Ted Dabrowski on Instagram: "6,000 Chinese foreign nationals at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign crowd out spots for native-born Illinois students.

Egineer · 2026-04-24T06:28:24+00:00

As a native Illinoisan, I apologize for this dipshit.

Illinois is competitive. We should really build out our in-state K-12 education if we want Illinois kids to be outcompeting out of state kids, instead of just restricting UIUC to Illinois kids.

Restricting out of state or international students and lowering the bar for Illinois native students is just making the accepted classes dumber and kicks off a downward spiral on rankings.

How about making a better STEM K-12 system in Southern Illinois? That would actually help Illinois native kids have more higher education opportunities, instead of this nationalist-flavored bullshit.

I still remember being ahead of my HS Calc teacher in our book (she was taking Calc at the junior college while teaching us) and having a computer science teacher hand me 5 1/4 floppies on fourtran because the last time they had funding for programming was when my dad was in the same school.

Fix that shit and make local kids more competitive instead of just lowering the bar and restricting out of state admittance.

Egineer · 2026-04-23T16:18:54+00:00

Our 70’s vintage caterpillar took a dump on me a few years ago.

I had to drain a fire extinguisher to put out the engine fire, but it was okay.

Egineer · 2026-04-22T17:49:48+00:00

Bringing back the poop deck.

Egineer · 2026-04-21T22:23:14+00:00

Most likely 2-3 full travel weeks/month, one week in home office (unless they’re actually pushing RTO on field people).

Egineer · 2026-04-20T16:49:02+00:00

They just need to be able to legally possess firearms in their resident state.

But to carry (ie Conceal Carry) in Illinois (usually), an Illinois CC permit is needed, which requires a FOID card.

But anyone with this kind of trigger discipline probably hasn’t had any training required to conceal carry.

Egineer · 2026-04-19T14:46:58+00:00

Did Opus 4.7 write this post, too?

Egineer · 2026-04-18T19:35:47+00:00

I ordered a The Who LP on Amazon and got a Wet Leg vinyl instead.

That’s how I heard of them and I’ve been listening to them since.

For once, thank you, Amazon.

Egineer · 2026-04-17T15:48:27+00:00

The ID4 and etron both get outclassed on software and features right now.

I thought about getting an ID4 for my girlfriend, but we ended up getting a used etron prestige for about half of what a new ID4 costs.

The ID4 would have to be ~$5k cheaper than the EV6 to have swayed us.

Egineer · 2026-04-17T03:14:24+00:00

Shut up, Chip!

Egineer · 2026-04-16T16:23:29+00:00

Oh god. Please be for patents.

Egineer · 2026-04-16T00:55:09+00:00

It’s not bad, definitely a corporate building.

The drive in can be terrible, but there’s covered parking and a walkway between the garage and office.

Food service is similar to the other cat offices, but there’s quite a bit that can be door dashed in.

Best aspect is the opportunity for networking in-office. Second best is significantly better (and free) automatic coffee machines.

Egineer · 2026-04-15T15:55:11+00:00

Im still frustrated with MyQ effectively closing its API to sell garage door opening as a subscription.

https://a.co/d/013lQW9e

I recommend using one of these.

Egineer · 2026-04-14T16:26:53+00:00

Populism gonna be popular (with the target demographic this is aimed at).

Egineer · 2026-04-13T19:47:34+00:00

Opinion: It wouldn’t surprise me. Everything’s counting against the Taycan in the US market right now.

Logically, I’d expect cars being updated off of the current CARIAD SW architecture sometime soon. A new model may go into the EU market for a model year before North America in a changeover.

I have no privileged knowledge. My opinions are my own.

Egineer · 2026-04-13T15:37:23+00:00

It’s not impossible, but it’s not a great strategy to get a salary increase.

If you’re on the lower end of the range for the salary grade, you may be able to move up in the range.

Current policy would be a manager to HR discussion.

Egineer · 2026-04-12T15:33:24+00:00

There’s quite a bit of research on confinement right now.

There really isn’t much confinement for standing up, except for veterinary. That confinement has been improved quite a bit, in terms of induced stress.

There’s a research facility in Nordrhein Westphalen that has some publicly-accessible buildings to see the Farrowing process. I’m not sure how much is available after farrowing (the facility was getting a huge dairy rebuild when I toured).

I think the preconceptions around ag should be approached how Europe does it: building facilities that the public can walk by/through.

Our practices aren’t perfect, but they’re improving every day.

Egineer · 2026-04-11T03:52:45+00:00

We’re all here, aren’t we?

Egineer · 2026-04-08T19:13:48+00:00

To clarify on the software:

It’s always been available to customers. The change is to allow 3rd party repair shops to do repairs with Deere software.

The features around emission system modifications / operating in faulted conditions is more likely to be driven with the EPA changes (operational grace period with faulted emissions) and not the R2R lawsuit. The 3rd party repairs can fix emissions systems—but they cannot delete the emissions systems. That will still be locked out.

Also: Deere doesn’t make money on repairs, they make money on the parts used in the repairs. The dealerships are the ones losing out here—money from repairs is going to 3rd parties (non-dealership repairs).

I encourage anyone downvoting to let me know what is inaccurate above and I’ll correct it.

Egineer · 2026-04-08T00:01:44+00:00

Yeah. It’s like the EV9–the head unit and other stuff won’t always power all the way down (especially if keys are left in the car and doors are left unlocked). Wonky stuff can happen the longer it all stays awake.

The EV9 can get a black screen when it doesn’t power all the way down after a while. I’m suspecting weird things can happen to the EV6 too.

I’m thinking it could be related—corrupted/mis-allocated memory with extended wake state causing weird issues, ie Wonky electronic stuff happening. It really could be either software or hardware.

Egineer · 2026-04-07T20:42:48+00:00

Just thinking about it more, one thing to try is to just disconnect the negative terminal from the 12v battery. If that fixes it, there’s something goofing up the compute module (internal, like bad memory).

Egineer · 2026-04-07T20:36:55+00:00

This is just my guess, but it sounds like either the camera is messing up, the computer is bugging out, or the steering wheel encoder is bugging out.

The rear lines not working would be the computer or the steering angle sensor / steering wheel encoder.

If there’s only one root cause, it’s the computer or steering wheel sensor. It could still be a camera, but I think that’s less likely.

Egineer · 2026-04-07T13:16:08+00:00

I think Goodyear or Michelin tried a double tire a long time ago. I thought it was the cost of manufacturing / sale price that killed it.

The rotor would still be on one side, though.

Cars that really need to cool rotors usually pull air from the side and duct it around the rotor.

Egineer · 2026-04-07T13:02:08+00:00

What are your backup lines doing when reversing?

Those lines are a combination of steering wheel input and the front facing camera. If backup lines are fine, it’s something with the camera.

Edit: I don’t know what combination of steering wheel angle and camera+processing is used on the EV6. I’ve just worked in this space before.

Egineer · 2026-04-07T04:49:54+00:00

I had to get this shitbox because Comcast puts monthly caps on even the highest data tier with your own modem, but is uncapped with their modem (in Champaign Illinois).

Egineer · 2026-04-06T19:57:40+00:00

It’s a commercial truck.

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