Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On 27/10/2024 8:41 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:12:39 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:34:44 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:55:10 +0100, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
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john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:59:03 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
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On 10/20/24 23:17, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:18:29 +0530, Pimpom
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On 21-10-2024 12:46 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:12:22 -0700, john larkin wrote:
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:59:18 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:32:45 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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On 10/20/24 19:18, Cursitor Doom wrote:

John Larkin has from time to time posted some elementary
questions he likes to torture his job applicants with. I'd
like to propose one of my own.
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If I'm measuring 218 ohms between points A and B in this
diagram, what is the value of Rx?
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https://disk.yandex.com/i/hxjWx0tDUCzxiA

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517 Ohms.
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Jeroen Belleman

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Does R330 mean 0.33 ohms?
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I hate that sort of notation, like 2k47.

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I keep having difficulty not using it in LTSpice.
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0.33 ohms would be 0R33
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Unless you believe in physics/SI notation.
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So is R330 the reference designator?

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Sorry, foreign notation. It's 330 ohms and 47 ohms.

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Thought so.
Personally, I sometimes use the European style of placing decimal
values after the unit name, especially when space is limited as
in a packed schematic. 4k7 takes up slightly less space than 4.7k
*and* there's no chance of missing the decimal point. Likewise
values like 6n8

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Maybe european decimal points slide off drawings and fall on the
floor. Robust American decimal points and schematic connect dots
don't do that.
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How are things priced in a grocery store? Is the 'euros' symbol
straddled by numbers on both sides?

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no but ? is behind the number not in front of it like $ ;)
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But if it's priced in cents, the cents symbol goes last.
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We follow SI rules in engineering, but in everyday life the quirky
old stuff is sort of fun. We measure distances in blocks or football
fields and fluid volume in olympic-size swimming pools, or sometimes
acre-feet.
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4k7 is not an SI unit of measure.

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...or even measurement?
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I once heard the BBC's ' Environment Analyst' describe air pressure in
Degrees Centigrade.

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That's what happens in organisations like the BBC where capability in a
given field comes a poor second to racial and gender recruiting quotas.

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What can you expect from a country that has a House of Twits?

 Well, they have one now, but it was not always thus.
The original House of Lords (as constituted for around 700 years) was a
genuinely respectable institution. Those who were elevated to the peerage
were required to submit to the doctrine of Noblesse oblige and so to put
the interests of the lower orders above their own. Sadly, that's all gone
by the wayside over the last 150 years or so and now there is but a cohort
of grifters who have taken over this once noble House. Sad but true.

Sad if it were true. In reality the House of Lords is now dominated by life peers, who get promoted after a life-time devoted to exhibiting exceptional competence. There have been scandals about people buying their peerage, but people with that kind of money and power are less interested in becoming life peers than they were in getting a heritable honour. If Boris Johnson hasn't been caught trying to sell one, there clearly isn't the market there used to be.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney