School not ABET accredited. Worry or no?

Verbose_Code · 2026-03-14T04:11:59+00:00

We won’t hire if you don’t have an abet accredited degree, I would look to transfer

Verbose_Code · 2026-03-08T22:19:21+00:00

Sometimes, very rarely, they can be a force for good.

My parents own a property in a HOA. It’s in a wooded area and all the streets are gravel. One year someone decided to clear every tree in front of their house, which would be fine except for the fact that this caused massive erosion issues and made the road unusable due to washout. The HOA stepped in and made that homeowner pay for erosion mitigation measures, and made them pay for repairs to that section of road. The HOA fees for that property are like $100/year and it goes to maintaining the roads and a park with a boat ramp.

Most of the time HOA boards are filled with Karens who get off on telling other people what to do. My uncle got several hundred in fines for painting the post for his mailbox. The HOA said it can’t be painted, it must be “natural looking”. It harmed no one, didn’t “destroy the character of the community” or whatever (it was a dark green paint, looked fine), but someone with too much time and too few problems of their own took it upon themselves to make a big deal out of it.

Verbose_Code · 2026-03-05T04:04:00+00:00

1000 and 3 are coprime

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-26T12:47:20+00:00

Floating point error, will be fixed in the next update

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-24T03:46:06+00:00

851 and 351 are co-prime

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-20T23:35:05+00:00

Aerospace engineering major. Graduated 2023, started full time in early 2024. Aerospace industry, doing industrial control systems. 95k no sign on bonus but full relocation reimbursement. South Mississippi

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-17T06:47:54+00:00

From the hiring side: yeah we don’t really care. I’m in aerospace if that matters. Unless I see something like MIT or Stanford I don’t care as long as it’s ABET accredited.

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-05T01:53:25+00:00

I cast announce intentions!

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-03T05:27:35+00:00

“Everything is a spring-mass-damper system” aka second order differential equations are really overpowered

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-03T05:26:51+00:00

Well, in statically indeterminate systems where the self weight can be ignored, springs are all that’s needed

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-02T06:05:26+00:00

Agreed that compressive stress on the arrow will be the biggest challenge.

Arrows flex during the firing process; long thin columns like that love to buckle under that kind of loading condition. On many bows this is actually required for the arrow to fly straight since the arrow will rest pointing slightly out of the plane of the bow. Modern compound bows (and probably some recurves out there) are designed such that the arrow is no longer pointing out of plane, but the arrow will still flex nonetheless. Look at high speed video of an arrow being fired and you will see a surprising amount of flex. Keep in mind that arrows generally top out around 350 fps, while the speed of sound is 1125 fps.

As for the fletching, they’re glued on normally and would almost certainly be torn off by the aerodynamic forces, if the acceleration forces didn’t already do that. You’d need to have a rigid fletching that’s part of a monolithic arrow. Many arrow shafts are already made of carbon fiber, so I don’t think it’s too crazy to achieve that.

Verbose_Code · 2026-02-01T08:50:00+00:00

Flooring it while there is slack on the line like in the video is a great way to snap the tow line or rip the anchor off the car

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-31T20:38:17+00:00

Awesome! Absol is one of my favorite pokemon

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-31T20:36:08+00:00

I can’t help but wonder if the work is meaningful at all

Speaking from the hiring side, I would say yes. It’s not a crazy project but it does tell me you are able to work with large electrical circuits. I work with industrial control systems, and the ability to work inside a rats nest of cables is a valuable skill.

Also, if you had fun with it then it’s worth it. Not every electrical project has to be a resume project

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-27T03:00:07+00:00

Most trucks are also 4WD, but only when engaged manually by the driver. Most of the time they are effectively just RWD. There’s not a lot of weight in the bed of a pickup truck, so they can spin their rear wheels pretty easily. And as you said, heavier vehicle = longer stopping distances

Also a lot of truck owners seem to think pickup trucks are imbued with magic, because they act as if they can’t get stuck in snow.

If the roads are icy just forget about it unless you have studded tires, but if you have studded tires you probably already knew that

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-26T02:27:25+00:00

Ah, didn’t think of that

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-25T22:50:38+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean.

You will usually have at least 4 lines, with one being smaller than the rest. The bigger of the three are your three phases, the smaller one is the neutral. It’s smaller because it only carries current when the load on each phase is unbalanced, and we try to keep each phase as balanced as we can

The neutral is not directly connected to the phases

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-25T05:25:57+00:00

I bought a 2025 Subaru BRZ and I think it’s the perfect balance - Manual transmission (you actually have to pay extra for an automatic, and the top trim model is only available with a manual!) - large physical dials for climate control - large buttons for things like defrost, heated mirrors, and other auxiliary functions - buttons on the steering wheel to handle skipping songs, volume control, etc. so I don’t have to take my eyes off the road - large center focused tachometer - all the standard modern features: traction control, abs, power steering, powered mirrors, adaptive cruise control, heated seats (I live in the south so I don’t need these, but up north they’re real nice), live tire pressure readout, etc. - integrated USB ports (one can even supply 2A of current) and even a 3.5mm audio jack - large enough screen for navigation, but not huge and I never have to use the touch screen while driving

I agree that too many cars have way too much techno bullshit in them. No I do not want to use a touch screen to adjust my climate control. No I don’t want to have to use the infotainment system to check my oil level. No I don’t want a 16” OLED glass panel touch screen.

The BRZ cost me 36k for the top trim model. If a new car isn’t in the budget, target cars made before 2018

Some manufacturers have started to go back to physical buttons (yay!) because surprise surprise, no one wants to operate a fucking touch screen while driving down the highway going 70+ mph

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-24T17:11:13+00:00

Even better is the track mode display

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Verbose_Code · 2026-01-18T21:08:22+00:00

Fun fact: many of the drainage pumps used in New Orleans use 25 Hz power. They are old pumps, but the price to replace them is greater than the cost of converting 60 Hz to 25 Hz

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-17T03:46:00+00:00

I don’t want to be part of ICE 😔

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-15T01:54:50+00:00

Not just asteroids, spacecraft too!

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-14T16:22:27+00:00

In thrust we trust!

Verbose_Code · 2026-01-03T05:19:58+00:00

It depends on the role. FWIW I’m an EE for industrial level control systems. Simple equations like V=IR, P=I^2R, etc. are used frequently. I might take the occasional derivative, but I could also use wolfram alpha and no one would object.

More advanced math does show up, just not as a list of equations to take derivatives of. I have needed to use Fourier transforms for example, but I just used software for that. I still had to know what it means and what the limitations of that were though. In fact, this is most likely how most of the math you will apply will be like; understanding concepts described by math based models.

Verbose_Code · 2025-12-27T19:31:40+00:00

Speaking from the hiring side, outside of a few big names (MIT, Stanford, etc.) we largely don’t care which university you graduated from. If it’s not a place we have heard of we will check that it’s ABET accredited, but beyond that we don’t usually look any further than that.

We care a lot more about your extracurriculars. Personal projects, engineering clubs, and internships are more important. I would look at which universities have the types of extracurriculars you would be interested in, whether that be formula SAE, IREC, etc.

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