…
Thanks for that. Drag feeders are exactly the type of thing I would try first time around, because I'm not sure what I'd lneed.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you please share which city is this, that has everything within 10 minute walk in its suburbs? I'm a European who's lived in an "American downtown" because I was told the suburbs are horrible, but what you're describing sounds great.
I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between. For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country. America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.
Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.
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What’s the difference between delivery in the city versus the suburbs? Does less distance make it ok?
When I get some goods delivered in the city, it’s via bike messenger. When I get goods delivered via suburbs, it’s via F-150s.
I live in a major city and it’s all by truck.
You’re the exception.