Remembering the Honeywell ads which used to frequent Electronic Design:
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Came across this spaghettified **** bodge in another thread. When I really lost it was when I read the follow up post of "I suspect 60-100+ hours before they are fully burnt in" and that they would cause a "...a more expensive sound." <Snort>
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This is a copy paste from eevblog.
A: To protect yourself from DC bias.
Q: What do you say when a robot is broken after a Darlington power transistor failed?
A: The robot has bipolar disorder.
Q: How does an antenna designer solve an impedance matching problem with a Vector Network Analyzer?
A: Taking a moment of reflection.
Q: Why was the electronics manufacturing engineer fired from the job, but later became a successful architect?
A: for creating a lot of bridges.
Q: Why can't investors make a conclusion about the current 5G mobile chipset market?
A: They always get mixed signals.
Q: When do you say when a spy sold you top-secret technical data on x86 processor microarchitectures?
A: Good intel.
Q: What does an impedance analyzer say when you connect a capacitor to it?
A: Is it real or am I just imagining things?
Q: What do you say when a power supply is broken after its electrolytic capacitors have gone bad?
A: The power supply is incapacitated.
Q: What do you say when an engineer from Poland got paid after leading a labor dispute?
A: Dominant-pole compensation.
Q: What do you say when a broken PIN diode switch took down the RF amplifier?
A: No PIN, no gain.
Q: Why did a group of VCs refuse to invest in a startup company which is trying to build a new CPU?
A1: Too much RISC.
A2: Because it costs an ARM and a Lag.
Q: Why is it slow to send data over a serial port?
A: You have to go bit by bit.
Q: What do you say when your power supply supports remote sensing for cable voltage drop compensation?
A: Resistance is futile.
Q: What do you call when ham radio operators on the shortwave are talking about things to sell for hamfest?
A: High Frequency Trading.
Q: What do you say when people are talking about control theory and you don't understand anything?
A: I'm out of the loop.
Q: Why did the Analog Devices CEO power up a 7805 breadboard before purchasing Linear Technology?
A: The acquisition must be approved by the regulators.
Q: Why does the NIST have a large supply of Doublemint in its physics labs?
A: All measurement uncertainty must be calculated according to the GUM.
Q: What does an RF amplifier do after it's destroyed by an output open circuit by some clueless maintenance crew?
A: Suing for wrongful termination.
Q: What do you say when you're searching for a high-voltage circuit, and finally found a suitable design that looks promising?
A: It has a big potential!
Q: When the '\a' character on your Unix terminal doesn't beep, where is the best place to find an expert to solve your problem?
A: Bell Labs.
Q: Why did an embedded programmer rewrite a 100-line loop and joined them as a 10000-character single line in C?
A: The book said reducing loop area is the key to control electromagnetic interference.
Q: How do you describe the fact that low-side current sensing at ground is easier than high-side current sensing?
A: It's common sense.
Q: Why should you never allow an RF/microwave technician to test your embedded system?
A: Your system will get de-embedded.
Q: What does a motherboard designer say when the deadline is near but a high-speed signal problem caught them in surprise and the CPU is not working?
A: "Oh DDR!"
Q: What do you call when you have a lot of 7400 chips but you refuse to give or sell them to someone else?
A: Gatekeeping.
Q: What do you say when a buggy device keeps generating spurious interrupts, says something is there, but every time the CPU went to process it, there's nothing, and a lot of system resources is wasted?
A: The IRQ War.
Q: Why is the production of the BIOS chips delayed?
A: ROM wasn't build in a day.
Q: What do you say when an amplifier has unwanted lag in the feedback loop, but you still get some phase margin left?
A: instability can be a problem, but only to a lesser degree.
Q: What do you say when your Tektronix oscilloscope is broken, and it cannot be fixed on site so you'll have to live without the scope in the following days?
A: You have a "Teknical" problem, and your problem is "out of scope".
Q: What do electronics engineers do when they are asked to reproduce a software bug that crashes the system only after a 100-day uptime?
A: Placing it in an oven, heating it up to 125 degrees, and then apply Arrhenius Equation to it.
Q: What do you say when a purchase order of rigid coax cables gets delayed due to supply-chain difficulties, but the company insists the vendor to deliver it on time and refuses to renegotiate the terms?
A: "We are taking a hard-line stance on this problem!"
Q: A PCB designer spent a lot of time on optimization, eventually, even all the right-angle bends are carefully mitered to preserved the characteristic impedance. But the customer rejected the finished product, why?
A: "Look at the circuit board! See? They are cutting corners!"
A: To protect yourself from DC bias.
Q: What do you say when a robot is broken after a Darlington power transistor failed?
A: The robot has bipolar disorder.
Q: How does an antenna designer solve an impedance matching problem with a Vector Network Analyzer?
A: Taking a moment of reflection.
Q: Why was the electronics manufacturing engineer fired from the job, but later became a successful architect?
A: for creating a lot of bridges.
Q: Why can't investors make a conclusion about the current 5G mobile chipset market?
A: They always get mixed signals.
Q: When do you say when a spy sold you top-secret technical data on x86 processor microarchitectures?
A: Good intel.
Q: What does an impedance analyzer say when you connect a capacitor to it?
A: Is it real or am I just imagining things?
Q: What do you say when a power supply is broken after its electrolytic capacitors have gone bad?
A: The power supply is incapacitated.
Q: What do you say when an engineer from Poland got paid after leading a labor dispute?
A: Dominant-pole compensation.
Q: What do you say when a broken PIN diode switch took down the RF amplifier?
A: No PIN, no gain.
Q: Why did a group of VCs refuse to invest in a startup company which is trying to build a new CPU?
A1: Too much RISC.
A2: Because it costs an ARM and a Lag.
Q: Why is it slow to send data over a serial port?
A: You have to go bit by bit.
Q: What do you say when your power supply supports remote sensing for cable voltage drop compensation?
A: Resistance is futile.
Q: What do you call when ham radio operators on the shortwave are talking about things to sell for hamfest?
A: High Frequency Trading.
Q: What do you say when people are talking about control theory and you don't understand anything?
A: I'm out of the loop.
Q: Why did the Analog Devices CEO power up a 7805 breadboard before purchasing Linear Technology?
A: The acquisition must be approved by the regulators.
Q: Why does the NIST have a large supply of Doublemint in its physics labs?
A: All measurement uncertainty must be calculated according to the GUM.
Q: What does an RF amplifier do after it's destroyed by an output open circuit by some clueless maintenance crew?
A: Suing for wrongful termination.
Q: What do you say when you're searching for a high-voltage circuit, and finally found a suitable design that looks promising?
A: It has a big potential!
Q: When the '\a' character on your Unix terminal doesn't beep, where is the best place to find an expert to solve your problem?
A: Bell Labs.
Q: Why did an embedded programmer rewrite a 100-line loop and joined them as a 10000-character single line in C?
A: The book said reducing loop area is the key to control electromagnetic interference.
Q: How do you describe the fact that low-side current sensing at ground is easier than high-side current sensing?
A: It's common sense.
Q: Why should you never allow an RF/microwave technician to test your embedded system?
A: Your system will get de-embedded.
Q: What does a motherboard designer say when the deadline is near but a high-speed signal problem caught them in surprise and the CPU is not working?
A: "Oh DDR!"
Q: What do you call when you have a lot of 7400 chips but you refuse to give or sell them to someone else?
A: Gatekeeping.
Q: What do you say when a buggy device keeps generating spurious interrupts, says something is there, but every time the CPU went to process it, there's nothing, and a lot of system resources is wasted?
A: The IRQ War.
Q: Why is the production of the BIOS chips delayed?
A: ROM wasn't build in a day.
Q: What do you say when an amplifier has unwanted lag in the feedback loop, but you still get some phase margin left?
A: instability can be a problem, but only to a lesser degree.
Q: What do you say when your Tektronix oscilloscope is broken, and it cannot be fixed on site so you'll have to live without the scope in the following days?
A: You have a "Teknical" problem, and your problem is "out of scope".
Q: What do electronics engineers do when they are asked to reproduce a software bug that crashes the system only after a 100-day uptime?
A: Placing it in an oven, heating it up to 125 degrees, and then apply Arrhenius Equation to it.
Q: What do you say when a purchase order of rigid coax cables gets delayed due to supply-chain difficulties, but the company insists the vendor to deliver it on time and refuses to renegotiate the terms?
A: "We are taking a hard-line stance on this problem!"
Q: A PCB designer spent a lot of time on optimization, eventually, even all the right-angle bends are carefully mitered to preserved the characteristic impedance. But the customer rejected the finished product, why?
A: "Look at the circuit board! See? They are cutting corners!"
Hmmm… same vehicle and my wife is forever using some dog reference when speaking about me…
How did she get in there and how does she get out? There is no way I can picture it that would be worth the trouble.
That lady doesn't look strong enough to lift her up and set her in there. And if someone was strong enough to lift her in and out they wouldn't get her legs under that flap like that.
Based on the way she is in there I'd guess that someone held the flap up and she crawled in but how is someone strong and limber enough to get in there and spin around to sit upright but not able/willing to walk?
Or..... did they put her in there when she was 7 and she's always been in there?
Likely she raises the gate just a little after the groceries are out and slides out the back.
Anyone with kids knows it.
Or my kids at least.
Anyone with kids knows it.
Or my kids at least.
I'm just thinking that for someone that age (and much taller than a kid) to 'slide out the back' seems like a pretty impressive maneuver.
Add to that the climbing in, the getting up off the ground after she 'slides out' and that is a lot of effort to avoid walking.
Maybe living on a diet of steak and soda is the secret.
Add to that the climbing in, the getting up off the ground after she 'slides out' and that is a lot of effort to avoid walking.
Maybe living on a diet of steak and soda is the secret.
a few that I enjoy.
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While my wife no longer routinely carries a purse, she generally has at least 3 open at a time: winter hiking jacket pocket, summer jacket pocket, car storage bin, bedside table.
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Almost had to do this when I installed a little sound bar for my 90yr old mom; the ten year old Philips TV is still good enough picture for her, but is proof that early HDMI ARC /CEC equipped models were not the paradigm of robust connectivity, so she needs the second remote for volume.
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I was trying to figure out why this struck home for me and showed it to my wife…….she said ‘thats what you look like reading the world news’ !
I hadn't seen the owl or the Spork before.
All of those are great, Dave. Classics, especially the tire one.
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That was me when the mother of our newborn said: 'that wasn't coffee creamer'
I'm thinking of doing this for my wife.
We've had the same TV and sound system since 2010 and she still fumbles around with the buttons on the remote, complaining about it doesn't work when the problem is she just starts pushing buttons. Her 90 year-old mother is even worse...