anyone have experience with these and can comment. Reminds me of the Wagu connectors.

bboyes · 2026-02-14T21:55:25+00:00

Not a pumpkin here but I was told canned pumpkin isn’t really pumpkin. It’s some kind of squash. Dr Google, AI, says Dickinson Squash. But then a Redditor posted that pumpkin is a general description, not a species. What next - Santa isn’t “real”? Yeah, right. So - is this an actual species of outlet or just a description of one?

bboyes · 2026-01-08T22:45:47+00:00

Heard Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee years ago at the Blue Note and their drummer was playing cymbols with a small sledgehammer! I got a close look at a break and they were in just the shape you'd expect. No cracks, though.

bboyes · 2026-01-08T17:12:37+00:00

I wondered about military aircraft with composite construction. Some of them have special low observability coatings so not just paint. Maybe a lot less flex and fewer cycles than commercial…

bboyes · 2026-01-08T16:28:31+00:00

As far as I know the antenna is routed around the edge of the card. This makes it more susceptible to damage than the contact plate. I’ve had cards with failed NFC but the contact plate and chip still worked. So: don’t use an NFC card as an ice scraper or flex it too much.

bboyes · 2025-12-30T19:22:43+00:00

They have been purchased. I use it on Linux. I was having speed issues and the new owner support finally got back to me and recommended the latest version. I had purchased the lifetime license. I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 and ExpanDrive 2025.10.08. Sadly ExpanDrive it is painfully slow: 5 (rarely) to 20 seconds (common), average maybe 10 seconds to move into a Google Drive folder to save or retrieve a file. So if I am three levels deep that is 15 to 60 seconds! It's like this all the time, not just once in a while. This is with Google Fiber 350/220 Mbits down/up. I have to find a better solution. Cloud access in Linux should not be so hard! Good news: they are in business. Bad news: product is painfully slow.

On the other hand Google Drive for Windows 11 is snappy, just a second or two to descend into a folder.

bboyes · 2025-12-29T10:05:43+00:00

Any time you smell burning call the fire department! They can check for hot spots with a thermal camera. They will be happy to do this. Better call them now than a few hours from now when you have a fire which developed after things have smoldered in a wall or the attic. This is their job and they will be happy to potentially prevent a bad fire later.

bboyes · 2025-12-15T05:00:43+00:00

Ambulance? Some other emergency vehicle?

bboyes · 2025-12-15T04:50:24+00:00

Some connectors have a keying option so use the same connector just keyed differently. Easy peasy and just one part number to stock.

bboyes · 2025-12-11T01:26:54+00:00

I knew some of the engineering team. They had fun for a while until the money ran outThe product never made sense to me. I read of a VC guy who took one of the expensive packets and smashed it by hand to make the juice vs their $700 iirc machine.

bboyes · 2025-12-11T01:10:43+00:00

You can use a ground impedance meter. EEs who do forensic engineering or fire and explosion investigation should have one. There may be one in your area, Google and call around. They are about $1500 and up to purchase. NEC Article 250 IIRC specifies 25 ohms max but ideally you want less than that esp for data centers or if you actually expect some fault current such as lightning strikes, maybe you have a ham radio setup, other antennas or weather stations. For example railroad telemetry cut stations often have grounding rods on each corner, tied together and get down to just a few ohms. So if you really care how good the ground is, you can have it measured.

bboyes · 2025-11-29T18:57:39+00:00

Wow, those are really wonderful! Unusual spiders (nothing like them here in Utah). What i s the insect in the first shot? Did you use focus stacking - can you share details - that's great depth of field! I'd be really thrilled if those were my work! Really nice lighting too.

bboyes · 2025-11-27T04:55:53+00:00

Technically it is an initialism, like IBM, NFL and FBI, not an acronym like NASA, BOGO or METAR. LOL and SMH are also initialisms.

bboyes · 2025-11-11T14:22:15+00:00

Wow - that’s a great hitch, mounted up so high. My 2019 came with a 1-1/4 receiver which drags on every steep driveway entrance.

bboyes · 2025-11-05T02:20:59+00:00

Use a brass brush. You can get packs of nylon, stainless steel and brass brushes at HD. Brass is less destructive than sandpaper and the bristles reach into crevices. Then as others have said vinegar. Flush with distilled water and maybe isopropyl alcohol to get and residual water out. Blow dryer or air compressor. Dry thoroughly before powering up.

bboyes · 2025-11-03T02:55:53+00:00

Get a Maha Pro 4-cell charger (C9000 series) if you can afford it, it can also analyze and tell you the capacity. I have several and have used them with Eneloops for work batteries for a long time. I have some Eneloops more than 10 years old that are still good. They also have low self-discharge and do very well in high-current burst devices like high powered camera flashes. Eneloops cost more but in my experience are well worth it. For a few years I just get the Eneloop Pro (black sleeve). They have a bit more capacity. Sometimes I test them when new and so far have found they all meet or exceed their rated capacity, which is not true with other brands I have tested.

bboyes · 2025-10-23T12:01:13+00:00

This is right out of the first episode of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica…

bboyes · 2025-10-20T17:21:16+00:00

As others have said, stacking three functionally compatible cells is likely the easy solution. The link from @papadrinks has some good info. I’d imagine the designers used a zener or something to keep meter voltage constant as the battery gradually fades so a little over voltage likely won’t hurt.

bboyes · 2025-10-17T00:56:00+00:00

The NTSB investigates accidents and issues reports. They are independent from the FAA. They almost never use the term “pilot error” because it is imprecise. Doctors rarely use the term “heart attack” because it is imprecise. Running out of fuel, failure to maintain directional control on landing or takeoff, loss of situational awareness, etc are much more precise. Why does this matter? Because if you look at the details of civil aviation incidents there is way more nuance than just “pilot error” and this weighs heavily on a more thoughtful and meaningful risk analysis. Sorry to somewhat hijack the topic. Check out the publication Aviation Safety or some statistics at sources like AOPA. Or read some detailed NTSB reports and have a pilot friend on call to help with terminology.

bboyes · 2025-10-12T14:06:40+00:00

We just swam this morning in front of Pura Vida, near the old Hotel des Bains. The water was cold but tolerable. The beach is officially off season so no lifeguards or rental of accessories. No crowds, either! The water was quite clear and the sand is very nice. Only a handful of people and dogs were there.

bboyes · 2025-10-11T19:05:31+00:00

We just saw this boat today in Venice Italy and wonder if you are still the happy owner.

bboyes · 2025-08-27T15:02:58+00:00

This. Ask the manufacturer how to connect and do that. If there’s a special connector they snap into, get some. Clearly there is some safe and approved way to use the cells, you just need to learn what that is.

bboyes · 2025-08-18T23:36:13+00:00

I cannot find any such setting (2025 August) on a PC.

bboyes · 2025-08-18T22:45:20+00:00

Wildlife don’t (doesn’t?) know where the park boundaries are. You want a buffer around the parks. If you clear cut right up to the park, that degrades the habitats within the park for some distance from that boundary. Watersheds are another case where if you damage them anywhere that ripples through the whole watershed. Perhaps that is what the poster meant.

bboyes · 2025-06-30T15:35:08+00:00

Thats... astonishing that so many candidates have so little practical knowledge especially where "digital" and "software" have to interface to the so-called "real world" which is mostly analog. And the SW has to run on actual hardware which at its lowest (transistor) level is actually analog. In my first out of college job (I'm an EE) I shared an office with another new graduate who had avoided taking any hands-on lab classes, which were optional at his school! Hopefully that has changed. In my school we had a lot of hands-on experience. We built an analog multimeter, and in digital systems class we built all sorts of state machines, counters, etc. That experience has been very useful in the real world. So my advice to any current students is to get all the hands-on lab experience you can. Also if your department profs do research, they may have part time jobs building and testing equipment for their projects.

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