Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:37:19 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:11:37 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:24:02 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:16:19 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:48:00 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
 

Jan Panteltje wrote:

 
And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
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better ---====-----
2k2

 
What's the point of that?
 
Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?
 
A rectangle could be anything.

 
It's a connector pin on our schematics.
 
 

I fully agree, Tom. If I saw that thing I'd immediately assume it
represented a cocktail sausage.

 
Edible schematics. Sounds good to me. The little rectangles on the
lower-right can hold the dippy sauces and toothpicks.

 
I did wonder what they were for, but lacked the confidence to ask
about them. Thanks, John.

 
I just got a pack of this
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DKLAJ6
 
With the right pencil, it does great line work and photographs well.
Erases nicely too.
 
It doesn't have a grid, but it's translucent so I lay it on top of a
sheet of blue-grid paler and I can follow the lines when I draw.

 
And these are a positive boon for those of us tired of trying to find
European dots that have fallen on the floor:
 
https://tinyurl.com/2972vu7c

 
I sometimes draw a schemetic by taping parts pictures to a sheet of
D-size vellum and drawing in the rest. I photograph that and give it to
one of my guys to enter into PADS Logic and eventually do a PCB layout.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dxxtokrqe2cvcw6ldf5kd/B943_Sh_11.jpg?

rlkey=asfyswunc5jbni5sugg3ix6f4&raw=1

 
That's scads faster than doing the CAD entry myself. More moving around,
less sitting and clicking.
 
In our new office/design center we don't have a real conference room,
so we go on group hikes around the Bernal Cut or in Glen Canyon. That
seems to really work, getting physical outdoors with the crew. I just
wish that more trees had whiteboards.

 
That physical exercise and fresh air probably will give a bit of a brain
boost to get the old grey cells firing at full efficiency. To turbocharge
that effect, give the guys plenty of strong coffee and donuts before they
go out. Works for me!