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Thanks for the link - PCBWay recently offered me sponsorship, and this video has provided some good inspiration to make use of it :)

The additional battery weight would be something under 250kg (having handled a few Leaf battery packs), and wikipedia says the Niro EV is about 1700kg

I regularly notice bugs when using iOS Mail; one that springs to mind would display one email's body with the header info from another email, it seems to have recently been fixed b…

Location: South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, electronics, insulation Résumé/CV: https://ianrees.nz/tech/about.html Email: co…

Fun historical twist: New Zealand rotary phones used a reversed mapping between digit and pulse count - here the number of pulses was 10-digit.

There are techniques for "stack"ing transistors so that the individual swtiching devices see potentials that are within spec and much lower than the voltage switched by the overall…

"The 8th blade sends an electronic pulse to the center of the brain, which destroys the part of the brain responsible for hair growth and 4 other nonessential functions" https://ww…

Usually the HAL is between the main firmware and the PAC, so whether the PAC methods are marked as unsafe could almost be considered an implementation detail. But yes, there has be…

Whoops, yes you're correct. Serves me right for looking at some SEO spam link! Main point was that bronze is much more common in marine applications than brass - I wouldn't be surp…

I believe bronze (copper + zinc) is a lot more common in marine applications than brass (copper + tin)

It was a stupid riff on the title. But, the Arkansas River does start in Colorado, and so some amount of Colorado's snowpack does wind up in Arkansas' river.

Because it's in the Arkansas River drainage?

Ah, that helps, thanks. It's a bit academic, but set theory doesn't really apply to such fuzzy human things as knowledge and experience. Repairing and designing are different pursu…

I've rebuilt several motors, transmissions, various other mechanical contrivances. Sometimes with decent documentation, sometimes not so much. Also done a bit of amateur machining,…

The 300 club might be of interest :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club

Directly, the temperature isn't as big an issue for operating tapes/drives/computers, since they are inside temperature-controlled buildings. There are indirect problems though; th…

If by "station wagon" you mean LC-130 ;) IceCube switched from tapes to hard drives I think in 2015 or 16. In 2014 we spent a lot of time fiddling with tapes and drives... At that …

Yukimarimo are a thing: https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/yukimarimo...

Cool! Just in case you haven't come across this, we've got a (rather quiet lately) chat that might be useful. https://matrix.to/#/#usb-rs:matrix.org

Natural Intelligences, it was an attempt at humor.

At times in my life, I'd have paid good money to disable that feature of some NIs.

Imagine an elevator that moves up and down its shaft with a sinusoidal elevation over time. Riding in that elevator, one could detect frequencies with quite long wavelengths compar…

I think that's shifting the goalposts a bit - one can buy weird proprietary stuff from a company or product line that disappears, or build stuff that uses standard interfaces.

> It it goes wrong, you cannot buy a new one or hire repairperson at a sane price. If it has a software side, it will probably need maintainence. It's not clear to me that the alte…

This sort of approach seems common in the Rust community, it's so much more professional/humane/sustainable/performant than any other corner of the industry that I've come across.