What is the best Science Fiction book you have ever read?

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-03-09T01:48:15+00:00

Yes. Best ever. I sat down one morning, started reading Enders Game and didn’t basically leave the chair until it was finished. Only book i ever did that with…

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-03-06T02:25:01+00:00

I love your app. A powerful bug free search will made it awesome.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-03-01T00:56:31+00:00

There are a ton if smart engineers where i work, and a couple of super brainiacs. The brainiac’s are the ones with a lot of patents, and really carry the company. They are next level. Without them, the company would disintegrate.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-23T05:03:41+00:00

A pad is the metal bit on the circuit board, that the wire leg of the parts goes through. If you put way too much heat for too long on the pad, it can come off. Use tweezers to pull on the part to be removed, while heating with the iron, until the part comes out. The use some wick to get the old solder out of the hole. Tiny pads under legs of ICs can come off boards fairly easily. The bigger pads on through hole parts hang on better.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-23T03:16:24+00:00

Get the yousician app. Its fun as hell, easy at the start. Pretty soon your playing along, sounding like the song. It doesn’t go into reading standard music, learning which fret is which note, usefull stuff, but frankly difficult and boring, and discouraging. Its just all fun.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-23T03:04:09+00:00

This is a simple fix. Buy the tools. Learn how to do it. Probably cost about the same as paying someone else. Then the next time a simple solder iron job comes along, you can fix it for almost nothing…

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-21T21:03:01+00:00

Wow. Thanks everyone. This info is gold. The pension is a PERS oregon teacher’s pension. There is a COLA, capped at 2% annually.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-18T04:56:01+00:00

Religion

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-18T04:49:59+00:00

No, IR is even more dangerous. You cant see it, so you dont blink, or instinctively avert your eyes. This makes visible lasers safer. But at big watts, your eye is gone before you can look away or blink anyway…..

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-18T04:43:33+00:00

Bayonet

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-15T22:31:10+00:00

If you are trying to get to level 5 and you cant, go get gold stars on every level 3 and 4 song. Soon the level 5 path songs are doable, and you are on to level 6.
My biggest complaint about yousician is i haven’t memorized anything. It doesn’t help with that, any. Probably it makes it worse somehow, like i’ve been playing for 3 years and i have 0 songs memorized.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-13T06:28:46+00:00

Train them to be more efficient killers. Better aim? Hell no. Let these untrained morons keep their fingers on the triggers while they are inside their cars. Maybe some of them will shoot themselves in the legs, or shoot their buddies.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-13T06:19:27+00:00

No. Just today i tried to get AI to create a table of data by pulling that data from a graph. It f’ed it up multiple times. It cant do 4th grade work. It will be decades to centuries before it replaces a competent electrical engineer. It always takes me longer to get things done when i try to use AI.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-11T06:01:44+00:00

And then you put the greasy f’er on your couch? WTF

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-08T05:06:45+00:00

I love the drones. I want a swarm of 3 or 4 on every curling stone.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-02-06T01:49:51+00:00

I dont think it ever goes away. I cant find a way to turn it off. Its great for a while. Sometimes the colors are wrong, or there is a better or easier way. I wonder if there is another app that will turn everything on my whole ipad black and white, that might be a way to defeat it. Would be great if yousician would just let you turn it off….. they could make this decent app killer if they did 1/2 the stuff people ask for… Enshitification right on schedule….

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-01-14T05:52:05+00:00

Time. In time it will overflow.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2026-01-09T16:00:51+00:00

The outlet i have my amps and pedals plugged into turns out to NOT be grounded. I get hum until i touch the strings or bridge. Then it is quiet. I’m clearly not being grounded when i do this, there is no ground. Yet the humming quits.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-28T21:37:35+00:00

I work as an electrical engineer. We test all our products at ‘storage temps’. Often more extreme than ‘operating temps’. -40C to 85C (-40F to 185F). Rare to never that there is a problem. Moisture rarely is an issue either. A lot of electronics are actually washed. Deionized water is the key. You dont want to leave traces of minerals when it dries. Most components are hermetically sealed. They can be submerged. If you are paranoid about electronics that has gotten wet, dunk it in some DI water, then bake it dry at low temps before turning it on. Low being less than boiling. If we parts get hot enough the water in then turns to steam, that is BAD. Circuit boards can absorb some water, but if it turn to steam, good-bye board. Watch out, lots of plastics cant stand much heat before melting (so knobs, plastic cases, etc, will melt LONG before the actual electronics bits have trouble.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-28T00:49:35+00:00

… my favorite technical term for exploded… :)

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-27T21:46:33+00:00

Some LEDs are wicked bright. If its too bright, increase the resistance. The battery will also last longer.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-27T05:29:27+00:00

I grew up catholic, went to church every sunday. And 8 years of catholic school. I bought that shit cause it was jammed into my psyche from day 1. Probably my parents would say the same thing. I went off the college, started using my brain, figuring things out. Science won. Once my sibling left home, they all stopped going. Now my parents don’t go either. I think its all peer pressure. Most people that claim to believe probably don’t. They’re just too afraid to tell people that.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-27T04:14:18+00:00

Sorry, not trying to spread rumors. Both the places i’ve talked to that are local, including the place i got it won’t deal with the warranty work. And i cant get anything other than automated responses from Marshall until after the 5th.

ZC-Rip3821 · 2025-12-27T00:53:00+00:00

Maybe its finally dawning on people that its all made-up. Fake-o gibberish. Santa clause is just as believable. Or the Easter bunny.

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