u/shoobe01

End of the range evening last night, someone realizes that their one PEQ15 has decided to run off and join the circus. Was on his one rifle at the least drill, is not now.

I kept packing while several others did sweeps with white light, but it's a big area with vehicles and obstacles and so on, so they get nowhere.

Once packed and I realize there are still searching I pop open the one pelican and grab a thermal pocketscope: under a minute later I have found it, sitting on a range road maybe 10 ft from the tables where their gear is.

I have a 2017 SE with, I am led to believe, the HIDs. If there's a way to confirm equipment like this, do tell where I find it (VIN decoders seem useless).

The right side main light went out months ago and I ignored it because poor (haven't worked in months) and tonight the left started going out. Blinking and pulsing periodically but often out. So, cannot drive the car at night anymore till fixed.

https://reddit.com/link/1tmwsy0/video/j9g23u29b73h1/player

So... from what I can tell there is NO straight LED replacement for these. What IS there then? And why do I sometimes see hugely expensive total replacements (mentioned, no links I can find that work) and sometimes just bulbs installed like this when... I thought HIDs didn't have bulbs per se? VLAND projectors, by saying Halogen Model seems to imply not for my car, right?

Help, need basic orientation as to what is going on with these weird things, then presumably specifics as to what to buy to get lights running again. I hope just half a day of disassembly and the Osram bulbs but want to get your knowledge to not waste my time and money.

Thanks!!!

One of the tactics you hear to find a job is to create the one you want. Occasionally I'll hear about a company, or find a product that clearly needs help and is very much in my wheelhouse, contact them. A few positive responses though it hasn't worked to get actual work yet, but it's something else to keep me off the streets.

Well today I was using an app on an iPad in a medical setting that was just awful. Poked around a bit before returning to the desk and found who made it. Looked them up expecting it to be a small place full of engineers, sales, and little else; lots of products are like that, and they have one of the devs pick some colors to apply to the library, call the design done.

Nope. Instead, it seems rather lousy with designers. A director level, and at least half a dozen below. Doing... what? Because sure it's consistently using brand colors and stuff but is architecturally indifferent, and interactively a mess (and that's before we get to data structure and wording issues). Here — for just one of a lot of things I found wrong — you see a lot of probably-PDFs, with a visible signature block. Cannot sign, cannot click on the sig block. You instead must click a button upper right to open a dialog, then sign that wint the finger. Oh, and if you scribble too wide, you hit the edge of the dialog and start scooting it around instead.

https://preview.redd.it/aamge4ieqdyg1.jpg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74c8a1c535032d10c6aa120cda49ea0a98344d7b

So, totally setting aside my personal job search issues, it is another depressing example where it sometimes seems that — at scale...your org may be lovely — UX is dead; IA, ID, and IxD barely exist in many orgs, and it is all UI with little consideration of user journeys or flows.

(Sorry if too topic. Sorry if this is where you work, but I didn't call you out by name and we have to have these conversations to keep ourselves relevant and I say even ethically pursuing our practice).