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by otter-rock 4y ago
I appreciate you engaging in a two way discussion. As a general comment, you still jump to many exaggerated conclusions apparently without seeking to understand. For example, your conclusion about an elevated class of engineers that use mag
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by otter-rock 4y ago
So nuclear engineers just aren't allowed to do their jobs, and the safety requirements were never good enough to begin with.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
You said that engineers don't engineer things, you called the techniques I mentioned an appeal to authority because I also said who's practicing those techniques, and you keep repeating yourself about everything instead of interac
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by otter-rock 4y ago
That's not what it's called. Imagine you write software for rabbit-mq. But then you get a requirements change to use zero-mq for whatever reason. Is that deviance? Have you normalized it? No, and no. Deviance is when you're d
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Ok, you obviously have zero interest in an actual discussion, lest it confront your completely fabricated "facts". So for anyone else who's genuinely interested in more than just pontificating their own bs, the "special
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by otter-rock 4y ago
I see your concerns, and I think you're probably just unaware that they're addressed better than you know, but in a different way than you'd expect. When they accept an expensive out-of-spec part, it's because they can s
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by otter-rock 4y ago
It's a requirements change. Those happen all the time in everything. Why would that be completely forbidden or impossible here? Like you said, it might really suck. But the NRC does not allow trading off safety the way you suggest.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Out-of-spec doesn't mean it can't work. It just means you have to redo the design using what's effectively a different part than you originally planned on.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Audubon and Merlin Bird ID.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
I also like the interface because it's fast to use the hotkey-mouse combo. Try putting a ".meas" directive on the schematic and then right-click it. There might be more UI than you think, but it's still not comprehensive
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by otter-rock 4y ago
The categories mentioned in the quoted comments - semiconductor, defense, and car companies. Also others too, like industrial and certain consumer appliances and electronics. Search job listings for electronics failure analysis to get an id
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by otter-rock 4y ago
I think it's sort of like how Linux feels unconventional if you're coming from Windows or Mac. It's technically not, but that's a useless fact because it is for you. Anyone could make an alternate GUI for any spice, but
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Is this about the GUI? It's a thin wrapper over the command line program. Use the keyboard shortcuts. I don't see a contender on the horizon.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
FesZ is one of the best electronics YouTubers. Most of his videos walk you through a topic from theory, to simulation, to build and test. Everything he does is cheap enough that you can follow along yourself for a few bucks, assuming you ha
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Not every agricultural operation is diversified like that. I don't have a great source, but this one is kind of ok if you flip back and forth between the maps. They have a better map that only works on desktop, and they have the raw da
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by otter-rock 4y ago
The author specifically said that the solution is to find a less partisan approach. Who are you arguing with?
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by otter-rock 4y ago
> What really drives quality up is a big, hardass customer. What drives up quality is cost of defects to the manufacturer. Cost battlegrounds change over time. Currently, some of the big ones are in electronic parts elimination and relia
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by otter-rock 4y ago
That's like claiming that the government services that still run on cobol should have been manual office jobs instead.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
That's a very common occurrence outside of software. I know a guy who is famous within his field for certain important discoveries. Later, he "discovered" something else, only to find out that it had been published decades ea
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Fundamentals of fluid mechanics by Munson et al is also good.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
I sometimes use a calculator at work when sketching and estimating an idea, and when checking my detailed work. It's an extra layer of defense against a mistake, but I never rely on it.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
Hopefully, they won't pick a wireless power standard too soon. We're still in the phase where proprietary solutions are fixing real deficiencies, and not just making arbitrarily different shapes to sell more stuff.
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by otter-rock 4y ago
That's a strawman argument. Grid ties have finite capacity. They are not magic, infinite energy pipes. Interstate AC grid ties subject the grids to federal regulations, which are designed to reduce the risk for residential customers mu