A herd of kids and an electronics/sw consulting firm. I occasionally post as @akohlsmith@mastodon.social as well.
Irvine, CA
Joined March 2008
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Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
Canadians confuse the rest of the world by sounding like Americans, writing like Brits, and throwing in just enough French to freak everyone out
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
They still don't understand Gen X in the workplace.
We don't want free pizza parties.
We don't want mandatory team-building retreats.
We don't want motivational speeches about being a family.
And we definitely don't want another company-branded coffee mug.
You know what we want?
💰 Pay us what we're worth.
🏖️ Let us take our vacation days without guilt.
🏡 Respect our time outside of work.
🤝 Trust us to do the job we were hired to do.
📵 Stop expecting us to be available 24/7.
We're not looking for an office to become our second home. We have lives, families, responsibilities, and better things to do than pretend a pizza party makes up for being underpaid and overworked.
Pay us fairly, respect our boundaries, and let us get on with our lives.
That's the perk. That's the culture. That's it. 😂
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
Designed my first RF diplexer in 1993 on a VAX minicomputer. Tens of millions of my plug-in filters ended up in cable HFC amplifiers and fiber nodes.
Now I’m giving the tool away: VektorFIL, free and open source. Butterworth to elliptic, coupled resonators, diplexers. Real synthesis, live schematic.
github.com/ibelinp/vektorfil
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
OH: "Every 30 minute minute job is a broken bolt away from becoming a six hour struggle of superhuman proportions."
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
engineer: I want this part
distributor: tell me about your project
engineer: I want this part
distributor: we have lots of solutions for you.
engineer: I want this part
distributor: we can't sell that, but here's this unrelated system that is >2x the price.
engineer: *explodes*
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
⛳ Announcing the PCBGolf challenge ⛳
$1000 cash for the smallest PCBA by October 12.
You can try to use your clanker, but it can't do it. Are you better than an autorouter?
github.com/commaai/PCBGolf
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
"Why are runes always ancient, why'd we stop making new runes?"
"Brother. we made runes so complex that sand started thinking"
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
Jean Chretian with an absolutely masterful speech.
This is leadership. This is Canada.
I am very proud of my country, who we are, and what we stand for. We are not perfect, but there is no place I'd rather be.
Thank you Canada for being you!
🇨🇦🇨🇦
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
This is ridiculous. These are terms you ask for from an enemy after defeating them in a world war.
That is how the USA now treats its 'allies'. And that is why every country in its right mind wants out of the relationship.
It’s finally out (in beta)! Very excited to try this!
If anyone with a CNC machine wants to try scribing PCBs, the beta is slowly rolling out now. Sign up here:
copperkit.app/
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
Responding to the attack, President Zelensky said:
“The world must see this. It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abusing civilians. Without pressure on Russia, the dismantling of its capacity for aggression, and real security guarantees, it is simply impossible to imagine the world being able to coexist with this evil.
We must remain resolute in defending life. We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to seriously think about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.”
Almost caused an international incident at the airport today. Was grabbing the plastic bin after X-ray, lifted it over the guy beside me who was putting on his shoes and right as I had the bin over him, he comes up FAST and whacks his head on the corner of my bin.
I apologized profusely but it turns out he was Canadian too so just domestic assault I guess.
Andrew Kohlsmith retweeted
This is the smartest thing I've seen today.
This metal tag can be used to track if you opened a door, used a toilet and left without washing your hands. No electronics required.
Seriously tho, this can drastically reduce the cost and hassle of IoT
This was developed by uncommon sense labs at Georgia Tech. Link to the paper below: