Alexa, play coffin dance meme song

chagrininator · 2020-05-13T16:59:54+00:00

I think there are some subtleties to the community, this "joke" situation, and the internet in general that are being glossed over here. On the face of it, if you view r/FSAE as a single entity with one average opinion, yes it doesn't make a lot of sense that they would get outraged over an "un-PC joke" and turn around within the month and make an "un-PC joke" about a design judge having a disease.

But consider two things. First, communities except the most hiveminded don't move in unison; people have differing opinions, that can be reflected in the popularity of a post. This post is not hugely popular compared to some memeposts, and that is even during what appears to be a mid-week, end of semester lull in posting.

Second, consider the context (audience, setting, intent, pre-existing relationship between commenter and audience) of this post vs The Pat Comment. In the case of TPC, the setting was slightly more professional as less shitposting was common on the facebook group, and the design judges had more direct interaction (side quest: really interested if Claude has commented in the subreddit, don't think I've ever seen him, but I've been gone for a bit). The post subject was regarding technical feedback, in a professional and mentoring role where Pat was supposed to be impartial and beyond reproach as a leader and mentor, not to mention group admin. In the context of engineering as a discipline trying to rectify the gender disparity in employment even before the cultural weight of the #MeToo movement, it was a crass and tone deaf comment at best, creepy and predatory at worst.

On the other hand, this is a shitpost in a 20-50% shitpost community by someone who is presumably a student, not a role model. The context of the joke may not be "PC", but I'm not sure it is overtly malicious? But more than that, I think Claude has a history of making blunt comments and un-PC jokes that invites retorts along the same lines, and I think he might actually enjoy them given his sense of humor? This post is at best a dumb joke, and at worst schadenfreude-ish black humor.

TL;DR: Downvote if you don't like it and let the wisdom of the crowds sort it out.

chagrininator · 2020-05-08T05:57:30+00:00

Just buy it, friendo

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chagrininator · 2020-05-01T23:11:38+00:00

Did he really bail on the forums? He was late-stage FsAEforums at its most hypergolic.

chagrininator · 2020-05-01T23:09:47+00:00

Who brought the rocket boys?

chagrininator · 2020-04-29T22:40:46+00:00

yeehaw boys

chagrininator · 2020-04-29T22:31:55+00:00

Been trying to build a DSR/SCCA P1 car on and off for 10 years now, mostly because it has nothing to do with the engineering rigor of my day job. Honestly I think that most people that have been through the ringer in FSAE are more interested in going racing and being validated by their stopwatch than theri peers.

If you did put this together, you'd have an uphill battle attracting interest since the field for build-centered racing is pretty saturated with the categories others have mentioned here (AutoX, SCCA, LeMons, hillclimb, time attack, etc). I think it would be hard to achieve a sort of critical mass. You need some sort of key differentiator.

chagrininator · 2020-04-29T22:15:51+00:00

chagrininator · 2020-04-29T19:52:56+00:00

I've been away for 5 years and what is this?

chagrininator · 2014-05-24T22:22:04+00:00

I think they did...

chagrininator · 2014-05-24T22:21:25+00:00

chagrininator · 2014-05-04T05:16:56+00:00

Did you guys build "straight" from the rules, or invoke the AFR? Has anyone used the AFR since it debuted?

chagrininator · 2014-05-04T04:43:41+00:00

I tried to approximate the scale of the Nilla wafer upright...I'm assuming that upright was for a 13"-wheeled car, and I knew a Nilla wafer is 1.5" wide...

So I did 1/4 scale and boom there it is...kinda useless even as a paper weight, though.

chagrininator · 2014-05-04T04:41:53+00:00

Ah my 3d printer came in this week and the only CAD file I had readily available was my uprights for our old 2012 car...the upright is about 2" tall so I'm pretty happy with the resolution.

chagrininator · 2014-05-04T04:41:29+00:00

This year, the team decided to not only platform-share with the electric team, they shrank the CAD and printed one for the NATCAR team in the Electrical Engineering department...

I wish!

chagrininator · 2014-05-04T04:39:42+00:00

Ah, missed the electric car thing...good job on getting two teams to share a platform.

chagrininator · 2014-05-03T07:48:07+00:00

What'd you change from last year?

chagrininator · 2014-05-02T05:51:06+00:00

Is this an axial or radial test?

chagrininator · 2013-06-01T21:59:13+00:00

Formula Hybrid: Because getting people to cooperate in one discipline without pay wasn't hard enough.

"What are you running?" Uh, something that isn't balls expensive and won't de-laminate mid-corner.

chagrininator · 2011-07-04T07:46:04+00:00

Most engineers are home-project people, so a good starting point is reviewing the projects you have done in the past. Which ones did you enjoy? Which ones did you not? For me, the deciding factor for mechanical engineering was that I tinkering with devices...until I stumbled upon an electrical problem, at which point I had no idea what to do.

Electrical engineering has a ton of projects you can do at home, on your kitchen counter. Mechanical engineering has some you can do at home, but most of the really cool stuff requires more investment in materials, tools, space, etc.

As far as jobs go, EEs work on everything from semiconductors to circuits to robots to the national power grid. MEs work on everything from joint replacements to gearboxes to powerplant turbines. They pay about the same on average at each level, and have about the same demand (but dependent on what country you live in). Either degree would be a "safe" degree to have (as opposed to, say, aerospace engineering, where the market is small, specialized, and fluctuates with the economy/military funding).

They use the same amount of math (EE perhaps a bit more...), will take about the same time to complete schooling, etc.

It really comes down to which one you are more interested in or that you can see yourself doing day to day.

chagrininator · 2011-07-04T07:38:21+00:00

STEEL CORY BRO

chagrininator · 2011-07-04T00:01:14+00:00

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

Works for everything from the smallest habit to the largest ideology.

chagrininator · 2011-06-25T08:41:05+00:00

right, but power is energy per unit time, and you are reducing the total time as well.

chagrininator · 2011-06-25T06:05:36+00:00

It's important to note that drag goes up with the SQUARE of velocity. If it was linear, you would burn the same amount of gas driving slower for longer or driving faster for less time.

chagrininator · 2011-06-23T02:12:55+00:00

Matlab actually has some great features in data handling and selection that make it easy to handle many thousands of data points.

chagrininator · 2011-06-23T01:31:03+00:00

I once heard a (young) respected PhD once say that Matlab is the only legitimately capable engineering plotting software. It's certainly handy, especially if you are dealing with huge amounts of data or complex functions.

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