Prcmaker

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by Prcmaker 18d ago
Indeed. It's hard to draw a specific line, but it's been over a decade.
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by Prcmaker 3mo ago
I did some work recently while I was between jobs, designing and assembling camera lenses. It was so fascinating, and satisfying. Strongly disappointed they couldn't afford to pay me to stay.
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by Prcmaker 4mo ago
I'm truly saddened to hear this Cliff, the way you wrote of her in your book showed such relatable affection.
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by Prcmaker 9mo ago
In an old job I spliced a lot of fibre for our research, got the hang of it and got pretty proficient. My research shifted, and I start making sensors using fibre and similarly sized capillary tube. It all got cleaved, spliced to assemble,
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by Prcmaker 9mo ago
Currently doing the finishing touches on a ww2 era surface grinder, closing out a new little design, and ramping my fitness up again. Next up is some duct work, some reverse engineering, and finishing my part of a paper. I haven't had
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
I've somewhat found the opposite. The cycle I've been in is has had a tight grip on my time and attention that's its been hard to keep up with anything not mission critical. Now I'm backing off, I've got time to get
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
I quit my job. Its forced me out of the cycle of 'just a bit more' and made change the only option. Is it the smartest move, likely not, but so far I stand by it.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
A very good synopsis. I recently had the chance to put myself as the intermediate member between those expectations and our technical team. It raised the expectations on me, but helped reduce the unrealistic side of those from impacting my
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
Thanks for your input and your time. A lot to think about. Much appreciated.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
My position is that I've been in a failing start-up for years. Public company, but has burned through all their investment and has reached its ending days spiral. Small amount of equity has declined to be worth next to nothing, passion
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
I guess my only question is how do you keep yourself from going broke while starting these projects. I've a chance to do some great work now, but it would lower my pay beneath what I can live on.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
50% existential crisis, 50% meetings, 50% work a grad should be doing. I've just taken a week off to help extended family with a project, and it's reminded me what a good job is.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
I think you can play, just much harder to get through the end game stage.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
And the means to achieve that destruction. Cockatoos are like flying bolt cutters.
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by Prcmaker 1y ago
Which, in my experience, almost never has any impact on anything.
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
I do this a bunch at home, my setup has also migrated to work. Simple solution made with vinegar, salt and sodium laurel sulphate, then a couple of cheap nickel electrodes. Run current through both to make the nickel acetate, then you'
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Doesn't WiFi AC do beam forming?
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Amongst a couple of guitar builds, I'm reverse engineering a bronze woodworking plane from the 80s/90s, a good friends dad used to make them. It's taken me over a decade to track one down, so I'm hoping to produce a set
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
In my experience, you get labelled as not being a team player.
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Awesome, that sounds like a lot of fun. Good luck to your applicants.
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
I would like to see that happen, however, the current available guidance from FWC is worded very with a vast deal of of flexibility in it, and is highly open to interpretation. A manager may, in theory, decide any person responsible for any
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
With getting no overtime, no time off in lieu, and managers perpetually confusing a 'problem' with an 'emergency', I'm glad to see this happen. If it will actually make a difference though, I'm yet to be convin
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Nice one team, I like it. Anything a remote mech eng can help with? Not looking to be hired, but keen to help with something different.
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Really it's both ways in terms of required current. The thermionic effect requires filament heat, which since being a filament, take some amount of current, often around half an amp, some more some less. A filament could, in theory, be
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
The ones we purchased were made in two different ways. Production ones were made by using a diffraction pattern of UV light to modify the refractive index of the core slightly, the other was using femptosecond lasers to alter it more dramat
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
I've literally never had my ID checked at the gate. Australia and US domestic, Australia to US, Asia, and Europe.
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
I think you made the right choice. You've come up with a great sensor topology. FBGs are good, but there's so much to them that is just infuriating. I ended up late in my optics work spending most of my time finding ways to avoid
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
The perpetual issue with FBGs is cost, in my experience. For quality sensors, you can use cheap fibre with expensive detectors, or cheap detectors with expensive fibre. There's been a perpetual promise of the tech getting cheaper, but
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
Very cool! I used to build sensors similar in construction, but in all glass. Was a great challenge and a lot of fun. I like your spin on things. Well done completing the Phd!
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by Prcmaker 2y ago
100% great suggestion. I found this solution the hard way, by hand, on paper, a few weeks before learning this algorithm already existed. Reminded me that a large percentage of efficient engineering is just knowing what tools you have avail

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