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Very little uses crystal oscillators, they’re gigantic compared with electronics today and have very wonky performance over temperature and shock.

even txco's?

You probably know this, they don't have wonky performance but are even bigger. An oven around a crystal.

Those would be OCXOs. TXCOs are just temperature compensated.

Every time I trust my memory it betrays me.

I treat my technical memories in discussions like the Russian proverb Reagan popularized in the disarmament negotiations with the Soviets.

  доверяй, но проверяй

“Trust, but verify.”

Meta: Yes, I did a quick search to verify some of this before replying.

I am getting into the questionable habit of arguing my point with an LLM before contributing it these days.

> доверяй, но проверяй

I wasn't aware of the source phrase, nor how much better it sounds phonetically in Russian (doveryay, no proveryay)

I was more used to hearing the "Measure 7 times cut once" russian saying. :D

One of my favorite Russian proverbs translates to basically “the first pancake is always lumpy”.

Very good. Sometimes I‘m too impatient.

I can relate.