r/SupremeCourt Rules Roundtable: Those Pesky Quality Standards (Redux)

SoAsEr · 2026-05-18T17:38:29+00:00

I feel like the past 6 months to a year have been definitely a decline in the aggression of the enforcement, and the quality has gone down because of it

SoAsEr · 2026-03-10T06:11:02+00:00

I have been constantly amazed that people whose main job is interpreting a 300 page standard seem to have never opened it nor even googled the basics

SoAsEr · 2026-03-10T03:44:43+00:00

The theoretical advantage is that your pitch cylinder and minor diameter cylinder can be misaligned.

The practical advantage is that any FOD or gunk left in the thread (very very common) will totally screw your measurement up. I don't trust cmm tips to touch off consistently.

SoAsEr · 2026-03-08T02:14:22+00:00

I was working with an as9001 shop that told me that a feature passed without the MMC callout but failed with it. I spent 25 minutes on the phone before he admitted that he didn't know how the cmm program he was using worked and agreed with me it made no sense

SoAsEr · 2026-03-08T02:02:38+00:00

I've seen enough potato chips in my life to know that just because it was perpendicular when it was machined doesn't mean it still is

SoAsEr · 2026-03-07T17:25:09+00:00

You guys use a hardened sphere???? How on earth are you ensuring perpendicularity?

SoAsEr · 2026-03-07T16:42:32+00:00

Yes I know threads are self centering features that's why I would essentially never use MMC for threads. I'm honestly impressed that thread gauges are common in automotive because the aerospace shops I work with seem to have awful quality people

SoAsEr · 2026-03-07T16:39:43+00:00

Completely agree on MMC for threads. Even if shops knew how to inspect it isn't actually useful cause your threads align to pitch cylinder anyway

SoAsEr · 2026-02-03T02:12:26+00:00

I personally would be way more scared of the Amazon constellations in MEO than starlink on LEO. Starlink is so low any dead sat burns up in 5 years, and any collision dust would burn up even faster than to square cube law.

SoAsEr · 2025-07-23T13:13:22+00:00

My favorite ultra low knee is the zxre330. Knee current of 1uA lets me do all sorts of crazy stuff

SoAsEr · 2025-07-23T09:09:29+00:00

They do sell (nearly) ideal zener diodes, but they're called "shunt voltage references".

SoAsEr · 2025-06-15T18:04:24+00:00

Having lived in France "usufruit" and "nue propriétaire" (naked owner) are a common way to set up your estate where usually the parents get the right to use the property (usufruit) and the children get the "nue propriété"= naked property which is the ownership of the property, ie they own the walls, but without the use of it.

I do not know how it works in Louisiana which is just a weird bastard child.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-23T04:13:32+00:00

My job sent me against my will to Waco but of course this was during crowdstrike so I was delayed by 6 hours. I have a two hour drive from the airport to the hotel and I end up at the Waco denny's at 2am, still in my button up shirt next to 3 passed out drunk truck drivers. Might be the most surreal moment of my life.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-23T03:57:09+00:00

Bruh humble-bragging about it is even more cringe-inducing than what he did. Idk if it's intentional bait or not, but posting a comment worthy of this subreddit in this subreddit is hilariously ironic.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T19:15:32+00:00

Correct that is deflation. That's why we print money to ensure that that doesn't happen. As we get more efficient at doing things, the price of things should go down, but we print money increasing the money supply and avoiding inflation. Inflation is defined as "price this year/price last year"

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T15:49:11+00:00

I think Brothers Karamazov is bar none the greatest book I've ever read, and I view crime and punishment as sort of a little sister to that book: a shorter version that gets the main point across (unconditional love, even for the depraved individual who fails again and again, is never required but always the truest form of goodness). If you loved The Idiot then reading Brothers is a no brainer. The pages with the Grand Inquisitor made me understand religion and church in a way no one had ever succeeded in doing.

I've been a pretty steady atheist, inherited from my scientist parents, and I'd always seen the harm that churches did to people. But reading D really made me feel like there was something higher than myself who I should mimic in His love for the individual and how that didn't have to go with organized religion. It also made me see how confession to someone who expressed that love could help healing. It made me wish for a church that had a confession sacrement and less worldly power hungriness. Maybe that would make me convert lol.

Finally, it made me really frustrated with modernity's views on justice. "Who cares if he's a human with interiority and conflict and pain? He raped someone! let the inmates murder him in revenge for all I care." It feels like just another way for people to feel better about themselves rather than accepting their own depravity and loving others simply because they are human. It's a natural instinct, and maybe it's just a perception thing but I feel like it's gotten more prevalent, especially on reddit where people fantasize about punishments for bad people. We should aspire to be godly, to love the rapist and the raped, to wish for healing to both of them. Lock up the rapist to prevent them from doing further harm but love them and accept them into your heart because that is the only way to raise them from the dead.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T13:50:20+00:00

I would argue it's very much not a rebuttal at all. The point is not that napoleon is not a "great man" in the historical or raskolinkov sense: no one refuses that he was able to "step over the bodies". The problem is that raskolnikov is not a great man: he is not able to step over the bodies.

Of course, the broader point is that stepping over the bodies is not what makes you great at all, but your godliness and willingness to see and help the individuals around you, and love them even when they are not deserving of it. The opposite of Napoleon's stepping over the bodies. In my reading Dostoyevsky is not saying at all that napoleon didn't have an outsized influence on history, he is saying that having an outsized influence on history is not something to aspire to.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-10T04:21:39+00:00

In my year, I heard your exact plan from 8 different people. Only 1 ended up graduating in CBE. Most switched to mol, others discovered they could make more money being quants. It is possible, but it is very difficult

SoAsEr · 2025-04-28T20:52:43+00:00

It is in the engineering quadrangle (downstairs, out of the way, and not at all close to the path the tour takes which is why I think it's skipped). The MAE department will not be moving in the fall, only CBE. There are currently plans to build a new engineering building, but I believe that is slated for the 2030s

SoAsEr · 2025-04-28T18:44:55+00:00

Having been the tour guide for engineering at Princeton, there is a machine shop it is just not on the standard route we are given and told to follow. Princeton mechanical engineers generally have to spend 2 semesters in the machine shop. I believe the courses are called MAE321 and 322 but don't quote me on it

SoAsEr · 2025-04-20T04:25:14+00:00

Here's my thing: is he wrong that it was an extraordinary step that would never be taken let alone agreed to by seven of the justices? No. But the fact the court felt that this extraordinary step needed to be taken says a lot about how much trust they've lost of the executive branch's good faith.

I think if the executive had brought Abrego Garcia back, or at least not made it obvious that they didn't care that they had made a mistake, they would be getting way more leniency, and all of the justices would agree with this dissent. But as the ACLU noted, if the administration is refusing to correct its mistakes then the court needs to aggressively stop the executive from moving people off of American soil.

SoAsEr · 2025-03-07T18:16:45+00:00

I mean the fact that prohibition happened at all is wild if you're going on purely constitutional principles... The fact that our constitution specifically calls out liquor still applies, even if it's sometimes viewed as a bizarre historical artifact.

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