In the past, plenty of people moved across the country just to pick lettuce, when their existing job evaporated with no hope of return. Go read "Grapes of Wrath", Steinbeck.
That sounds like the things I do at my job as a Lead Engineer at a large aerospace manufacturer. Mechanical and structural design engineering, primarily related to the installation of engines and APUs, if that makes it "real engineering." What you describe is the "Lead" part of my job, not the "Engineer" part of my job. Regardless of what your job title is, your job role is Lead Coder.
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind.
Plenty of CANBUS modules already require a trip to the dealer for coding before they will function on the network after being replaced. Typical charge is an hour of labor, around $150. Google "component protection"
Real cars. On my Audi it is a trivial operation to reflash the ECU to bypass less supercharger boost (or turbo boost on turbocharged Audis), which increases power as long as you are using high octane fuel. If you are not using high octane fuel, it will cause detonation which quickly melts pistons. APR is a popular vendor but there are around a dozen competing companies that have developed their own boost maps. An engine rated at 333 HP will put out somewhere around 390 HP with the majority of the increased power coming from the additional boost. Amazingly, it i proves MPG at the same time.
https://www.goapr.com/products...
I've owned my house for about 15 years now, bought it when I was 26. Home ownership has a lot of disadvantages that I didn't consider when buying.
The amount of maintenance, both scheduled and unscheduled, that a home requires has proven to be a lot more than I expected or budgeted for. I'm a pretty handy DIYer, and even at that I get overwhelmed sometimes with deferred tasks. It eats your time if you DIY, or your money if you hire it out. I'm quite certain that I am not financially ahead, compared to if I had been renting, and I'd certainly have a LOT more free time.
You loose a lot of flexibility by owning a home. The transactional costs of buying and selling mean that it is difficult to justify moving to a new job in a different area, or even to relocate to a more convenient location in the same metro area, unless you know for sure it will be at least a 5 year gig. I have turned down interesting job opportunities for this reason. At the time I bought my home, I was a 10 minute bike ride from work. Then my division of the company "temporarily" relocated (We were told 2 years, then 3, which turned into 5) my department to the other side of our metro area (25 miles), and I had a 1 - 1.5 hour car commute. If I were a renter, it would have made sense to lease in the "temporary" location for a while.
Finally, as a homeowner you are more exposed to swings of the market. I got lucky when the bubble popped, as I had bought in a good bit before it, and had no need to sell at the low point.... but I had friends who lost their jobs, and had to relocate across the country, and HAD to sell when the market was depressed. Some lost over a hundred thou on that deal.
As someone who comes from Kia/Hyundai background, I've never quite understood the appeal of Porsche's products. I don't think Porsche's products are terrible or anything, but I just fail to see what is so special and different about Porsche's cars that many Porsche users would never dream of switching to a non-Porsche product. Where does the 'special appeal' of Porsche products reside? And why are Porsche users so very loyal to Porsche products, even though with Porsche's pricing policy, you rarely get the best bang-for-the-buck in a product?
I have a car with an electronic parking brake. (Audi S4) I thought the same as you at first, why fix what is not broken... But it is friggin great. From the manufacturer's point of view, they get rid of the expense and weight of 2 long mechanical cables, the subassembly consisting of the lever and ratchet mechanism, all the cosmetic trim associated with it, and all the labor to install that crap. From the driver's point of view, it is FAR more effective than a traditional parking/emergency brake. When you yank a traditional e-brake at highway speed, you get crappy braking action from the rear wheels only. The car will gradually slow down, and eventually start to smell really bad, before coming to an eventual stop. When you hold the electronic e-brake lever at highway speed, it applies full threshold braking to all four wheels and it stops on a dime. It is also has some really nice features in day-to-day use. It automatically releases itself as you let the clutch pedal up, which is especially nice on steep hills (Kind of like the hill-holder clutch that Subaru's used to have) It can auto-detect if it is slipping while left unattended, an will try to re-apply the parking brake, and if that fails it will use the ABS pump to hold the car from rolling. Only downside is it make it hard to do a bootlegger turn.:)
Similar system in my undergrad days. (Georgia Tech, early '90s) The whole system was run off a CDC Cyber, don't recall the model. Class seats were first come, first serve, and there were always lines to use the public terminals. There were a few dial-ins to the Cyber, so those of us who had our own computers could use those, but they quickly saturated as well. Those of us who were clever enough to write a wardialer got the classes we wanted.
When the dust settles 50 years from now we all will be rich. Africa will be the last challenge. Everyone will be better off
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they’re making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
Don't EVER buy Gillette razor blades from Amazon. People have even reported getting fake blades when they are listed as "Sold & Shipped by Amazon." Boy will they ever tear up your face...
Nothing wrong with being an opportunist. All successful corporations are, and in the economic system we live in, it is in our personal interest to do the same. Don't try to pretend that acting as an agent of an opportunistic cororporation is in any way morally superior to acting in your own best opportunistic interests. Also, my company provides BOTH a guaranteed both a guaranteed benefit pension plan, AND a 401K plan with matching up to the first 8%, AND heath care with no employee contibutions, so "life is good," and you might understand why my cow-orkers are reluctant to leave a pretty secure position to take a risk on greater potential reward outside the company (all hail the company).
They did not quit because they had some sort of cultlike devotion. They quit because they recognized a business opportunity to "get in on the ground floor" and form a startup.
"Instead, they founded a startup called SnapRoute, led by Jason Forrester, the former team leader. While Forrester declined to talk to us for this article, SnapRoute's website hints at the story. "
Lord knows I've been tempted to leave my big ol' company to pursue similar ventures... Can never convince enough principles to join me. The lure of that pension plan (yes, still have one...) is too strong.
My employer insists we use a step tracker and hit a minimum number of steps per week in order to qualify for he lowest premium health care plan. Mine remains securely zip-tied to the front forks of th motorcycle that I use for my daily commute.
The altitude for flying is fixed. Meaning planes only fly at certain heights. Therefore the notion that as plane sheds weight it will climb to higher altitudes is false.
So, purely to play Devil's advocate... if you have a car loan, is your bank entitled to monitor you?
There are already numerous banks which require you to install a tracking device as a condition of making the loan. Many of them also require the borrower to install an ignition interrupt device, so they can brick your car if you do not pay the loan. Typically these are institutions which specialize in lending to borrowers with poor credit.
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You won't want to miss getting in on the ground floor of the Dirty South House of Chicken, Waffles, and Blockchain.
5 dollar tasers at dollar store are coming in great.
They only sell those at the five-dollar store.
It's difficult to translate a colloquial Russian phrase to English.
In the past, plenty of people moved across the country just to pick lettuce, when their existing job evaporated with no hope of return. Go read "Grapes of Wrath", Steinbeck.
That sounds like the things I do at my job as a Lead Engineer at a large aerospace manufacturer. Mechanical and structural design engineering, primarily related to the installation of engines and APUs, if that makes it "real engineering." What you describe is the "Lead" part of my job, not the "Engineer" part of my job. Regardless of what your job title is, your job role is Lead Coder.
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind.
Good thing you didn't google for "Enriching uranium with centrifuges."
Plenty of CANBUS modules already require a trip to the dealer for coding before they will function on the network after being replaced. Typical charge is an hour of labor, around $150. Google "component protection"
Real cars. On my Audi it is a trivial operation to reflash the ECU to bypass less supercharger boost (or turbo boost on turbocharged Audis), which increases power as long as you are using high octane fuel. If you are not using high octane fuel, it will cause detonation which quickly melts pistons. APR is a popular vendor but there are around a dozen competing companies that have developed their own boost maps. An engine rated at 333 HP will put out somewhere around 390 HP with the majority of the increased power coming from the additional boost. Amazingly, it i proves MPG at the same time. https://www.goapr.com/products...
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind.
I've owned my house for about 15 years now, bought it when I was 26. Home ownership has a lot of disadvantages that I didn't consider when buying.
The amount of maintenance, both scheduled and unscheduled, that a home requires has proven to be a lot more than I expected or budgeted for. I'm a pretty handy DIYer, and even at that I get overwhelmed sometimes with deferred tasks. It eats your time if you DIY, or your money if you hire it out. I'm quite certain that I am not financially ahead, compared to if I had been renting, and I'd certainly have a LOT more free time.
You loose a lot of flexibility by owning a home. The transactional costs of buying and selling mean that it is difficult to justify moving to a new job in a different area, or even to relocate to a more convenient location in the same metro area, unless you know for sure it will be at least a 5 year gig. I have turned down interesting job opportunities for this reason. At the time I bought my home, I was a 10 minute bike ride from work. Then my division of the company "temporarily" relocated (We were told 2 years, then 3, which turned into 5) my department to the other side of our metro area (25 miles), and I had a 1 - 1.5 hour car commute. If I were a renter, it would have made sense to lease in the "temporary" location for a while.
Finally, as a homeowner you are more exposed to swings of the market. I got lucky when the bubble popped, as I had bought in a good bit before it, and had no need to sell at the low point.... but I had friends who lost their jobs, and had to relocate across the country, and HAD to sell when the market was depressed. Some lost over a hundred thou on that deal.
Because my employer will not allow me to. So instead, we all use easy to remember (and compromise) passwords.
As someone who comes from Kia/Hyundai background, I've never quite understood the appeal of Porsche's products. I don't think Porsche's products are terrible or anything, but I just fail to see what is so special and different about Porsche's cars that many Porsche users would never dream of switching to a non-Porsche product. Where does the 'special appeal' of Porsche products reside? And why are Porsche users so very loyal to Porsche products, even though with Porsche's pricing policy, you rarely get the best bang-for-the-buck in a product?
All of the plastic decorations on the bottom of my fishtank beg to disagree. Some plastic is lower density than water. Some is not.
I have a car with an electronic parking brake. (Audi S4) I thought the same as you at first, why fix what is not broken... But it is friggin great. From the manufacturer's point of view, they get rid of the expense and weight of 2 long mechanical cables, the subassembly consisting of the lever and ratchet mechanism, all the cosmetic trim associated with it, and all the labor to install that crap. From the driver's point of view, it is FAR more effective than a traditional parking/emergency brake. When you yank a traditional e-brake at highway speed, you get crappy braking action from the rear wheels only. The car will gradually slow down, and eventually start to smell really bad, before coming to an eventual stop. When you hold the electronic e-brake lever at highway speed, it applies full threshold braking to all four wheels and it stops on a dime. It is also has some really nice features in day-to-day use. It automatically releases itself as you let the clutch pedal up, which is especially nice on steep hills (Kind of like the hill-holder clutch that Subaru's used to have) It can auto-detect if it is slipping while left unattended, an will try to re-apply the parking brake, and if that fails it will use the ABS pump to hold the car from rolling. Only downside is it make it hard to do a bootlegger turn. :)
Similar system in my undergrad days. (Georgia Tech, early '90s) The whole system was run off a CDC Cyber, don't recall the model. Class seats were first come, first serve, and there were always lines to use the public terminals. There were a few dial-ins to the Cyber, so those of us who had our own computers could use those, but they quickly saturated as well. Those of us who were clever enough to write a wardialer got the classes we wanted.
When the dust settles 50 years from now we all will be rich. Africa will be the last challenge. Everyone will be better off
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they’re making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
Music
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Plagarized from Neal Stephenson.
https://x.company/loon/
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You can track the flight tests on https://www.flightradar24.com/ by searching for HBAL as the identifier.
Don't EVER buy Gillette razor blades from Amazon. People have even reported getting fake blades when they are listed as "Sold & Shipped by Amazon." Boy will they ever tear up your face...
Nothing wrong with being an opportunist. All successful corporations are, and in the economic system we live in, it is in our personal interest to do the same. Don't try to pretend that acting as an agent of an opportunistic cororporation is in any way morally superior to acting in your own best opportunistic interests. Also, my company provides BOTH a guaranteed both a guaranteed benefit pension plan, AND a 401K plan with matching up to the first 8%, AND heath care with no employee contibutions, so "life is good," and you might understand why my cow-orkers are reluctant to leave a pretty secure position to take a risk on greater potential reward outside the company (all hail the company).
They did not quit because they had some sort of cultlike devotion. They quit because they recognized a business opportunity to "get in on the ground floor" and form a startup. "Instead, they founded a startup called SnapRoute, led by Jason Forrester, the former team leader. While Forrester declined to talk to us for this article, SnapRoute's website hints at the story. " Lord knows I've been tempted to leave my big ol' company to pursue similar ventures... Can never convince enough principles to join me. The lure of that pension plan (yes, still have one...) is too strong.
My employer insists we use a step tracker and hit a minimum number of steps per week in order to qualify for he lowest premium health care plan. Mine remains securely zip-tied to the front forks of th motorcycle that I use for my daily commute.
What's a "Lexus" ? Around here we call them "Tesla Tollways"
The altitude for flying is fixed. Meaning planes only fly at certain heights. Therefore the notion that as plane sheds weight it will climb to higher altitudes is false.
You are wrong. Very, very wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's not a weasel, it's a marten! POW! http://www.cbsnews.com/news/qu...
So, purely to play Devil's advocate ... if you have a car loan, is your bank entitled to monitor you?
There are already numerous banks which require you to install a tracking device as a condition of making the loan. Many of them also require the borrower to install an ignition interrupt device, so they can brick your car if you do not pay the loan. Typically these are institutions which specialize in lending to borrowers with poor credit.