Taniwha

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by Taniwha 3y ago
At least it didn't lock up following the flightplan in a loop ...... (or is that why it really shut down)
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by Taniwha 3y ago
My grandmother had polio as a child, she wore a leg brace her whole life. When I was a kid new vaccines were a medical wonder, to our parents they were world changing - now we have crazy cookers spouting crazy conspiracy theories telling us
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I'm actually switching to a zener for the next rev
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Most chips have input circuits that avoid this and are metastability resistant - though arguably some metastability is a good thing in an RNG
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I tune the bias on the output stage (another 2N3094) - the goal is to get ~50% 1/0 when sampling - note that there's a software time domain filter in there as well - we're measuring after that. If you're making small run
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by Taniwha 3y ago
ah hadn't noticed those - the big problem with this circuit is that if need to need to be able manufacture something it needs to be reliably repeatable - I've found I need to buy a reel made by a particular manufacturer and tweek
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by Taniwha 3y ago
This circuit is just about the standard one that everyone has used for decades (weirdly biased 2N3904s to make an avalanche diode) I sell OneRNGs (currently out of stock more coming soon) that use a version of it, however SMT 2N3904s have b
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I used to live in a small beach-side community in New Zealand, this was back in the time of mechanical (stepper) telephone exchanges. Locally we had 3 digit phone numbers - dialing a "2" would get us a circuit (a actual physical p
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by Taniwha 3y ago
(see my reply above)
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Well I sort of did, didn't want to delete the guy's stuff, so I made a dummy gmail account, switched it to that and deleted the gmail account after weeks of spam emails and trying to contact facebook I figured he could do some of
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Oh I wish that were true, I've been receiving email for years for someone who signed up to facebook with my email address. It's a horrible pain, you can't contact facebook without a facebook account, and I can't create o
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by Taniwha 3y ago
yes, there's a disable interrupt instruction that any code can execute
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I worked with Fred in the late 80s (he was our tools/compiler guy, we ported Unix onto new hardware) he was a great guy to work with
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by Taniwha 3y ago
yup, but on an 80888 that's just an instruction anyone can do
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by Taniwha 3y ago
not mentioned is that some copy protection schemes wrote branches into the code under the prefetch queue so that if you single stepped through it you would hare off into the weeds
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by Taniwha 3y ago
thanks, I worked for one of Paul's companies at one point, sat down with him at a party and talked rockets (I flew them for fun, he was doing the X-prize), in retrospect I really wished I'd told him this story instead :-)
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by Taniwha 3y ago
So about the same time, in college in NZ we wrote a 6800 compiler for an algol like language (fit in 2k, written in assembler), to do bringup (on the university mainframe) we wrote a 6800 interpreter, it wasn't big ~1000 lines (cards),
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Only a little, one big limitation in chips is RC wire delays (the distributed capacitance along a wire needs to be charged/discharged for a signal change to pass) - due to edge effects capacitance doesn't scale with the area of th
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Yes RC wire delays have becoming more important than gate capacitance for a couple of decades now - if R goes to 0 RC delays do too
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I was in Berlin a few days before and attended what was the best concert I ever attended, it was a double header, Sinead and Midnight Oil - it was just her and a tape deck and absolutely brilliant
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by Taniwha 3y ago
You'll see it on almost every cableTV channel these days
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I went there to, or all things port Unix to an AT&T board (like coals to Newcastle) in the mid 80s. There was food available. Went there in the middle of winter, snowing, rental car company gave me an upgrade, some form of caddy land wh
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Not at the pole - the ice is essentially transparent, they made a 3d grid of detectors by melting deep holes in a grid and dropped strings of detectors that then froze in place
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Icecube is at the south pole - the zillions of ton s of water is just ice
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Yes you remember correctly
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by Taniwha 3y ago
this is a totally different company from Kagi the shareware recovery provider
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by Taniwha 3y ago
the wordle question is bugged because it doesn't handle time zones the same way that wordle does - so only works in some places
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by Taniwha 3y ago
It doesn't seem to understand how wordle does timezones
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by Taniwha 3y ago
This chip is for other chip designers - basically when doing chip design you want to make a product that works first time (or explain to your boss why he should spend hi 6 figures on a spin) - so you test test test ... what this is for is t
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by Taniwha 3y ago
this is 4 dies in the one package so real die size is likely 1/4 of this

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