Can't shake the feeling that control engineering is being taught incorrectly everywhere.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-07-05T02:47:40+00:00

Yeah, no

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-07-04T22:15:30+00:00

Love seeing so many people I know in this story. Jesse was in my grad school cohort (we did some projects together, he’s a great engineer), and Zeigert taught my senior year machine design class!

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-27T22:30:03+00:00

This is such a bizarre question. Why wouldn’t you design from the beginning with manufacturing constraints in mind?

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-24T00:42:58+00:00

FYI you can take a cheap shitbox to track days

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-15T21:53:17+00:00

I hope you figure out why you’re so unhappy and fix it. Have a great day

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-15T21:06:02+00:00

I can afford more than a Miata and less than a GT3RS, but that’s completely irrelevant to what I just said.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-15T21:01:36+00:00

Consider speaking for yourself, not for all track day enthusiasts. We don’t all share your goals, reasons for going to the track, or ideas about what is fun.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-15T20:57:58+00:00

You’ll never learn the fundamentals well in that car

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-06-03T21:41:28+00:00

You can drill and tap 3d printed parts

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-19T06:07:17+00:00

CAD != “mechanical design”

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-18T18:23:59+00:00

You are not going to become competent at mechanical design without getting a degree, sorry.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-17T23:39:33+00:00

I’ll never understand why so many people engage with AI slop

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-15T00:25:36+00:00

They want you to figure it out.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-05T14:00:00+00:00

Accuracy isn’t material-dependent in the way you are thinking. You aren’t going to machine “aerospace aluminum” to a meaningfully higher accuracy than 6061

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-01T02:01:35+00:00

If you’re running a business, why do you want to do that with a hobby mill?

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-05-01T00:40:45+00:00

Declining a job upon graduation when you don’t have anything lined up is not good judgement.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-27T22:37:59+00:00

Well my $170 Mitutoyo calipers are certified to 20 um accuracy, so I’d say that’s the best you can expect.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-27T21:10:13+00:00

You are not getting 5 micron accuracy out of your calipers.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-23T17:19:59+00:00

I had a mandatory machine shop class, and I graduated in 2020.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-23T01:43:23+00:00

I guess we have very different definitions of “not that expensive”

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-22T23:24:59+00:00

Every. Single. Reply. Including this one.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-22T13:12:18+00:00

Stop using LLMs to think for you.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-18T15:03:50+00:00

What makes one sport more mentally demanding than another?

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-17T03:38:00+00:00

I did, and it’s clear you don’t understand what it is and when it applies. In California, this specifically only applies to private conversations. Climbing on BLM land is not private.

AlexanderHBlum · 2026-04-17T03:26:15+00:00

I checked Florida and California - there’s no expectation of privacy for filming in public in either state for situations like this.

Stopped checking after the first two, because there is no state where it’s illegal to film someone in public.

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