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Work/worked for a place that was doing this. There's a couple problems: * More battery weight means less cargo weight * Trailers are dumb; the standard hookup (in NA) is lights and…

Just a guess, but Nordic pushes a proprietary bluetooth stack. You don't have to use it, but it's the fastest way to get up and running. edit: not sure they use the proprietary sta…

Voltage spikes from line inductance, voltage drop-outs from line resistance. Basically you have little reservoirs of charge scattered all around the board (current flow isn't insta…

No law is going to physically protect you from a 2 ton hunk of steel.

> I thought it is pretty well accepted there isn't a "gravaton" like there are photons. Different branch of physics that we can't quite mesh with GR yet. A graviton is the quantize…

Coupling capacitor, not decoupling, right? You want the AC signal and want to block DC.

Just need 3 switches and an indicator light

They present it in a way where it seems like you have to comply- "OK, now look into this camera and hold still". If you don't read the signs (and from what I saw, no one does...), …

Meh you don't need a PE to be an engineer. That's stretching the gatekeeping too far. PE is valuable for a lot of things, but not necessary for a lot of actual engineering work. Is…

I extend the pads out from underneath the chip. Then it's easily hand-solderable if needed.

> TL;DR - Your deep cycle battery approach may not prove to actually be worthwhile, consider working out the car-as-generator hookup plan in advance. Ha yep, learned that the first…

My strategy is a deep cycle car battery and harbor freight inverter to run the blower motor. You get a long enough extension cord and you can use your car as an emergency generator…

The illness doesn't but the virus might.

I'll bite I guess. I use Calibre pretty regularly. I think a general way to put it is that it's not for "casuals". To understand a lot of the functionality outside of the basic inv…

Truck manufacturers measure fuel efficiencies to the tenths and compete on that. At highway speeds, ICE engines win over a pure electric system, so throwing in another conversion s…

Soldier is on losing side of war, was unable to go through with morally objectionable orders, comes home to find everyone they ever knew died in bombing campaigns, and over time ha…

People don't like accepting them because 1. It feels like a huge denomination, and with that comes fear of mishandling and counterfeits, and 2. You have to then make change... and …

Ethics is (often?) required in engineering curriculum, but it's mostly along the lines of "don't lie about work you didn't do then charge for it". There's nothing that touches on o…

> We don't even own a tractor because it's not economically viable to take on the upfront or maintenance costs of modern tractors. This is a little bit ridiculous. A tractor is an …

Similar line of thought, I never really met any neighbors but I know all of the right places to pee around the neighborhood.

I do this, mostly for the static IP that isn't linked directly to me and my approximate location, with mullvad exit only for 'sensitive' stuff. The degree of separation is nice eve…

I took a look at my profile the other day and realized that I'd somehow inadvertently flagged a bunch of posts and comments. Guessing it was a UI thing, trying to hit 'context' ins…

It's a paid service and all their competitors are 'free'. Enshittification doesn't fit their business model, they'd go under in a heartbeat.

Eh? Firefox vertical tab support is much better than Chromium's in my experience. The chrome addons I've seen are hacky and clunky. It doesn't seem like chrome UI has nearly the sa…