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841.
by madengr 8y ago
You can always work in the military industrial complex. Lot’s of gray hair, including myself. Most under 35 don’t know WTF they are doing anyway; sometimes amusing to watch them flop, then $$$ for me to fix their mess.
842.
by madengr 8y ago
The chili-garlic paste is good, but I don’t like Sriracha; too sweet.
843.
by madengr 8y ago
Wiring harnesses are a major weight savings. If you wired them all in serial, then that wire is a single point of failure. Otherwise you’d have 65k wires going to each one.
844.
by madengr 8y ago
You can selectively hit areas with cold spray (i.e. duster turned upside down). Could be a bad/oxidized connector, cracked solder joint, tombstoned part. Only worth diagnosing it for curiosity.
845.
by madengr 8y ago
I had an electronic module that worked in our lab, but failed at the customers, but then worked again in ours. Turns out one of the pins in a space grade connector (MDM-25) open-circuited exactly between 68F and 70F. Our lab was 70F, and t
846.
by madengr 8y ago
Nah, get on to Blind. That will make you feel poor.
847.
by madengr 8y ago
Wow, didn’t know they had one. I wonder how they handle the licensing as there would be no one to complete the 5 year understudy; chicken and the egg.
848.
by madengr 8y ago
Yes. I don’t think there is even a PE licensing path for software, so even with a CS degree you could never become a licensed engineer. You have to work under a PE for 5 years, then take the PE exam, then CE credits. I have an MSEE, but c
849.
by madengr 8y ago
Ha ha, a resistor on every pin is a signal integrity hack.
850.
by madengr 8y ago
What is qualified in Austria? In the USA, in most states, you must be licensed to have engineering in your business name. Your name is usually suffixed with PE.
851.
by madengr 8y ago
I still buy the Scott brand. It’s cheaper than Kirkland.
852.
by madengr 8y ago
00 stainless tweezers and 2x-40x stero microscope will be fine down to 0201. Eventually you’ll need a demagnetizer for the tweezers. For 01005 you’ll need ceramic tweezers.
853.
by madengr 8y ago
I saw them on the Persistsnce if Time tour, opening for Maiden. Of course they had a giant clock on stage, probably influenced by the watches. Speaking of ergonomics, why do they hunch over with eye loupes when inspection microscopes with
854.
by madengr 8y ago
Well an article about the technical history of the screw driver would be interesting.
855.
by madengr 8y ago
Yep, I’ll be just like this guy. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ksnt.com/amp/news/local-new...
856.
by madengr 8y ago
Ditto, EE too. I bought a copy of Abramowitz and Stegun just for the great table of Laplace Transforms. If I were a professor, I’d ban all electronics from the room. All the decent professors handed out copies of the notes anyway, or wrot
857.
by madengr 8y ago
Good! I find realtors to be parasites. We sold my wife’s house FSBO, which was not hard at all. My mother just bought a house also FSBO. No parasites involved, and everyone comes out the better. You can always get a real estate lawyer t
858.
by madengr 8y ago
That's a fascinating read. Analog computing may make a comeback: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/not-your-father...
859.
by madengr 8y ago
Damn! I graduated MSEE from KU in ‘96 and make 1/8 that. Don’t go into hardware, kids.
860.
by madengr 8y ago
Hope for his family that he has good life insurance.
861.
by madengr 8y ago
If there are already power and telephone poles, they can run fiber. I don’t understand why the whole, damn country could be wired for power, but they can’t run a dammed fiber cable.
862.
by madengr 8y ago
They are stalled in other cities too, where they are using traditional methods.
863.
by madengr 8y ago
Sounds like a new torture method: Death by a Thousand Chickens.
864.
by madengr 8y ago
China is also a big exporter of plastic shit. Maybe there ought to be a law that requires plastic shit to be retured to the country of origin.
865.
by madengr 8y ago
Though you can still get a group delay (slower than free space) in vacuum filled RF waveguide. When you break down the single mode, it appears to be zig-zagging through the waveguide (bouncing off the walls), and slows down as cutoff is ap
866.
by madengr 8y ago
Another reason against gun control. If you need to end it, a gun is a quick way.
867.
by madengr 8y ago
KD4HSO here. I do RF circuit design for a living, but built the tube kit just as I have never messed with any non-microwave tubes. It’s a single ended class A with 300B output tubes. Have not measured the THD yet. https://wall
868.
by madengr 8y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I grew up with cassette and LP. First time I heard a CD, specifically Pink Floyd’s Money with the cash register, it was jaw dropping. LPs are cool for the artwork, but that’s it. That being said, I still only buy mus
869.
by madengr 8y ago
I’m ancient.
870.
by madengr 8y ago
Screw condos. I’ll take a home where I can put up ham radio antennas and shoot guns, without pesky neighbors.

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