This week I'm working with two women who are doing the FPGA for my laser controller. There's drama, but it's all about the logic and the timing.
We (well, I mean I) forgot to provide a good way to production test my
40 MHz triggered oscillator. When it's gated, it only needs to run for
5 cycles. I guess it might manage 10... we'll know later today It runs into their FPGA, so we are trying to invent a way to measure the burst oscillator frequency inside the FPGA. Fun.
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In my team, the drama seems to come from the guys. Testosterone interferes with logic. I think estrogen is a better engineering hormone.
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I think so. Attitude is as important as technical skill, and a lot more obvious. Imagine working with someone whose main interest in life is to generate droning 3rd party insults and cite some silly paper he got published 98 years ago.
He has, or had, some interesting skills that could have turned into some nice consulting business. I suggested how he could market that, but he apparently didn't want to try.
Old guys tend to not get hired through the usual ad/resume/HR/ interview process. But our age and experience and real-electronics skills can be assets as consultants. It's fun and the hourly pay is great.
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Maybe so. In the modern (real) world the emotional reaction of "rage" in response to almost any situation is almost always counterproductive and guaranteed to leave you, as a straight man, in a worse financial/legal/emotional/employment/relationship situation than when you started
I don't see a lot of outright rage. I do see a lot of reasoning being peverted by the macho need to be right in public. In most people, perception and reasoning are both slaves to emotion.
What does "straight" have to do with it? I've had (still have) straight and gay engineers, and they seem to have about the same set of emotions.
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Any potential employer would have had no problem finding out that he had a bad attitude, by simply searching online. Who would hire someone that const antly caused friction for them, and their other employees? Pre-internet a j erk could move to another town where no one knew their history and find wor k. Now it follows you anywhere in the world and maybe the rest of the solar system.
When I first started working, there were a few well known names of locals t hat were unemployable. That was over 50 years ago. It didn't matter what th eir problems were. After a couple times of being fired or laid off, no one wanted them. No one wants to work with a troublemaker, unless they are even worse.
I've never been a gay man so I can't speak to their experience of what happens to them when they get pissed off and punch somebody. Probably not good, either
not even receive a mailed traffic violation notice since they are likely d riving a stolen car or have some sort of felony warrant against them so are not living at the address listed on their license or they would have been arrested by now.
** The fool lives on plant Rob, where everything is just as he imagines it to be - no more and no les.
** Head stuck firmly in the sand, arse up.
Must be one of them rocket scientist / hippie types.
Had one tell me she wanted street lights turned off at night so the local bird population could get some sleep. Dead serious.
I was fired from one job with a DJ gear hire business after two weeks, alon g with my supervisor and a younger tech cos the boss's heavily pregnant mis sus took a strong disliking to us all.
She first stalked the supervisor, watching and misinterpreting his every mo ve, aided and abetted by a teenage female office staffer who would appear s uddenly in the service area - scream at him and then disappear.
One morning, I arrived a tad late without eating breakfast - so I headed to the tea room for a cup of coffee. I was spotted by the missus and ordered to get straight to work. Pointing out to her that I might work better with some coffee in my belly had no effect.
Essential spares like TO220 triacs and xenon flash tubes were kept in the o ffice and doled out by her *one* at a time - but only if you could prove th e need beyond doubt.
The fact that items worked perfectly after replacing said triacs or tubes w as not enough - I was generally expected to repair *customer damaged* items without using any precious spares.
One some days, I completed no work at all cos the boss or his missus kept s hifting me from one task to a different one, at whim. I was then blamed me for being inefficient.
I could go an and on - but you get the idea.
A friend said to me later, after hearing my sad story: " Congratulations Ph il, you lasted two weeks in a job that I would have walked out of on the fi rst day".
** How absurd - one of the many f***ed things about the USA.
** Here we have state police to enforce stare legislation plus Federal police for Commonwealth legislation. No local police.
** Nevertheless, despite Great King Shit Bitrex of SFA* not knowing about it - it happened.
IIRC, some time in the 1980s in California or part thereof.
Was covered on TV news here in Sydney, Australia.
The topic of police "hot pursuits" was hot then here too.
Pushed by the exact same off the planet fuckwits who want illegal drugs made legal, right to vote for school kids, a change to non compulsory voting and reducing the age of consent. We have to fight such narcissistic idiots here too.
Mostly members of the loony, far left Green Party.
John Larkin experiences lack of flattery as a droning 3rd party insult. It would be a neat trick for me - as a 76-year-old - to cite a paper I publish ed 98 years ago.
The paper I published in 1996 now has 24 citations - only two of them mine
- so it probably isn't silly. It was the first in that area to use a sigma- delta A/D converter to get the temperature signal from the voltage drop acr oss the temperature sensor, which is a technique which John Larkin has boas ted about using recently, as if it were some kind of novelty.
John Larkin is a sub-contractor, who solves well-defined problems presented to him by other people. Apparently his typical time to work up a solution and document it is about two weeks.
I can do that, but I'm also a systems engineer, and had two jobs that invol ved working for a couple of years to work up well-defined job requirements that could be presented to sub-contractors to get them to produce solutions that would work for my employers.
I didn't find John Larkin's advice useful. Marketing involves getting yours elf noticed by potential customers, which involves spending money. I could do that, but there's no obvious place where it could be usefully spent.
But you don't get hired as a consultant until people in the business know a bout you. Moving from the UK to the Netherlands to Australia didn't help me there.
Phil Hobbs managed to write a book about his special skills which helps get you known to potential customers, but then again so did Howard Johnson wit h his "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic".
That wouldn't get me the kind of work I like doing.
.e. not at every intersection. Usually they are used at trouble spots.
ofit sharing basis with the local jurisdiction. So the company has little incentive to be accurate, rather they have every incentive to issue summons . There is no police officer reviewing anything. More importantly, there is no accuser to question in court. In fact, in many jurisdictions they do n't even give you a trial, it's a hearing with a review board. In other wo rds, it's guilty until proven innocent.
Then there is the problem of being informed. The owner may not even be the driver and if he doesn't get the notice in the mail (it's not like they ar e sent certified) the fine quadruples.
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Not true. The driver is the one at fault, not the owner. They just assume the two are the same unless you can prove or at least make an official sta tement to the contrary. To make the official statement at least requires t aking a day off and dealing with the hassle of going to a hearing in a very inconvenient location.
Sure, in the real world the vast majority of people caught are the correct person... but not always and in those cases it is very inconvenient to deal with.
If you are pulled over by a cop there is very little uncertainty of who is driving the car.
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One has to wonder what Michael Terrell might imagine would constitute a "go od attitude". Agreeing with idiot posts from Jim Thompson and John Larkin c ould be part of the mix.
r other employees?
Anybody who tried to infer face-to-face social behavior from on-line intera ctions would have to be a bit silly. Some of my previous bosses are still a round, and could testify that I worked for them for years, and spent most o f my time being helpful and cooperative - I do that here too, but Michael T errell doesn't notice.
story and find work. Now it follows you anywhere in the world and maybe the rest of the solar system.
Of course, I'm not actually a jerk.
that were unemployable. That was over 50 years ago. It didn't matter what their problems were. After a couple times of being fired or laid off, no on e wanted them. No one wants to work with a troublemaker, unless they are ev en worse.
I've never been fired. I have been made redundant, but that's a different s ituation. I lost my last job - in Venlo in the Netherlands - because the lo cal rules meant that if I'd stayed in the job for another month, I'd have b een automatically put into the pension scheme, who would have charged my em ployers 65% of my salary to cover the risk that I'd immediately take early retirement (which I could have done under the same local rules).
The Dutch don't think that anybody over 55 should keep on working, and I wa s 60 at the time.
the good reason that it is a serious offence and indicates the driver is h ighly motivated to avoid any police attention.
ences, DUI, wanted on charges, have skipped bail or are driving a stolen ca r.
What??? In serious criminal cases the speeding or other traffic offense is of zero significance. "Well, we can't get him for the bank job, but let's write him up for running that red light... It'll be his third offense so h e'll get 20 years!"
I have no idea what you are talking about "chasing" people.
the one acting with criminal recklessness. Police immediately report their actions to a controller and get approval to continue or break off.
were banned. The crims ran riot knowing they would not be chased or caught , no matter what.
LOL!!! No one in the US "begs" to keep their guns. They have the NRA twis ting Congressional arms to the point of breaking and the gun owners simply say, "Come and get 'em... if you dare".
I don't know what car chase you are talking about... Anyone who is going to run from the cops will not be even getting, much less paying a ticket in t he mail. In general, the cop sounds his siren and the car pulls over. Tic ket is written and all drive off safely. What is going on in your head?
safely.
Great! That's wonderful. Do they get tickets mailed to them as well or do the cops have to chase them?
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The United States discovered an airtight solution to the existential anxiety over nation-states becoming tyrannies - you can't have a tyranny if nobody knows what they're doing.
You can argue about the how universal the logic is that lead to such an overwhelming anxiety in the first place but I think it's hard to argue with the logic of the "solution", such as it is.
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