Driving on the road with humans and highway driving. Humans are remarkably stupid and volatile and yet, by and large, driving is remarkably reliable and safe despit the fact everyone is controlling a 3000+ lb weapon whilr distracted by thoughts and their phones. It blows my mind.
Those poke in connectors are usually just a wedge/V shaped piece of metal that grabs the wire. If the plastic tab broke off you should see the V, stick in a small flat head and twist it until it releases the wire. Oherwise just pressing the button should release it, just jiggle the wire loose, forward and backward while pressing down.
I was not expecting Assembly Row to pop up. My wife used to work for that developer and helped build and open that place. It was way too much work, would not recommend, do not like that property! But I hope the chowder was good :)
C suites are now infested with a circle jerk of MBAs, business minded people who dont understand or care about the product or how its made. MBAs are a plague, let the engineers who know a damn thing sit at the table please...
Live in MA, bought an old crappy house and wanted to upgrade the electric service for heat pumps and go underground. It was a nightmare, took over a year to just convert an existing service to underground because the telephone pole was at the end of its service life and needed to be replaced before it was touched. Power company requested the replacement but Verizon owned it and didn't give a fuck. It was awful, no power, could not move into the house for months while we waited for Verizon to do their job.
Batteries have a logarithmic degradation of capacity, meaning using the quick charge function will cause the capacity to drop about 10-15% really quickly, likely within the first year. So dumping the phone in 3 years is likely right when you hit the shallow part of the curve and the battery stops degrading much.
This. I still keep my old 500mA phone chargers and use them on my phones to be gentle on the battery for slow, overnight charges. I am also a battery expert in my day job...
This is happening in all aspects of consumer electronics. Broad platforms of hardware and software that is cheap enough to meet all the needs then just water it down for the 'cheaper' varieties. The consumer has no attention span so everything has to be fresh and totally new with more features every 1-4 years max. Ita what the consumer demands from complex systems so engineers just need to churn shit out as fast as possible and everyone suffers.
Think of it this way, they will procrastinate long enough to where they won't have full control of the government anymore and perhaps the next generation can teach them a lesson in bootstraps and how to pull them up.
Driving on the road with humans and highway driving. Humans are remarkably stupid and volatile and yet, by and large, driving is remarkably reliable and safe despit the fact everyone is controlling a 3000+ lb weapon whilr distracted by thoughts and their phones. It blows my mind.