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by bluesquared 5y ago
I'm an embedded hardware engineer, so I don't have much experience with wire for high-current applications, but I was surprised to see soldering as the method for the connector. Can anyone working with high-power devices chime in
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by bluesquared 5y ago
It's going to be tooling for the enclosure, and if there is other NRE to be considered for PCB testing (ICT, solder stencil, etc). With a $15 BoM cost, using a domestic contract manufacturer, this would probably come out to be no cheap
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by bluesquared 5y ago
As someone who snagged a FirstInitialExtremlyCommonLastname@outlook.com address (think asmith@,bpatel, etc), I can say that their spam filter is absolutely worthless. Never bothered to use that account because it was so horrendous.
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by bluesquared 5y ago
My anecdotal evidence says yes. My wife was confused on how to "install an app" for something that wasn't in the Mac app store. She had been used to the iPhone/iPad model for so long that she had forgotten how it was on
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Yes, very slight spoilers but probably not much more than you'd deduce from reading the jacket of the book. Certainly something that you find out from the first few chapters. Basic progression without too much spoilers is main characte
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by bluesquared 5y ago
I have an 18-mo old now. My company "generously" offers 2 weeks of paid parental leave. I went through similar conversations as you, only I was merely asking to use 2 weeks of PTO after my 2 weeks of paid parental leave for a tota
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by bluesquared 5y ago
It is quite frustrating. I'm a medical device hardware engineer, so our quantities are in the low 1000s per year for our highest-running SKUs. Just today had to deal with a panicked contract manufacturer who was going to bring our line
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Remember that this "chip shortage" isn't just for fancy tiny nm-process micros, it's across the whole industry. I'm in embedded systems for medical devices, and shortages of NOR flash memory, EEPROMs, oscillators, h
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Same here in Ohio. I know the justification given was to offset the taxes on fuel that go towards road maintenance, but that math never held up. Just another regressive tax against the little guys instead of the heavy industry that causes t
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by bluesquared 5y ago
State lines really do a poor job of dividing regions nicely, like you've indicated. My home state of Ohio, for example, is a good demonstration of a border state. Southeast Ohio is definitely transitional-Appalachia, whereas Northwest
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by bluesquared 5y ago
People who are financing brand new cars are either wealthy enough or uneducated enough to not worry about a $40k+ MSRP. I've frequently championed my Chevy Bolt. Caveat being the recent recall on the battery fires, but ignoring that...
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by bluesquared 5y ago
I have heard that the reason to have the "airplane mode" rule on takeoff and landing is now mainly for passenger attention to safety instruction and situational awareness at the points of the flight most likely to have an emergenc
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by bluesquared 5y ago
It's great that brand-new EVs are getting cheaper. Recall aside, a used Chevy Bolt is a much better value. 15-18k USD for 240 mile range, DC "fast" charging (50kV).
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Can DOORS be worse than PTC Integrity?
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Even with the noisemaker my Chevy Bolt has still been quiet enough to surprise unaware pedestrians in parking lots.
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by bluesquared 5y ago
I know you jest, but a simple x-acto knife will usually do the trick
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by bluesquared 5y ago
I work for a medical device company in the midwest. So definitely meets the "unsexy" criterial - slow-paced embedded development in an "unsexy" location. Definitely low on the pay side even when factoring in cost of livi
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Texas Instruments has a facility that has had output reduced due to COVID staffing issues for at least the past 6 months. They produce parts that I use in my 1000 pc/year medical device that Toyota and GM vacuum up at a much higher r
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Often yes. "Medical devices" covers a large array of products from in-vitro/small implantable to things similar to laboratory equipment (think patient monitoring) or industrial (MRI and the like, autoclaves, etc). "Safet
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by bluesquared 5y ago
Most comments I've seen on this and other related articles on HN are too focused on the high-end chips doing fancy stuff. There are not only supply constraints on these sorts of high-compute chips, but also big shortages on practically
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by bluesquared 5y ago
As an embedded hardware engineer working on yearly quantities in the low thousands who doesn't have to focus on unit cost quite as much as Sony, maybe a bit naive in this area? I've been using supercapacitors instead of batteries
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by bluesquared 6y ago
Right now with the cold, the car is telling me ~150 miles. But this is during below-freezing temperatures in the midwest, and I've only had it for a few weeks. My commute is ~3.5 miles, around town trips of no more than 10 miles round-
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by bluesquared 6y ago
I just recently got a Chevy Bolt. 240 mile range for 1/2 of the cheapest Model 3 (used, paid in cash). It has the typical GM fit-and-finish, nowhere near what I'd demand out of a car with an MSRP at ~$43k with the trim level I hav
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by bluesquared 6y ago
I have the same thing with saving threads on HN/Reddit...
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by bluesquared 6y ago
Here in "flyover country, USA" I was looked down upon for asking to use two weeks of my own PTO after my company's new 'generous' two week paid parental leave. That request was constantly pushed off until the week o
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by bluesquared 6y ago
>Ok, well I can also do that on ukraine.bbs - and being able to choose my topic instead of whomever is actually on this random band at this random time. I think this is one of the big advantages of amateur radio. No need for the infrastr
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by bluesquared 6y ago
As someone at a non-silicon valley non-FAANG company, how are those guys treating their hardware teams? As an embedded hardware engineer, I've been coming in to the office on an "as necessary" basis. Reading between the lines
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by bluesquared 6y ago
I live in one of the large metros in Ohio, prices are all still $1.30-1.50/gallon here. Like most of the locations in the article, I would guess the sub-dollar prices are very isolated locations or special circumstances (no-tax native
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by bluesquared 7y ago
I enjoyed it, though I thought it ended rather abruptly. I enjoyed reading about his childhood/early adulthood and how that shaped him and prompted him to act, but I thought more time would have been spent during/after "the m
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by bluesquared 7y ago
Kobayashi Maru

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