Electrical Engineering

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Yep.

It must be nice to not be burdened by facts or numbers or calculations

I think we should automatically shove everything into the close vote queue and only if it comes out with enough countervotes it gets on the front page

yay... finally broke 10k rep

yeah, the specifications for cigar boxes are difficult to find

Engineering would be a lot easier if weren't for the d*mned customers.

@Zaid I hate when people complain about negativity

@W5VO I imagine a meeting announcement: "We'll do a DRC session on Thursday. Everybody wear fresh socks, please."

two slaves will never work. You always need a master

Hmm... I'd almost rather try to get something working with a built in counter/compare module...

Guys piss or get off the pot, this isn't really aggressive enough of confrontation to be entertaining, give me a more intellectual flavor of entertainment

babys are fun for about 5-10 minutes then it gets old

On bad days I realize that my career has been successive iterations of blinky. Get blinky working with a 555, use a micro, do it over I2C, blinky control with an RTOS, blinky on its own pThread, blinky via TCP, blinky wifi, blinky Bluetooth, blinky RFID.

Stupidity can't be fixed with duct tape, but at least it can muffle the sound...

@PlasmaHH "Doesn't blow up at customer site" is another spec I forgot to mention.

The basic goal of any EE is to find someone who will pay you to do what you would already be doing for free!

So tell me @coding_corgi, what is it like if even you imaginary friends refuse to play with you? :-p

I see the troll is strong in this one.

It's probably a corgi watchdog, you can never stop those things.

I guess @coding_corgi is faster at "copy & paste" than I am at typing "don't try that commmand"

@AnindoGhosh The world always needs more strangeness.

@coding_corgi Who's the good doggie? Are you the good doggie? Yes you are! You are the good doggie!

yay. my first star!

@jippie Now that I've written the answer, you should make it a question.

@CamilStaps @Kortuk doesn't like to be the lowest rep participant in chat.

@angelatlarge The solution is simple.... Don't star everything under the sun, and you won't have a starred comment issue.

Abuse of SPI tradition is a sport. I've worked with a fellow who had a silver medal in abuse of SPI tradition. Analog Devices has a gold medal in abuse of SPI tradition. This sport can be played by a team too.

@W5VO More importantly, an engineer knows when he doesn't know something

@rawbrawb Guy who has a shower in their car == Idiot with convertible in thunderstorm

It would be an honour to receive negative feedback ;)

@rdtsc penultimateelectronicsbook.com domain name is available. almostallaboutcircuits.com is available too. Shall we grab the domains?

Coolest status page ever: eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

@GeorgeHerold Nothing free about having to upload your intellectual property to a website of an owner you don't have a contract with.

Social lives are for lesser mortals.

@NikeDattani yeah that is a whole lot of mis-communication there. I'm sure @VoltageSpike got the wrong idea also. We spend so much time honing critical-thinking skills, that sometimes our critical-listening skills fail us.

@inkyvoyd Other kids in school would know all the car brands by logo, ... I knew all semiconductor brand logo's ;o)

741 makes an adequate "minimum load" for those voltage regulators requiring such.

@W5VO The "in over your head" questions are more fun if they're doing something potentially lethal.

@allquixotic SED, the evolved form of LED (Smoke Emitting Diodes)

Hm, it seems a lot of questions here can be explained by people being home schooled by a mirror...

Speaking of DK, they're making PCBs now: digikey.com/en/resources/dkred

but distributed energy resources, primarily solar, are not going away, and energy storage is going to be a Big Deal for the future, both at domestic and at utility scales

@ShashankVM RF engineering is pretty much always in demand, for one -- power electronics is another big growth market right now, with the grid being in a state of transition from a very centralized, top-down model to something much more decentralized

@ShashankVM focus on analog

so we'll still need hardware folks to glue that analog world to our digital devices, so to speak