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by m-ee 6y ago
As someone who’s worked in an FDA regulated industry the idea of changing material and design like that without any kind of change control vetting is insane. Speaks to an underpowered/ineffectual quality department. Can someone in the
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by m-ee 6y ago
One thing I’ve never seen mentioned online but a Model 3 owner I know complained about is that the speedometer is blocked if you have your right hand between 3 and 6 o clock on the steering wheel. He had to change the way he’s used to gripp
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by m-ee 6y ago
Local political perception of a company seems pretty divorced from the economic reality, just look at the Foxconn Wisconsin boondoggle
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by m-ee 6y ago
How many PhDs does it take to figure out that commingling stock results in people getting counterfeit products?
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by m-ee 6y ago
I also found it bizarre that your average go-kart track (not to mention aviation) has the presence of mind to safety wire everything but a multi billion dollar utility company didn't
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by m-ee 6y ago
How is shutting these lines down not feasible when PG&E regularly does it as part of their "public safety power shutdowns"
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by m-ee 6y ago
It's important work and it can be surprisingly easy to run into the limits of your uncertainty. If you ask someone to measure a temperature in my experience 9/10 times they'll grab a type K thermocouple. Far fewer than 9&#x2F
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by m-ee 6y ago
Calibrating slightly less accurate clocks. What those clocks are used for I have no idea, but there’s times you need a good traceable measurement for some calibration of your own and your uncertainty stack can start to add up. The better, s
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by m-ee 6y ago
With hardware there's really no substitute for having a stocked lab and good technician in the building. A broken blue wire or fried chip could mean me losing an hour to a day of productivity depending on whether I have parts on hand a
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by m-ee 6y ago
The manufacturers are benefiting, but’s its reductive to say the benefit is solely keeping the walled garden. I work in consumer electronics (but not phones). Here’s a breakdown of your stakeholders when you’re going through the design -ID,
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by m-ee 6y ago
Gluing everything together will absolutely affect your drop tests, and your conversations with ID, and your conversations with manufacturing who don’t want to have 18 screws in the assembly. There are many more stakeholders other than consu
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by m-ee 6y ago
Microchip XC16, broken in a few places but functional and definitely allowed for .c files.
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by m-ee 6y ago
It wasn’t a small micro (16 bit dspic) and the code was far from fast. I think it was just cargo culting. He also removed all floats because “integer math is faster” but never tested it. Put floats back in and sped things up a couple orders
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by m-ee 6y ago
I once has to rewrite legacy firmware where the original author didn’t believe in .c files. You can still compile with only header files (but only if it’s all headers, no mixing what he did with normal structure), but I still wonder why he
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by m-ee 6y ago
Maybe both are true and we’re close but still not quite at the glorious day when we’ll be able to build websites
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by m-ee 6y ago
Curious what helper apps you're using, I've always set my own DRC rules but have been mostly on the R&D side so it wasn't as critical
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by m-ee 6y ago
I'd appreciate something other than a GPIB connection in 2020, but you're right it's really a marvel of a design. Since getting it in the lab I've started reading more about how it works and there's a lot to learn.
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by m-ee 6y ago
Not trying to be rude here, but have you designed a plastic part for production? This isn't remotely practical for many if not most applications that I have seen. Cost, tolerance, surface finish, yield are all major issues. It's a
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by m-ee 6y ago
Yeah it's kind of crazy what HP was able to accomplish, the reason keysight hasn't updated a lot is because they didn't really have to. The DAQs are incremental improvements from what I've seen, the aforementioned 3458A
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by m-ee 6y ago
You're ignoring the rest of the supply chain and localization of talent. If I run out of a chip in the states it might be a week or two of the line being down, in Shenzen I can have more that day. Similarly if I need to have a test fix
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by m-ee 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd describe Keysight as a success story of cutting edge R&D, I can't speak for the current Agilent as I'm not a chemist. They and other namesake test equipment brands seem to only focus on the ultra hig
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by m-ee 6y ago
There are roll on/roll off car carriers with solar panels on top so they can use less port power when docked. Can spot them in SF from time to time.
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by m-ee 6y ago
For anyone interested in a deep dive into the weird space of aerosol science this is the Bible for the scientists I work with https://www.amazon.com/Aerosol-Technology-Properties-Measure...
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by m-ee 6y ago
I was a beer snob but find myself mostly drinking mexican lagers these days. It's summer and I don't want an 8% imperial stout or a brewery's mediocre first attempt at a hazy IPA
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by m-ee 6y ago
I liked their beers but avoided ordering them after they got trigger happy with trademark lawsuits https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/28/brewdog-law...
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by m-ee 6y ago
I worked at company in SBIR phase 2 and one quirk I found strange was that the money could be used for R&D not things deemed “production”. Endless 3D prints were ok, random software features were ok, tooling for injection molding was no
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by m-ee 6y ago
That’s a fair point. For what it’s worth the complaints I heard about her management from PI at building 8 were strictly about her style of extreme micro management which seemed to be pretty different from the rest of Facebook, he never men
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by m-ee 6y ago
Facebooks building 8 was run by a former darpa chief and went up in smoke. Also anecdata but it was enough to make me question how good their process really is
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by m-ee 6y ago
Wouldn’t they just do what a Apple did? Hold it offshore and wait for a conservative administration to declare a tax holiday that allows them to repatriate it at little to no cost.
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by m-ee 6y ago
They also didn't use it to connect to the controllers. They used two nRF24L01 transceivers which use Nordic's proprietary shockburst protocol. Easier to set up and better latency.

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