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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • I buy my chips directly from China when I can. The fact is, if I buy it from a distributor here, it comes from the same place but costs a stupid amount more. I’m talking about opamps that are 80 cents from China but 30 dollars on digikey.

    The US has a greedy middle man issue. I think bringing up home grown production is good for security reasons but I know someone’s buddy is going to get all the profit and we won’t actually have competitive prices.

    Making a prototype of something is bloody expensive already, even when dealing directly with China.








  • My best guess is that someone brought a nuke to New Jersey and is making demands.

    These things are car sized and flying low over densely populated areas. A medevac got told to pound sand because one was in the area. It’s definitely not an ordinary exercise.

    The pentagon said today in a press release that it wasn’t military or a foreign nation and there has been more then a few excursion at various military bases by drones. Hopefully, it’s an eccentric billionaire or aliens and not ww3.