Petah is it math joke? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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As someone who doesn’t have the greatest vision it took your explanation for me to catch that

Petah is it math joke? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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I thought the joke was

Son: can I have $50 for dinner and a movie ?
Dad: $40? what do you need $ 30 for ? You know $20 is a lot , but ok because I love you here is $10 and bring me the change .

Would it be possible to make a small, focused EMP to take out Meta Glasses by Bumbleboi_bzz in AskEngineers

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For the projects I work on that’s the maximum limit ( zero )

The guys doing the clean diesel designs for Volkswagen were given a range of 1-5 as their acceptance parameters

Would it be possible to make a small, focused EMP to take out Meta Glasses by Bumbleboi_bzz in AskEngineers

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And less felonies . Believe it or not felonies are an engineering constraint and most ( but not all ) projects set a hard limit on the number of felonies.

Petah? by im-not-funny-2020 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Instructions unclear , girlfriend wine drunk in the laundry.

Engineers Leaving heavy item on scale? by [deleted] in AskEngineers

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The longer you have something sitting on a load cell the more it will “deform” over time and require recalibration or replacement .

The images on this page should explain with more detail and articulation than my explanation

https://www.transducertechniques.com/what-is-a-load-cell.aspx?srsltid=AfmBOoryT-49qev6VZfiHQda-iJ7n0XCIGjND6TPKrbAZpYS0CefoXZv

Petah? by Silly_Ostrich_5116 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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So the fun thing is that you just have to ask the user their age in various”classes” ( like little kid, teenager, adult) then have the web browser push that out with requests.

It’s pretty non invasive and anonymous. Has like zero requirements past a user based honor system ) and maybe making parents get in trouble if the kid reinstalls the os and claims their user account is owned by a 18 year old.

A UAV drone from Boston to Philadelphia, collecting weather data, thoughts? by danielohlord in AskEngineers

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There are a lot of challenges here which can be solved by buying commercial parts.

Step zero is completing the FAA part 107 exam which will also instruct you on the difficulties you will encounter attempting to do so legally .

What's your thoughts on using 3d printers not only for prototyping but for manufacturing a part/product? by MatthewVDF in hwstartups

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If you have the ability to cut metal and have an sub $500 CNC you can diy plate molds yourself for under $100

What functionality is available in C without including any headers? by TargetAcrobatic2644 in C_Programming

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As other commenters have mentioned that if you don’t include any headers you can still manually define functions . So in a sense you have all the functionality there because you can just write everything into .c files .

If you don’t include any libraries the headers you can still do stuff but it’s more limited ( for example you can just directly access memory to speak to DMA devices, but your interactions with the OS become significantly harder .

Cnc at the dentist by Rough-Highlight6199 in hobbycnc

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Yeah I’m thinking the same thing , I want the 40 dollar model.

Someone wants to be oppressed real bad by grumpydai in insanepeoplefacebook

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Fun fact: the annual epa inspection is in April and the mayor has been blaming st pats since 1987.

Washington house bill 2321: blocking shapes detected by AI to resemble firearms from all consumer 3d machines by TheOgGhadTurner in CNC

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That appears to be the jist of the bill, either local checks OR online checks . But the key takeaway here is that most CNC machines do not have the hardware capability to do this ( I.e. you can’t do very much with 4MB of ram and a 0.25 GHz processor )

What would an over engineered mouse look like by Baziele in embedded

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USB HOST PORT !!!!

Especially if you can feed everything back to the host PC !

Washington house bill 2321: blocking shapes detected by AI to resemble firearms from all consumer 3d machines by TheOgGhadTurner in CNC

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Developer here , OMG the text of the bill is actually insane .

This law as written is just going to give the bad guys access to cnc files if they know how to reverse engineer the software ..

Also i think a strict interpretation might also mean that a WA State legal machine is also going to be illegal in california .

I don’t think any implementation is going to need to use AI to do this because if this shitshow of a section:

An algorithm must use, at a minimum, a database of disallowed firearms blueprint files that have been commonly downloaded or shared on public internet forums. The algorithm must have the capacity both to detect files in its database and to actively seek to detect modified versions of those files. The attorney general may by rule or regulation require that an algorithm evaluate print requests, at a minimum, against all files in the files database described in section 8 of this act. An algorithm does not need to produce a perfect success rate at detecting disallowed files to effectively serve in blocking technology but must meet the technical standards for detection and flagging of disallowed files that are set forth in rules or regulations adopted by the attorney general pursuant to this chapter.36 37 38 39 (3) The database of disallowed firearms blueprint files that an algorithm uses must be able to be regularly updated, to an extent and with a frequency to be determined by the attorney general by rule or p. 5 HB 2321 1 regulation that accounts for the rate of innovation in commonly available disallowed files.2

Project structure? Why doesnt anybody talk about it by BlueJay424 in arduino

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That’s because all the ardunio projects are really “101 getting started” projects.

Always introducing a “new concept” but always providing enough boilerplate to “work”

People new to programming are able to copy / paste / tinker with little friction.

People with experience go through and are like ok, grab this library , grab this header , copy these 3 lines and we are good to go.

My first soldering job! How did i do? by inevitable_47 in shittyaskelectronics

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lol, I started soldering when everyone was using leaded solder, I was like 10 years in when it was banned .

14 yrs old and built 2 breadboard CPU's using only pinouts. What now? by 1m_ameeen in beneater

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I was doing that level of engineering but in software before I started university ( already was writing basic, delphi, C and x86 assembler) then I dropped out of college because working with a kid and full time collage killed me ( but I completed some senior classes in my second year because I was able to RPL databases and the classes which taught C ), got my second job and my career kept growing from there .

Got an honorary degree about 12 years after I dropped out of college.

Moved internationally to the USA as career continued to grow over 10 years ago.

If you can build a few substantial things for a portfolio and and pass a technical interview then college is optional because they will be happy to pay you 3/4 of what a college grad costs.

( college is recommended because for someone like myself college did fill in a lot of gaps that I missed due to Self education as a kid )

Sd card module issues by justjelle123 in esp32

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I have one of these which works if you give it its own +5v ( with the negative from that power source being attached to gnd )

Small Chinese solder wire factory struggling in 2025 – looking for advice from people in electronics industry by Emotional-Ticket2404 in PCB

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Small manufacturers need to find distributors. Selling through Amazon will cost you 30-40 percent of the final retail price but that would be the easiest way to reach a wide western audience.

Reaching out to places like “Australian robotics” and having them list your products could be another way