quailfarmer

Agreed there is no explicitly enumerated right, but in the context of computing, it is not illegal for a computer to transmit “untrue” information. Fraud is a significantly higher bar. I am not a cyber-lawyer.

I disagree, you have the right to set your user-agent to anything you’d like, or nothing at all.

I don’t think that’s a given. If you’re constantly stopping/accelerating, average speed is much lower. The rail from downtown Seattle to the airport has a comical number of stops that barely see any traffic.

The optimal system to connect a large number of places is a car. The optimal system to connect a small number of places efficiently is a train.

Higher altitude orbits are slower in angular velocity, but faster in linear velocity, assuming a circular orbit. Faster debris ends up in higher orbit.

All written by freshman reporter Theo Baker: https://twitter.com/tab_delete/status/ His parents are NYT chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser.

It’s an interesting story for sure.

What you’re describing is not a product, it’s a kludge. Even if you can stomach the poor reliability of an octopus of wires, a product designed to be used like that is likely to fail EMI testing.

I’ve certainly done this with SAS Harnesses coming out the side of my tower case, but you can’t expect a company to make a product with this use case in mind. There exists SFF NAS boxes with room for many drives for this purpose.

I think the real use-case for these is for use on a large campus: University, Corporate, or otherwise. We have a half-dozen at work for getting between buildings, and the key advantage is that you can park almost anywhere for a short time without blocking traffic. We also have rideshare bikes, and sidewalks, but sometime you need to get a heavy box to the factory quickly, and these are perfect.

Having driven these quite a bit, I think its important to understand that while they're not particularly safe, they don't _feel_ particularly safe. 25mph feels incredibly fast, sort of like riding a bike. I think it's far easier to drive 75mph in a small sedan and have a close call with a large truck, and not recognize the danger. I think this added caution likely mitigates lack of safety features at least somewhat.

Partly mistreatment perhaps, but moreover gross incompetence by the administration. For years they’ve been unwilling or unable to fix the most basic issue: Mail delivery, sensible health insurance options, pay that tracks the cost of liming in university-owned housing.

They demonstrated that they weren’t able to make things work, so there was no choice but to escalate to a union. I won’t be surprised if heads roll in upper admin once the Board of Trustees realizes that there’s no going back from this vote. I’m sure the union will be a bureaucratic headache for everyone, it’s unfortunate it was necessary.

This issue aside, they are not, and it does not. :)

It’s gone!

It’s the best layout software I’ve used. Nevertheless, I’ve started preferring KiCAD for personal projects for the reasons mentioned above.

Related, but are the pictures meant to be sideways/upside down?

I watched the hearing, but didn’t read the article, and I was going to say. These comments are far more vitriolic than I would have expected.

Keep an eye on those skateboard batteries. I left a few of those charging and burned down the house. Get an ammo crate for them!

Even in a professional environment, there's a limit to how specialized the gear on a single bench can be. With a constraint of finite money, there's a tradeoff between specialized and general-purpose equipment. The Analog Discovery Pro is only 50Mhz, but it's radically smarter than any "real" scope I've ever used. It takes the place of the frequency counter and signal generator. The most obvious omission is a good power supply.

The Analog Discovery Pro on the middle shelf is a USB/Ethernet Osciliscope/Logic Analyzer/more.

Pictured in the post but not listed as a recommendation is an Analog Discovery Pro. It's a headless oscilloscope/power supply/logic analyzer/SMU/more.

Under good conditions lead-free solder works fine, but the difference in melting point really starts to hurt when you're working on large belly-pad ICs. The intended rework procedure for that kind of part involves several minutes of hot air from above and below, which is more patience than I have when I'm prototyping.

When I take production (lead-free) hardware off the line for dev work, the first step to removing a large part is to flood it with leaded solder to reduce the melting point.

Has there ever been an occupational study of lead levels among hardware engineers? I'd be interested to see it.

Hey! We had LoRa first!

That DC/DC converter is quite large and expensive for the rated power, no? If you’ve got a stable low-impedance DC source, I imagine you could do a lot better following a TI application note :)

I picked up a very tiny 65W GaNFET usbC brick recently, I’ve been curious to see DIY projects put that technology to use. Marginally higher part cost but significantly better efficiency.

I think the discussion here is missing something. The issue isn't "shielding" the radio. Modern power electronics, including Hybrid/EV drivetrains and modern electronic transmissions, produce in-band interference for broadcast AM. If you shield the radio, you're blocking the _signal_, as well as the noise. The only solution is to shield the power system (including the drive motor). This can add significant cost in both engineering and production, and interfere with thermal management (gaps let out hot air and RF!). Of course, with enough effort, anything can be shielded, but most EMI emissions masks I work with only go down to 30Mhz! Single MHz is below the range of "RF" and within the range of "Power Electronics" in the minds of modern engineers.

The real issue here is that while FM made the switch to hybrid Analog+Digital, AM is still living in the past. The technology has not changed in literally a century. The FCC has authorized hybrid AM operation, but there hasn't been any real adoption. We have 100 years of signal processing magic, and it would be so much cheaper for car manufacturers to include a single chip than to properly shield drivetrains just for AM radio backwards compatibility.

We should have spread-spectrum orthogonal-multiplexed radio beamed to the entire country from space. 100 geo-coded channels, and your car automatically plays the one for the region you're in. Adapt or die, but the high power future isn't going to wait up for AM.

Nitpick, but:

> Arduino literally opened their platform to competitors and flourished.

Arduino as a hardware manufacturer has collapsed in relevance in the last 5 years, in part because they were continually undercut by clones and similar/compatible hardware. In their case, it seems intentional, Arduino IDEs openly allow other manufacturers to add support for new boards. I think this was always the ethos of the Arduino project, so it’s hard to make a comparison to Prusa

On the contrary, I feel sort of sad that so many people seem to find their work unfulfilling. I work a job that’s more work than some alternatives could be. I could at any point quit and find easier work that paid better. But I chose to work here, right? I’m privileged enough to not be obligated to stay. I’ll assume most people here have similar flexibility.

I find the “cooking as alternative” suggestion interesting too. I can understand the desire work on a creation for yourself (a meal), but for me that’s balanced by the desire to create something amazing for the world. By the same token, I could take every Friday off and work on a side project, but fundamentally that’s not going to be as fun or productive as working on the main project I’ve chosen to work on: ie, my job.

Now raising a family I can totally see as a competing interest, if I were raising children I would be working less. But I’m not (yet).

> the positive health effects of using an e-bike regularly are larger than using a muscle-powered one

That might be true for someone, but it's a bit of a leap in general

Wow, this hits close to home.

I just moved a thousand miles from school to a new state. I live near work, which is about 30 miles from the nearest city (no public transit to speak of). If there's any spots for young people to socialize nearby, I haven't been able to find them.

My long-term girlfriend has a career near where we went to school, so many weekends I'm traveling there, or she is here. Both of which are great, but neither of which are conducive to making friends in this new place.

I'm really excited about the job, and I'm a late sleeper. I tend to work 11am to around 9pm.

I've had some roommates, but they've been pretty uninterested.

Luckily, work is fully in-person, and it's a very young office. The first few months were rough, but I've finally made friends with people, I had a barbecue, we went skiing, went to see a co-workers band perform.

My personal situation could be a lot worse, but it could have also been a lot better. Compared to the last year of my Masters program, the adjustment period was very painful, and I think not having human interaction would have made it worse.

-- Though, (and I'm just realizing it now), if the job were remote, I could have just stayed in the part of the country where I had many friends. Sadly, I work with hardware, so that's probably not going to happen.

As a recent grad, I think there's room to have both had an amazing experience and be upset about huge structural issues. The student body is mostly great, the education is generally very good, and the industry connections are amazing. At the same time, the administration has become corporatized, and the "pot of gold" at the end of many degrees in the form of SV or consulting jobs means that many students and professors aren't willing to invest energy into building a better University.

I was involved in the Associated Students of Stanford University, the "student government." It's an independent non-profit, but also recognized by the University, and constantly on the edge of being consumed by the admin bureaucracy. I made an explicit effort to spend funds in a way that was specifically targeted at "fun" programming, but in retrospect I should probably have been more radical.

Also interesting to see the traction Eva (the author of the Palladium article) has gotten. She has a complicated reputation, but I'm glad to see a major constructive contribution.

Any Alumni in the Bay who want to help support student self-administration, I encourage you to reach out to the ASSU. It's an institution perpetually lacking wisdom (like any student group).