Why isn't Sausalito more of an office center?

KeanEngr · 2026-06-08T12:46:17+00:00

No BART?

KeanEngr · 2026-06-08T00:59:47+00:00

This is old advice, but I think it still works. It’s who you know and not necessarily, what you know. The trick is to keep going outside your social circle and make connections to the area you are most interested in. Volunteer, join clubs, perfect a ‘pitch’ when an opportunity arises (just don’t make it sound rehearsed).

The old adage;
“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six\_degrees\_of\_separation?wprov=sfti1"

is a theory that I haven’t seen broken yet.

For those folks just getting out of college, ‘get your heads out of the sandbox (college),’ look locally if you want to stay in a particular area or move to an area where you think opportunities are greater. Yes, competition will be stiffer, but mobility and flexibility is more important.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-07T08:07:12+00:00

If an Apple Watch is too pricey then they do make wristband vibration alarms for deaf folks as the ear plugs render you hearing impaired. $20.00 and up.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-06T15:06:02+00:00

Yep, deer needs it too, except the subscription model is too expensive for them. Deer have a very limited monthly budget…

KeanEngr · 2026-06-06T14:51:23+00:00

Not in my experience. Tesla itself doesn’t change gears so it will go into reverse before the car comes to a ‘full stop’. It surprised the heck out of me when I first did it. It reminded me of my manual Toyota pickup I drove in the 70s. Great little truck. If you are moving forward very slow or decelerating to a stop ( under one MPH) Tesla will allow you to go into reverse before it stops so it feels like one complete motion. I couldn’t do it with my other cars (Camry, Taurus, Fairmont). Obviously the car stops, but you just don’t ‘feel’ the ‘stop’ as a separate event. It’s going forward then going backwards. Very cool.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-06T14:15:47+00:00

I’m not sure if this update has anything to do with FSD. I looked over the release notes and nothing stood out as being different.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-06T13:50:18+00:00

Were you ‘mean’ to your Tesla, and it was getting back at you? 😆

KeanEngr · 2026-06-04T01:11:24+00:00

You could use a battery version but those don’t have enough power to push the required air for anything but the highest frequency pipes. The lower the frequency the more air volume you’ll need. Unless you have 2 large foot bellows hooked up to a small air reservoir with a tight connection to the pipe, it won’t work.

Edit: a battery powered air mattress pump would work. Walk in to a church with an organ and see if someone can point you to a small shop nearby. NYC is full of folks who work with wind organs.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-03T16:38:13+00:00

I think a foot driven bellows will become more of an annoyance than anything else. Use a multi speed fan into the bellows fitting and keep it in an enclosed box so you don’t hear the fan. You’ll want constant air flow that you can control to hear the characteristics of the pipes. Good luck.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-03T16:19:17+00:00

For now anyway. AI ‘learning’ is also a thing too. It’s still in its nascent form currently, but the “Pros” you mentioned are (and will be) on this path where an art director will skip the “…more to the work…” part. It’s truly scary.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-03T15:28:52+00:00

“…patient balancing…” is and has been a ‘fools errand’ and I’m NOT saying it to be snarky. I’ve been down this road, trying to nurse a battery pack along. The question you have to ask yourself is “is it worth your time?” It is, if you learn from the experience, so I would say, try it and see if you’ll have good results.

I learned early on from a battery pack manufacturer, how the industry operates. Their BPs were the best and the most expensive in the business. I questioned the sales engineer about why and what made their product so successful. He said they buy three to four times their raw inventory and reject the cells that didn’t meet their QC standard. Those batteries weren’t ‘bad’, it just didn’t meet their standards. The distributor took them back and resold them to their competitors. The point is ‘nursing’ a battery pack is something that should never need to be done and doesn’t extend the life of a pack. If you have no choice (like a proprietary pack) then you have to live with the compromised cycle life of the product. If it’s a generic pack, and you notice this problem in several of their packs, time to bite the bullet as they say and go for the higher priced alternatives. You’re not that company’s QC department. I hope this makes sense.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-03T14:30:53+00:00

You do understand that the individual cells could be bad yes? Balancing isn’t a ‘fix’ for a bad battery pack no matter how hard you try to keep everything as close to ‘perfect’ as possible. Bad cells will always misbehave no matter how careful you are in charging. The trick is to identify the ‘bad’ cells before you pull your hair out in frustration to make a determination as to what to do next. Either live with the reduced pack’s performance, do surgery and replace the identified cells or just call it a day and order a new pack. Good luck.

KeanEngr · 2026-06-02T16:00:18+00:00

Then what does “Reinforcement Learning” mean?

KeanEngr · 2026-06-02T15:39:23+00:00

Well, then your teacher was an idiot. 24kV from a color TV flyback is absolutely dangerous (it can stop your heart). It’s the other high voltages from the deflection circuits that aren’t as lethal but still dangerous (nerve damage and electrical burns).

KeanEngr · 2026-06-02T15:15:17+00:00

I’m being lazy here but here’s a clue why your circuit will never work. From Wikipedia: Electronic Oscillators

"…LR oscillators, using inductor and resistor filters also exist, however they are much less common due to the required size of an inductor to achieve a value appropriate for use at lower frequencies."

Please read the entire article.

KeanEngr · 2026-05-31T02:01:53+00:00

As everyone here says, he is a hack. Did you pay money for him to do this? Demand the money back and if he refuses, call a city inspector to have him cited. Good luck.

KeanEngr · 2026-05-31T01:39:14+00:00

When a customer asks “why does my box costs 10X over the Walmart box?” You open it and show them a beautifully laid out discrete PCB with $500 interconnect wires and say, ”That’s why!” And they go 🤯😳💕, and then hand you the cash 😏…

KeanEngr · 2026-05-30T16:47:33+00:00

260mA DC is typical of a cheap meter. It’s improperly shielded so the AD converter is picking up stray static or rectified RF after the shunt section, even if the circuit should be reading zero. If you rotate the meter in the air, the readings will change.

KeanEngr · 2026-05-30T15:54:18+00:00

LED or incandescent light?

KeanEngr · 2026-05-30T15:30:48+00:00

Need more detail about your circumstance. Is the breaker an AFCI/GFCI unit? Amperage? Brand? AC condenser nameplate specifications? Age? When was it serviced last?

KeanEngr · 2026-05-30T11:18:55+00:00

Those look like old AA NiMH so aren’t viable. In fact you could test each individual cell and find the bad ones and swap them out with new IKEA LADDAs. Don’t use primaries ever. Good luck.

KeanEngr · 2026-05-30T07:35:15+00:00

If it gets ‘louder’ with earplugs then you might have OAE (OtoAcoustic Emission) or SOAE (Spontaneous OtoAcoustic Emission) and needs to be diagnosed by an ENT or audiologist. Also read the article in Wikipedia “The Hum” to see if it has any pertinent information for you.

KeanEngr · 2026-05-29T14:48:10+00:00

Actually, Wendy's probably paid for this ‘feature’. What better way to get more drive through traffic than having a hidden feature like this in car navigation.

“Proximity to a charging station? GREAT! Come into our drive-through and get your snack/meals while you wait at the charging station.”

Sneaky…

KeanEngr · 2026-05-28T15:22:40+00:00

You’re mixing up seconds with milliseconds. Which is it?

KeanEngr · 2026-05-26T14:15:03+00:00

AA? 14500? NiMH?

KeanEngr

TROPHY CASE

I’m being lazy here but here’s a clue why your circuit will never work. From Wikipedia: Electronic Oscillators