That’s the beauty of a well-engineered tool: they last indefinitely if maintained. Hell, certain sections of our defense industry run on machines from before the depression.

That’s not a coincidence.

There’s really no way to measure the path of an electron, the best you could do is take a large number of measurements to generate a “cloud” of a certain shape within which the relative cloud density represents the probability of finding an electron in a location at a given time. The act of taking these measurements…

1G CRX owner here, patently ignoring this fact in hopes that the rust will stop at some point if I leave it alone.

What I just read was: “You should continue to drive cars from the 80s and 90s.”

These are great autocross cars, even though people will laugh at you. This is my ‘87 Si (1G) living life large at the course.

Confirming ‘88 model year for the second gen’s debut.

These cars, despite their reputation for being ricer shitboxes, really are fantastic. Cheap (even in their day), reliable, and a hoot to drive. The second gens were a little more refined (double wishbone, full independent suspension) but for me the first gen ‘Rex will forever be the prototypical Honda hotrod. I’ll…

While that would be fantastic and definitely optimal, such a system would be extremely difficult to implement given several computer scientists, high-quality hardware, and years of development. At this price point, with the ease of use necessitated by consumer products, and with any kind of serious reliability, it is…

Make your grades, love math, despise authority, and stay skeptical.

As a EE+CENG undergrad student this is one of my long-term nightmares :/

This becomes much more funny in the context of embedded wireless communications systems.

Thanks, now I'm having flashbacks to Diff Eq.

Oh to have such topography.

Alternating current or air conditioning? AC caps are just non-polar caps, and work fine for decades. Just look at old speakers, they use an RC filter to split the AC audio signal for the tweeters and woofers. And I've never seen an air conditioning cap fail, though I know it's common. Plus those are usually…

No way man, THAT's pretty simple mechanically. If you want complicated take a look at oldschool film SLRs. The timing mechanisms are minuscule, and control systems for lockouts/selection are completely mechanical. A few I've repaired have even had complex string-and-pulley systems routed throughout the frame to…

True story. A bunch of my buddies have TI-89s that they paid $180 for, and offers no more practical value for our schoolwork than my $30, 25-year-old 68. Good stuff.

Hey! Another TI-68 guy! Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks they're great. Almost indispensable for EE work.

Right? The brake booster on the CRX failed catastrophically (while bleeding, on the stands) after I put a new master cylinder in, so I wound up replacing everything. Pads, soft lines, booster, master, shoe cylinders. The first hard stop afterwards was a religious experience.

Can confirm. Iced-up drums are way worse though. Not only do they not work initially, once they start working decently you've got to keep driving forever to dry them out. Otherwise they just freeze up again. The joys of driving an older vehicle...