mycatisblack

It’s who you know that matters, not what you know.

I open the vial and tap it slightly so a few fall out. Then I place the on the PCB with paste on the pads. I’m finishing up a high precision impedance meter to be able to sort out capacitors if I mix them up.

One final thing maybe: I stick to the smallest smd size I’m comfortable with: 0805. I keep those stocked and I have a small stock of 1206 and 0603 for repair work.

Slightly different take: first you get te generation of caution, followed by the generation of all-in. As with any novelty that replaces “something requiring effort” with “something low barrier”, it’s going to result in people that followed the wrong learning curve.

The sci-fi fan in me wonders if this is the faulty sprocket that mis-taught the social skills that lowered Japan’s population numbers.

This looks very appealing. I’m using a google spreadsheet, which also maps to grids in small parts drawers. I will give your software a try.

One suggestion: for smd resistors and capacitors I’m using plastic mini vials:

https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S69e6442d03074cd0b...

They come in all sizes and if you drill holes in a thick piece of plastic you can arrange them and put them in a single drawer.

Depends on the branch predictor: correct branch, everything’s loaded and set. Wrong branch: flush it all and load again.

If you know the branch predictor algorithm you can optimise for it.

Edit: it’s on p27

Near-topic: does anyone know of automated deconstruction attempts? i.e. dented car goe in one end, parts come out the other?

It starts looks like a solution in the Fermi Paradox: intelligent species that aren’t intelligent enough will cut themselves of from space travel.

Has he ever hinted about successors?

Offloading the liability for a compiler sounds like common sense to me. How many heads did this company pay? 100, 1000?

Related, compiler bugs aren’t uncommon in the arm-none-eabi family. Especially the cortex m0 seems to have a few that recur every few years.

You know those cigarette lighters with an electric spark? Start a download over wifi, press the lighter a number of times in quick succession. Wifi disconnects.

Well done Sherlock

One of the projects I intend to make some day is a metal detector with 2 pickup coils(*), one in or around the sole of each shoe. Instead of an auditory signal, a vibrating element strapped to my leg or ankle. That way you can metaldetect difficult terrain/non-stop/inconspicuously.

(*) they each work independently, like two metaldetectors. Not the detector type with an RX and TX coil.

You’re turning things around.

When the largest ad company in the world, which also has the largest fingerprint silo in the world, spews out ads that are 100% irrelevant …

Here’s something many people probably don’t know.

I live in a west-Eu country with several well-defined language borders. Each time we cross a border (on holiday), the youtube ads change language. When I’m logged in. I don’t have a driver’s license, yet the most common ad I get is for second hand cars. I’m in a relationship, yet I regularly get ads for dating sites. I have a job, get ads for jobhunting advice. And the other day I got an add specifically for people born before my birth-year minus one.

YouTube’s ads are on the same level as Spotify’s nagging for their subscription: it’s meant to annoy users into buying their ad-free plan. They use real ads as a thin veneer.

Cool!

Had some Japanese song pass by and all the letters were vertically arranged (as is tradition), which made it impossible to find out what artist it was.

Does ON Semi have fabs in the US?

And each new type of candle becomes a source of fine-tuning or revision, progressing us with new ways to find the next candles - cosmological or microscopic.

Which kinda points to the fact that we’re not smart enough to make these steps without “hints”. It’s quite possible that our way of working will lead to a theory of everything in the asymptote, when everything is observed.

Which means there has been created a solid demand for an LLM that helps in these fields with strong expertise , because there are people who work with this stuff for their day job.

So it’ll needed to be contained, and it’ll find its way to the warez groups, rinse, repeat.

   Having lived in both systems and currently living in a country that clearly reflects the European mindset, I feel well positioned to compare the two.

Having lived in Turkey, which you feel is heavily influenced by US culture, does not make you well positioned to compare EU and US.

I remember things sped up shortly after Saddam became vocal about having his oil paid in euros.

I must have completely missed those speeches. Looked it up,

   At a "Believers' Summit" event hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 26, 2024, Donald Trump told an audience of Christian voters:
   "You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
   He also said: "Christians get out and vote. Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians."

Looks like we’re out of the short term loops and well into the decadal effects with this man.

As a European, I’d like to add that the impulse response on the collective memory will be multi-generational.

Come to think of it, our societies have a lot of mechanisms to ensure that human fossils will be close to non-existing. In my part of the world, bodies or even the smallest remains are retrieved. Even if it means dredging a lake. And when they dredge the lake they find a different body or clues to solve a decades-long disappearance mystery. What I’m getting at is that our bodies always end up in a wooden box or incinerated. Neither of which is conducive to fossilisation.

I wonder if there could be a way to opt for “likely natural fossilisation” in your testament.

My first thought when reading the title was “divide & conquer”

With bitcoins

I just hope there’s enough time between an actual AI and the “Let’s butcher this to pump out ads”-version to publish a definitive version of wikipedia. After a few days with gemini 2.0 delving into the guts of a spectrum analyser, I’m very impressed by the capabilities. But my cynicism gland is fed by the nature of this everything-as-a-service. To run an LLM on your computer, locally, without internet, is just a few clicks. But that’s not the direction these software behemoths are going.

As a non-native English understander, I find it funny that discussions related to politics are “flagged”. I.e. carrying a flag.

   In order to be able to design equipment, the instrumentation generally needs to outperform the equipment, sometimes by a significant margin.

Flashback to my days as beginning TLP engineer. I was subjecting ESD protection structures to kV pulses with ~nanosec rise-time. The oscilloscope measures the pulse as it enters and reflects. You’d increase the voltage until the device breaks and do a wafer mapping. I remember a conversation where I showed the setup to a colleague from a diff department, telling him we’re developing next-gen protection against static discharges.

To which he replies: why don’t we use what the guys from the oscilloscope are using?

And only works when you’re connected to the internet.

Very cool! I have to ask: what would the total size be if the package included the bios functions?

Also: what could be done if the size limit were 8kbyte like the mask-rom bios days?

Thanks for pointing me towards the bosh emulator.

You should watch Civil War (2024) some time. The disbelief is shrinking on that one.