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The problem was that they had so little room for error. But I guess landing a rocket vertically on a heaving ship is also tricky, so maybe the problem is surmountable.

Do you happen to remember any specific textbook? I'd be interested to see an example, assuming that they're still available in some format.

It's a general rule of thumb, so it wouldn't apply to proper nouns, but I did edit to specify verbs rather than all words in general. I do appreciate the irony that the example I chose breaks that guideline.

Unless it's a verb that ends with -ano. In that case, stress the preceding consonant. It's kind of like the difference between urAnus and Uranus. There are other exceptions, but that's the most common and important one.

There's also a floating point expression generator that tries to make your calculations more accurate, but it doesn't seem to give an analysis like this. These two tools would seem to go well together.

https://herbie.uwplse.org/doc/latest/tutorial.html

Tilting your head to look at opposite edges of the screen can irritate the neck.

It's a simple and general method that works in many domains, which is an usual combination.

The other ways of solving the example of arbitrary heat sources and sinks on a plate range from hacky combinations of simpler methods, to tedious math, to complicated general methods. If you switch from heat to pressure distribution, you'd have the same types of options, but the specific methods would be different.

I've read the USB PD spec. What's wrong with it? It seems ok to me compared to other specs. And yeah it's long, but different sections are for different people with different roles.

In my anecdotal experience, the problem is that many programmers just don't like working to a spec.

True. I take back what I wrote for being too reductive. Well said.

Edit: Retracting my whole comment for being wrong.

That's not at all what I'm saying. Aside from web development, most professional tools are only used by professionals because they cost money. It wouldn't make sense to judge something by the free toy versions that happen to exist.

I think they're saying that the switch was justified because the workforce is no longer familiar with Ada.

Ada is mostly used by professionals, not enthusiasts. It has a captive audience of governments and companies working on safety-critical systems where they have strict toolchain requirements or legacy systems. Pretty much the only thing that can move those users off Ada is to retire older systems, and rebuild their processes for C++. That's tough to justify when the language and ecosystem are still actively developed (paid, not free tools). Things like a language server are unimportant when your IDE must be qualified, and you're not allowed to install or use any software of your choosing. You will never see most of what goes on with Ada outside of a work environment. Its continued use is largely unaffected by anything you'd see in the open source community.

I binge-read the RAQs a few months ago. So much great information. Thank you!

I also appreciated the consistent URL scheme because it let me easily scrape all the PDFs to read them offline. The one bummer is that the links at the end of the PDF versions seem to be broken now.

They have a cool PDF cheat-sheet related to this which doesn't seem to be linked from the page.

https://www.analog.com/media/en/selection-guides/Equation_Pu...

Similar, but less modern: Elements of Mechanism by Peter Schwamb, 1921.

https://archive.org/details/elementsofmechan00schwrich

Assuming that the backyard is for playing and the front is ornamental, you can keep the backyard as grass and transition the front to plants.

Because it's still a town? It just happens to also have a college in it. The transient population results in more stuff (industry, services, transportation, ...) than you'd get otherwise, minus the traffic and real estate prices. There are still people of all ages just like any town. You have to go out of your way to meet students, so just don't do that.

It depends on whether you're talking about electron flow or conventional current, because they're opposite each other. The original mnemonic is incomplete because it doesn't specify to which it refers.

It could be probing the response to a drone intrusion for the purpose of using drones as weapons in the future.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that management tends to consider interruptions more acceptable for anything related to web development. It's usually not as bad for the web dev team to slip their schedule as for the hardware team or the legal department or whatever, so interruptions happen more often. I was briefly embedded in such a team and that aspect drove me nuts. You really have to enjoy being essentially a point of contact as part of the job.

Is it really undetectable? A smarter USB PD controller and maybe some extra sensors should be able to mostly avoid that problem, no?

There's a French graphing calculator company called NumWorks. Maybe TI prioritized the French market in response to growing competition.

https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

That's just how consumer protection and liability law works pretty much everywhere in the world. I don't make the rules. But they do exist for a good reason.

A treadmill cutting you is neither its purpose nor even a necessary risk.

If anything, it's the opposite. Even if engineering advocates for doing more about the problem, it only takes one manager screw it up. Either everyone has to want an ethical product, or there have to be formal processes to make everyone do the right thing whether they want to or not. Ideally both.

I'm re-reading what I wrote, but I still can't see how you inferred that implication.

I agree that a hazard analysis should have identified it. But whether it did or didn't, there are still many possible reasons why it wasn't addressed effectively. Hence, a systemic failure.

I have no idea if it's legal, but any punishment would probably be on the company rather than the individuals.

It takes institutional knowledge and experience to make a safe and reliable product. Even if you had a whole team dedicated to it, it's not much use if the rest of the company doesn't care or do their part.

It also takes money. But why bother protecting the consumer or even the company if you're not legally or financially liable yourself?

There's little incentive to do things right. And when there is, most people will only ever learn the hard way.

That's part of it, which I agree falls under the excluded category. I was thinking more about code generation and program modification.

Curious what the better way to swap implementations would be?

I should clarify - it's at the start of runtime when the library is initially loaded. Not afterwards. You'd have to restart the program to swap a library.

For testing and simulation, it's a way to mock dependencies. You get to test the otherwise exact binary you'll deploy. And you can inject tracing and logging.

Solver installations tend to be long-lived, but require customizations, upgrades, and fixes over time. Dynamic linking lets you do that without going through the pain of reinstalling it every time. Also with solvers you're likely to see unconventional stuff for performance or even just due to age.