Wellspring Studio LLC

[Neet @neet_sol]

Just applied to a job on LinkedIn

[FortIS 🇪🇺 @FortIS_55]

The American mind cannot comprehend that IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT HOT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
"JuSt geT An AC" YOU SHOULDN'T NEED AC IN EUROPE

[Greg Mushen @gregmushen]

@___4o____ It’s even worse. Qwen 2.5 7B

[high t alpha shemale 🔆 @gluetaster]

that’s not a cargo bike man that’s a loopholemobile

[kitze @thekitze]

> be github
> invent copilot
> you are literally the first one
> you are literally the only one
> you literally have access to all the code in the world
> get mogged by literally every single agentic bs that came out in the past few years

this level of fumble should be studied

[Wellspring Studio LLC @FortSmithFDM]

@repkord @Mojee3d @BambulabGlobal @Prusa3D With all due respect: oh well, get outcompeted every time.

Stop defending prices that make things unreachable for the masses, because that's why these companies win. Every. Single. Time.

[BlindVia @blind_via]

Louis Rossmann is mogging Bambu Labs right now. Challenging them to sue him.

[Benjamin @bschne]

upon Doing The Thing, you will invariably find two things to be true:

1. Doing The Thing was pretty easy, actually
2. not having Done The Thing was bothering you more than you thought it was

[Chris Wood @CWood_sdf]

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"

do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

[Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospace @JasonPremoMFG]

"I don't need a biz plan for my machine shop, I'm just going to get loans for new cnc machines and sign a 5 year triple net building lease and the numbers will just work out" (has zero sales training, worked as W2 employee whole life) 😑

There are roughly 18,600 machine shops (NAICS 332710 and related) in the US.

Industry revenue totals around $37–48 billion recently (IBISWorld), for an average revenue of about $2.5–2.9 million per shop.

Many (especially traditional job shops) are small or one-person operations with revenues of $100k–$600k (or up to ~$1M).

Median revenue for sold shops is often around $1.1 million.

Average employment is low: ~13–14 employees per business.

The majority of US manufacturing firms (including machine shops) are small:

~93% have fewer than 100 employees, and ~75% have fewer than 20.

No single large player dominates

It’s fragmented with many owner-operated shops.

That being said... machine shops have better survival rates than the US small business average.

• ~82.6% survive the first year (failure rate ~17.4%).

• ~57–58% survive 5 years.

Machine shops rarely fail purely from “bad machining.”

Failures almost always stem from business and management issues rather than technical skill.

Cash flow and undercapitalization (the #1 killer).

Customers often pay in 30–90 days (sometimes longer) --- but shops must pay for materials, labor, rent, and utilities immediately.

Low operating margins (typically 3–4%) leave little buffer.

Many small shops run chronically tight on working capital.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

I’ve got a theory.

When people don’t create
music
art
ideas
anything…

they start creating problems instead.

Unused energy gets weird.

[Wellspring Studio LLC @FortSmithFDM]

@tomoworks_ytb Extremely cool!!

[himanshu @himanshustwts]

actually