One of my pet peeves is when people say "That's too expensive" without even naming a price. Some things float around in peoples heads as "very expensive" while they have never heard a price for it, or know how it changed in the years since they heard about it.
Some engineering problems can easily be solved by throwing some money at them, as opposed to spending weeks thinking about how to avoid that >.>
@gigabecquerel "try to find the actual price, don't assume" has become a minor maxim to me for this exact reason.
Especially now with the proliferation of good-enough Chinese tools for 1/10th of traditional prices
@gigabecquerel related, I have never regretted asking myself the question "how do folks with decades of professional experience solve this problem, and can I do it that way too?"
Often the answer is totally out of reach, but every time I've moved from a "hobbyist" technique to something more pro it's been both easier and yielded better results.
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