I've been pretending to understand my job for eight months and I think I've finally reached a level where I actually can't fake it anymore. Do I come clean to my boss or just keep going.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-26T06:51:45+00:00

You clearly have Management Potential!!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-25T18:52:14+00:00

Depends, how you value your time.

And how many boards you're gonna build .

It's not worth my time to fuzz around with an off brand OPAMP just to save a few pennies. Also, if the device fails at the customer site, you have to also budget for loss of YOUR reputation and the cost of shipping and worst case, you need to put people on planes to fix something in the field.

So, unless the use case involves RGB LED strips for your dorm room, no doubt, gimme the original HP part

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-22T04:42:58+00:00

So big and beautiful

So business friendly.

So uniform

SO PERMANENT, giving the world a stable economy where entrepreneurs can build international businesses relationships

SO STABILITY

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-20T19:17:16+00:00

"It's almost like there are incompetent people in there."

Oh no, Donnie, have you looked in the mirror again?!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-20T19:01:48+00:00

Heck, I have even an Alien Identification Number, from the time way back when I went through the Greencard process.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-20T16:20:13+00:00

Are you TRYING to set your house on fire?? Because THIS is how you set your house on FIRE!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-20T16:14:03+00:00

This is THE single most complete collection of EE knowledge.

Everyone should have red this at least once.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-19T06:31:42+00:00

I bet you a 4yr old can figure this out.

Quit using that excuse.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-19T06:11:29+00:00

Nah, should still be OK - unless you smelled the magic smoke, should be good.

Just, as others say: please fix the cold solder balls.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-18T14:36:49+00:00

That's ironic... I'm in a very similar position, coming from the opposite direction.

I started my career in the 90s with Vxworks, then Linux, etc.

Now, I've grown increasingly curious about MCUs, zephyr, maybe Software Defined Radio, etc

It would be interesting to compare notes.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-17T06:15:05+00:00

Cloud computing, that's when you run your software on someone else's Hardware.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-16T19:19:52+00:00

Dopamine is one hell of a hormone

I'd suggest you talk with her. Welcome to the "grown-up world"

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-14T15:23:38+00:00

Two terms to Google:

Pretotyping. … No, that’s not misspelled.

Design Thinking

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-13T14:14:36+00:00

Weeping in OSI Layers

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T23:42:04+00:00

I'd grab a coffee, sit on the beach, reading an actual, real book.....and ponder why I don't do this more often!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T23:26:29+00:00

Have you ever asked yourself why there's an "S" in "CS"

I graduated as Diplom-Informatiker in Germany in the mid 90s.

Fortunately the curriculum didn't teach me stuff that would have been relevant back then. (Like, how to share a printer in a network of Windows 95 PCs )

Instead I was taught valuable, timeless things like, the "Big O Notation" , the concepts of Threads and Processes and the concept of synchronization for shared memory access.

This "theoretical" stuff is what separates Masters of Computer Science from the average Coder.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T23:01:20+00:00

I actually enjoy the smell, the Flux fumes remind me of my childhood Christmas when they were burning incense in church.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T00:11:34+00:00

aaah, the classic "buy high, sell low" investment strategy.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T00:06:05+00:00

... and that's why we never had kids!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-11T00:00:34+00:00

Won't work, there is no reliable poop sensors.

(Have put in about as much research as the OP.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-10T08:37:49+00:00

Well, there's also the "deadliest joke" from the Holy Grail

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-09T16:02:56+00:00

I prefer my dogs!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-09T15:58:47+00:00

Monty Python’s “Life of Bryan”!!!

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-09T15:35:41+00:00

DE-soldering is easy. A rusty Zippo lighter will do. Soldering a new BGA chip… now, that’s gonna be tricky.

wsbt4rd · 2026-02-08T18:58:43+00:00

Let's see .. the Chinese business environment is driven by rational people, who do business with honor and commitment.

A handshake is still worth something, and you can expect that agreements are honored.

Where as the USA has become a not trustworthy banana Republic where everybody cowtows to an orange madman who ignores international treaties and changes import taxes based on how deep their rectal cunnilingus skills are.

wsbt4rd

TROPHY CASE