I think the vast majority of Californians couldn't care less about Gavin, it's just that we didn't want the crazy right-wing talk-radio host to take over.
Yeah there was no one even remotely credible up against him. If some insane radio host is the best anyone can come up with, I'll take the possibly shady professional politician any day. Whatever his other issues, Newsom isn't a nutjob and increasing the dysfunction of local government even more by electing a nutjob isn't going to help anyone.
Literally the worst thing I've ever heard about Newsom is that he used to date Kimberly Gilfoyle, an actual complete and total nutjob. Newsom's competition in the election were the kind of people who think Gilfoyle is a totally normal and sane human being and enjoyed her speech at the GOP convention last year.
I had the same experience at the apple store a few years ago, where they asked me for my password. They insisted they needed it to run "hardware checks." I think I ended up just wiping it before giving it to them.
I wasn't happy about it, so I complained to corporate. I got a voicemail a few days later from a very apologetic store manager, saying that they would review the policy (who knows if they did). Furthermore, they found issues with my logic board, and replaced it (out of warranty) for free. So that was nice. Still wouldn't ever turn in a computer for service without wiping it however.
I'm a freelance engineer primarily focused on embedded hardware and firmware, from design to prototyping to manufacture. I've designed scores of small-scale embedded "glue" devices, large-scale LED controllers, hardware for autonomous vehicles, 3D mapping rigs, as well as consumer products for Kickstarters and large companies. I have experience with 3D design and machine-shop prototyping, as well as an extensive background in firmware and backend programming.
I'm primarily looking to work on interesting projects, however I wouldn't rule out part- or full-time for the right company. No project is too small, and I do deep discounts for open-source or artistic work.
I'm a freelance engineer primarily focused on embedded hardware and firmware, from design to prototyping to manufacture. I've designed scores of small-scale embedded "glue" devices, large-scale LED controllers, hardware for autonomous vehicles, 3D mapping rigs, as well as consumer products for Kickstarters and large companies. I have experience with 3D design and machine-shop prototyping, as well as an extensive background in firmware and backend programming.
I'm primarily looking to work on interesting projects, however I wouldn't rule out part- or full-time for the right company. No project is too small, and I do deep discounts for open-source or artistic work.
I currently freelance for companies in various tech industries, doing hardware and electrical engineering, firmware, mechanical design, backend software, and cloud infrastructure. I have experience designing and manufacturing prosumer equipment, building autonomous vehicles, and building 3D mapping vehicles (LIDAR, cameras, GPS, sensor fusion, etc.) I've also spent several years in cloud infrastructure, building backend systems from the ground up and helping companies untangle technical debt.
I'm interested in taking on more contract work, although I am also open to part- or full-time for the right company.
Technologies:
AV/GIS/Sensor Tech: LIDAR, GPS, Camera arrays, IMU, Sensor fusion, Vehicle control (CAN)
Embedded Hardware: ARM Cortex M0/M3, ATmega, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SBCs
I currently freelance for companies in various tech industries, doing hardware and electrical engineering, firmware, mechanical design, backend software, and cloud infrastructure. I have experience designing and manufacturing prosumer equipment, building autonomous vehicles, and building 3D mapping vehicles (LIDAR, cameras, GPS, sensor fusion, etc.)
Technologies:
AV/GIS/Sensor Tech: LIDAR, GPS, Camera arrays, IMU, Sensor fusion, Vehicle control (CAN)
Embedded Hardware: ARM Cortex M0/M3, ATmega, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SBCs
Velodyne is having major production issues. Our latest order with them has been pushed back months, and our last new order was quoted at 30-40 weeks. They keep citing yield issues. I'm hoping this opens up the market for reasonably-priced competition.
I see Velodyne is predicting that economies of scale would lower prices "below $50" which is impressive, at the same time I haven't heard anything more about Osram's $5 lidar[1], which would certainly turn up the pressure...
Not incorrect, although the revamped system has become pretty infamous for going down, leading lines to ring busy and overworked dispatchers to revert to pen and paper. The outages have been responsible for several deaths.
Maybe someone can explain how this works to me: In the white paper (http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/3d-printing/wd-apple-ipp3d-2...) section 5, it lists a bunch of attributes ("material-type", "filament-retraction-speed", etc.) These are all attributes that would be inputs to a slicer. Furthermore, there are a million such parameters (CUPS will never cover them all), are different between different slicers, are ever-changing, and sometimes undocumented.
Why would cups concern itself with these parameters, versus, for example, just acting as a transport for the actual print file (gcode, x3g, etc.)? I feel like this is akin to having CUPS assemble a PDF, versus just acting as a transport for postscript file that gets printed.
How many products are there in the world that cannot be refined?
Just because a new version or refinement exists, does not invalidate the usefulness of the original, nor does it mean the original users were guinea pigs.
Now when a product has zero utility in it's first version, that's different. But I would argue you should demand your money back at that point.
