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by stn8188 1y ago
This is super cool, but the best part of the article to me is that I now have a new favorite hexapeak word: 0xF0CACC1A! (Spoken as someone who has recently gotten into bread making).
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by stn8188 1y ago
You exactly describe my journey! After undergrad, I went right to industry doing hardware design. Given a complex PCB, I was confronted with this field of signal integrity and I fell in love with it. My undergrad didn't explicitly requ
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by stn8188 1y ago
Haha I've got an old toaster oven, it works wonders for basic prototype assembly!
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by stn8188 1y ago
Haha yeah, last year I replaced my wheel bearings in my van. I ended up with a frustrating ABS code (long story short: faulty magnetic encoders on both of the new bearings). I ended up spending about the same as the job would have cost at a
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by stn8188 1y ago
"Balking at the $50+ charge for turnkey assembly, I opted to take the financially responsible route and pay $200+ for a hot-air rework station to solder it myself." Yeah, I feel this :)
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by stn8188 1y ago
Came here to check if this was the case, I'm seeing issues on the Android application. Thank you for confirming that it's not just me!
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by stn8188 1y ago
The other day, I was just remarking how my minivan makes a better pickup than most pickups for most tasks. For years I've wanted to get another truck (had an old Dakota that I had to sell when kid #3 was on the way). Practicality reign
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by stn8188 1y ago
I always thought this was really interesting. The Coast Guard's Electrician's Mate training program taught electron-flow theory, so it was tough to switch my brain to hole-flow theory when I went to college. Technically the math i
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by stn8188 1y ago
I'm assuming this is the Mirage, which is one of the cars we own for the family (the other is an old Odyssey to fit all the kids). The Mirage is an absolute joy to own: its simple 3cyl engine gets 50mpg if I'm careful. We live in
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by stn8188 1y ago
This is amazing. I was literally reading the 3rd chapter of the book "Machine Beauty" in bed, saw the baby Clifford Stoll mentioned and looked it up because it sounded familiar. Of course I've seen the beautiful glass bottles
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by stn8188 1y ago
I'm in no way qualified to comment on the details of the issue outlined here (though I did get stuck babysitting a friend's kids for many extra hours due to a 6hr delay on said friend's flight into EWR a few weeks ago). For a
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by stn8188 2y ago
While I second the same request, I'm also incredibly grateful for Solvespace as a tool. It's my favorite MCAD program, and I always reach for it before any others. Thank you for your work on it!
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by stn8188 2y ago
I also love Zim! Don't get me wrong, Org-mode is cool and everything, but for a lot of what I do I need to just very quickly drop screenshots and a GUI is just easier. I also have a Zim-based website ( https://wiki.shielddigi
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by stn8188 2y ago
Oh man, I agree with this so much. I used to tell people that if their budget for PCB tools was less than $1k, just use KiCad. I think I might have to increase that number.... The big one, not really given a lot of fanfare in the post, is O
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by stn8188 2y ago
I have my own special experience with the PSP, totally unrelated to games. Back in 2009 I was deployed to the middle east. At the time, connectivity was difficult: we used phone cards to call back home. One alternative was that you could us
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by stn8188 2y ago
This is absolutely my biggest concern for when I inevitably am forced to replace our aging vehicles. The unfortunate reality of living in the Northeast is that it's near impossible to find decent (not rusted) older cars for sale. Sure,
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by stn8188 2y ago
Thank you so much for this comment, detail and link. I was not aware of this aspect of his management style. The current CEO of my company has spoken highly of Andy Grove (I believe he was at Intel during Grove's tenure) and learning t
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by stn8188 2y ago
I echo this same comment. Myself and my whole family are all hearing, so I can't/don't feel qualified to weigh in on the details of the article. That being said, we've just started learning ASL together this year and it
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by stn8188 2y ago
Here's a random idea: run a freely available electromagnetic simulation agent! My favorite EM solver has an "agent" that can run on a server, you simply point your local GUI to the agent and take advantage of more computation
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by stn8188 2y ago
Haha I didn't realize this was a joke. It was, nearly word for word, a problem on my control systems final exam a few semesters ago!
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by stn8188 2y ago
I may not have much NYC pizza experience (NJ FTW) but in my opinion there's good pizza and great pizza -- rarely bad pizza! If I was having a pizza-less day and suddenly got one of these, it'd definitely be a +1 :) (Tounge-in-chee
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by stn8188 2y ago
I am by no means an expert, but I used Flux.jl for a convolutional neural net in electromagnetics for my latest paper and it was such a breath of fresh air compared to Python and PyTorch. (I'm an EE and not great at programming, so I f
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by stn8188 2y ago
This is true but the number of people who commute from Pike County (and the whole tri-state/NY-NJ-PA corner) down to the crowded parts of North Jersey and even NYC is insane. I live just across the river from Pike County and experience
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by stn8188 2y ago
Exactly! I recall troubleshooting some diesel engine governor issues back when I was in the Coast Guard. I specifically reached for the old, analog Simpson since it was much easier to see the needle jump than trying to watch for the small d
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by stn8188 2y ago
Sounds like this is the one in SoMa in San Francisco. I used to work remotely for an office around the corner from there and would prefer to go to this TB for dinner (I'm a cheap traveler... My company doesn't have to worry about
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by stn8188 2y ago
I'm also happy for this. I'm an EE with limited MCAD experience, so I usually hop onto Onshape when I need a custom trinket to 3D print. I did use FreeCAD for a small fixture for my day job earlier this year and I was pleasantly s
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by stn8188 2y ago
This is the method I've always seen here in the US, where we call them range lights [0]. There are lights for night alignment and striped boards for daytime. Many years ago I used to maintain these systems in the Caribbean and the Long
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by stn8188 2y ago
I have a DM42 (which I absolutely love) and to be honest I'm a bit disappointed in battery life. I think it lasts a few weeks at best, and I know the battery is almost done when it starts resetting to the splash screen with a beep when
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by stn8188 2y ago
All the theories about DIY culture are interesting and maybe contribute some to the conclusion, but I think it's a lot more about material costs. Lots of things are back down from the crazy prices around COVID, but some things stayed h
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by stn8188 2y ago
I read this article yesterday and thought it was interesting but would like a bit more data. Most importantly, the first plot shows similar failures per month of 11th and 14th Gen, but the final plot shows that failure rates of 11th Gen was

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