Oh I’m well aware, that’s why I threw in the part about needing to be utilized. Because even if the engineers are good with their finished product, some VP will eventually ask their director why the team’s output has dropped or why they have so many people for so little work.

I’m an engineer working on a new product right now. Fortunately we’re a small outfit with niche customers.

That’s one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that’s good at what it does.

When it comes to any tech company’s product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.

Honestly it’s like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.

You rest your thumbs atop the 9/3 spokes, right in the corner where they meet the wheel. You grab the wheel starting from that position and you’ve got a good solid 9/3 grip across the equator of the wheel for safety and/or performance.

Your distance from the steering wheel matters a lot too. To check that you can put your arms straight out in front of you while in your normal position. Your wrists should touch the top of the wheel with your arms outstretched like that.

I heard these tips from some professional driver on a TV show. I think it might have been Tiff Needel on Fifth Gear.

Yep, and we recently switched out our old “air fryer” to replace it with a toaster oven that has convection and an air frying mode. But it can do toaster oven stuff like bake and broil pretty well, and with a wider tray than any air fryer basket.

Our big oven is pretty good too. It has a convection fan and various modes and whatnot. The air frying toaster oven literally duplicates functions it already gives us, but it’s worth taking up a large kitchen gadget spot just for the speed and efficiency including sometimes not heating up the house. (I’m in the US, air fryers and toaster ovens use 120V 15A outlets while the oven is on 240V 30+A.)

por que no los dos?

If I drink some coffee to counteract any depressing effects of the weed, then after I take my antidepressant and adderall I can have a pretty good day!

I think you guys may be using different definitions of what it means to act like a christian. If you disagree on that then you’ll just keep arguing past each other.

When you refer to acting like a christian that seems to mean acting christ-like, or at least striving to, which makes sense.

The other usage I’m seeing, and which is probably more prevalent in societal/political discussions, is that being like a christian means being lily the actual group of humans who use that label, which often has nothing to do with christ-likedness other than in name.

The juniors on my team at work have been productive as hell lately while we olds ponder over the more obscure runes.

I love this one because his voice comes through SO clearly when I read the text.

please tell me it says HEE on the back!

Yeah it’s right in the amendment:

Thou shalt keep thyself strapped at all times when around shady electronics. What will YOU do when your printer makes a noise you don’t recognize?

In a previous job I once evaluated some returned product that wasn’t having the best battery life or wasn’t working right. It was specialized expensive equipment that used regular alkaline batteries.

TL;DR: ordinary batteries can have negative voltage if you don’t give a fuck and just mix your old and new ones in a drawer before you put them into your high-cost life-saving equipment.

I have the opposite reaction when I see these memes. To me it’s a reminder of how inclusive some of my favorite nerdy communities are, on top of being a fun little in-joke like any meme should be. And I’m an old beardy middle aged dad too for whatever that’s worth.

However, that doesn’t mean the image itself is innocent or appropriate for most audiences. I’m not going to be asking the family’s opinion on this one, lol. But I don’t see it as a manga fetish thing at all. More empowerment than exploitation for the owners of the legs shown.

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They meant to say suck a fuck, not fuck a duck.

Totally, and I think that’s why they thought it was worth a press release. In the article they go right to how they’re setting a new power density record with this design.

Electric motors are just really power dense. The article says they managed a short term peak of 1,000 hp with that little flat 12.7kg motor and the continuous output could still be half that.

Just the cooling must be crazy.

Out of curiosity I looked up something comparable. It looks like high-performance integrated drive units that have other stuff like the single-speed gearbox, differential, and inverter are still only in the dozens of kg.

The voltage/hp comparison there doesn’t really fit.

Power is in watts or horsepower. You multiply the torque with the RPM and a scaling factor to get power.

A higher voltage system could probably be expected to produce more torque and power from the same size motor, but a lot depends on the design of the motor.

Then to answer “how much torque though,” I haven’t looked into it but electric motors have a very nice torque curve across the RPM range. If a motor made all that power with low torque, then it must spin at super high RPM and need to be geared down.

I’m a couple years older and didn’t even get to start trying medications until my 40s.

And sure enough, gifted student and high scores on standardized tests and IQ and stuff, right here. Looking back it can be pretty frustrating to see how much of my childhood was shaped by it, but it’s harder to blame the adults in my life the further back I go.

What really frustrates me is that I went to a psych practice as an adult looking for some kind of help with my extremely stressful issues that I noticed exactly matched every description of ADHD I could find. There were questionnaires and a small battery of neuropsych type questions to evaluate things like short term memory and processing speed. I did well. It did not lead to a diagnosis.

So yeah, when I am sitting in a room 1:1 with somebody and I am in performance anxiety hyperfocus mode, I can do good on some fucking word problems. And that meant I DON’T have ADHD? Thanks, fuckers.

It’s like foveated rendering for the whole damn universe.

After doing a bunch of carpentry this year, now I have metric and imperial sets of nice long hex bits for my high torque impact driver.

Something is gonna move, one way or another!

That’s right about observation events. They are often called interactions instead.

But the wave-particle duality applies to literally everything at the quantum level, per the standard model and quantum field theory anyway. And that’s a model with an incredible track record.

Looking at a particle as a wave is usually in the context of that particle by itself moving in a straight line through a vacuum. There isn’t really vibration and temperature; there aren’t even atoms! You just have the particle’s energy in eV.

Whether we can subjectively compare the packets of energy in quantum fields with the waves of energy through matter, I have no idea. The math is solid though.

The whole concept in quantum mechanics of a particle’s wave function collapsing into a single point due to an observation event is just weird enough, and feels just enough like some otherworldly programmer’s hack to save tons of resources, that I am not sure I will ever be fully convinced that we are not in a simulation.

I’m not asserting that we’re in one, and I don’t know of any reasons to believe that we are in one, but I think I’ll always have that little suspicion.