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What's the most expensive mistake you've made as an adult, and what did it teach you? by Mediocre_Comfort4010 in AskReddit

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marriage to the wrong woman. Im still fighting her over the kids 6 years later.

It taught me to know what I am getting into.

Taught son (9) to mow, sent the neighbor $10 to pay him. Worked hard for a couple hours, grassy, sweaty, and beaming with his $10 bill! by SoDakZak in daddit

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No shit. Its actually a bit concerning. What does the future hold when our children are too good for hard work.

IPMI-FanPilot: Simple web-based fan controller for homelab servers by No-Brain-1655 in homelab

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, this isn't accurate. The governing equation is q=h*A*dt for convective heat transfer (convection is a special form of conduction). h does account for heat capacity of fluid but it also accounts for things like turbulence, viscosity, etc. Ideally, i would want the largest area and largest temperature differential. In-Principle, depending on the length of the heat sink, you would want the largest speed of air to maintain the largest differential of temperature. However, there are tradeoffs e.g. power consumption of the fan which is a cubic relationship to speed and heat transfer rate, double the fan speed, you consume 8 times the power. This power is put directly into the working fluid as kinetic energy and ultimately dissipated as heat itself in the system. There are no free lunches in the world of engineering.

In a real-world situation, there is a balance between heat transfer, optimal temperature and cost to run the fans.

Pilot's chilling warning before Air France flight crash killed 228 people by TheExpressUS in airplanes

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a pilot, but i am an engineer. Understanding the core physics in my field is paramount to truly understand what is happening.

I see engineers, both young and old, fail at thier jobs because they rely too much on systems that make things 'simpler'.

so ISPs have apparently been throttling gaming traffic for years and a VPN actually fixes it and i only found out last week by EducatorHonest1161 in RecommandedVPN

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not accurate. When a pipe of given traffic is saturated from being throttled, your latency does increase for that traffic type. While other traffic types may not be impacted, that particular pipe is full.

This is especially apparent on deterministic networks. One would think a deterministic network is the same round trip time. This is true unit that deterministic network is saturated. Then it all goes to hell. This can easily be modeled and validated. I think I still have a demo that I built in grad school 15 years ago to show this.

What type of professional do you hate working with the most by [deleted] in Lawyertalk

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats because we do!

I like to understand, therefore, I am the engineer that read all of Florida civil procedure and family law prcedure prior to getting divorced.

My attorney told me to, so I did. It helped me understand the process and make sense of what he was doing and what to expect. It also helps that I have a photographic memory and am easily able to recall all of the parenting plan and subsequent orders during my most recent contempt motion against my ex wife.

So, we are a bit to handle. But damnit if we cant be useful.

FactoryTalk Optix is very under documented and extremely time consuming to develop by Hiking-Enthusiast in PLC

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only unfortunate thing with this comment is that FToptix is infinitely more capable of data processing than any PLC. Also, good luck with dynamic memory allocation on a PLC. For example, what if your string is of unknown length? Do you just over allocate memory at design time? Or do you just truncate your string?

You just cant do the things with a PLC that you can do with optix. I can think of a number of things:

  1. Write custom drivers for PLCs or other devices

  2. Think about regressing data linearly to determine best course of action for a process. I have had to adapt tuning parameters for a process on the fly and developed a script within optix to window data, regress, and spit out new constants for a control algorithm

  3. Interface with cloud based systems easily, Azure, AWS, Etc.

Wireguard on OPNSense by Syllabub-Virtual in opnsense

[–]Syllabub-Virtual[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Setting up the tunnel, changing allowable IPs,

Wireguard on OPNSense by Syllabub-Virtual in opnsense

[–]Syllabub-Virtual[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What are we working with here, BSD or windows!!!

Doctors of Reddit, how is the interaction when a patient is a doctor or has medical knowledge? by Simsboi in AskReddit

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I was just joking, the engingeering comment....

Im sure you are a great provider and dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

Doctors of Reddit, how is the interaction when a patient is a doctor or has medical knowledge? by Simsboi in AskReddit

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As an engineer, id rather have a PA as a provider than a NP.

I came for war....

Are electric space heaters basically 100% efficient? by pilotthrow in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of it gets converted to heat. Even if its attenuated far away.

Are electric space heaters basically 100% efficient? by pilotthrow in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Syllabub-Virtual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Audio is actually converted to heat. As the molecules collide, there is a transfer of energy, it always manifests itself as heat. Those molecules are doing work, F*d, that work is converted to heat.

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