petsfed

35 ms·

421.
by petsfed 3y ago
I wonder if there'd be fewer abuses by the TSA (especially theft, but also assault and harassment) if they had the resources to hire better people. Maybe there is still an opportunity to reduce staff if the quality of the staff still i
422.
by petsfed 3y ago
I would be supportive of a smaller, better selected, better trained, better compensated cadre of TSA agents. I think a lot of the reason why the TSA is so ineffective, and why so much of the airport experience is just theater, comes down to
423.
by petsfed 3y ago
Thinking back on the negative experiences I've had with gas station attendants, suddenly the awful stories about the TSA makes a lot more sense.
424.
by petsfed 3y ago
Amongst e.g. PC game nerds who really started playing in the late 90s, there was always a sort of low-level antipathy directed towards Microsoft. It's non-specific, and its certainly not actionable, but there was always a little bit of
425.
by petsfed 3y ago
And anyway, I get the impression the real reason we went so hard on drone regulation was that it thought it'd be easier to make unlicensed drones illegal than it was to investigate every time somebody shot a drone out of the sky. That
426.
by petsfed 3y ago
I have been directed by google down roads marked "private". I have been directed by google down roads that weren't actually roads. When I was in Arches National Park, I noticed google trying to direct me to take an actual jee
427.
by petsfed 3y ago
The shear volume of food that is left to rot in fields, in storehouses, in American pantries , suggests to me that there's a lot of slack in the resource chain before we actually face mass starvation. People are starving to death in p
428.
by petsfed 3y ago
Thanks. I appreciate you assuming that I need the help./s Since I reached the "can afford to shop at whole foods if I wanted to" stage of my life, the combination of lifestyle, genetics, and diet means I'm pretty far fro
429.
by petsfed 3y ago
>Sure cheap calories and cheap corn based sugars make it easy to develop so called lifestyle diseases, but on the other hand we've essentially eliminated famine and in most parts of the world malnutrition. I think this is letting th
430.
by petsfed 3y ago
That creek is miles long, forms one border of my property, and its all of below grade. I'd have to install numerous repeater stations to accomplish that, all on somebody else's property, all along that creekbed. Turns out the gove
431.
by petsfed 3y ago
Are you asking me if, in the situation where my failure to build a $12k-$30k fence (for materials alone , not including labor, and the environmental impact survey that has to go along with 1200 linear feet of 6' high fencing in a wild
432.
by petsfed 3y ago
There's also the issue of keeping him on our land. There's added correction capabilities (first a signal noise, then a mild shock) as part of the Halo collar that we got him. And an entire training program that comes with it, so p
433.
by petsfed 3y ago
Somehow I re-read your post like 4 times and still thought you were saying "get married AND your money back", not "get married or your money back". So here I am, downvoting my own posts. I will say that your idea is
434.
by petsfed 3y ago
I live out in the sticks, and the whole reason I invested in a GPS/LTE collar for my dog is because there are broad swaths where he'd only be in range of an apple device if he had line-of-sight to it. Considering his favorite expl
435.
by petsfed 3y ago
Time spent dating, or in a long-term relationship, prior to marriage is positively correlated with enduring marriage. That is, people who date each other for 3 years or more prior to marriage are 50% less likely to get a divorce than those
436.
by petsfed 3y ago
There's also the issue of having a bunch of cash on hand to pay out. Plenty of companies do unlimited PTO or bar PTO roll-over, specifically to limit the liability of payouts. Also, if the relationship is abusive and the abused spouse
437.
by petsfed 3y ago
Based on the wikipedia article, macroscopic laser cooling is largely used for cooling gases. Insofar as I'm aware, laser cooling is always used as the final stage of gas cooling, on top of more standard methods, because there are more
438.
by petsfed 3y ago
>The limiting factor that will determine whether any resonances are excited is the size of the square region in a right-angle PCB trace. In particular, the lateral size of the region will be approximately equal to the quarter wavelength
439.
by petsfed 3y ago
I hear echoes of "every power is a prisoner of its last victory". You can see the same thing in Soviet and American Cold War doctrine, but also in the way that just about everybody started WWI (and why the casualties were so horri
440.
by petsfed 3y ago
Flashlight design is neither my hobby nor my profession. But I own a bunch of flashlights, and single-button dimming seems to be table stakes for a lot of commercially available head lamps and lanterns. Also, with the right micro, a second
441.
by petsfed 3y ago
A pretty common feature is single-button dimming. For LEDs, that actually requires a microcontroller and a more sophisticated power regulation scheme than just a current limiting resistor. There's also custom colors, flash patterns, et
442.
by petsfed 3y ago
> - PCB pros avoid right angles for the same reason. Bevel your corners. (You see examples of this on every board if you’re not sure what I mean) If your design suffers from the consequences of this, your reach has probably exceeded your
443.
by petsfed 3y ago
That's definitely the realm of "actual electrical engineer". There's a lot you can learn to get most of the way there without the math, but to actually understand why you've got e.g. an impedance matching network on
444.
by petsfed 3y ago
Can you give an example? There may well be an easily accessed IC for it.
445.
by petsfed 3y ago
A lot of it comes down to being mindful of what you're spending the most time on during assembly, but some of it is just hard-won. But I've learned a lot from reading Hackaday. Some simple things that you shouldn't have to le
446.
by petsfed 3y ago
I wasn't even touching manufacturing at scale, because sometimes you really do need just the one. But it should not be so fragile you can't carry it from the garage to thermostat mounting position. I learned that the hard way when
447.
by petsfed 3y ago
I'm going to complicate this a bit and say "If you can use open source, you can prototype hardware" Part of building hardware is making it robust enough to exist in meat space long term. That means thinking about how the hu
448.
by petsfed 3y ago
There is absolutely no scenario where I want the firmware of any of my infrastructure devices updating without my say so. Even if there are dire security consequences of not updating. If a firmware update on my smart watch bricks it, who
449.
by petsfed 3y ago
Did anyone else notice this weird typographical sequence? >and innocent "perfons," warning that "prefumptive evidences fhould be warily preffed." 77 What exactly a perfon is may be a fruitful fubject for further refe
450.
by petsfed 3y ago
I love projects like these, since its typically a neophyte to embedded hardware design and programming a microcontroller. But just once, I'd love to see a hobby project from somebody who already knows what they're doing, but is us

More ›