OT genetics

Most of that is probably early family life, conditioning and neurosis.

The cilantro thing is known to be genetic.

Not enough research has been done on mayo.

I'd have thought a common gene for such diverse flavours to be very unlikely. I find mayo quite acceptable, if rather bland. Cilantro (called coriander elsewhere) has a taste which I'm not keen on. I'll tolerate it, but I'd rather it isn't there as it tends to overpower any other flavour in a dish. I do like coriander seeds, though.

OT? Is it EVER!

RL

Coriander is the seed - cilantro the leaf.

RL

Around here, kids expect sushi, thai, cantonese, Indian, Hawaiian, cajun, bacon, tofu, pizza, and fish sticks.

Design any cool electronics lately?

I'm doing power dummy loads that simulate impedances, but I can't discuss that in detail.

I've seen people use a simple relay and resistor to load a power rail down at power off. The relay drops out and connects a resistor which doesn't have to be a very high power resistor because it's only connected for a short time. This does have the issue that the resistor is connected at power on until the relay energizes.

There's a yeast extract spread in the UK called Marmite which completely divides people over its taste. Research has shown that there *is* a genetic component which determines whether individuals love it or hate it. So I'd not be the least surprised if John's experience is also governed by genes.

Shame. Sounds interesting.

I can imagine a simple circuit that turns a mosfet on for a second when power goes away.

I sometimes use depletion fets across a power rail, to make a linear discharge with modest dissipation. An LED in the drain is fun.

What's embarassing is that I discovered the circuit by accident, fiddling in Spice, and I still don't really understand it.

I guess, as an engineer, I don't have to understand it, I just have to make it work.

There are lots of companies who make R+L load boxes by switching real resistors and inductors with relays. Most are forklift portable. The really big ones dump the incoming power back into the AC line somehow.

So long as it's in phase there should be no issues in doing this, I'd imagine? Anyway, you can't discuss it for perfectly understandable reasons, so I won't ask any stoopid questions.

Not on this side of the pond. The word "cilantro" is almost unused here, other than it's been picked up from internet searches. We'd just use "coriander leaf".

There are a handful of compounds for which there seems to be a clear single genetic variation that determines if you can taste it or not or if it seems unpleasant. Mostly they are on the bitter receptors. Which is relevant to "cilantro" (sic) which in the ROW is called coriander.

A certain amount of scrambling of some unlucky people's sense of taste and smell occurred due to Covid infections which apparently did something nasty to the nerve endings or receptors in the nose.

Mayonnaise is more about the texture and mouthfeel than anything else.

One of the weirdest taste sensations is shiso leaf (perilla in the mint family) with sushi/sashimi in Japan that actually tastes like a smell.

Highly unlikely. The known ones that are probably single gene mutations are extremely specific to a very narrow class of compounds like the one that makes sprouts taste incredibly bitter to some people, and likewise for Warfarin (in humans and in rats).

I could tell that I had Covid before I took the test to confirm because it didn't smell right for a common cold. I was lucky my sense of smell remained unharmed. Some professional chefs were very unlucky with it.

The only kind of 'load' that's 'cool' is one that recovers energy to the source. Loads that are cheap, disposable and commonly used will be thrown together from off the shelf crap drawing on HVAC catalog parts and operated by meat puppets on the production floor, long after the 'designer' blows his head off in an off-season motel room.

You may not have noticed it, with your mouth on the govt. military tit, but light mfring in North America has been in the toilet for >30 yrs. New product development followed mfring, off-shore; their domestic hulks stripped for assets and property values by pointy heads that, having got the value out and loaned it back to us, three times over, are playing Barbie with the political body.

I suppose there's at least some compensation; that you can keep your kids and a few grads employed in your dotage.

If the chinese are going to make it, then that's where the new designs should be going, so we don't end up buried in electronic kibble. You can put 300% tarrifs on chinese stuff and the ticket value will still be half that of local produce.

We all spin our own legends, to some extent. Having no access to silicon fab, I've pretty much given up on normally-off self-driven synchronous rectifiers. There's always something that needs fixing around the neighborhood, or somebody building stuff around second- hand chinese batteries.

Lately I've been working on a digital version of a vanity publication (Y2K) covering cooperative beekeeping and honey marketing organization/development in the '30s and '40s. Cooperatives tend to get targeted by 'free enterprise' money - few have survived. In the 30's, there were gov't. departments (2-man) who's job it was to assist in their development, as the then-current system was basically beating primary producers to death.

Perhaps similar thinking could be applied to secondary industries.

Beekeeping itself is facing major threats from many different directions these days, none of which are relevant in SED.

Genetically determined preference for mayonaise? Give us a break.

RL

Waning traffic on this forum simply reflects that lack of involvement.

Yes, an inductive or capacitive load has to at least pretend to return energy it got from the customer. A good inductor simulator has to do that, and tolerate bipolar PWM inputs, and behave like a real inductor to diode or zener clamped flybacks.

Don't be a jerk. All sorts of people buy our stuff.

, but light mfring in North America has been in

Jerk.

And of civility. Hint hint.

When I think about it, there weren't many projects I worked on after 1909 that didn't involve government money. That at least covered my hours - a lot of record keeping under a program with an acronym, as I recall ~ SRED.

Don't know that customers for the final product had any similar advantage. Careful separation of 'research' from (gasp) manufacturing.

Sorry. I try to keep my mouth shut most of the time, but it was failing to maneuver transformation into an 'employer' role some years ago that really pointed out the generational differences showing up in the industry.

I envy anypne who managed it. Driving a single desk/bench is kid's stuff.

Holding hands under the moon in June never got product out the door on time and under budget.

RL

Storage shouldn't be an issue, but that and return delivery will be lass efficient that the real thing, which could inevitably reflect on size. It's surface temperature rize that determines this on the real inductor, too, so . . .

Which isn't saying it won't weigh less.

The difference in efficiency will determine how much juice has to be drawn from an external source, for steady state.

Loads are ~infrastructure. The important thing is that the product that's actually being tested/stressed sees a realistic and effective environment.

Rl