In the 1990's NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine got interested in the lack of success of the US bobsled teams, so he coordinated the application of racing technology and training to the sport. It took about a decade, but they had success. The attention to detail was the key, little things make the difference.
I love this expression. Initially a hardware guy, my motivation was driven by poverty and the parts I had on hand. This quickly turned into, "what can I build with what I've got on hand?" Even after bring able to afford the optimum parts for a design, I'm still drawn to using what I've got. Most recently I found a couple HP bubble displays in a drawer as used on the original HP35/45 calculators. Beautiful things. Wired them up to an ESP32, wrote the scanning / blanking code and packaged into a WiFi voltmeter to monitor battery voltage on a motorcycle. I could've bought this on Ali for peanuts, but where's the fun in that?
As a manager, my job was to make sure they were working on the right thing. If they didn't carry their weight, I either reduced the impact by assigning them necessary-but-boring tasks to offload the high performers, or PIP'd them. I "rehabilitated" several engineers over the years and even gave them references when we parted. Staff that lied to me more than once were terminated.
As a poor engineering student, I couldn't afford one of these, but I could afford the TIM-1 chipset at $35, wire wrapped it up, and borrowed a single-line ascii terminal from a buddy. It's hanging on my lab wall next to other obsolete stuff.
For me, the failure of Fe is all the races are run on street courses with few high speed turns and no elevation change through the lap. That, and they sound like an NBA games with more tire squeaking noise than the propulsion system sounds.
I'm really looking forward to this weekend's F1 finale. Three drivers have a shot at the top three spots in the championship.
My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."
- the speaker is using wry sarcasm, although the inflection is usually wrong.
- the speaker actually does care a bit.
- it's easier to say "could" or it's habit.
I try not to be a pedant about this, but often fall. Yeah, I'm fun at parties.
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