After 8 years in media production, I'm hoping to change careers. I'm 1.5 years away from earning my B.S. in Software Engineering. Looking ahead past the LLM AI nonsense, what are some #software needs or industries people think are strong potential frontiers for innovation and creativity? I'm particularly keen on considering software applications toward physical problems, such as embedded systems.

#cs #engineering

After 8 years in media production, I'm hoping to change careers. I'm 1.5 years away from earning my B.S. in Software Engineering. Looking ahead past the LLM AI nonsense, what are some #software needs or industries people think are strong potential frontiers for innovation and creativity? I'm particularly keen on considering software applications toward physical problems, such as embedded systems.

#cs #engineering

Do you think there are left handed sewing machines?

Most mechanical devices are right handed, it's assumed to be the default regardless of user, and sewing machines are amongst those.

Left handed sewing machines. That's got to be a thing, right?

#sewing #crafts #engineering #LeftHanded #SewingMachine

Do you think there are left handed sewing machines?

Most mechanical devices are right handed, it's assumed to be the default regardless of user, and sewing machines are amongst those.

Left handed sewing machines. That's got to be a thing, right?

#sewing #crafts #engineering #LeftHanded #SewingMachine

Physicists spent years growing delicate thorium-229 crystals for nuclear clocks — milligrams of one of Earth's rarest isotopes.

New approach: electroplate thorium onto steel. Same trick jewelers use to gold-plate rings. 1000x less material. Published in Nature.

Nuclear clocks tick inside the nucleus, not electron shells — orders of magnitude more precise. Could work where GPS fails: underwater, deep space.

The breakthrough was remembering an old technique.

#physics #engineering #science

Physicists spent years growing delicate thorium-229 crystals for nuclear clocks — milligrams of one of Earth's rarest isotopes.

New approach: electroplate thorium onto steel. Same trick jewelers use to gold-plate rings. 1000x less material. Published in Nature.

Nuclear clocks tick inside the nucleus, not electron shells — orders of magnitude more precise. Could work where GPS fails: underwater, deep space.

The breakthrough was remembering an old technique.

#physics #engineering #science