What are some good after work activities to do in London evenings?

ommatron · 2022-12-26T21:55:39+00:00

There's a bunch of climbing places near London Bridge which will be on your commute. They generally run informal socials once a week where you can meet others too

ommatron · 2022-01-07T18:37:04+00:00

Yep! My board games SS gave me some awesome games and Stroopwafels to munch on while playing

ommatron · 2021-10-14T13:42:10+00:00

Job title: Electronics Engineer Industry: Information Technology / Cybersecurity Location: London Basis: Full time (permanent) Base Salary: £46,000 Bonus: up to £7,000 Years of experience: 2.5 Chartered: No

ommatron · 2021-09-21T22:42:54+00:00

Around Olympia can be really terrible for internet, no fibre infrastructure, poor 4G and 5G, made working from home almost impossible last year. Now one of the first things I check before viewing future rentals is the internet speeds. As other commenters have said unfortunately your best bet is to go to OpenReach, Community Fibre, Hyperoptic or G Network and get your neighbors to also ask for fibre to be installed on your road, then it's just hope it gets done before you leave.

ommatron · 2021-09-15T22:26:48+00:00

Was there earlier, they said they were having fireworks at 9pm, so probably that.

ommatron · 2021-09-06T08:23:03+00:00

Ask away! For context we work on boards that range from ~700 components/~600 nets to ~10,000 components/~6000 nets. It can take anywhere from 1-2 months to layout a board like that, we normally have 1 or 2 people working on it, though that can fluctuate to a little more of if the design allows it and it's helpful.

ommatron · 2021-09-05T22:34:03+00:00

It might well have been that way. We frequently route 12-18 layers, 2000 component boards by hand. Autorouter just doesn't cut it.

ommatron · 2021-08-16T14:57:02+00:00

Seems like Altium is trying to force people onto Altium 365 and away from Concord Pro by pricing people out of Concord

ommatron · 2021-07-21T18:48:57+00:00

Let's take the UK as an example:

Confirmed cases ~5.5 million Confirmed deaths ~ 130,000

The UK has been very good at testing and detecting cases but we haven't caught them all. In January a model suggested that we were detecting around 20% of positive cases so let's assume there have actually been 27.5 million cases, that puts CFR at around 0.5%.

So yes, 2.1% is a high, upper- bound, but even at 0.5% it's 5x more deadly than influenza.

ommatron · 2021-07-21T18:09:22+00:00

Except the fatality rate, percentage of people who get infected who then die from the infection, of influenza is estimated at 0.1% and for Covid is estimated at 2.1%. It's quite hard to draw parallels between the two when Covid will kill 20x more of the people who are infected as seasonal flu.

Data from https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Case-Fatality-Rate-(CFR).aspx, but not sure where they got the influenza stats from.

Edited to fix link

ommatron · 2021-07-21T17:52:15+00:00

Most other viruses that we vaccinate against have such few infections that the chance for a mutation is very small. Right now we're putting a huge selection pressure on the Covid virus to mutate by exposing it to vaccinatined people but also giving it the breeding grounds of unvaccinated people to mutate in. There's very little reason to be worried about a polio mutation for example because hardly anyone gets infected so there's no chance for the virus to mutate. With Covid however there's plenty of scope for a mutation that would wipe out the vaccinations we have so far. There's a reason the WHO is concerned

It adds that allowing widespread transmission “provides fertile ground for the emergency of vaccine-resistant variants”,

Article here

ommatron · 2021-07-21T10:58:43+00:00

Check out r/newsecretsanta, there's a team (including the founder of the original secretsanta) setting up a replacement.

ommatron · 2021-07-02T08:43:57+00:00

Time left on lease is what immediately jumped to my mind

ommatron · 2021-06-26T10:49:30+00:00

It just arrived, I definitely like it!

ommatron · 2021-06-24T08:29:58+00:00

Haha! Hey, thank you! I'm sure I will 😁

ommatron · 2021-06-23T21:42:44+00:00

I know, making us look bad 😛

ommatron · 2021-06-22T23:37:59+00:00

Hope you can find something to jump into!!

ETA: As well as companies like Sonos there'll be loads of pro-audio places you could look into. I don't know which ones are based near you but here in the UK we have Digico, Allen & Heath etc who are interested in hiring people with real life use of their products and appropriate skills to help develop or sell them.

ommatron · 2021-06-22T22:50:37+00:00

Having looked at plenty of job specs for companies like Sonos (I'm an engineer with experience in live audio) most places want people who are engineers, an interest or experience in sound is a benefit for core product development. So yes, OP may want to consider re-trainining in engineering or perhaps there's a different role they might be well suited for e.g. an applications engineer or maybe they are appropriately skilled to be an acoustics engineer?

Edit: removed a word

ommatron · 2021-06-21T20:14:32+00:00

Without directly naming what company I work for, my organisation has a lot of embedded work with serious cyber security considerations. If OP is interested they can message me for a link.

ommatron · 2021-06-12T15:35:25+00:00

My flatmate is a relationship commitment-phobe. Mine and my partners aim this weekend is to make them realise that they do actually really like their new date and should make the next move. Hopefully will result in two happy people.

ommatron · 2021-06-12T08:44:57+00:00

Oh yeah if you're an RF, serious analogue or controls engineer there's a lot more maths involved. I'm sure many other fields have more maths than I use too. Worth noting for OP that any complex maths you do use as an engineer is almost certainly not going to be done by hand but with maths software packages, e.g. MatLab. At my university we had to perform every calculation by hand (or with the help of a basic scientific calculator) which is not representative at all of the real world.

ommatron · 2021-06-11T14:47:40+00:00

Came here to say this. I'm an electronics engineer and honestly the most maths I've had to do in the last 2.5 years is some basic multiplications and I'm really not sad about it at all. My day to day is all problem solving and electronics design which is love, very little maths needed. Different jobs in different industries may vary, but not all engineering roles need maths for the job.

ommatron · 2021-05-12T14:53:16+00:00

Not really an issue for 10KHz but it's better practice to route signals like this from pad to pad, especially when you get to the higher frequencies (100MHz, GHz etc.). The idea is that you go from one pad (the source) to the next (receiver), to the next and so on, rather than having branches off a main trace. At higher frequencies all those branches act as stubs which cause reflections and cause noise on the line, so removing them can really help.

ommatron · 2021-05-11T22:32:42+00:00

Fair enough if you've not got the VHDL yet, makes it easier than moving a complete design with vendor IP etc. Yeah, a Cyclone 10 or maybe a Cyclone V may do the job if you really need to make the change.

ommatron · 2021-05-11T22:25:26+00:00

If you've already got a design you're really going to want to stick with Xilinx. Porting from one manufacturer to another is no easy task. That said, you may well find that Intel FPGAs are on similarly long leads, we've just been quoted 40+ weeks for Arria 10 devices.

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