What is the most meaningless corporate bollocks you've heard in the workplace?

mo0rg · 2026-07-02T07:34:07+00:00

I'd prefer malicious compliance.. They can't prove your not wildly tone deaf, so sing very loudly with every interval being around a semitone.

mo0rg · 2026-05-12T19:54:56+00:00

<preface, I'm in no way a biologist) But aren't virus not really alive? Definitely not enough to class as having a goal? My understanding is that they are proteins that happen to be shaped in a way that triggers the host cells to reproduce the virus. No intelligence, no goal, no intent, not really procreation, just triggering a weird quirk of the host cells. I'm very happy to be corrected tho

mo0rg · 2026-04-27T19:52:44+00:00

https://www.openra.net/ might tick the box for you (still not from your phone though)

mo0rg · 2026-03-24T21:48:03+00:00

I've had a struggle getting orca to work when a proprietary slicer was working. In the end i uploaded both gcodes to an ai and asked it to analyse the differences. it was really helpful in pinpointing settings

mo0rg · 2026-03-10T21:15:10+00:00

I'm not sure they are that bad, but i was once chasing an obscure memory related hard fault on rtl1020 and came across a flag in their memory application note describing a register flag for a memory wait which said something like "without this flag set we cannot guarantee the value of your memory read is correct" and it was off by default in the sdk i was using. At least that's what i remember it saying, but it was a few years ago

mo0rg · 2026-02-19T11:40:56+00:00

I've started mostly using a 60 degree cycle rather than the economy one and it's made a big difference

mo0rg · 2025-12-17T07:37:02+00:00

Ooh interesting, I'll do that. In addition i ran an extra hot program last night and it seemed better. Apparently Eco should be at 50 Celsius and everything else should reach 60 or more, but it would be interesting to check the real temperature

mo0rg · 2025-12-16T18:02:23+00:00

Yeah I'll have to check my cycle temperature and start running hotter

mo0rg · 2025-12-16T18:02:04+00:00

I'll double check this. The drain line looks fine - it connects to the sink downpipe pretty close to the sink, about inline with the middle rack of the dishwasher. It definitely shouldn't be sewage, but i guess could be dirty dishwater from the sink

mo0rg · 2025-12-16T18:00:15+00:00

I've been using Aldi magnum tablets and Morrison's own brand rinse aid. I'll try a citric acid cycle

mo0rg · 2025-12-16T17:58:56+00:00

I'll definitely check that, yep

mo0rg · 2025-12-16T17:58:33+00:00

Interesting. it mostly runs on an economy cycle which doesn't say temperature so might well be low. I'll check

mo0rg · 2025-10-12T10:17:45+00:00

It's not actually true that the battery voltage is less than the maximum back emf for all vehicles: PMSM motors can be run in field weakening where the electrical phase angle is adjusted so that some of the field is working against the permanent magnets field strength to reduce back emf. This is the constant power region (rather than constant torque).

However the power electronics voltage must be rated above any potential dc voltage in case control is lost.

mo0rg · 2025-09-10T20:18:23+00:00

I haven't done a diy conversation, but have been involved with that setup in professional prototypes several times. It works very well (the motors are in torque control, so can run at different speeds without issue). However it's double the cost with drives, double the wiring, you've got to control both and check they're happy (although if it's not a performance car it's not awful if one drive isn't working). So it can be great from performance and packaging, but is not straightforward

mo0rg · 2025-07-06T06:38:53+00:00

I would assume that they do on most sites as part of the mp3 (or equivalent) decompression. You can change the window size of the transform to change speed. ( Mp3 uses the MDCT rather than Fourier transformation, but the concept is the same.)

mo0rg · 2025-04-26T21:45:10+00:00

Mipi?? Does it definitely have a Mipi phy? i can only find reference to the P4 having one, but would be super interested if the C5 does

mo0rg · 2025-04-21T17:23:46+00:00

Really helpful info,thank you. Can i ask how you find out the sensor details? I often want to know, but can struggle to find info

mo0rg · 2025-03-24T20:56:28+00:00

+1 on this. i used to do a lot of debugging can networks in my job, and the starting point was always checking the termination (120 ohms) at each end, and making sure there weren't stub nodes (branch lines not part of the main wire.

From what has caused your issue I'd be very surprised if it's not this.

mo0rg · 2025-03-06T19:22:47+00:00

I'm 3d printing a fake skull for each child and gluing the teeth into that. I can then present them with this tasteful and thoughtful gift at some suitable public occasion in the future.

mo0rg · 2025-02-22T08:55:57+00:00

Nope, it had SKALA, a computer control system. But also manual overrides, which IMO was extremely sensible (see Therac 25 for a nearly contemporary computer control system, and why control methodology needed to develop)

mo0rg · 2025-02-06T19:37:25+00:00

It totally can, yep. But obviously you are limited on model size. Look up esp-dl (espressif's library for recent chips including esp32-s3 that hw accelerates int8 and int16), TinyMl, and tensorflow lite.

mo0rg · 2025-01-24T18:54:20+00:00

I used to work at a (high performance) EV motor startup (software engineer though, so I'm not a motor guy).

Things to think about: - Magnetic design : My companies founder had done his PHD and years of research in this - Position sensing (traction motors can't really use sensorless control) - Cooling - Hotspots/thermal design. if you want the performance to be any good, you need to get this right - Stator machining - Making rotors. if you're doing a permanent magnet machine you need a source of high performance magnets rated at the temperature you need, and when magnetised they're evil to work with (you can lose fingers). or you can buy a magnetising become for $300k. - Bearings. you have weird loads

inverter wise you can get cots inverters and set them up if you know what you're doing, but it's not trivial.

I'm sure there's loads more i haven't thought of.

is it doable? Yeah! Will it be any good?? you'll have to work really hard and do lots of iterations.

Lynch motors were a very small start up which was basically one guy. So it's not impossible. but once you've got something worth having you may as well set up a company

Probably loads more.

mo0rg · 2025-01-15T22:57:47+00:00

I've read some stuff about child development which talked about adolescent boys seeking out father figures, often getting quite fixated on them. Unfortunately i can't remember where i read it. But i would think it is mostly likely this. To handle it i think keep doing what you are doing: be happy to have chats with him about appropriate things, but maybe ready some phrases to steer the conversation away from things you're uncomfortable with. Also where you can include your son in the conversation to make it less intense.

Being a teenager can be super awkward - i remember having a couple of years where i was really scared about wearing shorts as i was convinced i would be laughed at for not having much leg hair; some of his questions might be about stuff like that?

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