working from home...

[boB]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:55:46 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

Working from home mostly.. Have to go in once in a while. We have
engineers and techs coming in some times when it works out.
I have a lab in the basement so can work there.
I also have a house in Arizona with a lab but too hot down there right
now. It will be good for when it is too cold here in the pacific
northwest.

 

[server]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:26:05 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 2020-07-27 12:26, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:06:03 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2020-07-27 14:55, John Larkin wrote:


https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?


I have done that for most of my life and never understood why people see
a problem with it, at least for engineering. I have longterm clients
(meaning >10 years) that I have never seen in person but sucessfully
completed lots of product designs.




Been back in the lab for a month. (It has way better A/C than home.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I come in to work most days, so I can sit in front of a different
computer, and use my drafting table, and solder once in a while.


I like my 10 second commute (walking ...).


Apartment rental prices are down here, from astronomical to merely
absurd. Part of the housing pressure was from the Google busses. If
people work from home, it doesn\'t matter where \"home\" is.


Bingo! They finally understood it. It seems some didn\'t, at least not in
the past:

https://distantjob.com/blog/yeah-but-yahoo-learning-from-remote-works-biggest-fail/

But is is amazing how much faster and better people can come to an
understanding when they are face-to-face in front of a whiteboard.

Hey, I was trying to explain a 3-phase shunt chopper regulator to a
lady today, and came to the conclusion that it\'s too hard to think
about. So we Spiced the diode part in about 4 minutes.

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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

Science teaches us to doubt.

Claude Bernard

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2020-07-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

New Zealand has re-opened its cities, the lockdown persists at the
border.

--
Jasen.

 

[Ricketty C]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 2:55:55 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

Been working from home for 20 years now. If not mine, someone else\'s.

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[Ricketty C]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:34:07 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:29:06 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

mandag den 27. juli 2020 kl. 21.54.22 UTC+2 skrev Phil Hobbs:
On 2020-07-27 15:34, edward.ming.lee@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 12:26:14 PM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:06:03 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2020-07-27 14:55, John Larkin wrote:


https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?




Been back in the lab for a month. (It has way better A/C than home.) \'s

It\'s 50C to 60C here. The computers provide better heating than home.

You obviously work for 666 Technology or something, if you\'re still
chilly at 60C.

it is perfect if you want your steak medium rare by leaving it on your
desk for a few hours

give it few burnt stripes with the soldering iron and might be all right

I bet our giant reflow oven could make a lot of pizzas.

They might not toast properly in nitrogen.

No oxygen needed. They will char just fine. How do you think they make charcoal?

--

Rick C.

-- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
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[Gerhard Hoffmann]

Am 27.07.20 um 23:33 schrieb John Larkin:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:29:06 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

You obviously work for 666 Technology or something, if you\'re still
chilly at 60C.

My zip number is 66606

it is perfect if you want your steak medium rare by leaving it on your
desk for a few hours

give it few burnt stripes with the soldering iron and might be all right

I bet our giant reflow oven could make a lot of pizzas.

They might not toast properly in nitrogen.

My lab-scale reflow oven uses Galden vapor phase.
It will toast properly at 227 °C or so, very well defined.
Problem is only how to get that expensive fluid from
the pizza when it\'s done.

Gerhard

 

[Gerhard Hoffmann]

Am 27.07.20 um 23:11 schrieb Klaus Kragelund:

In Denmark we shut down completely 11th of March, and in my company we went back to work fully mid June, with some people starting mid May

We have the situation under control (so far) since people respected the guidelines and the pullback was strong

We have had about 2000 cases per million people, 6 times lower than the US. I hope it will be under control soon in the US

We in .de had as much cases in total as the US as the US has in 3 days
currently. Yes, we are only 25% of the US people. But the US is only
25% of China\'s people. _They_ have stopped their epidemic.
If you think you can stop their quest for influence & wealth, you\'re silly.


> I did work from my own lab, so no real loss of work efficiency. Just ordered parts to my home address

Same here.

I actually have the impression that the Corona shut down helps.
Outsourcing development is somehow against the local culture.
Production in China, yes, but...

Jörg, if you have excessive customers due to retirement,
bounce them to me..

Cheers, Gerhard

 

[Ricketty C]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:11:36 PM UTC-4, Klaus Kragelund wrote:

In Denmark we shut down completely 11th of March, and in my company we went back to work fully mid June, with some people starting mid May

We have the situation under control (so far) since people respected the guidelines and the pullback was strong

We have had about 2000 cases per million people, 6 times lower than the US. I hope it will be under control soon in the US

I did work from my own lab, so no real loss of work efficiency. Just ordered parts to my home address

Respected guidelines!!?? We don\'t want none of that here in the US of A!!!

I guess you know what the \"A\" stands for... anarchy!

--

Rick C.

+ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:55:46 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

>Are many of you working from home now?

Since the pandemic started, I\'ve been doing most of my computah
\"repairs\" by remote control using Teamviewer or AnyDesk. I\'m in the
process of shutting down my office of 30 years and moving everything
to the house. The problem is that I don\'t have a garage or storage
unit, so the house now looks like a warehouse full of boxes. Finding
things among the boxes has been a problem.

Sorting through the office junk and deciding what should be moved to
the house is a time consuming process. After a few weeks of carefully
sorting through the mess has made it obvious that sorting will take
forever. So, I\'m taking most everything of value home, and plan to
continue sorting after the office is closed. Hopefully, that will
return the house to a somewhat livable condition.

I had to make a difficult decision over the old parts. The difficulty
in finding a place in the house to store old parts that might never be
used has forced me to sell, give away, donate, or recycle most of the
pile. Similarly, the old bicycle parts, 33 rpm record collection,
duplicate tools, and welding tanks will be removed to make space. I\'m
down to only two bicycles. I gave away the older chainsaws, but still
have four that could be sold.

Between the road and the upper levels are about 50 stairs. No
elevator, so I get a good workout carrying boxes up the stairs.
There\'s still some more to move before I can close the doors, which is
scheduled for the end of August. Since I can only carry so much up
the stairs in a day, I decided to do the move mostly in my Subaru
Forester. It\'s small, but sufficient. Had I hired a moving van and
crew, I would have had to leave everything next to the road until the
boxes could be moved up the stairs. Small loads take longer, but are
easier to deal with.

Moving out of the office to save on the rent is obvious. Deciding if
I should retire is less obvious. Despite the condition of the
economy, I keep getting calls and emails asking me to do some work.
I\'m taking the easy and quick projects which is slowing down the move.
In the past, the client would demand that I drive or fly to his
location for generally useless meetings. Now, I can say no and the
client understands. Long ago, I decided that I would continue working
as long as there was a demand and my health remained tolerable.
However, carrying boxes up 50 stairs has made me reconsider that plan.
I would not recommend following my example for working at home. If I
had known that I might be working from home, I would have bought a
very different house back in 1973.


--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

 

[Don Y]

On 7/27/2020 11:55 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> Are many of you working from home now?

Sure -- for the past 35 (?) years. But, I\'ve had to get used to \"her\"
being around, continuously, now. <frown> It works out pretty well
as we tend to occupy our own \"work/craft areas\". And, my sleep/wake
schedule is asynchronous wrt hers.

But, there are far more \"interruptions\":

\"Can you get me the Mixmaster so I can bake some date nut bread?\"
\"Can you bring the light table in for me? (now, can you put it away?)\"
\"Are we going to have lunch together?\"
\"Come read this email that Rhonda sent me...\"
\"Jean sent me an eBook. Can you put it on a Nook for me to read?\"
\"Can you show me how to watch this MP4 on the living room TV?\"
\"Alan & Phyllis want your Benne Wafer recipe. Will you give it to them?\"
\"Tony wants to Zoom. How do I do that?\"

(sigh)

The bigger problem is past clients who\'ve decided they should try to
resume our relationship as they know that I can operate without their
physical resources -- despite having told them \"no new business\" many
years ago!

\"Yeah, but this is DIFFERENT! Our shop is *closed*!\"
\"Well, maybe for YOU it is, but *I\'m* just fine with things the way they are!\"

<shrug> I guess they figure it can\'t hurt to *try*. And it
frustrates them that the email accounts I\'d previously set up
for each of them are no longer active -- what part of \"no new
business\" do you not understand? It must *kill* them to have to
type a letter and snail-mail it to me... <grin>

 

[Don Y]

On 7/27/2020 2:11 PM, Klaus Kragelund wrote:

We have had about 2000 cases per million people, 6 times lower than the US.
I hope it will be under control soon in the US

We\'re expecting 1000 *deaths* per million, here (US AZ), this year alone.

That\'s what happens when the governor drinks the kool-aid...

 

[Don Y]

On 7/27/2020 9:24 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:55:46 -0700, John Larkin

I had to make a difficult decision over the old parts. The difficulty
in finding a place in the house to store old parts that might never be
used has forced me to sell, give away, donate, or recycle most of the
pile. Similarly, the old bicycle parts, 33 rpm record collection,
duplicate tools, and welding tanks will be removed to make space. I\'m
down to only two bicycles. I gave away the older chainsaws, but still
have four that could be sold.

Imagine having slot machines, pinball machines, arcade pieces,
electric wheelchairs, parts cabinets, DSOs, LAs, ICEs, ...

The \"computer\" stuff was easiest to address; I \"standardized\" on one
particular make/model machine, kept 6 (I use 4, normally) of them plus
a set of spares (power supplies, memory, fans, disk sleds, monitors,
keyboards, etc.) and donated all the rest of the kit.

Next I\'ll trim down my collection of text and reference books.
I wonder if there are services that will cut the bindings and bulk
scan the pages??

Between the road and the upper levels are about 50 stairs. No
elevator, so I get a good workout carrying boxes up the stairs.
There\'s still some more to move before I can close the doors, which is
scheduled for the end of August. Since I can only carry so much up
the stairs in a day, I decided to do the move mostly in my Subaru
Forester. It\'s small, but sufficient. Had I hired a moving van and
crew, I would have had to leave everything next to the road until the
boxes could be moved up the stairs. Small loads take longer, but are
easier to deal with.

I have a \"refrigerator dolly\" (hand truck with training wheels) that
I use for boxes and large pieces of equipment (e.g., arcade pieces).
There are treads on the rear to help you \"drag\" it up/down the
stairs. And, the \"training wheels\" make it relatively effortless
to move loads on level ground.

<https://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/4XKJ2_AS01>

But, *it* adds a fair bit of weight to the \"load\" so needs to be
worth the added effort.

(thankfully gave away the 80 \"xerox boxes\" of paperbacks many years ago!)

 

[Michael Kellett]

On 28/07/2020 02:32, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

Hey, I was trying to explain a 3-phase shunt chopper regulator to a
lady today, and came to the conclusion that it\'s too hard to think
about. So we Spiced the diode part in about 4 minutes.

Is it just me or is there more innuendo in that sentence than you
intended

MK

 

[Michael Kellett]

On 28/07/2020 06:25, Don Y wrote:

On 7/27/2020 11:55 AM, John Larkin wrote:
Are many of you working from home now?

Sure -- for the past 35 (?) years.  But, I\'ve had to get used to \"her\"
being around, continuously, now.  <frown>  It works out pretty well
as we tend to occupy our own \"work/craft areas\".  And, my sleep/wake
schedule is asynchronous wrt hers.

But, there are far more \"interruptions\":

\"Can you get me the Mixmaster so I can bake some date nut bread?\"
\"Can you bring the light table in for me?  (now, can you put it away?)\"
\"Are we going to have lunch together?\"
\"Come read this email that Rhonda sent me...\"
\"Jean sent me an eBook.  Can you put it on a Nook for me to read?\"
\"Can you show me how to watch this MP4 on the living room TV?\"
\"Alan & Phyllis want your Benne Wafer recipe.  Will you give it to them?\"
\"Tony wants to Zoom.  How do I do that?\"

(sigh)

The bigger problem is past clients who\'ve decided they should try to
resume our relationship as they know that I can operate without their
physical resources -- despite having told them \"no new business\" many
years ago!

\"Yeah, but this is DIFFERENT!  Our shop is *closed*!\"
\"Well, maybe for YOU it is, but *I\'m* just fine with things the way they
are!\"

shrug>  I guess they figure it can\'t hurt to *try*.  And it
frustrates them that the email accounts I\'d previously set up
for each of them are no longer active -- what part of \"no new
business\" do you not understand?  It must *kill* them to have to
type a letter and snail-mail it to me...  <grin

When we last moved (about 11 years ago) I thought about working from
home (I had a factory unit about 650 ft^2 at the last place) but we
didn\'t find a house we liked with suitable space for working. So since
then I\'ve rented a 1000 ft^2 unit about 12 miles from home. (In the
nearest town with proper shops).
It was a good decision, for me anyway, it keeps work separate from home,
no one complains about how I organise it or what I keep in it. There are
several good people in the adjacent units and we operate an informal
barter of services.
The only thing that bothers me is if I should keep it on until I die at
the bench - leaving it for others to sort out, or anticipate my own
demise and get rid of most of my stuff and tinker a bit at home.
I\'ve decided to hang on a while (maybe till I\'m 86 (20 years)) and
review it again then

MK

 

[Don Y]

On 7/28/2020 2:00 AM, Michael Kellett wrote:

On 28/07/2020 06:25, Don Y wrote:
On 7/27/2020 11:55 AM, John Larkin wrote:

When we last moved (about 11 years ago) I thought about working from home (I
had a factory unit about 650 ft^2 at the last place) but we didn\'t find a house
we liked with suitable space for working. So since then I\'ve rented a 1000 ft^2
unit about 12 miles from home. (In the nearest town with proper shops).

In the past, I\'ve had two or more \"spare bedrooms\", a basement, etc.
So, it was silly to pay MORE money for an \"away from home\" space when
I already had \"extra\" space on hand.

It was a good decision, for me anyway, it keeps work separate from home, no one
complains about how I organise it or what I keep in it.

I found having to GO to a place to \"work\" was too high of a hurdle
to undertake \"casually\". \"Maybe I should wait until AFTER I get a bite to
eat (so I don\'t have to try to find something edible THERE)?\" Likewise,
the return trip ended up delayed -- \"Maybe I should wait until after
this animation has rendered?\" Or, \"Let me finish assembling the prototype
while I\'m here...\"

With \"work\" just in the next room (or, down the hall from THIS location
where I\'m typing), its easy to move between the two. So, I can (tonight)
download some software (source code), configure it, compile it and test
it between meals, toilet breaks, shopping trips, etc. And, then move
on to the NEXT piece of software -- instead of having to impose an
artificial limit (time) on what I can get done \"in this work period\".

There are several good
people in the adjacent units and we operate an informal barter of services.

Most of the folks with whom I interact are considerably remote (most of
clients have been in other states, etc.). This works well as it keeps
my interpersonal interactions to be very informal (non-technical). If
I \"need a favor\" (of a technical nature), then I rely on email (for the
\"ask\") and UPS/USPS (to move any physical items).

This tends to discourage \"asks\" -- as it does of my colleagues! :>

The downside is a lack of interpersonal design-kabitzing... you can\'t
just meet at the watercooler and shoot-the-shit. For this, we have
regular (3-4 times/year) \"offsites\" hosted by whichever of us feels
best inclined to do so (or, most guilty of NOT having played host in
recent memory). For the NON-hosting parties, this amounts to a little
vacation -- away from home/office (and possibly family!).

The downside is that you can\'t bring demos that are hard to transport
(which is why I\'ll host the next offsite, here, as my system is much too
large to pack into a suitcase).

The only thing that bothers me is if I should keep it on until I die at the
bench - leaving it for others to sort out, or anticipate my own demise and get
rid of most of my stuff and tinker a bit at home.

When moving here, the extra bedrooms and basement disappeared. This forced
me to rethink how much stuff to keep on hand. And, as the only \"bulk storage\"
space is in the garage (which gets *very* hot in Spring/Monsoon/Summer),
I have to be selective about the sorts of items I want to subject to that
prolonged heat. (hence the reason her Mixmaster resides out there! :>)

So, I\'ve had to find places to stash things indoors where they are more
accessible (and less subject to that slow bake). E.g., I pulled the base/stand
off of my 40\" (ANSI K-size) color document scanner and slid the scanner head
under a bed... TaDa! Out of sight! And, no floor space wasted!!

I\'ve decided to hang on a while (maybe till I\'m 86 (20 years)) and review it
again then

I\'ve already started thinning the mess -- out of consideration for my other
half. I.e., if something \"happened to me\", she\'d never stop cursing as she
tried to get rid of all this \"stuff\"! :-/ (Proof that some folks are
predestined for \"Heaven\"! :> )

She periodically asks that question.
My reply: \"Throw it all away!\"
\"Isn\'t there anyone you want to have it?\"
\"I\'ll ensure that anything that I want to be transferred is transferred.\"
\"Shouldn\'t I try to sell it or give it away?\"
\"Why take on yet another hassle? How will you set a price? Folks will want
to haggle. People will fail to show up to take the items at the agreed upon
time, etc. Just make sure all of the disks are shredded.\"
(I have probably 200TB, on hand)

All of this forces you to ask yourself: if it\'s so easily discarded after
you\'re gone, then why are you holding onto it NOW?? <grin>

So, think about what you have and what\'s really important/valuable to you.
Then, look at all the rest and decide why you can\'t discard it TODAY!

[Every month, I run through a little mental exercise: \"If the house was
ablaze and I could rescue ONE item, what would it be?\" For many years,
now, the answer has been \"nothing\"! (previously, it had been \"the dogs\")]

Having said all that, I still have way too much \"baggage\"! E.g., I have
~1,000 pounds of hand tools (planes, screw/nut/hex/torx/clutch drivers,
dozens of different \"specialty\" hammers, tape rules, squares, clamps, etc.)
And I can\'t bring myself to discard/gift ANY of them! <frown> (I used to
work for a tool manufacturer with a very generous employee store policy!)
It seems there\'s always a need for some oddball tool that I happen to have
on-hand -- instead of having to purchase or jerry-build something. (e.g.,
I had a use for a three-foot long #2 Philips screwdriver a few weeks back)

 

[legg]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:55:46 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

I\'ve been living in the lab for the last few years,
so there\'s not much difference.

RL

 

[Martin Brown]

On 28/07/2020 02:32, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:26:05 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2020-07-27 12:26, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:06:03 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2020-07-27 14:55, John Larkin wrote:


https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

Yes. But I was before. Now my wife is too since her company\'s chemical
business is deemed essential but her presence in the office is not. And
it is surprising how quickly many businesses have adapted at least for
their professionals. Productivity is even marginally up because there
are not as many distractions outside of the office.

The one thing that was initially a fly in the ointment was that my
wife\'s company VPN service had nothing like the capacity for everyone
working from home. It was only ever intended to cater for road warriors.
They have since upgraded that and made their email server capable of
working encrypted directly with mail clients outside of the VPN. Even
call centres have figured out ways that their staff can work from home.

The only problem with us both at home is that our wet string internet
connection cannot support two simultaneous Zoom or Teams video streams.

I reckon rush hour traffic will probably never return to more than 50%
of what it used to be in the pre-Covid era (maybe even less). Companies
have found ways for many people to do many clerical jobs at home and
plenty are happy to do it. Companies that cater quick breakfasts and
lunches for office workers in city centres business model is toast.

There are things that are so much easier to do informally and in person.
Borrowing one of the wizards to look at something for half an hour for
instance now requires a complex meeting setup at a free point in
everyone\'s diary with at least a 24 hour delay.

I have done that for most of my life and never understood why people see
a problem with it, at least for engineering. I have longterm clients
(meaning >10 years) that I have never seen in person but sucessfully
completed lots of product designs.

+1

Although I spent a fair amount of time working in scientific instrument
making before I went into consultancy. I usually do meet clients face to
face at least once if only to have a look around their site.

It is less common for me to meet some of the other contractors that I
work with unless by chance we happen to be on site at the same time or
at a conference.

I work from home apart from the odd day when I am on site - there are
some things that you cannot do to kit remotely but software updates and
testing generally do not require my physical presence.

Been back in the lab for a month. (It has way better A/C than home.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I come in to work most days, so I can sit in front of a different
computer, and use my drafting table, and solder once in a while.


I like my 10 second commute (walking ...).


Apartment rental prices are down here, from astronomical to merely
absurd. Part of the housing pressure was from the Google busses. If
people work from home, it doesn\'t matter where \"home\" is.


Bingo! They finally understood it. It seems some didn\'t, at least not in
the past:

https://distantjob.com/blog/yeah-but-yahoo-learning-from-remote-works-biggest-fail/

But is is amazing how much faster and better people can come to an
understanding when they are face-to-face in front of a whiteboard.

You can install a whiteboard in line with a webcam field of view - it
isn\'t rocket science. That is what teachers and lecturers do now.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Martin Brown]

On 27/07/2020 20:34, edward.ming.lee@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 12:26:14 PM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:06:03 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 2020-07-27 14:55, John Larkin wrote:


https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/report-googles-200000-employees-will-work-from-home-for-another-full-year/

This virus thing might change things, and specifically cities,
forever.

Are many of you working from home now?

Been back in the lab for a month. (It has way better A/C than home.) \'s

It\'s 50C to 60C here. The computers provide better heating than home.

Never known it that hot in any of our offices although one site I used
to visit kept their programmers in an attic where the summer temperature
sometimes hit 45C which made life unbearable for them.

Didn\'t do the computers much good either.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[server]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:48:11 +0100, Michael Kellett <mk@mkesc.co.uk>
wrote:

On 28/07/2020 02:32, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
Hey, I was trying to explain a 3-phase shunt chopper regulator to a
lady today, and came to the conclusion that it\'s too hard to think
about. So we Spiced the diode part in about 4 minutes.

Is it just me or is there more innuendo in that sentence than you
intended

MK

It\'s just you.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

Science teaches us to doubt.

Claude Bernard

 

[Phil Hobbs]

On 2020-07-28 05:00, Michael Kellett wrote:

When we last moved (about 11 years ago) I thought about working from
home (I had a factory unit about 650 ft^2 at the last place) but we
didn\'t find a house we liked with suitable space for working. So since
then I\'ve rented a 1000 ft^2 unit about 12 miles from home. (In the
nearest town with proper shops).
It was a good decision, for me anyway, it keeps work separate from home,
no one complains about how I organise it or what I keep in it.
snip

We have a lab/office about the same size, a bit under 2 miles from my
house and 5 miles from my son\'s place. We could use a bit more lab
space with two of us, but it\'s nice having offices with doors that shut.

Back when I was at IBM Yorktown, I used to be able to walk down the hall
and talk to a world\'s expert on just about anything I needed, from
semiconductor processing to polymers to optics to high-end processor
design. I shared an office wall with the guy that invented dynamic
memory, and a lab wall with the guy that invented self-servowriting for
hard disks.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com