Standard Auto loan terms are 3,5,and 6 year. I would argue that the car is (should be) designed to last at least the duration of the terms of the loan, or more realistically 10 to 15 years... Beyond that I would expect that there will be additional costs that the end owner is expected to pay? That's when the suspension is really due for an overhaul on most cars.
You are correct, I have a line conditioner for my scope and atomic clock (admittedly a low end rubidium model) that is only a big-assed inductor and a capacitor. Works great at cleaning up AC, but I did assume DC-DC in my post since this was space-based GPS stuff and AFAIK the power bus on those is DC only.
It does compared to being divorced and paying extortion money via child support to an ex that refuses to work... heh, ask me how I know.
And before someone says something about the CS comment, I have my kids half the time, but I bear vastly over half their expenses, even after 4 years where their other parent could have gained meaningful employment with the 6! (4x 4.0 AS, 2x 4.0 BS) degrees they have.
I *loved* my ESDI drives. WREN III nominal 160MB drives with dual read/write heads on linear actuators (yes, I know, this was after steppers). Formatted by using the debug routines in ROM on the controller, you could pick space or reliability. 62, 63, or 64 sectors per track with 2, 1, and 0 spare sectors respectively that the hardware could re-map for you.
Any time I've had to *really* tune something I've left the clear simple C code in a block comment in the source. I leave a note: This code is not cruft, this is what the below sub with inline asm and crazy bit operators does but in a vastly more readable form.
As a matter of course I try to make those crazy optimizations as self contained as possible, ideally as their own sub.
Noise filtering. Often these DC-DC stepdown converters can leave lots of ringing on the DC Rails (bot input and output). The capacitors (chosen for their ability to both absorb the peak and fill the trough of the ring at the requisite frequency) are responsible for making that DC nice and smooth. When they fail it can be an open (common, and problematic) in which case the downstream components and assemblies are subjected to EMI and ring noise that may be out of their tolerance and thus degrade performance (or ultimately fail them); or the caps can fail shorted, which more often than not quickly becomes an open rather violently... unless the power supply dies from being shorted first.
Actually I am well aware. The doctrine is being abused.
This doctrine is not actually an exception to the Fourth Amendment, but rather to the Amendment's requirement for a warrant or probable cause. [...] This balance at international borders means that routine searches are "reasonable" there, and therefore do not violate the Fourth Amendment's proscription against "unreasonable searches and seizures"
And the intent of said doctrine is much more mudaine. The are supposed to be looking for drugs, illegal weapons, and proper visa papers... not trawling a giant-assed fishnet looking for any scrap of information that could be used to convict someone.
lol, I forgot that was even up (and all that crud is long since been tossed). Nah, my long former employer was an electronics scrapper and this was stuff I had built up from working there.
The chair, however, I took with full permission from my (now former) manager and the HR exit interview gal.
It's also against the 4th amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." I would argue that an on-line account is an effect of a person (actually in both definitions of the word) and the constitution does not exclude non citizens.
Just disgraceful what my country has done to it's charter document.
deeper than that. Intel has a problem with Qualcomm and the later's adamant refusal to licence any of their patents to the former. Thus Intel has to design around the patents and that leads to inefficient silicon.
As a *former* Intel engineer I can tell you a little more about this bit:
only intel could make such a mess and squander such a good chance to get a message out and create some buzz and goodwill. 'makers' still refuse to use intel for many reasons and the biggest: intel still has NO CLUE what the maker market is really about. curie is not a maker chip and so far, no one really is taking that chip seriously.
Of us engineers in the trenches we had *many* makers, hackers, and all around nerds. Problem is very shortly up the food chain the view changes drastically. Marketing and management are generally clueless about it and adamantly refuse to listen to the real hackers in the company.
As to how to ass up a design? Think of Intel as a medieval feudal system. Each Earl has his dukes, each duke has his lands with the peasants. Well, obviously the peasants can move as long as they're not indentured (A.K.A, can't move for a year after moving), but the dukes don't like it, because with less peasants they can't produce enough for the taxmen (from the Earls).
The solution? put your thumb in other duke's pies and force a design by committee; erstwhile not actually sharing useful information to the product team because a competing duke is the figurehead of the project.
There is everything from passive aggressive to cloak and dagger interference that happens. (though normally it's just the PA Asshattery.)
meh, glad I'm out. They offered me money to go away forever. I grabbed it (and my super ergo office chair) with both hands and bolted.
you could even leave the existing employee pay alone, but add an H1B payroll tax that's 400% if paid under x, 300% under y, 200% under z, and 100% over z. That alone would make the corporate policies change faster than anything else...
If not I suggest you do it. That's part of what got GitLab, they never verified their backups were restorable. If they had they'd have found there was no data there.
*same* thing caused massive issues at Intel. CEO historically had been an engineer. When Craig Barret left and was succeeded by the marketing dept via Paul Otellini shit went seriously sideways. Paul started this "Yes" campaign where engineering was basically told: "Marketing will have final say on what goes into product and what will be committed to customers, Engineering just has to do it" Marketing was told: "Give the customers everything they ask for"
End result: Product slipping, buggy devices, overall shitty performance, devastated morale in engineering ranks when the blowback was directed at them for underdelivering.
Lesson I took away from that? NEVER put marketing in charge.
That's exactly what I thought. no. Trying to get this thing to print was a *bitch*.
and when I say hardcoded I mean hardcoded. Parallel port output only, puked on the windows virtual port, total pain in the ass. I hinestly think they didn't actually use the printer drivers, but rather bit bashed the port output.
I don't support it because it's simply a total waste of money and not a deterrent. It costs tons more to pursue a death penalty case to termination of the convict than to just put them in a box till they die. It's been shown many times over that the death penalty does not deter murder, particularly when committed "in the heat of the moment".
So from a purely pragmatic standpoint it is a pointless thing.
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Standard Auto loan terms are 3,5,and 6 year.
I would argue that the car is (should be) designed to last at least the duration of the terms of the loan, or more realistically 10 to 15 years...
Beyond that I would expect that there will be additional costs that the end owner is expected to pay? That's when the suspension is really due for an overhaul on most cars.
jokes on your great great great grandchildren then as my great great great grandchildren will be atomic supermen by then!
Or the backups are good and tested, but are on-line disk backups and also get encrypted...
You are correct, I have a line conditioner for my scope and atomic clock (admittedly a low end rubidium model) that is only a big-assed inductor and a capacitor. Works great at cleaning up AC, but I did assume DC-DC in my post since this was space-based GPS stuff and AFAIK the power bus on those is DC only.
Being married does not save on taxes.
It does compared to being divorced and paying extortion money via child support to an ex that refuses to work...
heh, ask me how I know.
And before someone says something about the CS comment, I have my kids half the time, but I bear vastly over half their expenses, even after 4 years where their other parent could have gained meaningful employment with the 6! (4x 4.0 AS, 2x 4.0 BS) degrees they have.
You'll have to call [employers] lawyers. This is not my phone, it is theirs and I am forbidden from giving out the code.
I *loved* my ESDI drives. WREN III nominal 160MB drives with dual read/write heads on linear actuators (yes, I know, this was after steppers).
Formatted by using the debug routines in ROM on the controller, you could pick space or reliability. 62, 63, or 64 sectors per track with 2, 1, and 0 spare sectors respectively that the hardware could re-map for you.
Any time I've had to *really* tune something I've left the clear simple C code in a block comment in the source.
I leave a note: This code is not cruft, this is what the below sub with inline asm and crazy bit operators does but in a vastly more readable form.
As a matter of course I try to make those crazy optimizations as self contained as possible, ideally as their own sub.
Noise filtering.
Often these DC-DC stepdown converters can leave lots of ringing on the DC Rails (bot input and output). The capacitors (chosen for their ability to both absorb the peak and fill the trough of the ring at the requisite frequency) are responsible for making that DC nice and smooth.
When they fail it can be an open (common, and problematic) in which case the downstream components and assemblies are subjected to EMI and ring noise that may be out of their tolerance and thus degrade performance (or ultimately fail them); or the caps can fail shorted, which more often than not quickly becomes an open rather violently... unless the power supply dies from being shorted first.
there's the easy reader version.
More deliveries per hour means a shorter work day unless other steps are taken, steps which may not always be possible.
The other steps would mean firing some drivers and making the rest do more deliveries. Did you think that UPS was run by Sister Theresa?
The other steps would mean not hiring more drivers and making the existing ones do more deliveries.
FTFY
Actually I am well aware.
The doctrine is being abused.
This doctrine is not actually an exception to the Fourth Amendment, but rather to the Amendment's requirement for a warrant or probable cause. [...] This balance at international borders means that routine searches are "reasonable" there, and therefore do not violate the Fourth Amendment's proscription against "unreasonable searches and seizures"
And the intent of said doctrine is much more mudaine. The are supposed to be looking for drugs, illegal weapons, and proper visa papers... not trawling a giant-assed fishnet looking for any scrap of information that could be used to convict someone.
IDK if we have all that much to spare these days...
lol, I forgot that was even up (and all that crud is long since been tossed).
Nah, my long former employer was an electronics scrapper and this was stuff I had built up from working there.
The chair, however, I took with full permission from my (now former) manager and the HR exit interview gal.
It's also against the 4th amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
I would argue that an on-line account is an effect of a person (actually in both definitions of the word) and the constitution does not exclude non citizens.
Just disgraceful what my country has done to it's charter document.
I'll wager money on them trying.
Not necessarily as a program of sorts, but single operators with access because of their position certainly will.
deeper than that.
Intel has a problem with Qualcomm and the later's adamant refusal to licence any of their patents to the former. Thus Intel has to design around the patents and that leads to inefficient silicon.
As a *former* Intel engineer I can tell you a little more about this bit:
only intel could make such a mess and squander such a good chance to get a message out and create some buzz and goodwill. 'makers' still refuse to use intel for many reasons and the biggest: intel still has NO CLUE what the maker market is really about. curie is not a maker chip and so far, no one really is taking that chip seriously.
Of us engineers in the trenches we had *many* makers, hackers, and all around nerds. Problem is very shortly up the food chain the view changes drastically. Marketing and management are generally clueless about it and adamantly refuse to listen to the real hackers in the company.
As to how to ass up a design? Think of Intel as a medieval feudal system. Each Earl has his dukes, each duke has his lands with the peasants.
Well, obviously the peasants can move as long as they're not indentured (A.K.A, can't move for a year after moving), but the dukes don't like it, because with less peasants they can't produce enough for the taxmen (from the Earls).
The solution? put your thumb in other duke's pies and force a design by committee; erstwhile not actually sharing useful information to the product team because a competing duke is the figurehead of the project.
There is everything from passive aggressive to cloak and dagger interference that happens. (though normally it's just the PA Asshattery.)
meh, glad I'm out. They offered me money to go away forever. I grabbed it (and my super ergo office chair) with both hands and bolted.
or your provider offers you the option of setting your own MX record... :-)
that's a mighty slippery slope you've got there...
you could even leave the existing employee pay alone, but add an H1B payroll tax that's 400% if paid under x, 300% under y, 200% under z, and 100% over z.
That alone would make the corporate policies change faster than anything else...
Neither system is perfect and both have their advantages.
and *both* are vastly better than plain Tor on otherwise vanilla Windows host.
-nB
Have you ever had to do a bare metal restore?
If not I suggest you do it. That's part of what got GitLab, they never verified their backups were restorable. If they had they'd have found there was no data there.
*same* thing caused massive issues at Intel.
CEO historically had been an engineer.
When Craig Barret left and was succeeded by the marketing dept via Paul Otellini shit went seriously sideways.
Paul started this "Yes" campaign where engineering was basically told:
"Marketing will have final say on what goes into product and what will be committed to customers, Engineering just has to do it"
Marketing was told:
"Give the customers everything they ask for"
End result: Product slipping, buggy devices, overall shitty performance, devastated morale in engineering ranks when the blowback was directed at them for underdelivering.
Lesson I took away from that? NEVER put marketing in charge.
That's exactly what I thought.
no. Trying to get this thing to print was a *bitch*.
and when I say hardcoded I mean hardcoded. Parallel port output only, puked on the windows virtual port, total pain in the ass. I hinestly think they didn't actually use the printer drivers, but rather bit bashed the port output.
I don't support it because it's simply a total waste of money and not a deterrent.
It costs tons more to pursue a death penalty case to termination of the convict than to just put them in a box till they die.
It's been shown many times over that the death penalty does not deter murder, particularly when committed "in the heat of the moment".
So from a purely pragmatic standpoint it is a pointless thing.