This rings true so hard that it's almost spooky. The two main reasons I tend to avoid power electronics are because I hate getting electrocuted (this happened again just a week ago) and because I keep forgetting when you're supposed to multiply by the square root of three and when you're supposed to divide.<p>(Next week I'll be working with 40 amp relays and some heavy-gauge electrical wiring. Damn it! Is there no escape?)
So true:<p>> The nice thing about power distribution and generation was the math was absolutely trivial compared to the partial differential world of quantum physics. All the answers involve the square root of two. Most power systems math can be summed this way: take a really big number and multiply by the square root of two. You can use three sometimes, but only when things are totally out of control.
"Women make boys want to burn things".
Women are the source of all this, us, hanging around on hacker news; learning, digesting, trying, applying and executing. In the hope of getting successful at what we're actually trying to do, look good and buy ourselves, indirectly or some directly... women.