Build more. Build better. CTO at @REK.
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2011
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Barrett Ames retweeted
Today America gains a new Instant-quote manufacturer!
Very proud to present FlyByThermoform.com where you can make custom packaging inserts for anything and get a price instantly!
Use code REINDUSTRIALZE to get $5 off your first order!
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I’m an Americanist
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Here’s a photo I took of the enemy’s cache that our team destroyed at Rock Island East, Cambodia, 1970. Details are in my book, “Blasting Through.” I’ll provide a pre-order link ASAP. I’m honored by the support so many of you are sending on X. BASED — I like that word. 🫡🇺🇸
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Anyone looking for a new manufacturing operations job for 2026? Just opened a new facility, need someone to be my right hand man.
Talking to customers, running the CNC shop, working with machinists all day.
Dm if you are curious! In-person in Toronto.
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Advanced hardware / robotics startups are growing fast
Traditional manufacturers can't move quick enough to support these companies
RMFG solves this by building software powered factories that ship parts and assemblies at startup speed
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Fun fact: US-EAST-1 has far better uptime than the US Government.
Time to break up Congress, by @SenWarren’s logic!
If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period.
It's time to break up Big Tech.
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AWS is not a monopoly. It represents 30% of the web.
Sen. Warren also overlooks the fact that many providers went down because their services relied on a single AWS region, a malpractice that is not Amazon's fault.
It did not affect Google, X, and many others.
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It was all so we could build homes with robots.
All of our work in floorplan AI,and generative CAD modeling, we did all of that, just so that we could build homes with robots. Early on we talked to a robotics engineer from Katerra. It took them $750k to switch from one house to another house. It takes us 25 minutes, and that's if we had a big lunch.
P.S. The soundtrack is hardcore punk, lyrics written by me, but everything else is @udiomusic.
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Can you imagine how much easier it'll be to hang a picture when your house comes with an owner's manual that includes the framing layout of every wall?
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One Teenager.
That's all it takes to run 17,000 lbs of house building, nail gun wielding, robot. Our operators can build more panels than a carpentry crew in the same time, and they don't break a sweat.
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Idiots and cowards
We’ll do it ourselves
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One of my favorite examples of customers using Parallax is @BotBuilt_ & @cbames. BotBuilt is making robots to build homes and we brought their factory in NC into simulation with just a 20 minute video.
(1/2) Parallax Sim that uses Gaussian Splats + Physics Engine (IsaacSim here)
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Nox Metals (@noxmetals) builds fully automated factories that cut and ship metal fast. They use software and robotics to get factories cheaper metal, delivered in days.
ycombinator.com/launches/OBX…
Congrats on the launch, @zanehengsperger!