Gerrit Coetzee

artist, music producer, designer, engineer. owner

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

@DStrachman I mean I’m willing to give this a shot in my ultra rich vampire stage of life but rn I still have student loans so I’m drinking coffee.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

As a mechanical engineer I often write down my very important calculations so I can refer back to them later.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

What private equity does to brands and manufacturing should be illegal.

https://t.co/qnVCZ8VAst

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

Time-lapse of installing a 238 ton steam turbine rotor at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

I’ve watched so many YouTube tutorials at this point that the Indian accent locks me into a state of focus instantly.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

Could you make a printer resin that hardened at one wavelength but gelled at another so you could print supportless?

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

Think there’s an opportunity for verification that hasn’t been solved. Is this art real? Is this jewelry hand made or made in a factory? Does this person really have the credentials etc. all of the old institutions can’t deliver in the face of AI.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

@NickPinkston @Formlogic lfg!

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

google is really fumbling search so bad that people are recommending bing. the dumbest part of all this is peak google would have had me paying 10 bucks a month for no ads on any of their platforms. now the trust is broken, why are there ads in my emails? insane

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

just say uwu unironically during your google interview to get hired. It’s been that easy the whole time.

[Kyle Cothern @risknc]

UC Berkeley has a cyber security track?

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

they really don’t. Also rather than giving all of your startup investment to AWS you could buy a factory which is an asset but hey Jeff bezos needs more money so let’s keep investing in pump and dump software.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

people don't understand how big this opportunity is. yes, it costs a lot of money to build, but the ones who get it right will be the next trillion dollar companies.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

The number of people who reveal they would love to live in a system where only a few “trusted” super corps make everything when getting mad at Tesla is shocking.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

Onshape is so well thought out. I can’t believe I used to be a hater.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

One interface improvement I’d love for designers to consider is entering data and having the rest of the data pushed down rather than scrolling to the bottom of a list and adding the latest entry.

We are no longer bound by the limits of paper.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

Normal person watching a cautionary tale movie. “Skynet, hmm seems bad, shouldn’t do that”

San Francisco tech founder “holy shit write that down holy shit get the investors on the phon-“

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

The first AI designed injection mold has been born.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

“we should have harder math” 😭😭😭😭

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

I learned so many lessons with my first startup. Both in life and business.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

I feel like there was a total arms race of scanners in the 2000s and then the entire segment vanished forever.

[Gerrit Coetzee @dammitcoetzee]

@WarpTubes @bnjm @GergelyOrosz It’s 80 bucks for a full set of really good full size toner cartridges from thesuppliesguys with a warranty on them. Buying oem ink/tomer is silly no one does it.

The only edge case inkjet can still shine is photo printing on gloss but then it’s an expensive printer anyway.