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06-26-2022, 08:12 AM | #26 |
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Re: Why, Chevrolet, just why?
*That's one of the things I am enjoying about "nature".
I've spent my entire professional life working within these industrial bureaucratic processes, trying to get inanimate objects to do unnatural things. But, in nature: bees make honey, and maple trees make sap, and chickens lay eggs, and I don't have to force them or cajole them or follow up to make them do any of it. K
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06-26-2022, 08:15 AM | #27 |
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I figure someone else makes the fobs and probably GM bids it out for each model. This is not how GM used to be. I am used to interchangeable when it comes to GM
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A gentleman pointed East and asked if that was the way to California. I answered, "Yes, but you'll have to travel around the world to get there"
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In fairness to myself (I was the unfortunate author of the post you cited), my post was intended as a tongue-in-cheek light-hearted attempt at humor -- not as something I believed to be factual.
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One day (At Home) My Wife says: The Remote is not working, I cannot get in the vehicle Real Quickly I responded: Why don't you use the key in your hand?. She didn't find it as funny as I did. Turned out it was a low battery. I replaced the battery and all was good.
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06-26-2022, 06:24 PM | #32 | |
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I might be a bit touchy about that sort of thing. I didn't think you envisioned a bunch of horses kicking up dust in the halls of the engineering center. K
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My. Gosh. I have to go to the Michigan Secretary of States office tomorrow to switch over a title. I'm dreading it. Wish me luck. K
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06-26-2022, 10:33 PM | #34 |
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if you want to see engineers driving the bus, work AIRCRAFT. because the decision makers have never read a CFR and are always looking for an EXPERT to give EXPERT TESTIMONY on how a system should function. I think Keith will agree, this is not a power to give to 99% of engineers.
example: people want to plug in their laptop ~35w charger on a trip. marketing gives that spec to business unit, who gives it to product managers, who convene a meeting with engineers, who spec a 3000w pure sine wave 24vDC-110vAC inverter and miles of shielded wire with YEARS of certification testing and DAR/DER approvals because only the engineers have an understanding of what something takes to be certified. total development cost is in the MILLIONS, shipset price is in the hundreds of thousands. they took the 35w requirement and ADDED the ability to run a vacuum for ground crews because sometimes they dont have a powered service cart when you land on a dirt field in guatamala
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06-27-2022, 09:27 AM | #35 | |
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I have always seen engineers as the equivalent of the Left versus Right in politics. They tend to need moderated by the people who actually use things in the real world.
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06-27-2022, 09:41 AM | #36 | |
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I remember arguing with an engineer for about an hour one time. Him insisting that what I said was happening couldn't possibly be the case. I finally had to show him that I was indeed right. His response "hmm well" and walks away. The company's solution buy a Porta power for my assembly area.
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i have a million stories about this and had even some typed out but aint nobody got time for that. haha
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Except in this example the engineer probably had 30 years in the field.
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You realize that there is a name for that right? Unicorn, the mythical thing that seems fantastic, but no one has ever seen one, at least without dropping acid.
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06-27-2022, 05:50 PM | #41 |
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I cussed engineers for years as a mechanic. Then I became an engineer. Just like I always complained about them, now I could sit at my desk and cackle like a maniac. Actually, I would say that all those years of looking at engineer's mistakes certainly led me to look for pitfalls and things that could make the tech's work easier, or at least less painful.
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its funny how much stock an engineer (or expert) will put in their arguments based on their perceived outcome, I have learned not to state something with absolute certainty unless I have done it. i guess its all the schooling that taught them to disagree and challenge, but some guys are absolutely and astoundingly belligerent.
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So very much this. K
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We bought my wife a new GMC Denali. To shift, it has what looks like push buttons except they are pull tabs.
My son in law got in it to move it and couldn't get it to go.
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That's funny! I guess they needed to come out with something people who can drive a 3-on-the-tree can't drive.
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06-29-2022, 07:46 AM | #49 |
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Pull tabs. Totally new concept in theft deterrent.
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Home construction engineering is generally simple. It's mostly done with same materials with known structural limitations asking them to do pretty much within the same demands. You can get to where you just know it and understand it. We do many jobs without engineers or architects. Not complete houses or any other work where building permits are required (well, mostly ). That is when we can clearly see what service the engineers and architects provide for us.
Just yesterday I go to a job I'm doing and am handed my task by the homeowner. The general job is finishing out her basement stairway while giving maximum additional storage. She gave me the objectives and I had to conceive and design how to meet those requirements. Just a little job, but not one I come walking in with my tools ready to start building... although I generally try to do just that. This is an 1800s farmhouse and she needed more pantry space. I did her kitchen about five years ago and did all the maximizing we could there. She wanted to be able to store canned goods on the ceiling of the stairway plaster. There's plenty of headroom yet could be made to be within reach. Time to put on the thinking cap and come up with a simple and affective way to get to that objective, and of course not blow her budget. We can come up with a plan pretty quick, but we have to make sure we have considered every facet. So I end up getting paid to design I gathered a variety of cans to determine sizing to build to fit. Had to consider the weight carried across between two bearing points. Had to consider the strength within the span. Place where they can be reached and have enough can exposed to grab one. Also, this is bearing on the trim at the ceiling already installed, which fortunately was not store-bought trim but trim I had made that is full 1x dimension and I had screwed it in rather than finish nails. It's width seemed just right for this project and I guess that's where she got the idea. BUT... after grabbing the variety of cans I discovered the trim was not quite wide enough, so a remedy was needed. The design ideas I came up with I'd run by her for input and I finally knew what I was going to build, with what material, and how I'd go about it. Sound like engineering at all?
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