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by asteli 10y ago
I'm an electrical engineer via a nontraditional path. Like software dev, it still involves large swaths of time spent staring at screens while inside a box. I've been mulling over the possibility of some kind of work that would be
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by asteli 10y ago
I had a similar experience. I grew up eating spicy food, with no issues whatsoever, aside from the topside burn. At 21 I experienced a tipping point wherein my gut became sensitive to spicy foods. I had to rethink my relationship with spicy
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by asteli 10y ago
Building a pack from random cells like this is pretty much a cardinal sin with Li-Ion pack design. Cell resistance and state of health are carefully matched during pack manufacture to ensure cells charge and discharge evenly. Li-ion cells a
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by asteli 10y ago
Some flights may only be 15 minutes in the air, but that doesn't reflect the fuel requirements for aircraft. I believe you're required to keep something like 30-45 minutes worth of fuel beyond what you need to get to your destinat
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by asteli 11y ago
The first time I experienced burnout, I didn't fully understand what was happening, so I kept spending 12-16 hours a day staring at my desk. My productivity got close to zero for what I think was well over a month. In retrospect I thin
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by asteli 11y ago
Also depends on which rabbit hole you choose. I'm an electrical design guy, dilettante wrt embedded software. 8-bit AVR controllers were a breeze to work with at a bare-metal level. Now that I'm attempting to acquaint myself with
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by asteli 11y ago
Magsafe connectors aren't inherently safe - all the contacts are exposed, creating a short-circuit and fire risk. Apple solves this by only supplying power when the cable is plugged into a laptop. Counterfeit adapters don't bother
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by asteli 11y ago
I would NOT trust a counterfeit charger over an Apple one. Did you miss the bit of the article where they describe design shortcomings that could burn your house down? Magsafe connectors are not inherently protected against short circuits
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by asteli 11y ago
I've started to do this. I find myself cracking a grin when encountering traffic, it's magical. However, the risk tradeoff takes some willfulness to ignore. On Thursday, one of my moto-commuting co-workers was struck by an SUV tha
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by asteli 11y ago
I had the same experience. With the Apple II machines, you could simply turn them on and punch BASIC into them straight away, which in retrospect, I think is a fantastic way to be introduced to programming.
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by asteli 11y ago
Oddly enough, these aren't things that we've historically gone to war over.
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by asteli 11y ago
I think you're underestimating how long it takes to set up workflows, tools, device drivers, system configurations, path variables, and so forth from scratch. If you rely solely on project repositories, I reckon you could spend multipl
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by asteli 11y ago
RGB LEDs aren't particularly suited for general purpose lighting anyway. Good white light is fairly broadband, which is why "white light" LEDs use a phosphor to get a broad emission spectrum. RGB+W LEDs exist, but I haven&#x2
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by asteli 11y ago
This is a very narrow segment of the engineering market. Maybe the title should read "2015 Bay Area Software Engineering Salaries Reviewed."
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by asteli 11y ago
My guess is that this happens more often than one would think. Discoe wasn't even the only campus resident within the Self-Driving Car team, let alone all of Google (there was a safety driver who lived in a van by the self-driving car
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by asteli 12y ago
IIRC, the danger is actually to the /fronts/ of your eyeballs, the result being cataracts rather than retinal damage.
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by asteli 12y ago
Regarding the plugging mains voltage into Ethernet /specifically/.... A good ethernet-enabled device should have isolation transformers (usually referred to as "magnetics"), either in the jack or as a separate component
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by asteli 13y ago
This effect gets used in modern trains and roller coasters in the form of linear eddy current brakes. In practice, this looks like an electromagnet that's held just over the rail. More reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by asteli 13y ago
OK, sure, a Thorium reactor project would be worth funding, surely. But a /home/ thorium reactor? That's not exactly an HOA friendly endeavour, is it?
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by asteli 13y ago
APRS has been used for vehicle tracking for a while (it was first devised in the 80s). It is dependent on independently operated base stations to relay data to the internet, and since all transmitters contend for the same frequency it may n
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by asteli 13y ago
An FPGA fab doesn't know what the eventual configuration will be, but that doesn't stop them (or the foundry) from inserting hardware backdoors. One example is the Actel ProASIC¹. Vulnerabilities like this make it difficult, if no
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by asteli 13y ago
The article points to by-products of industrialization (namely industrial chemicals and artificial lighting) as potential culprits in the case of rising obesity, but the distribution of obesity doesn't match level of industrialization
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by asteli 14y ago
Fun fact: if you have dark eyes, taking photographs of yourself in near-infrared will make your iris' appear light, which is good if you're going for that trendy vampire look. I'm not really impressed by the technology behind this - IR pass