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fecal_henge··on I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher
10 seconds per day is a little over 115 ppm. What is the frequency error of the reference clock that ultimately drives the ADC connected to the microphone?
fecal_henge··on A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests
Can I ask, why are people doing this in the first place? What is their motive to have an agent review code and make pull requests?
fecal_henge··on CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
No link to EDH.
fecal_henge··on Television is 100 years old today
Extra dangerous aspect: On really early CRTs they hadn't quite nailed the glass thicknesses. One failure mode was that the neck that held the electron gun would fail. This would propell the gun through the front of the screen, possibly toward the viewer.
fecal_henge··on Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE
Conversely, traditional SPICE simulators embody an inherently bottom-up approach

- its a lower down approach, but far from the bottom!

fecal_henge··on M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)
Is that hard soldered RAM? Very modern!

You mentioned something about custom holes. What does that mean?

fecal_henge··on East Germany balloon escape
They are just a bit confused about which Martin Luther they hate.
fecal_henge··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Am I right to understand that all those cams are pointed to the street / public places?

- I think you would be wrong to understand that. How on earth did you reach that conclusion?

But how is that different from the thousands of live cams over youtube or the wider internet? Or the poorly secured CCTV watching every angle of any street in most big cities.

- More than one thing can be wrong at once. Requires nuanced thought I accept.

The author then uses face search engines to find personal information on the individuals. That is the creepy part.

- I think he is demonstrating the creepy opportinities. Did he share any of that information? I think anyone with bad intent probably probably not make a video explaining what they did.

fecal_henge··on A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat
I'm massively paranoid that some cable clips I printed that will sit on a circuit board will perish in the heat. Meanwhile, some idiot couldn't care less about thermal stability for flight hardware!
fecal_henge··on I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced
Yet again no justice for the fish.
fecal_henge··on Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
Some people have the capacity to think something is wrong even if they are not affected.
fecal_henge··on AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process
10^5 orchestra hit polyphony.
fecal_henge··on A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
Rare enough though that the Fs/2 is higher than the analogue bandwidth on an oscilloscope.
fecal_henge··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
I'm nearly at the point of saying that a tobacco sales isn't the best analogy here.
fecal_henge··on If you are harassed by lasers
The digikey costs are more (I quoted qty=1 prices though), its the ratio between the component types which is more interesting though.

I think annoying at 10m is sufficient power to require a 'power' LED, so that shouldnt be hard to avoid in a design I would agree. Annoying in your kitchen however is much harder to eyeball a value for (excuse the pun).

fecal_henge··on If you are harassed by lasers
To reply to this and the above comment:

Cheapest light pipe on digikey: 16 cents Cheapest photodiode on digikey: 11 cents Cheapest LED (obviously that annoying blue): 625 milli cents!

Part costs matter! Its not just the BOM, its the NRE from the increased complexity. Im not saying saying its OK, just that its inevitable considering the economic conditions.

I do board level designs and drop down LEDs. If you are not specialising in indicators, its hard to visualise how bright 10mA through your diode is going to be. Add to this that sometimes you never even see the thing you designed!

fecal_henge··on Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
747_getting_started.pdf
fecal_henge··on Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube
Very much so.
fecal_henge··on Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube
I think they also own the land out in front of the shop.
fecal_henge··on Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time
I for one would love to hear what refreshments they would like after the recording.
fecal_henge··on The day Return became Enter (2023)
Also CSV files would not exist.
fecal_henge··on A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
Any rational argument to use mAs instead of mC?
fecal_henge··on UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage
Stop looking at your phone.
fecal_henge··on The FPGA turns 40
You see 6-digits on some prices.

https://www.digikey.co.uk/short/5pz3nnfj

fecal_henge··on DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses, even drugs
..then there is cat DNA left inside the bag?
fecal_henge··on New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda
I find some of these numbers hard to believe sometimes. 40 mm seems really big for a table tennis ball.
fecal_henge··on Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
Id just weigh the roll.
fecal_henge··on TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
Not your typical frame rate either.
fecal_henge··on TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
SerDes is already frequently parallelised. The difference is you never expect the edges or even the entire bits to arrive at the same time. You design your systems to recover timing per link so the skew doesnt become the constraint on the line rate.
fecal_henge··on CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
A Nobel prize is due to the first person that proves whether exporting antimatter results in negative import duties or not.
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