Message from @Tendril
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The omni-psyche turbo wizard 40+ year olds who REALLY know their shit lurk BBS forums.
Not /g/ or /tech/.
eevblog maybe
I like Dave
There are some smart people on /g/, I won't deny that, but not many.
/g/ is visited by wizards once in a while
I knew that one tripfag Marisa for like, 5 years on and off
They're REALLY sharp in ganoo/loonicks and C
But that's about it uwu
compsci is more compatible with channers than hard science or engineering /bait
I dunno.
I spent a year doing hardware fault-finding and the process you have to go through every time is autismal as fuck.
no doubt
My boss was one of those turbo wizards though, so that helped.
It's frustrating debugging bad connections
Especially when they're faulty by (bad) design
are you one of the fuckers that add a shitload of 0 ohm resistors unmarked so its imposible to reverse engineer?
Turns out that EEs aren't good mechanical engineers
I once had to diagnose a desktop which kept powering off for temp reasons
and eventually we just ruled that the temp sensor itself was fucking knackered
Which is really frustrating because the only way you can rule that is to stick your fingers in the heatsink and note that it's fucking cold even when the machine is 'overheating'
Imagine trying to do that for something like a guidance system
Horrifying.
And then convincing them "well, it's the motherboard's fault"
And you're shipping the built-in-test for the next contractor in the chain
can you change a temp sensor on a motherboard? , I thought most sensors are etched in silicon
And you can't do shit because contracts are already signed and you can't do a complete redesign because your little firm may be bankrupted
Yeah, sounds like it'd have you really backed into a corner.
software is comfy
You can always ship a patch
exceptvin embedded design...
Hardware is frightening and nightmarish in comparison
So you'd have to forgive if us hw guys are more autist
We literally have to have whole designs in our heads running in pseudo simulation casually
Which leads to cool a-ha moments
Fortunately, I've only been stuck with fault-finding and repairs.
But it's generally shitty
Either way, you do have to be a giant fucking autist with hardware, because it's like you said.
You have to be 100% with what you do.
Yeah repairing and hobby stuff is fun
I'd hate the fault finding thing