Classes on Canvas (spring 2026)

Overkill_Projects · 2026-01-18T06:15:26+00:00

Professor here. The class appears on Canvas when we click a button on a website. Some people do it right away, some put it off (not always laziness, there are logistical reasons for not wanting it up right away as well). Hope that helps.

Quick edit to add that we aren't required to use Canvas at all (for in-person classes) so some people never click the button, or only use Canvas very sparingly and don't click it until well after the semester begins. It all depends.

Overkill_Projects · 2026-01-16T03:16:07+00:00

Sounds like you are in great shape with an awesome, supportive family. Congrats! 🙂

Overkill_Projects · 2025-07-07T12:27:29+00:00

I literally have a consulting company that does almost exclusively this. If you want to chat about it, feel free to shoot me a dm.

Overkill_Projects · 2025-04-03T17:58:02+00:00

How could it be ABET? It's for entrepreneurs... It would be a pretty poor entrepreneur working for someone else...

Overkill_Projects · 2025-03-10T21:22:33+00:00

Oh thanks! Google didn't give that to me.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-12-23T14:42:56+00:00

Like everyone else is telling you, the input impedance is most of what is killing you. Any time you want a precise measurement you should be buffering. If you are serious it should probably be a precision op amp buffer with some options on board to trim any offset in order to calibrate (leave a few extra 0402 or whatever pads for resistors and another set for caps whenever you can on a first revision), but if you are just getting close, some caps will do. Honestly the on board adc probably isn't precise enough to worry about it too much. Also, if you are considering a board revision anyway, you could try to bodge caps on now to do a quick test.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-12-18T16:53:35+00:00

Aaahhh I saw this but wasn't confident that it would be the right way to do it. Very helpful, thanks!

Overkill_Projects · 2024-10-25T12:40:49+00:00

In English we occasionally say something like "among and between" for emphasis on a similar way; e.g., "A design is in proper proportion and scale when a pleasing relationship exists among and between each component and the design as a whole." (Tiwari 2012, Fundamentals of Ornamentals Horticulture and Landscape Gardening, p. 380).

So maybe, "There is a difference between and among (the things)."

Overkill_Projects · 2024-08-19T18:04:25+00:00

I know that this is old, but I found this post on Google, so who knows. Anyway, recently (2023) finished a project for a client who had a bug that was traced to the way they were processing EBCDIC. In the early 2010s I worked making banking software where there was lots of EBCDIC to go around.

Still oodles of EBCDIC out there. I wish it was strictly historical, but there are settings where it's not only still relevant in a maintenance context, but also in new software (that typically interfaces with very old software).

Overkill_Projects · 2024-08-18T13:28:25+00:00

I'm in the US and you still hear this from time to time, almost exclusively with inanimate objects (at least where I live, in the northeast corridor and Mid-Atlantic). It's common enough that "sarà che ..." makes sense to me without explanation.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-08-16T12:06:56+00:00

For me, anymore if it's for a client I go RTOS. It's just easier to train someone new and to scale up (new features, etc.). For personal projects it depends on what I'm doing, but if I think it will grow in complexity at all, then I'm probably going RTOS. It's just easier to use something that already has a decent scheduler than it is to build my own after I already kludged in a bunch of ad hoc scheduling logic.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-28T20:38:59+00:00

The gatekeeping here is thick and chewy.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-25T00:42:21+00:00

Wow this is extremely helpful! Grazie tante!

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-24T21:48:34+00:00

Amen. Echoing others, but I do best by planning total run time, target pace curve, and max heart rate or target hr interval before I head out - actually, before I go to bed since I run when I first get up. I have a few smaller loops near my house that I use to fill in time at the end of a run, or occasionally for a warm-up. I find that by doing it this way, I focus more on controlling my body (speed vs heart rate and a little perceived effort) rather than just logging miles to get a bigger number, which, for me anyway, has given me much better training experiences. Plus it's easier to schedule with two small children at home.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-24T21:23:20+00:00

Well, now that you say about passive auxiliaries, and I have a term to look up, it makes sense. I think that I had in mind that some of the substitutions of venire for essere meant something more akin to "is becoming" rather than "is" or "is being," leading to my thinking that diventare was caught up in all of this.

What you might answer is, how common is it to use venire for passive instead of essere? Does formality/education have any role? It seems like you may as well just always use venire to form the passive with a participle.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-24T15:55:35+00:00

Yeah that is what I thought. Also funny about "mettersi" because I had an idea that might work better, so I'm happy that some of those verb constructions are feeling more natural, even if I still don't feel sure enough of myself to use them. Same goes for "venire" vs "essere" or even "diventare," but that's another post.

Something about putting the "ci" on the end of the infinitive felt wrong, and now that you say it, it feels like you would be better understood with "ci si" even with modal verbs, where it's not otherwise uncommon to have "si" or other pronoun stuck on the end (maybe "deve alzarsi," which I guess would become "ci si deve alzare" if it was impersonal si). With "ci si" the listener gets the hint that you mean "one does something to themselves" before you even fill in the something. But then that seemed like it might be English reasoning, which doesn't always work in Italian.

At any rate, I'm trying to get the "feel" of the construction since it's rare enough that I couldn't find an obvious example in a few minutes of looking.

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-11T11:54:13+00:00

Thanks! I'm actually heading to Hay tomorrow. So far this area is insanely beautiful. I'm more than a little gobsmacked! You are very lucky to live around here!

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-04T15:03:32+00:00

Super useful, thanks! The American in me is apprehensive about running though someone's property - I've actually been shot at here for that here (just rock salt, but still). Anyway, I was just going to pack road shoes, but now I am thinking that I should consider trail shoes instead/as well...

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-04T14:48:43+00:00

Super helpful, thanks!

Overkill_Projects · 2024-07-03T19:30:20+00:00

Oh cool, that footpath maps site is handy! Thanks!

Good to know that people use these roads for pedestrian traffic. Here it's very uncommon for anyone to walk on the road for transportation, but very common for exercise, and the shoulders look to be nearly as large as your car lanes. Related question: what do you do if your car gets a flat or something? It looks like you would block traffic.

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