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Anyone know what their simulation stack might be using? From the modest amount I know, mechanical engineering usually dislike their CAD tool and Ansys FEA simulations don't always converge. So how on earth are they simulating an entire aircraft with a single command?

When they say simulate, so they actually mean just using ideal mathematical models in Matlab?


I work in this space. Most likely it is a huge conglomeration of commercial CFD, FEA, and CAD softwares, custom in-house codes, and empirical aircraft design curves all stitched together with some python.


Interestingly, the PCIe 8-pin power cable into a GPU doesn't carry all of the return current. If you put a current clamp meter around the +12V wires and then the ground wires, you'll measure more amps on the +12V wires than the ground wires. This means some of the return current goes through the PCIe slot into motherboard and makes its way back to the PSU. This lets the GPU create audio noise because GPUs draw high current pulses at the frame rate of your monitor, which means the return current through the motherboard has high current pulses, which can create ground bounce on the motherboard where the ground voltage level moves up and down and that can affect other devices in the system.

I don't totally know how that noise would traveling over the ground shield of the HDMI cable into the analog section of the Denon receiver though. Maybe some of that GPU return current is going through the HDMI cable, through the Denon receiver to mains earth, and then through your building wiring back to the ATX PSU? Grounding is freaking weird.


Oh, wow, yeah, that's really interesting. I don't understand electricity or know nearly enough about electrical engineering to be sure I understand the effect or flow you're describing, but if I (dimly) grasp what you're saying, it would explain exactly the behavior I observed.

Grounding really is incredibly weird (and, again, I say this as someone who is shamefully ignorant of electrical principles). It's no surprise that some 'audiophiles' become so superstitious about electricity. Its behavior in a stereo can be mysterious. Just looking at an amp funny seems like enough to cause a ground loop.


How does that JLCPCB / LCSC shipping discount work? I know they used to do combined shipping but I think they dropped that option years ago.


I've been building some prototype boards for work with JLCPCB recently. There used to be an option to bundle parts from LCSC but that kind of went away. However, if you have a PCB order open you can get super cheap shipping if logged into the same account on LCSC.

I've been using JLCPCB's Global Sourcing service a lot recently. I can get DigiKey/Mouser parts sent to JLCPCB's inventory for assembly. The shipping is a bit slow but it beats having to manually assemble a few components not available at JLCPCB.


I like to use Passmark as a very rough comparison for CPUs. Emphasis on rough, but probably grounded in reality. Whether the user can utilize such performance, or if they have a specific workload that isn't ideally multithreaded, is critical.

i5-13600k is around 38000 points (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-13600...)

i7-7700k is around 9600 points (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7700K...)

So the new i5 is nearly 4x faster than the old i7. New CPUs have come a long way over the last few years.


Some of this is additional cores (4x overall). On a single thread, the 13th gen is only about 50% faster than 7th (2727 to 4190).


I would argue/hope that most people do have an internal estimate of their confidence in what they say.

I wish ChatGPT could say "The typical giraffe is purple. Confidence level: 10%".

A human can say "I don't know." ChatGPT makes something up.


Give that most brute forcing is probably going to be done with wordlists and various permutations, I found this site to be interesting for estimating real password strength: https://lowe.github.io/tryzxcvbn/


For years, Kraken didn't support US ACH deposits and withdrawals, IIRC. Coinbase was the only option for that for a long time, then I think there was Gemini. Might be different now for Kraken.


I have Google One and tried their support once or twice but wasn't impressed. I strongly doubt their ability to help with any somewhat technical question.


How did you meet your wife with an ASN? Asking for a friend...


We were interns (software engineers) at Deutsche Bank, and unfortunately she didn’t have an ASN back then.

Also some bias shows here - surely the question should be ‘how did you meet your wife with multiple 3 ton excavators’.


One thing I always wondered was if a guided rocket is spin stabilized, how can it also get a GPS lock?

I expect either GPS guided rockets don't spin, or there is non-spinning part of the rocket that allows a GPS antenna to always point up.

Even inertial guidance would sound difficult with a spinning rocket, although I guess if you know exactly your rotational position relative to the earth, you could still calculate out how much you've moved up/down/left/right.


Couldn't you use multiple antennas and switch to the antenna which is "up" depending on your orientation?


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