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photon_rancher commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars   modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs
Swizec · a month ago
> And how often did you engine break with that ICE car when driving around the city?

Oh all the time. I used to drive like a typical youth. I've been in USA for 10 years now and still hate driving automatics because they shift into too high a gear and then you have to constantly use the brakes. It's annoying.

photon_rancher · a month ago
Most autos have an override to shift manually and engine brake more, hardly ever see people use them except if they tow frequently though.

A lot of CVTs have virtual gears for that even, although others like the prius only have B mode.

photon_rancher commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars   modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs
SR2Z · a month ago
I've never seen a car where the hybrid and pure gas versions have the same size engine; the hybrid engine is almost always lighter and makes less power.
photon_rancher · a month ago
There’s a few luxury cars that use the same or larger engines for the hybrid. Lexus did it with the LS, hybrid 600h had a larger engine (5L) than the gas 460 (4.6L).

Those are super rare though.

photon_rancher commented on More than 50% of Australian voters now rely on government for their main income   afr.com/policy/economy/cu... · Posted by u/cwwc
billy99k · a month ago
If you were in this situation, why would you ever vote to give yourself less money?
photon_rancher · a month ago
There’s always the risk of economic collapse lol
photon_rancher commented on Why top posting has won (2018)   solipsys.co.uk/new/WhyTop... · Posted by u/ColinWright
benoliver999 · 3 months ago
Yeah this is my strategy. The top/bottom post brigade are both happy and email clients seem to handle it well.

It's kind of alarming to me that the default in say gmail is to constantly re-send the original message chain back and forth. I guess it then gives the whole chain to newcomers to the thread?

photon_rancher · 3 months ago
Yeah and it prevents issues if the subject line changes in an unexpected way that confuses the email client, or issues where an email chain goes on for a long period of time but retention policies delete old emails. Etc…
photon_rancher commented on A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory   tomverbeure.github.io/202... · Posted by u/zdw
topspin · 4 months ago
The Thunderscope story had a comment about USB3 sampling as well. Here, you cite "check signal integrity," as a reason. I'm curious. Is USB3 signal integrity really an active area of research or troubleshooting? I would have figured this has all been well characterized and mostly solved by device manufacturers selling working USB3 components by the boat load for years now.
photon_rancher · 4 months ago
The PCB is easy to screw up, so are the cables. And scopes that go that high are expensive but customers expect USB3 even on low volume low cost products so there’s definitely advantages.

There can even just be manufacturing defects the FR4 weave that mess up SI that you might want to check for as a QA step on the assembly line. For hi volume that gets slow or expensive

photon_rancher commented on A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory   tomverbeure.github.io/202... · Posted by u/zdw
formerly_proven · 4 months ago
You mean like a signal added to combat / detect aliasing? I'm not sure how that would work. I know HP did something like this, but they did it by introducing a known jitter into the time base. I don't think it could work by merely adding a signal, you need to interact with the incoming signal in the time domain to do something about aliasing. I have no experience with these older CCD-based ones, but the later TDS'es from the 90s could do aliasing. The time base jitter thing was probably patented by HP.
photon_rancher · 4 months ago
Yeah, this is a well known technique for boosting resolution.

For example: You add a dithering signal which can be processed out. If the signal has the right properties (for example, random but evenly distributed noise bounded to one LSB), you can then average out multiple samples to get more effective resolution than the ADC has. The additional number of bits scales something like 2^n samples, although if you don’t take sufficient samples this mainly just reduces your SNR. It also requires a periodic input.

However you can also pull similar tricks in the time domain or using simultaneous sampling with multiple ADCs. You can also interleave slower ADCs with a phase shift. This produces stitching artifacts unless you average them out though because ADCs generally are not well matched at the limits. You can bin or calibrate this out somewhat if you can characterize the error.

You can do a similar thing in the frequency domain if the ADC sample window is narrow enough but it has arguably the worst artifacts. Lo-pass the first ADC around N/2. The second ADC use a bandpass from N/2 upto N. The third is N upto 3N/2 etc… but the fourier transform will have a bunch of junk at the stitching points.

Or you can take the sampling scope approach using a fast but low sample rate ADC and many triggers.

I’ve seen most of these done on commercial instruments if you dig into the settings. Some of them you can see in normal operation (like the stitching in the frequency domain).

But I think the other poster was suggesting the first case applies - if you think about it there are certain periodic signals you can add instead of a random signal. That has the advantage of limiting SNR degradation and can also be filtered out easier/ detected i n the data.

photon_rancher commented on Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches   github.com/gsuberland/swi... · Posted by u/luu
londons_explore · 4 months ago
Mechanical bouncing should be pretty predictable - ie. A particular bit of metal briefly resonating at a frequency based on the speed of sound in the material.

However, these traces look more chaotic.

Anyone know why?

photon_rancher · 4 months ago
Did some similar testing with an on-off rocker switch for a project last year.

Traces were highly predictable if you pressed it just gently past the detent. But if you did it too slowly (restricting the detent force) or used too much follow through (adding to the detent force) the result was very chaotic. Sometimes you could get the bounce period to extend by 10x if you took enough samples.

And if there’s too much current or other problems i saw decent ground and supply bounce too. That definitely makes it toucher to measure the behavior- in some respects a diff or current probe gave even more interesting results.

photon_rancher commented on Hybrid AC/DC distribution system with a shared neutral (2020)   electrical-engineering-po... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
photon_rancher · 4 months ago
I don’t see a world where this is possibly cheaper than just putting a AC-DC supply at the point of load. Looks like a big safety hazard too.

IDK, but I wouldn’t even want to debug circuits for this thing.

photon_rancher commented on Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that   arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/drpixie
photon_rancher · 4 months ago
This is true for basically any AD windows login. If you log in with an account on a machine on your domain, then take that machine offline and change the password elsewhere- you can login with the old password.

If you instead restore network access after it’s been offline long enough - depending on the exact process it will still accept the old password. Entering the old password isn’t enough to trigger domain check in. However, if I recall correctly entering an incorrect password will cause the login window to hang for 30+ seconds while it attempts to perform such a check in to see if your password changed in the interim. This will usually fail - but not always.

It’s probably bad behavior but it’s probably configurable in the domain settings. But it makes the user experience terrible because logging in gets super slow, because domain syncs in azure/ Active Directory are super slow.

photon_rancher commented on A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)   electricalsafetyworkshop.... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
protimewaster · 4 months ago
If that's the case, wouldn't there be no point in unplugging devices?
photon_rancher · 4 months ago
No, unplugging works because cables are antennas. Power cables being disconnected dramatically reduces the ability for the lightning to couple into the device

The device itself usually has shielding, capacitors, transient suppressors, etc… as well as usually designed to make a poor antenna so on it’s own it will be affected much less than when charging

Surge protectors do work, mind you - but only for weaker storms or pulses coming in from the outside power lines. Just by physically being separated from the final device they are limited in how much they can protect from direct coupling

u/photon_rancher

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