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Edit: Increased the irony a bit.

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[T3sl4co1l]

Mehdi tax


Tim

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[KL27x]

Some say engineers don't have sense of humor.









This thread does not disprove it.
 

[I wanted a rude username]

All it's showing so far is that I don't have a sense of humour. 😅

But I set myself a goal of creating ten on-topic memes, and no amount of rotten tomatoes will stay me from the swift completion of this appointed task.

[I wanted a rude username]

[wraper]

I guess Australian engineers had a good laugh while designing this.

[Pinkus]

This certainly applies to Rigol. 

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[T3sl4co1l]

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[Monkeh]

I guess Australian engineers had a good laugh while designing this.

The penis tank is my favourite place to hang out at Bovington. You need to see that thing up close to grasp how big it is.

[I wanted a rude username]

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[I wanted a rude username]

Well, I'm spent. Let's see how you like some random ones from the intertubes.

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[T3sl4co1l]

Not just a meme, but some info as well:

https://imgur.com/gallery/M1S0DbI

[T3sl4co1l]

On a more serious/neato note: https://gfycat.com/greedyoptimisticcuttlefish

[eti]

Some say engineers don't have sense of humor.









This thread does not disprove it.
 

Engineering bent + austism (often) = takes oneself far too seriously, and really needn't

[wraper]

https://aliexpress.com/item/33028839359.html

[I wanted a rude username]

Edit: Restored from mirror.

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[Ed.Kloonk]

The penis tank is my favourite place to hang out at Bovington. You need to see that thing up close to grasp how big it is.

That's what she said!

[Berni]

Source: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg1860912/#msg1860912

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[Ed.Kloonk]

I must be bi-polar!

 

[Mr. Scram]

What the hell is that?!

[xrunner]

[Ed.Kloonk]

 

[schmitt trigger]

Subscribing to thread

[Someone]

[Someone]

[Someone]

[Someone]

[jhpadjustable]

[A Hellene]

I guess that this would be a good time for the regular, all-time-classic, 555-ish trolling...

Who would really need a microcontroller, even of a sub-nanosecond machine cycle one (yet, don't fool yourselves; almost nobody programs in .ASM nowadays --so you certainly can kiss that sub-nanosecond machine cycle flow goodbye!), after the introduction of that legendary 555?

Long live the NE555N timer IC (and the year 1971)!
Long live the Real Men, still proudly going on programming in assembly language or straight in machine code!*

-George


[ * ]: Fooled ya! :-P

[Bud]

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That is a good one   

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

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That is a good one   

Who is that "Bob"?

[A Hellene]

Who is that "Bob"?

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the homonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

-George

Edit: Grammar...

[xrunner]

Who is that "Bob"?

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the omonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

-George

[A Hellene]

Yes, this was definitely him!
Thanks, xrunner!

And, along with Bob Pease's office, above, this was his famous signature (clearly visible and comprehensible, in the very last page of that document)!

You see, we should never expect a real engineer to be acting as a used car salesman, for example, because of their radically different mind-sets!...

-George

[I wanted a rude username]

Bob Pease's office

Thanks, now I feel slightly better about the state of my workspace ...

[Ed.Kloonk]

Bob Pease's office

Thanks, now I feel slightly better about the state of my workspace ...

Once you master the art of stacking, eBay is the vehicle for filling every last cubic inch. The only impediment is your own imagination.

It's like stacking playing cards.

[gibbled]

Well now we've got to have a picture of Jim Williams bench...

[Ed.Kloonk]

Well now we've got to have a picture of Jim Williams bench...

The picture of him sitting in front of the bench is better. The look on his face... "wut?"

[jhpadjustable]

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the homonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

Both of those Bobs did their famous work at (the late) National Semiconductor. For Linear Tech you might be thinking of the (also late) Jim Williams. In fact, burying Williams was the last thing Pease did before his fatal car crash. All is otherwise correct.

Pease had colorfully ranted not just once about the deficiencies and disutility of SPICE simulation. Thence, the Ceiling Bob meme.

[Ed.Kloonk]

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the homonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

Both of those Bobs did their famous work at (the late) National Semiconductor. For Linear Tech you might be thinking of the (also late) Jim Williams. In fact, burying Williams was the last thing Pease did before his fatal car crash. All is otherwise correct.

Pease had colorfully ranted not just once about the deficiencies and disutility of SPICE simulation. Thence, the Ceiling Bob meme.

Pease wrote an ironic book about avoiding car crashes. 

[A Hellene]

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the homonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

Both of those Bobs did their famous work at (the late) National Semiconductor. For Linear Tech you might be thinking of the (also late) Jim Williams. In fact, burying Williams was the last thing Pease did before his fatal car crash. All is otherwise correct.

Pease had colorfully ranted not just once about the deficiencies and disutility of SPICE simulation. Thence, the Ceiling Bob meme.

I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing that out.

-George

[schmitt trigger]

In the autumn of 1996, I went to Santa Clara for an interview at National semi.

After I had completed a full day of interviews, the last interviewer asked me if I had any questions.
I said that I would like to see Bob Pease’s office. The interviewer mentioned that it was one of the most popular requests for the National Semi visitors.

I can tell you that attempting to capture that awesome mess in a photo, is like attempting to capture the Grand Canyon’s grandeur in a photo.
You simply can’t.

[xrunner]

[Cerebus]

That made me actually laugh out loud.

[I wanted a rude username]

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[T3sl4co1l]

GATEARRAYED! IT'S FULL OF ELECTROLYTEICS!








Some customers like conformal coating on their boards. I prefer formal coating.






Me, not really, but maybe.






Worf, son of Moog


First day of EE class and your professor be like



MOOLTISIM

[babysitter]

@Dave: Time to elect a official eevblog memelord soon.

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[Black Phoenix]

I had a physics teacher that said exactly that. Some years ago someone asked during a class why we can't have a test with the help of the internet. Some people jumped in the bandwagon of the initial idea.

The teacher just replied, "If all of you want, we can have, but it will not help, I will choose questions tailored to be hard to search for solutions. Just because the tests without consultation have questions you can easily use the notebook to solve them, that doesn't mean that said "internet consultation" test will have the same level of questions."

After she finished we could listen the silence in the classroom. The proposal were dismissed. Remember we are talking about the late 90s, early 2000, the years of the Internet Boom were everyone who were young think that the Internet had solution for everything, just shy away of a search in Altavista or Yahoo.

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

Many people even with the textbook wouldn't pass a physics exam. Other matters are different, history for example, you don't have to understand a thing only memorize. But physics... if you don't understand it there's no way.

[xrunner]

[Ed.Kloonk]

That's how Jeffery Epstein killed him self!




 

 

[rsjsouza]

I can't believe that Bob's poster wasn't yet shown

[T3sl4co1l]

What's on Dave's mantle?

Tim

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

I can't believe that Bob's poster wasn't yet shown

 

[Mr. Scram]

Many people even with the textbook wouldn't pass a physics exam. Other matters are different, history for example, you don't have to understand a thing only memorize. But physics... if you don't understand it there's no way.

History requires no understanding? You must've had terrible history teachers. 

[Cerebus]

Many people even with the textbook wouldn't pass a physics exam. Other matters are different, history for example, you don't have to understand a thing only memorize. But physics... if you don't understand it there's no way.

History requires no understanding? You must've had terrible history teachers. 

He's too busy repeating it, that he hasn't the time to stop and understand it! 

[T3sl4co1l]

[Echo88]

[Cyberdragon]

Only if it's been abused. Roundies are pretty naughty but Allen-Bradleys are pretty reliable.

[Doom-the-Squirrel]

That's the best holiday meme ever!

[T3sl4co1l]

coppercone: i need that drink because the power supply made me so mad

You left IRC just before I finished, so, enjoy it here:



Tim

[T3sl4co1l]

A more EEVBlog-topical meme,

[daqq]

Not meme, but funny screenshot...

So, looking for images for Vicor, google suggested great alternatives.

And according to farnell, Xilinx will be rolling out their two pin FPGAs some time soon.

[T3sl4co1l]

[Ed.Kloonk]

Caption this..

[Psi]

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[SeanB]

Not likely though, common faults will mean you have a lot of stuff that never fails, and the few known failures affect all of them.

[Mr. Scram]

It's the yearly time travel convention.

[free_electron]

Who is that "Bob"?

He was the (late) Linear Technology's (late) Bob Pease, a by all means real engineer, along with the also late Bob Widlar, the inventor of the homonymous current source/mirror and a pioneer of the bandgap voltage reference.

-George

Edit: Grammar...

BLASPHEMY !! Bob was National Semiconductors. Jim Williams was Linear Technology.

[free_electron]

It's the yearly time travel convention.

The next time travel convention will be held last week ...

[Refrigerator]

I quite like greentext so here's my attempt at one 

Future smart roads could play music, generate electricity and charge cars while driving
As electric vehicles become commonplace, 'electrified roads' that charge vehicles automatically have captured the government's attention
By Rhiannon Williams
Wednesday, 22nd January 2020, 8:03 am

>be me
>driving on the new solar road because future
>suddenly the sun comes from behind the clouds
>the road surface reflects the sun and blinds me
>car veers off the road
>in a hasty attempt I try to correct
>car loses traction due to glass-like surface
>as the car spins out the wheels catch on the already delaminating panels
>car starts flipping over and over further smashing the already broken panels
>as the car comes to a stop the panel beneath it shorts out and catches fire
>there's no escape as the car is too mangled
>as I breathe my last breath the panels start playing music
>it's Cardi B
>Solar Freakin' Musical Roadways

[Mr. Scram]

The next time travel convention will be held last week ...

I'm slightly disappointed no one commented on a yearly time travelling convention.

[Ed.Kloonk]

The next time travel convention will be held last week ...

I'm slightly disappointed no one commented on a yearly time travelling convention.

Next year's one was a blast.

[I wanted a rude username]

Either that or the requirements were bad.

[magic]

Tell me that this is a shop

[I wanted a rude username]

Haha, nope! Found it on this AliExpress listing in July.

Needless to say, I did not buy this model ... but two people have.

[Cyberdragon]

Looks like somebody made some spaghet'.

[T3sl4co1l]

Knees weak, soldering iron heavy
traces on the board already, mom's spaghetti

[HwAoRrDk]

[Mr. Scram]

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I think it goes without saying, but his posts are appreciated!

[T3sl4co1l]

[HwAoRrDk]

[Wolfgang]

I had a physics teacher that said exactly that. Some years ago someone asked during a class why we can't have a test with the help of the internet. Some people jumped in the bandwagon of the initial idea.

The teacher just replied, "If all of you want, we can have, but it will not help, I will choose questions tailored to be hard to search for solutions. Just because the tests without consultation have questions you can easily use the notebook to solve them, that doesn't mean that said "internet consultation" test will have the same level of questions."

After she finished we could listen the silence in the classroom. The proposal were dismissed. Remember we are talking about the late 90s, early 2000, the years of the Internet Boom were everyone who were young think that the Internet had solution for everything, just shy away of a search in Altavista or Yahoo.

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

[Nominal Animal]

His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

What, nobody asked the professor how much he weighs?

Oops, language failure.  Anything.  I forgot other languages usually exclude people when they use thing.  Nevermind..

[Wolfgang]

I'm afraid bring personnel was not allowed

[Nominal Animal]

(In colloquial Finnish, the pronoun it is used for both people and things, so a Finnish-speaking professor would have had to explicitly say "books" or "things but not people".  I love this aspect of Finnish.  It is also a huge opportunity for dad jokes.)

[petert]

Many people even with the textbook wouldn't pass a physics exam. Other matters are different, history for example, you don't have to understand a thing only memorize. But physics... if you don't understand it there's no way.

History requires no understanding? You must've had terrible history teachers. 

He's too busy repeating it, that he hasn't the time to stop and understand it! 

Funniest of all thread so far.

[petert]

(In colloquial Finnish, the pronoun it is used for both people and things, so a Finnish-speaking professor would have had to explicitly say "books" or "things but not people".  I love this aspect of Finnish.  It is also a huge opportunity for dad jokes.)

In German you could also say "alles was Beine hat" (everything that has legs)  to mean people or animals. And while you would say "alles und jeden" (everything and everyone) to be more precise, the German word "all" really is generic and not limited to things.

[BravoV]

USA 1st ...

[HwAoRrDk]

[Refrigerator]

(Attachment Link)

Where would Kreosan sit?

[HwAoRrDk]

With apologies to forum user K6EEP from whom I borrowed the photo.

[HwAoRrDk]

[Psi]

You think people get upset when you burn books.
Just imagine how they will feel when people wipe their butts with 1st editions of literature art

[HwAoRrDk]

[bsfeechannel]

[I wanted a rude username]

NOAA N-PRIME Mishap Investigation Final Report

[wraper]

https://pikabu.ru/story/maska_chumnogo_itshnika_7385792

[HwAoRrDk]

[EmmanuelFaure]

[HwAoRrDk]

[T3sl4co1l]

[I wanted a rude username]

> Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;​)
—Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi

[T3sl4co1l]

When I'm making YET ANOTHER prototype out of copper clad:



Tim

[HwAoRrDk]

Edit to add: by the way, there is actually code embedded in that image file.

[HwAoRrDk]

Inspired by a comment from coppercone2 on forum thread from video #1323.

[Cerebus]

[Fx: claps] Oh well played sir, well played.

[rsjsouza]

This one is absolutely epic! Dave as "clippy"

[Chris42]

Someone has to make this into a real program. Preferably with real voice.

[tom66]

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

It may be a myth, but didn't a student bring Richard Feynman into one of his exams, because he fit (stood) on a single sheet of A4 paper?  (You can bring anything in that fits on a single sheet of A4.)

[Berni]

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

It may be a myth, but didn't a student bring Richard Feynman into one of his exams, because he fit (stood) on a single sheet of A4 paper?  (You can bring anything in that fits on a single sheet of A4.)

From what i heard about Feynmans amusing personality it does sound like something he would actually do for a joke.

[T3sl4co1l]

The famous board improvement specialist Bob Via.

Tim

[Cerebus]

[Fx: Lets out a "just heard a dad joke" groan.]

[T3sl4co1l]

Related: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=1188.0

Tim

[T3sl4co1l]

On a more wholesome note -- Dave's reaction when he gets more beverage-related swag:



Tim

[basinstreetdesign]

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

It may be a myth, but didn't a student bring Richard Feynman into one of his exams, because he fit (stood) on a single sheet of A4 paper?  (You can bring anything in that fits on a single sheet of A4.)

From what i heard about Feynmans amusing personality it does sound like something he would actually do for a joke.

Even back in the 70's when I was at uni, a story was making the rounds about an undergrad class that was told that any student could bring in ANYTHING to the final exam that he/she could carry.  So one guy carried a post-grad friend in on his back.  The proctors felt stuck and allowed it.  The student passed.

[Berni]

Even back in the 70's when I was at uni, a story was making the rounds about an undergrad class that was told that any student could bring in ANYTHING to the final exam that he/she could carry.  So one guy carried a post-grad friend in on his back.  The proctors felt stuck and allowed it.  The student passed.

Id imagine an asterisk about bringing in people was added to that rule next year.

I never heard of any of those stories here, but there was a lot of variability to what you could bring on an exam. From "only a pen" up to "here use this laptop for matlab". If they didn't allow A4 notes then i loaded up my fancy TI Nspire calculator with notes (It could hold a whole text book worth of word document-ish text, while the crappy horrible contrast LCD meant nobody could see it from any sort of distance). They did say i can bring a calculator, so i did.

[babysitter]

Suddenly, this should be pushed a bit?

[babysitter]

[I wanted a rude username]

Suddenly, this should be pushed a bit?

It's going to be more true every year for at least the next decade. 

[niconiconi]

Devices with built-in USB-to-serial adapters be like...

[Berni]

Devices with built-in USB-to-serial adapters be like...

Yep just bought a cheap programable PSU today and plugging it into USB guess what it shown up as.... COM3

[niconiconi]

When you cannot remember your LDO's pinout... Not a problem at all in CAD, but a real headache on perfboards...

[Ed.Kloonk]

[I wanted a rude username]

[AntiProtonBoy]

ok that one was reasonably clever

[MadTux]

[bsfeechannel]

The 10x engineer

[T3sl4co1l]

ANIME IS REAL!!!

Ref:

Tim

[Ed.Kloonk]

The 10x engineer

As someone who owns a Samsung Galaxy 8, after see that, I'm not even mad.

[oPossum]

[I wanted a rude username]

Meme credit: Rajesh Nayak. Watch by Jharwin Barrozo.

[Whales]

A lot of these are most excellent

Do we have any good product/category comparison memes?  I'm sure we can fuel some good rivalry in ARM v ARM or AVR v 8051.

EDIT: finding original source is hard, this has been reposted quite a bit.

[bsfeechannel]

[daqq]

I'd love to be the one to explain what 'thermally reconfigured' means on a test report.

[I wanted a rude username]

[Syntax Error]

If you know the movie reference you'll know just how life is imitating art. Otherwise you'll just be left wiping your (corona) feverish brow.

[bsfeechannel]

I may be wrong, but that kind of meme has the potential of inviting the angel of thread death.

[I wanted a rude username]

Yeah, Syntax Error, get with the programme. 



Heh, "ravish a population" ...

Also, exploitable image template attached for your editing pleasure.

[Someone]

Yeah, Syntax Error, get with the programme. 

Well played.

[Ed.Kloonk]

The world is flat. And we never went to the moon.

Change my mind.

[Ed.Kloonk]

[magic]

Change my mind.

Corrective Truth Implants coming soon

[Simon]

No actually don't, that's when it stops working.

[magic]

A popular comic on how programmers actually create software.
Maybe not only programmers

[Ed.Kloonk]

A popular comic on how programmers actually create software.
Maybe not only programmers

hehehe

A modern take on was hanging up on the office wall when Moses was a boy.

[Simon]

I had a physics teacher that said exactly that. Some years ago someone asked during a class why we can't have a test with the help of the internet. Some people jumped in the bandwagon of the initial idea.

The teacher just replied, "If all of you want, we can have, but it will not help, I will choose questions tailored to be hard to search for solutions. Just because the tests without consultation have questions you can easily use the notebook to solve them, that doesn't mean that said "internet consultation" test will have the same level of questions."

After she finished we could listen the silence in the classroom. The proposal were dismissed. Remember we are talking about the late 90s, early 2000, the years of the Internet Boom were everyone who were young think that the Internet had solution for everything, just shy away of a search in Altavista or Yahoo.

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

Our electronics exam when i was in Italy allowed us to bring the standard electronics manual that the library had enough of for one por last year student. Thing is no one could understand it.

My boss seems to think you can "just" look stuff up on the internet.

[HwAoRrDk]

[I wanted a rude username]

The superlative decapping and analysis which presumably inspired the above meme makes for fascinating reading.

> The 8271 has exceeded our expectations! Where to start? It's a massive chip, encompassing dual cores and a Javascript like execution model. Remember, this was the mid-1970s. Its general purpose CPU runs an Intel instruction set architecture that I don't believe has been publicly documented until now. It's not every day we get the treat of a new Intel ISA.

Of course they subsequently used their newfound understanding of the ISA to bypass copy protection. 



Edit: High resolution (though somewhat cropped) copy of Diana Walker's photo, for your editing pleasure.

[Bud]

hehehe

A modern take on was hanging up on the office wall when Moses was a boy.

Gotta love the Safety Officer's recommendation 

[xrunner]

Just discovered - the original hidden ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey!

[ckocagil]

High what rates again?

[Simon]

hehehe,

[Syntax Error]

Tech Support Lesson #1: RTFM
Tech Support Lesson #2: RTFM again

[Simon]

ouch, I did say RTFM to a subcontractor  They were worried that the pins I had put on my harness drawing were wrong as they were "so short". Well if you just looked at the book you will clearly see that.....

[I wanted a rude username]

[Ed.Kloonk]

Had a little win today, did we?

 

[bsfeechannel]

[Cerebus]

Mjölnir Widlarizer

[HwAoRrDk]

[daqq]

So, anybody else see a monstrous toothy creature?

[Simon]

yep

[Wolfgang]

So, anybody else see a monstrous toothy creature?

How poor must people be that need to resort to spark gaps like that ?? 

[Simon]

By the looks of it someone only worried about a lightening strike.

[rsjsouza]

Well, it looks like a plugpack, thus low cost is the norm.
Nothing wrong with that - if it passes Hi-Pot, then all should be alright. 

[Someone]

You know who they are...

[GlennSprigg]

Ok, I expect it to be mostly in the 'other' category, but hopefully not crapped on too early!!   
So here's an actual 'electronic' one, to validate the post...


Understandably, different jokes are understood/received differently around the World, due to local politics or regional
understanding etc. There was a world wide competition years ago, to find the 'joke' that the most countries understood,
and thought that it was funny!  The WINNER was actually this...

A man rang his emergency number and said... "Help!  I think my friend is dead!!"
The operator said... "OK, first we need to make sure he is dead..."
The man said.. "Hang on..", and a few secs later the Operator heard a gun-shot in the background...
The man came back on line, and said... "OK... now what!!"
TRUE xoxox

Here in Australia, we have a lot of... 'someone' walks into a bar  jokes...

A Dung Beetle walks into a Bar... and says... "Is this Stool taken?"
A horse walks into a Bar... the barman says...  "So, why the long face!"
 

[Neilm]

Here in Australia, we have a lot of... 'someone' walks into a bar  jokes...

A Dung Beetle walks into a Bar... and says... "Is this Stool taken?"
A horse walks into a Bar... the barman says...  "So, why the long face!"
 

A man walks into a Bar and says ... OUCH!

[Ed.Kloonk]

A man walks into a bar. Turns out it was a gay bar. The man says, Christ! I'm in the wrong joke!

[tom66]

A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"

[pwlps]

Happy celebration !

[I wanted a rude username]

[I wanted a rude username]

[daqq]

ST Leaked internal document shows the process of laying out pins. It's the only reasonable explanation for having 3 pins of a 3 pin programming interface on 3 sides of a TQFP package.


(adapted by me from: https://9gag.com/gag/agBvwGr?ref=android )

[HwAoRrDk]

[T3sl4co1l]

[Cerebus]

 

[T3sl4co1l]

Possibly NSFW,

(Hey, I just wrote the link, it's literally not my fault it's embedded for all to see.  Actually, I don't even know how to avoid it doing that...)

Tim

[Whales]

I don't like that auto-embed for Imgur, if you write it as a link then I think it should stay a link.

It's not very accessible.  Nothing appears whatsoever if you have javascript disabled.  I had to enable 3rd party scripts to see the image. 

It's also a bit of a weird privacy tradeoff just to see the single <img> tag.  From a quick check in my browser debugger: about 72k of javascript, HTML and CSS get loaded from imgur.com; but it also loads a pile of other social and facebook stuff ontop of that.

[I wanted a rude username]

If you are concerned about tracking on the Internet, you should be taking active steps to protect your privacy, such as:

• Turn on privacy.resistFingerprinting
• Cookie Autodelete
• uBlock Origin
• Privacy Badger
• Decentraleyes

You can't rely on the contents of sites to be benign.

Here's a video meme (with complimentary Google tracking) to help get the taste out of your mouth.

[KE5FX]

Devices with built-in USB-to-serial adapters be like...

Yep just bought a cheap programable PSU today and plugging it into USB guess what it shown up as.... COM3

More like COM84 on my machine.

Which is a Good Thing.

[KE5FX]

Same thing to me. My signal processing theory professor was asked by some students what they could bring with them at the exams. His answer: Anything that you can drag in by yourself. 70% failed.

It may be a myth, but didn't a student bring Richard Feynman into one of his exams, because he fit (stood) on a single sheet of A4 paper?  (You can bring anything in that fits on a single sheet of A4.)

The version I heard was closer to basinstreetdesign's.  Professor: "This will be an open-book test." CalTech freshman: "Can I use Feynman?"  Professor, assuming the student is referring to the well-known lecture volumes: "Sure, why not."

[daqq]

When your code is so bad that a physical manifestation of the bugs appears on the summary.

[I wanted a rude username]

Crossover with /r/Justrolledintotheshop ...



(Explanation for non-mechanics: 10 mm is the most commonly used socket in automotive, and thus the most commonly left in a customer's car, never to be seen again.)

[HwAoRrDk]

[T3sl4co1l]

...I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn’t stop to think if I should...

Hmm, another version might be, it's the SOA curve, but there's a stabby boi peeking out of the 2nd breakdown slope.

Tim

[Cyberdragon]

You forgot the N...the meme is ruined!

[T3sl4co1l]

From another thread:

[Whales]

I guess that mostly makes sense, but doesn't the capacitor ruin it all?

[T3sl4co1l]

With or without, you still have the full cable length returning to ground.  All that changes is, the zeroes due to reflections inside the cable (it's a shorted stub) -- but these manifest in series with the ground-return impedance regardless.

I suppose the context of the meme template is not sarcastic, as the 'X' were actually destroyed, so it's maybe not the most appropriate use...

Tim

[Whales]

With or without, you still have the full cable length returning to ground.  All that changes is, the zeroes due to reflections inside the cable (it's a shorted stub) -- but these manifest in series with the ground-return impedance regardless.

I was thinking along the lines of RF interference getting picked up by the long (non-zero-impedence) ground wire.  Might not be valid?

[T3sl4co1l]

The original was in regard to transmitters, so self-interference would be the primary concern, but that will happen to, yup.

Tim

[Ed.Kloonk]

[Syntax Error]

Why do engineering things always break outside of office hours?

[Ed.Kloonk]

Why do engineering things always break outside of office hours?

No...No..All my creations pretty much break around the clock.

[I wanted a rude username]

The longer I stare at it, the worse it looks ...

[Gribo]

Darwin++?

[daqq]

This one sparks joy

[Mr. Scram]

This one sparks joy

Sparking joy seems to be an odd choice of words. 

[Ed.Kloonk]

This one sparks joy

Sparking joy seems to be an odd choice of words. 

Poor Joy. What did she ever do to him?

[I wanted a rude username]

Sparking joy seems to be an odd choice of words. 

On that note ...

[Cerebus]

Reminds me of the Bob Monkhouse line: "When I was young people laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a comedian when I grew up. They're not laughing now!"

[magic]

Today I learned that Texas Instruments became the first major manufacturer to enter the market of counterfeit TL072 opamps with some CMOS product of theirs.
That's a very appreciated improvement over the usual crop of relabeled LM358 from AliBay, but what could possibly go wrong?

[mc172]

 
Brilliant!

[rsjsouza]

Not a meme, but a very funny ad from the 1980s...

[T3sl4co1l]

Dang, Forrest Gump invested in the wrong fruit company!

Tim

[I wanted a rude username]

[magic]

Not a meme, but a very funny ad from the 1980s...

Given the current state of American software industry, I would say this didn't age well

[I wanted a rude username]

[tautech]

Couldn't resist  not adding this old one

[I wanted a rude username]

Edit: Restored from mirror.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Alot of potential shock value there.

[xrunner]

Alot of potential shock value there.

Doesn't appear to be solidly grounded in proper safety procedures ...

[Ed.Kloonk]

Alot of potential shock value there.

Doesn't appear to be solidly grounded in proper safety procedures ...

World's biggest spark gap.

[HowdyPartner]

Troll thread, do not reply 

[Whales]

I wonder what bandwidth I need for nerve signals.

[Berni]

Actually no joke i bought some real acupuncture needles for use as probe tips. They are cheep, thin, sharp, don't oxidize since its stainless steel...etc They actually make good probes for poking around tiny components on boards. They also work well for unclogging small orifices like 3D printer nozzles, spray nozzles..etc. Tho one has to be careful with them because they are insanely sharp, just lightly touch the tip of it and you have practically stabbed yourself.

[3roomlab]

i was watching scott manleys' ... and i saw this picture in it
and i had to put it somewhere ...
maybe someone has an idea to use it as a meme ...

[bsfeechannel]

Actually no joke i bought some real acupuncture needles for use as probe tips. They are cheep, thin, sharp, don't oxidize since its stainless steel...etc They actually make good probes for poking around tiny components on boards. They also work well for unclogging small orifices like 3D printer nozzles, spray nozzles..etc. Tho one has to be careful with them because they are insanely sharp, just lightly touch the tip of it and you have practically stabbed yourself.

Conversely, you can use your wrist strap to stimulate your penis.



For only €31.99. Bargain!

[Ed.Kloonk]

That IS a bargain. I've had to seek new options since the RSPCA took my dog away.

[Ed.Kloonk]

i was watching scott manleys' ... and i saw this picture in it
and i had to put it somewhere ...
maybe someone has an idea to use it as a meme ...

Where is Shatner?

[bsfeechannel]

Where is Shatner?

He's in the Enterprise, trying to make Scotty break the laws of Physics.

[T3sl4co1l]

Just put the weenie in the warp drive 'sah.

[Cerebus]

Where is Shatner?

Hey, if you were the Star Trek cast organising a cool day out at NASA would you invite the class clown? "Sorry Bill, your invitation must have got lost in the post." 

Sobering to note that of the seven Star Trek principals (incl. Rodenberry) pictured there, only three are still alive (Takei, Nichols, and Koenig)

[tszaboo]

i was watching scott manleys' ... and i saw this picture in it
and i had to put it somewhere ...
maybe someone has an idea to use it as a meme ...

That is such a cool image.
BTW:
"Construction began on Enterprise on June 4, 1974.[1] Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. Fans of Star Trek asked US President Gerald Ford, through a letter-writing campaign, to name the orbiter after the television show's fictional starship, USS Enterprise. White House advisors cited "hundreds of thousands of letters" from Trekkies, "one of the most dedicated constituencies in the country", as a reason for giving the shuttle the name. Although Ford did not publicly mention the campaign, the president said that he was "partial to the name" Enterprise, and directed NASA officials to change the name."
This is from Wikipedia, the image is also there.

Also Enterprise NCC1701 is a Constitution class ship ... I see what they did there.

[Ranayna]

That makes me wonder... I have no idea when it was first declared that the Enterprise NCC 1701 is a Constitution class ship...
Did they do a name swap?

[I wanted a rude username]

Where is Shatner?

In the shuttle, belting out Mr. Tambourine Man over the PA system.

> Bob Dylan wrote it, The Byrds made it a hit, and William Shatner...God, I don't know.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Where is Shatner?

In the shuttle, belting out Mr. Tambourine Man over the PA system.

> Bob Dylan wrote it, The Byrds made it a hit, and William Shatner...God, I don't know.

I remember when I first heard his rendition of Lucy in the sky. And we all thought Lennon was whacked out.

[Raj]

Just gonna leave this here.

[wdbarker3]

I've done welds that ugly, with a stick welder (Dog house). But it looks like the mess on the left was also done with a wire feed. Am I imagining that?

[Ed.Kloonk]

Just gonna leave this here.

Foo was here.

[Ed.Kloonk]

[magic]

Brutal
But it looks like a shop

[Berni]

Brutal
But it looks like a shop

Yeah, tho a pretty well made one. What tipped me off is that using an actual pole pig casing would likley be way too heavy for this. Excellent dad prank tho.

[HwAoRrDk]

[NiHaoMike]

Yeah, tho a pretty well made one. What tipped me off is that using an actual pole pig casing would likley be way too heavy for this. Excellent dad prank tho.

I thought it was a prop made from cardboard or something.

I suppose someone wanting to do that for real could really up the impressive factor by making the insulators longer and hiding opposite polarity Tesla coils in them.

[T3sl4co1l]

Yeah, tho a pretty well made one. What tipped me off is that using an actual pole pig casing would likley be way too heavy for this. Excellent dad prank tho.

I thought it was a prop made from cardboard or something.

I suppose someone wanting to do that for real could really up the impressive factor by making the insulators longer and hiding opposite polarity Tesla coils in them.

https://imgur.com/gallery/uRB7BdR

[HwAoRrDk]

[bsfeechannel]

[xrunner]

Error jokes

% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

% got a light?
No match

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments

% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job

$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found

$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create

[Nominal Animal]

To be accurate, that XKCD should really be
  - Make me a sandwich.
  - What? Make it yourself.
  - Sudo make me a sandwich.
  - What's the password?
  - Correct Horse Battery Staple.
  - Okay.
but it'd mush the joke.

[Sal Ammoniac]

Fans of Star Trek asked US President Gerald Ford, through a letter-writing campaign, to name the orbiter after the television show's fictional starship, USS Enterprise. White House advisors cited "hundreds of thousands of letters" from Trekkies, "one of the most dedicated constituencies in the country", as a reason for giving the shuttle the name. Although Ford did not publicly mention the campaign, the president said that he was "partial to the name" Enterprise, and directed NASA officials to change the name."

And the whole scheme backfired in the sense that Enterprise never flew in space--it was only used in the 747 drop-and-glide tests in the late 70s.

[NiHaoMike]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the cat thread, I'm going with here since the cat (symbol) is only a small part of it.

[Berni]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the cat thread, I'm going with here since the cat (symbol) is only a small part of it.

Pretty sure the cat thread is supposed to have cats that are still alive. This one has only a 50% chance of that... tho i suppose if you tell people not to look at it then its still fine.

[T3sl4co1l]

(Arch isn't on the forum, but is always posting memes like this on #eevblog.)

[Cyberdragon]

You know you're already old in your mid 20s when you see #eevblog and go "How do you post memes on Internet Relay Chat? Oh...Twitter...of course."

[T3sl4co1l]

Nah, you're old enough, don't forget this is here: https://www.eevblog.com/chat/

Tim

[Neilm]

Fans of Star Trek asked US President Gerald Ford, through a letter-writing campaign, to name the orbiter after the television show's fictional starship, USS Enterprise. White House advisors cited "hundreds of thousands of letters" from Trekkies, "one of the most dedicated constituencies in the country", as a reason for giving the shuttle the name. Although Ford did not publicly mention the campaign, the president said that he was "partial to the name" Enterprise, and directed NASA officials to change the name."

And the whole scheme backfired in the sense that Enterprise never flew in space--it was only used in the 747 drop-and-glide tests in the late 70s.

True but it did go to Vandenburg for trial fitting to test if it could launch from there. None of the other orbiters made it there

[T3sl4co1l]

(For those that aren't aware... "Pondering My Orb" memes are suddenly very hot right now.)

Tim

[Ed.Kloonk]

[daqq]

Guess the software.

[Nominal Animal]

Enterprise software = Worse than commodity software, except you get a bonus and your boss gets a kickback and nobody gets fired for the purchase.

[tszaboo]

Enterprise software = Worse than commodity software, except you get a bonus and your boss gets a kickback and nobody gets fired for the purchase.

I just loved, when one of our executives got their new flashy 4K screen laptop, just to realize, that SAP frontend has 0 scaling capabilities, and the entire UI is the size of a postage stamp. Had to get himself an external 1280*1024 monitor just for that.

[I wanted a rude username]

[Berni]

I can confirm pencil leads and lab power supplies are plenty of fun when bored in engineering school.

[I wanted a rude username]

[I wanted a rude username]

[tom66]

Guess the software.

Vivado when spending 15 minutes synthesising my design only to tell me I have a DRC error before going onto the multicore implementation?

Or am I just bitter?

[timenutgoblin]

...snip...

What is the story regarding the poor quality solder joints and alignment of some of the SMD components? Is that related to the meme?

[I wanted a rude username]

The appearance of this potentiostat PCB is explained by the fact that Dryden used the popular "solder paste without a stencil, followed by extensive rework" technique.    But anything beyond a punny bear may be reading too much into it.

https://microfluidics.utoronto.ca/gitlab/dstat/dstat-hardware/-/wikis/home

[I wanted a rude username]

[Someone]

[T3sl4co1l]

Yeah but that's not even an unpopular opinion, it's just flat out wrong -_-

[Someone]

Yeah but that's not even an unpopular opinion, it's just flat out wrong -_-

You'd think so, yet:

For neatly looking text it is difficult to use spaces with proportional fonts. OK with fixed width fonts. TAB helps align lines of text correctly.

Hence the joke, posted here first for the lols of course.

[T3sl4co1l]

Ah... it was posted seriously. 

Tim

[xrunner]

At last my kind of reCAPTCHA!

[Cerebus]

[Ed.Kloonk]

Will do moose stuff for MOS Technology.

[T3sl4co1l]

Basically me all the time: https://xkcd.com/2587/

[DavidAlfa]

Russia sanctions right now

[Ed.Kloonk]

Russia sanctions right now

Too bad ToysЯus wasn't included in the list.

[DavidAlfa]

More like ToysЯnus

[magic]

They virtue signal and make popaganda to feel like they are doing something while sitting doing nothing

I bet this meme came from R**dit or T***ter.

[Cerebus]

Knock it off children. This topic is supposed to be light-hearted, a little technology related comedy, most definitely not an excuse to side-step the forum's "no politics" rule. Particularly not at the moment.

So, DavidAlfa and all the people who published follow ups might like to consider deleting their posts before they get the topic locked.

[I wanted a rude username]

Yeah DavidAlfa, it's EEVmemes, not CopiedFromFacebookMemes.    If you want to join the circlejerk, take it to /r/YUROP or similar.

[Ed.Kloonk]

So much of the above post is disappointing.

Sigh.

[DavidAlfa]

Politics? I didn't say anything about that
I don't have any hate against russian civilians neither I support war or violence in any way, whatever your country is, but better don't ask me what do I think about politicians who send their people to kill and die in the name of stupid reasons.
Sanctions are a reality and someone made some funny words, that's all, I'm not laughting at anyone's pain, I also do jokes about gas, and we're all screwed up with skyrocketing prices, the whole country transportation services on strike... Crazy expensive electricity (Now "only" $0.35/kWh, we had some weeks at $0.6-$0.9/KWh).

Life needs some humour to keep rolling!

Oh, and I don't have Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter or any other existing social crap

[T3sl4co1l]

[I wanted a rude username]

When you forget to make sure your microwave's capacitor is discharged before poking around in it ...

[daqq]

Cosmic ray detector done in software.

[Whales]

Wait a sec, you need that to be if(volatile extern false).

[Gribo]

Is it sad that I can think of at least one way to improve this detector?

[daqq]

Is it sad that I can think of at least one way to improve this detector?

Nope, why would it be? It's more fun

Code: [Select]

void CosmicRayDetector(void)
{
volatile uint64_t RayDetector = 0;

while(RayDetector == 0);

printf("Detected cosmic ray!\r\n");
}

[magic]

Code: [Select]

void CosmicRayDetector(void)
{
while(1);
printf("Detected cosmic ray!\r\n");
}

[TomKatt]

Microsoft's legacy...
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[niconiconi]

When you use SCR/thyristor to switch DC.

[T3sl4co1l]

me irl

[Whales]

I just saw a sales listing for a "vape" holder that clips on the top of an xbox controller, but I've lost it and can't find it again.  I don't know why they bother with that euphemism, it's going to get used for soldering irons.

Meanwhile I found this in the description of a tracker device:


And ... err ... these things that you can "pair" with maybe?

[Whales]

Microsoft's legacy...
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If that was an animated GIF then we can't see it, the forum is auto-recompressing all attached images in a way that trashes animated gifs.

[BravoV]

Microsoft's legacy...
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If that was an animated GIF then we can't see it, the forum is auto-recompressing all attached images in a way that trashes animated gifs.

This is my animated GIF image attached in forum's attachment feature and repost below.

[rsjsouza]

I always loved that animated gif! Let me save it.

[I wanted a rude username]

[T3sl4co1l]

Not really EE, but cute enough to share.

[timenutgoblin]

Not really EE, but cute enough to share.

Yeah, because 10! (10 factorial) is 3,628,800 which is the number of seconds in 6 weeks.

86400 x 7 x 6 = 3,628,800.

[magic]

 

Who can still doubt Intelligent Design?

[tom66]

Not that surprising that 10! works out to be seconds in 6 weeks.

10! = 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1

Lots of shared terms:

60 = 5 * 4 * 3 * 1
3600 = 10 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3
24 = 4 * 3 * 2

The Mayans used 60 seconds for a good reason - easily divisible.

Another interesting coincidence I like is e^pi - pi = ~20, to 3 dp.

[Nominal Animal]

Or, 60×60×24×7×6 = 3628800 = 2⁸ 3⁴ 5² 7¹ – binary powers of the first four primes.

When you start noticing these kinds of details, you start appreciating how useful 12 hour clock (=2²3¹) and 60-second minutes and 60-minute hours (60=5×12=2²3¹5¹) really are.

But do beware: this rabbit hole leads to N. J. A. Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, aka OEIS.

[T3sl4co1l]

But do beware: this rabbit hole leads to N. J. A. Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, aka OEIS.

Who's starred on a number of recent Numberphile videos, but that's material for another thread ( https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/ ).

Tim

[tautech]

Couldn't resist  not adding this old one

[I wanted a rude username]

Might want to take into account the thermal effects of all those ... interactions ...

[T3sl4co1l]

[Ed.Kloonk]

Wow.

That would have been perfect if instead of Arnie at the end had Johnny Five saying "Input.."

[Nominal Animal]

Sometimes I suspect I'm missing something here.

[tautech]

Sometimes I suspect I'm missing something here.

This maybe:

Use Quote to get the link.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Sometimes I suspect I'm missing something here.

Your not paranoid. We -are- trying to hide stuff from you.   

[T3sl4co1l]

Sometimes I suspect I'm missing something here.

Your not paranoid. We -are- trying to hide stuff from you.   

"I may be paranoid... but I am, no android."

But yeh it's the auto Imgur embed so check your scripts / cross site permissions.

Tim

[T3sl4co1l]

Also, tangentially topical here, or, say, if you want to express your dis/approval of a thread or something.

https://imgur.com/gallery/CMZlQpc

[timenutgoblin]

 

[niconiconi]

High-speed digital system be like...

[I wanted a rude username]

[T3sl4co1l]

Code: [Select]

T3sl4co1l: based
W1ngs: emittered
T3sl4co1l: and collectorpilled


[I wanted a rude username]

[timenutgoblin]

Before:



After:

[DavidAlfa]

[EPAIII]

And that, ladies and germs, is why I majored in physics and not history.

Many people even with the textbook wouldn't pass a physics exam. Other matters are different, history for example, you don't have to understand a thing only memorize. But physics... if you don't understand it there's no way.

[EPAIII]

OMG! I have just got to build a watch like that.

REALLY! I want one! That says GEEK like the mother of all geeks! Best worn on formal, dress occasions.

And sneak in a cell phone chip with keypad dialing.

Meme credit: Rajesh Nayak. Watch by Jharwin Barrozo.

[MrMobodies]

I saw this Youtube documentary on Matt Hancock and when he grins like that he reminds me of this character on a cover from an old game I had over 30 years ago on the Atari STE:

[niconiconi]

"Mom, can we buy a Vector Network Analyzer?"

"No, we have a Vector Network Analyzer at home."

(the Vector Network Analyzer at home)

[T3sl4co1l]

The hell am I doing

[T3sl4co1l]

From irc.austnet.org #eevblog,



(For those that don't know,

)

[H713]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

[Ed.Kloonk]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

There's no excuse for not joining that up in the wall.

[AndyBeez]

A mains wire with two plugs at each end. What could possibily go wrong/kill the dog? That 6 inch nail worries me. Who uses the wrong fixings in the wrong way? Meet our highly skilled 'electrician'. I suspect his frustrated wife made the warning 'label'?

One for our networking fan boyz:

[rsjsouza]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

There's no excuse for not joining that up in the wall.

The kicker? The plugs are only two poles with no ground... Because you don't need no stinking ground on an exterior carport outlet, right? 

[Ed.Kloonk]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

There's no excuse for not joining that up in the wall.

The kicker? The plugs are only two poles with no ground... Because you don't need no stinking ground on an exterior carport outlet, right? 

Very possible that somewhere on the other end of that circuit there might be the 'tail' dangling where it got cut off. And is now live. And, as you say, not earthed either. Awesome.

[tom66]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

An old friend of mine somewhere has a power cable made up with two standard British plugs on each end.  The purpose of this, err, "contraption", is to be able to back-feed the entire house from a petrol generator in the event of a power outage.  He assures me he would never forget to isolate the grid connection before connecting this and he is very careful to disconnect it from the generator before the other end but, oh my, I hope his life insurance is up to date.

[rsjsouza]

To be honest, I would be much more concerned with the linemen that may be zapped by a generator trying to feed the entire neighbourhood.

In my house I have an interlock that forces the main breaker to be disengaged in order to engage the generator feed. Very simple mechanism but quite ingenious.

[Ed.Kloonk]

All jokes aside,
The generator would likely see practically a dead short. Depending on the circuit protection on the generator, or even the fuse that connects to the outlet, that may pop first. But a portable generator would really complain about being expected to liven up half a neighbourhood.

I'm not convinced that the voltage applied would be very high, without doing any math: you know, the number of houses connected verses the impedance of the alternator. Many more amps than what the fuses are rated along the way.

But yes, before anyone complains... Pretty dumb to do that when the are safer options. Please don't plug generators straight into your house power outlet. Ask somebody to install the right switch gear so you can do it safely.

To be honest, I would be much more concerned with the linemen that may be zapped by a generator trying to feed the entire neighbourhood.

Linesmen always treat all lines as live, always. The reason is the wires can become live unexpectedly for many reasons such as falling trees or even in case of miscommunication among repair crews.

A big danger would be connecting a running generator to live grid, not realizing it's live. Wouldn't like to be standing anywhere near the generator.

[eti]

(Attachment Link)

Bit awkward and cringey. It appears to imply that EEVblog is a worldwide known entity. Lol. Slightly cliquey.

[H713]

The best part is that it looks like a piece of zipcord.

An old friend of mine somewhere has a power cable made up with two standard British plugs on each end.  The purpose of this, err, "contraption", is to be able to back-feed the entire house from a petrol generator in the event of a power outage.  He assures me he would never forget to isolate the grid connection before connecting this and he is very careful to disconnect it from the generator before the other end but, oh my, I hope his life insurance is up to date.

My favorite examples are SpeakON/XLR/TRS to Edison connectors so that you can use a cheap extension cord instead of a speaker cable / microphone cable / line level cable. Yes, people do make them.

This is what happens when some cheapskate tries to do this, but then accidentally plugs the output of a power amplifier into a high-current mains receptacle. At least, that's the only possible explanation I can give for what happened to this poor thing.

[Nominal Animal]

Hmm, I've lost the image of the Bastard Operator from Hell Ethernet-to-Mains cable I used to have.

(No, I'm not telling you whether I had the image, or the actual cable.  None of your business.)

[Ranayna]

Hmm, I've lost the image of the Bastard Operator from Hell Ethernet-to-Mains cable I used to have.

You sureley mean the Etherkiller, or some variation thereof
https://etherkiller.org/

Google image search "etherkiller" is scary... And just for fun it throws in audiophool power cables as well.

[Ranayna]

They are.
But put mains up their asses, and these tiny little transformers will not isolate anymore
At least not in 240 Volt countries :p

[AndyBeez]

Hmm, I've lost the image of the Bastard Operator from Hell Ethernet-to-Mains cable I used to have.

(No, I'm not telling you whether I had the image, or the actual cable.  None of your business.)

You mean 802.3v Mains Power Over Ethernet (MPoE).

Cat6 32awg cores carry roughly what current? I have no idea and are just too lazy to use Google, but as Trump says, the current carrying capacity, "is going to be massive."
[ you can do the REAL math if you want ] Two mains isolation transformers at each end and viola, MPoE. Earth leakage not included.

Dumb idea? MPoE must be a lot more practical than that mains power over WIFI thing from last year?

[Berni]

I thought ethernet NICs were isolated using an isolation transformer.

Exactly, but you can connect 220V mains across the windings of that isolation transformer.

Tho considering the transformers are designed to operate into the MHz at low signal levels, i don't think all that much of the 50Hz would make it across to kill the ethernet chip. Even then the ethernet PHY tends to be a separate IC, so the computer would likely still boot just fine with it dead. But in any case the ethernet port would no longer work because that isolation transformer would quickly get blown up by the massive amount of current flowing trough its windings. Possibly if it blows up spectacularly enough the hot plasma might let mains voltage jump the gap and do some more serious damage. The POE feature is another way to guide it across the gap with enough power to blow an entire machine, but computers never have that.

The other way is to exceed the isolation voltage and jump the gap across the transformer, but 220V won't do that. This takes into the kV range and it is how lightning tends to kill computers via Ethernet.

[rsjsouza]

Happy New Year!

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Footprint Alignment Chart

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[Ed.Kloonk]

Yikes.

[T3sl4co1l]

India? Huh, Thailand seems more likely.

[xrunner]

Yikes.

Oof really. I ain't gettin' anything about capacitors when I Google "Hitler Enterprises". Not exactly a good choice of name. 

[srb1954]

They missed the opportunity to complete the picture by making the second A in "capacitor" look like a toothbrush moustache!

They got the hairstyle right though.

[MrMobodies]

Hitler Enterprises... and the outrage it may cause.

I wonder what they were thinking at the time when they decided to name it like Hitler.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Hitler Enterprises... and the outrage it may cause.

I wonder what they were thinking at the time when they decided to name it like Hitler.

Wake me when they start manufacturing nautical vessels.

[Electro Detective]

Perhaps they rolled with the name after a popular search result for 'caps'

www.warhats.com/store/p637/Adolf-Hitlers-Cap-Aged.html#/

www.reddickmilitaria.com/third-reich-visor-caps/hitler-and-goering-visor-caps/


Apparently the ex-Fuehrer is popular in some regions 

Icecream:

https://jaysizemore.medium.com/why-does-india-love-hitler-so-much-4d84cbcf021


Clothing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-19481400


Nike, Maccas, G00Gle, Hitler, Thanos etc

hey, whatever brand name sells and puts bum on seats ! 

[magic]

Every picture on the Internet is fake until proven otherwise.

That being said, I found this:
https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/HITLER-ENTERPRISES-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U01100TN2020PTC135044

Hitler Enterprises Private Limited is a Private incorporated on 01 April 2020. It is classified as Non-govt company and is registered at Registrar of Companies, Chennai. Its authorized share capital is Rs. 1,000,000 and its paid up capital is Rs. 1,000,000. It is inolved in Growing of crops; market gardening; horticulture.

The date of incorporation is suspicious too. I would believe it if it was the 20th of April

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[T3sl4co1l]

[SiliconWizard]

 
I actually had a team of young engineers do this small "experiment" in lab, they didn't believe that it would make the capacitor explode.
Impregnated paper dust everywhere. Always fun.

[tautech]

Tim's one came up on Discord a hour or 2 back as did this one:

[I wanted a rude username]

Did someone say 4k wallpaper?



Shapoko/Syego seems to be really into girls of strange sizes (might be NSFW depends on your W).

[tautech]

Another from Discord where we spend far too much time chatting 

[tautech]

And if legs are what you're into, another from that darn Discord.

[HwAoRrDk]

Oh, so that's why when you drop a part on the floor it always ends up in the darkest, most inaccessible spot - they don't bounce, they scurry there.

[HwAoRrDk]

[Whales]

I draw box style resistors.  This means when I forget to draw a resistor I add a box on top of the line.  Now I have fuses.

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[Berni]

Genuinely seen that happen to a SMD ferite on a board

Not only did it glow just like a yellow LED in color but it kept glowing for at least 5 seconds before a coworker went "Well it looks like it is on....Wait, we don't have a power LED on these boards!" and turned off the power in a real hurry.

[T3sl4co1l]

[Whales]

Your post is completely blank for me Teslacoil.  Looks like imgur links are getting automagically replaced with javascript imgur embeds (yuck).

Testing attempts at making a non-broken version:

(1) Without protocol: imgur.com/h8xQeJP

(2)

(3)

(4)

Code: [Select]

Inside code tags: https://imgur.com/h8xQeJP

[Ed.Kloonk]

Worked for me.

I watched and thought: that escalated quickly.

[T3sl4co1l]

Yeah, the auto embed is kinda jank... wish there were a way to disable it sometimes.

Tim

[T3sl4co1l]

Science reporting always be like...

[AndyBeez]

It is an _X parrot. It has ceased to be...

[HwAoRrDk]

[HwAoRrDk]

Context

[T3sl4co1l]

[HwAoRrDk]

Context

[T3sl4co1l]

[duckduck]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1522842255195809

[DavidAlfa]

Reason why programmers are single:

[SiliconWizard]

(And don't get me started on those clowns using MS Word for typesetting their thesis - we're talking about people doing paragraph indents with spaces  )

Ahah yes, though at least they did it themselves!

Ever wondered why the typical ChatGPT answers are structured with an introduction, numbered points and a conclusion? Is it the way people normally talk, or is it the way people are supposed to structure their essays?

[Red Squirrel]

Don't connect your test gear directly to the internet. Trap for young players.   

[SiliconWizard]

Don't connect your test gear directly to the internet. Trap for young players.   

Tektronix scopes and LAs from that era came with a relatively standard mini-ITX motherboard as I recall, and Windows 2000. While it was possible to run any program on them, I think it was not *this* easy unless you managed to quit the main application (which was in full screen) which would get you back to a Windows desktop (not sure I recall that) or at least a command prompt. But someone having used these more than I did may remember better.
So I don't know how realistic the picture above would be, but that's certainly funny.

[rsjsouza]

HP/Agilent and R&S also have a full-screen windows application with a typical "Sys" or "System" button that took you to the main OS screen.

Fortunately at work all these are in an isolated network and can only be accessible via GPIB on a more modern host PC.

[T3sl4co1l]

Seen on Imgur:

Northwindlowlander
"Yep but tin is like 230 degrees, you can melt it with a sexy accent."

So there you have it, don't have a soldering iron, just speak French at your circuit; or if it's RoHS solder, Italian.

Tim

[Circlotron]

I'd call it human vs autorouter.

[IdahoMan]

[T3sl4co1l]

From a recent conversation concerning vintage computer PSUs:



Tim

[W1ngs]

From a recent conversation concerning vintage computer PSUs:

Hah, I'm proud of that dumb joke. Thanks for sharing it.

[AndyBeez]

Today, I read the user manual. I did not know this.

[niconiconi]

The last 20 years of Hewlett-Packard be like...

[HwAoRrDk]

[DavidAlfa]

Someone sent me this today, saw the thumbnail - Arrg, free energy crap again! -  then got me with a completely unexpected result! 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4r2WrBs_UF/

[HwAoRrDk]