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If you go to most of these you'll find a UR3/5 on a cart in a closet.
America has 16,876 machine shops.
83% employ fewer than 20 people. Just nine employ more than 500.
New defense companies are moving from prototypes to mass production, and every missile, drone, ship, and rocket they ultimately produce needs to run through one of these small shops.
That friction is a national security liability.
Connor Love and Collen Larson on the next generation of American manufacturing that gets built by smoothing it: a16z.news/p/the-case-for-the…
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I don't do CAD anymore. Every part is a Python program that builds the model in memory using build123d, an open-source parametric modeling Python framework. It then exports the model as a STEP file, which Fusion 360 imports so they can be inspected visually.
A high-level YAML spec file holds the numbers that define the robot as a whole - dimensions, masses, actuators, joint limits - which is read by the code. The python code obviously is written by an LLM (I currently use Opus).
I did consider using Onshape, but its API is capped to a few thousands calls a year, which make it unusable for me: I use Opus to push the parts, build the assembly, create the joints, set their limits and values, assign materials and densities, and inspect the result. That's easily a few hundred calls a day.
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Building this chassis out of 2020 and 3D printed joints - is there a better way of doing this? I would love feedback on simpler/sturdy techniques for prototyping this.
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My buddy who works in CAD said AI isn't good enough for him yet.
I took that as a challenge and wanted to prove to him this is a limitation of CAD tools, not the models.
3 beers later, we decided to try something out. Personal CAD software that builds CAD models.
I'll let you be the judge...
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Cute point, but our standard of living is vastly improved by nearly every metric except that we work too hard and have fewer children. More cars, bigger houses, more eating out, more travel, and all the consumer products we want, many of which didn’t even exist in 1971.
Want to have your mind blown?
The median U.S. family income in 1971 was 252.2 oz of gold.
That would be $1,053,623/yr today.
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Asked GPT-6.1-Sol high to Make a Drill. Done in 18 minutes. Impressive. Costed 1.36 USD.
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2026 gaming
they can literally take away the product you paid for because they didn't like the name they let you choose
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What engineering discipline would you recommend to a freshman in high school?
I feel like it is impossible to predict how much AI will change things in 2 years, let alone 4 or 5 years from now.
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Donald Trump waving his hands on TV, “Look, we made a bad investment. It happens. To me, it rarely happens. But it happens. When the US government bought 60% of the Anthropic IPO for $3.2 trillion, it was the biggest deal ever made. And the best one ever at the time, by far”
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What kind of connectors are rated for vacuum of space open exposure directly to space environment like we see here.
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I refuse to believe anyone actually spends eight solid hours working. I've never, ever seen it happen. People talk, go to the toilet, take a few extra minutes at lunch, chat about random shit, and so on. I cannot imagine working somewhere where my manager, or some system, actually tracks whether I've literally spent eight hours working. If I get my work done in four or five hours, I've provided the value I'm supposed to provide.
Idiots seem to think that if they admit they don't have enough work to do, they'll get promoted for being such hard workers or they'll get a raise. No. You'll just get more work. That's it.
Even if I were the employer, I wouldn't want people slaving away for eight solid hours under constant stress. I'm pretty sure that eventually shows in the results. Provide value, make money, and that's it.
But I'm not American. My life doesn't revolve around work, and "What do you do?" isn't the first question I ask someone when I meet them. The American cult of work is incomprehensible to me. Thankfully. To me, it looks like internalised slavery. It's not normal to sacrifice watching your kids grow up or sacrifice your health just to be a good goy.
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Everyone say “ohhh US military is to slow to adapt to drone warfare, we gonna lose n shiet”. YOU ARE RETARDED. Our own doctrines were being formulated in real time as Ukraine war progressed. We had (and still have) operatives on the ground observing over there. That goes with each conflict. We are in EVERYONE’S business. The only thing we are slow on is releasing information to the public, which is why DORKS think we don’t have capabilities to combat modern threats. NEWS FLASH: WE ARE THE MODERN THREAT
FUCK YUO!!!!
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Been trying to get into a certain defense prime for a while.
Then out of nowhere.. boom! Our biggest organic online insta order ever from them.
American defense yearns for insta buy.
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Is having 40000 pounds of sand in a trailer normal or did they just reveal to us that palantir is already doing pre cog crime shit without telling us
JUST IN: Thieves steal two Nvidia-branded trailers expecting them to be loaded with AI GPUs, but find 40,000 pounds of sand instead.
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niggas who take psychedelics are gay as fuck
“i needa fight my inner demons”
“i needa experience ego death”
how bout you experience some fucking money broke ass nigga
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This is extremely dark
🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
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SpaceX
I'm like 98% certain I am further ahead than everyone doing this. And I am doing this as a hobby on my free time as a dad with two under two
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