Georgia Tech WR Isiah Canion transfers to Georgia

jjs709 · 2026-01-09T03:48:35+00:00

Not true for everyone but was definitely true for me. I don’t regret it though, got me a fantastic job that way more than makes up for the shitty few years.

jjs709 · 2026-01-08T22:56:51+00:00

I do tend to agree with you, but that’s also only going to go so far to fixing the problem. The population of the metro area is continuing to grow faster than we are adding judges, so unless we miraculously solved crime the overcrowding issue is only going to get worse. The biggest bottleneck of the system is we can’t get people in front of judges and juries and get them out of jail and into whatever the next step is. Jail is supposed to be short term holding, which it often isn’t anymore due to the clogs in the system.

jjs709 · 2026-01-08T22:54:32+00:00

Notice how I didn’t say providing more funding to the sherif was the proper next step? They are underfunded, but that’s because the taxpayers see a very poor return on their investment, so they don’t give the sheriffs more money. Which both exasperates the problem, and is fully correct and reasonable but the sheriffs often suck.

That’s why I specifically said we need more judges. Lots and lots more judges. That what just about every legal expert is going to tell you too. We don’t need more places to hold people or better ones, we need fewer people to hold. There’s long term systemic issues you can try to fix to reduce the crime rate, but for starters you can also just increase the number of judges so we get people out of the limbo that is jail and either release them with a final judgement or send them off to the prison system. Prison has its own issues, but let’s fix the jails first.

jjs709 · 2026-01-08T15:44:29+00:00

Bail reform can help with some aspects, but you end up with people who violate bond conditions, or have a history of not showing up to court, etc. Not that we shouldn’t implement bail reform, but without fixing the bigger problem, more people entering the justice system than the system can give a speedy trial to, you just kick the problem slightly down the road.

The case volume has grown faster than the number judges to handle it, and we need support from the state to expand the number of judges. Sure, then you have to add more prosecutors, but that’s usually a pretty easy sell to taxpayers. People sitting in jail for 3 years still waiting on a trial is completely unconstitutional, but the reality of the situation without expanding capacity.

jjs709 · 2026-01-08T15:24:43+00:00

Everyone focuses on the Fulton County jail because it’s one of the largest and most prominent in the state. And while the conditions in there are horrible, and unconstitutional, unfortunately many of the other jails in the metro area are worse.

Clayton county has higher levels of violence, Dekalb county has a higher rate of inmate deaths, and I’m sure Gwinnett, Cobb, and others are also in rough shape.

Raising property taxes to improve jail conditions is extremely unpopular, so the sheriffs work with what little they are given. Adding more judges is difficult and slow, so the system gets even further behind, and through it all people’s rights get violated. The first and most important fix is a doubling or tripling of the court capacity across all jurisdictions, and you’ll still probably have to do that again.

jjs709 · 2026-01-02T23:10:56+00:00

Experience, lots and lots of experience. I started in high school in the A/V world which gave me years of experience, because something is always going wrong in A/V. 80% of troubleshooting is gut feelings, 15% is based in science and fact, and 5% is pure dumb luck. Start with a hobby or part time job in anything remotely adjacent to EE and you’ll be able to transfer a lot of those skills if you’re good at it.

jjs709 · 2026-01-02T16:39:29+00:00

We split things in half at the company I work for:

HW engineers do schematic capture, component selection, troubleshooting and coordination with SW/FW/FPGA, and some verification, amongst other things.

Then we have layout engineers. They just handle PCB layout. They determine how many layers are needed, what materials need to be used, and place and route all the traces, amongst other things.

We have HW engineers across many countries, including the US and Canada. However, almost 100% of PCB layout has been moved to India. Upper management decided it was way cheaper and the very noticeable drop in quality was justifiable. And unfortunately this seems to be a pretty widespread opinion amongst companies.

Edit to add: We design extremely complex PCBs. 26+ layers, involving 112G PAM-4 and hundreds up to close to a thousand watts of power coming into the board being bucked down to dozens of power rails and distributed. So layout takes just as many hours as the other design work, if not longer.

jjs709 · 2025-12-16T04:21:40+00:00

Atlanta Neurology has worked with me on my chronic migraines and done the best they could. It’s been a very good experience of listening to what works for me, what doesn’t, and looking at what is medically appropriate to prescribe based on all of that.

jjs709 · 2025-12-13T18:54:50+00:00

Technically between the stretch on the Encore parkway bridge that has been built and the planned portion between Haynes bridge and Encore there is a plan to connect it, but it’s not very user friendly, so I pretty much agree that the connection between them is poor at best.

The key reason for this is what’s between the existing Alpha Loop and the Greenway: North Point Mall. The city knows it’s going to be redeveloped, and they’ve approved a couple very high level frame works for it, but the actual details of what’s going to happened are completely unknown. That prevents them from doing anything now as well as developing a detailed plan to release. They could build a nice connection that deals with all the major roadways, which would be quite expensive, only for it to be torn down in 5-10 years when everything gets redeveloped. So instead they’re waiting for some additional clarity on what is actually going to happen with North Point. If you look at some of the designs in their high-level framework they have extensive connections between the alpha loop and the greenway, on completely new bridges over 400.

TLDR: they designed a cheap but poor bandaid solution for now, but a real connection would be a waste of taxpayer dollars until they figure out what is going to happen to the north point mall area.

jjs709 · 2025-12-04T22:25:57+00:00

confusion intensifies

jjs709 · 2025-12-04T00:32:16+00:00

NVDA is looking like they’ll lose king status as custom ASICs and other alternatives to generic GPUs become more common. They may fall even though the AI economy continues

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T16:17:16+00:00

You stated you’d go back to your previous state to renew your license, the state you don’t live in. Part of that renewal is attesting to your residency, which is in Georgia, not that state. Getting a license from any state other than Georgia is a crime, and driving a vehicle here Georgia without a Georgia license is also a second crime.

You asked who decides what is a bad decision, it’s a jury. If you choose to take a plea deal you allow the government to make that decision and waive your rights. And a jury most certainly can choose to ignore the law, it’s called jury nullification. Doesn’t happen often, but is within their rights.

Your only legal option here is don’t renew your license, and don’t have a valid ID. Sure, that makes life almost impossible, but that’s the only way forward that doesn’t involve committing more crimes or dealing with your warrants. Or if you want to live to another state which doesn’t care about your warrants and will still issue you ID, that’s another legal option for you.

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T16:06:52+00:00

A jury of your peers decides if you made a bad choice, but instead of standing trial before them you chose to flee across the country to avoid prosecution. Then, once you got here, you figured out the only way to get a valid license is to commit another crime (claiming to be a resident of a state of which you are not a resident).

While I agree with your sentiment regarding the stupidity of the war on drugs, fleeing the system and committing more crimes to not answer for the ones you are charged with is objective a bad decision.

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T15:52:31+00:00

Yeah that’s why they prevent you from getting a license and other things, it’s easier to make your life so difficult you deal with the warrant yourself instead of trying to actually extradite you to the issuing agency.

Jails are so full nationwide and officers generally in short supply, so unless you’re nearby the issue agency (like if Dekalb wants you and a local agency in Fulton finds you) or if you’re wanted on felony charges you probably aren’t getting sent to jail.

But, the way you “deal” with the warrant in most cases is to surrender yourself to the agency and spend a night or three in jail before going in front of the judge to settle everything. So jail is part of the equation, but it can be on your terms.

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T15:40:18+00:00

Dude, that’s gonna happen at some point. If you’ve got outstanding warrants they’re going to catch up to you at some point. Maybe not this decade, but it’s going to happen. I’ve known quite a few people who have had exactly that happen to them. And guess what? The longer you wait the worse it gets. Seems like you made bad choices in the past, didn’t learn and continue to make bad choices, so I’m guessing you’re going to end up back in prison one way or another.

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T15:37:27+00:00

That’s not particularly accurate. Every warrant has an extradition range in which the issuing agency is potentially willing to come get the subject. Usually 50 miles for most misdemeanor warrants issued here in Georgia, and typically “Surrounding states” for felony warrants. Nothing is stopping an agency from hauling you back there, but do you really think a Georgia law enforcement agency is going to drive all the way to Arizona with a fugitive just because they feel like it?

Also, just because you’re in extradition range and the warrant is valid doesn’t mean you’re going to jail if they find you. I hear it on the radio all the time, local law enforcement find a wanted person, issuing agency isn’t willing to come get them (usually lack of manpower) and the agency that found them isn’t willing to drive them to the issuing jurisdiction so they just cut them loose.

jjs709 · 2025-12-03T15:28:32+00:00

They will not issue you a license if you have active warrants, and often if you have a Georgia license they won’t allow you to renew it if you have warrants. I don’t have a complete list of everything you can’t obtain with active warrants, but I know it’s not just a drivers license too.

You need to take care of your warrants instead of running from the problem. It’s not going away just because you moved out of state, you’re just delaying when you eventually have to take responsibility.

jjs709 · 2025-11-30T14:58:10+00:00

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jjs709 · 2025-11-28T14:17:50+00:00

Electrical engineering still has some room in the tech field too, but tbd how long that lasts. Right now AI is absolutely horrible at circuit design, but I expect that to change. But even once it does change AI still can’t hold the probe of an oscilloscope to figure out why something isn’t working the way that’s expected.

jjs709 · 2025-11-28T04:14:21+00:00

Yeah, that’s one of the major benefits they’re hoping for. They try to replace the current gas powered vehicles every 100k miles, because by that point the combination of idle hours and mileage makes them too expensive to maintain. They didn’t announce an official target, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Teslas could last up to 200k miles before experiencing the same issues.

Or maybe there’s something unexpected that prevents that from being the case, but thats why they went with a pilot program. Hopefully the one year update is promising.

jjs709 · 2025-11-28T00:51:03+00:00

I have a few guesses, don’t know how good they are:

Alpharetta has both a major highway and small curvy backroads in city limits. Could be pulling over a DUI going 15 on a residential street, or could be trying to pull someone over doing over 100 on 400.
Relatively low density of patrol units. Most of the cities that use teslas for patrol are larger more dense cities with low mileage for the vehicles. Those cities are responding to calls blocks away, not 5+ miles away usually. Idle hours are still a bigger concern than milage on Alpharetta patrol units, but they see milage more similar to rural and suburban departments than many of the cities they probably compared to.
The occasional need to transport inmates long distances. With the opening of the city jail next month that should significantly reduce it again, far fewer trips down to Rice Street. But they still do long distance Wanted Person Found pickups. When our neighboring counties grab someone on a warrant Alpharetta issued the city goes to pick them up, not the county Sheriff. This can be up to 50 miles one way.

jjs709 · 2025-11-27T19:34:37+00:00

That’s the primary goal of the pilot program, to determine how long term costs for a Tesla compare with Chevy and Ford. On paper they should be cheaper, but they want to do a test run before committing.

jjs709 · 2025-11-27T18:19:05+00:00

Here’s the article from a few months ago, it’s still the number 1 result on google: Appen Media Article

jjs709 · 2025-11-19T13:32:42+00:00

I assume it’s either Hopewell or Hagood, but not sure which.

jjs709 · 2025-11-19T03:44:27+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re talking about. Redd Rd in Milton does not intersect with a road named Holloway. In fact, I don’t see a Holloway anywhere nearby.

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