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by bloggie 2y ago
The bulk of the work is mundane and can be done anywhere in the world, so pay is rather low. The work consists, much like pure software programming, of taking functional requirements and translating them into smaller chunks. Those become ha
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by bloggie 2y ago
There are a few reasons. Smaller ball size means more surface area. When the paste flows, the surface tension of the solder makes it cling to the part and pad, and moves the part to align with the pad. With more surface area, you can start
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by bloggie 2y ago
>They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated and critical of each and every tiny detail, including on the need
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Raspberry Pi RP2350A SMPS – Inductor Polarity(eevblog.com)
5 points by bloggie 2y ago|1 comments
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by bloggie 2y ago
The new RP2350 has a common problem that designers decided to solve in a unique way - by working with an inductor manufacturer to produce orientation-controlled wirewound power SMT inductors for this specific purpose. Analogue design is dif
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by bloggie 2y ago
"Unlock Gemini Advanced for a year on us ($239 value)" Who thinks they are booking phone sales as AI revenue to juice the numbers?
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by bloggie 2y ago
they also work as soon as you get off the plane! so you don't have to waste time buying an overpriced SIM at the airport while jet-lagged in a foreign language at a kiosk that may be closed.
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by bloggie 2y ago
I found it here: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/nasas-m...
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by bloggie 2y ago
I use eSIMs exclusively for travelling. They are extremely convenient and the cost is great. The alternative is often handing over your passport to a random shop seller that then does who-knows-what with it before handing over an expensive
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by bloggie 2y ago
What a great reply. Thanks for the explanation! My point (which probably ends up taking away from my main point of death-by-a-thousand-cuts) of ELTs being marginally useful is based on an article in one of the flying mags I read earlier thi
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by bloggie 2y ago
I feel that your third paragraph justifies the sentiment in the second? If left to their own devices, a functionary will add enough regulation to kill any fun activity, because they are not affected by the decisions they make. Another examp
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by bloggie 2y ago
What are you trying that other companies have not tried? Ballistic parachutes are available on several aircraft. If you load up on redundancy - well, electronics redundancy it seems, since the rest of the aircraft seems to be a Sling TSi -
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by bloggie 2y ago
Everything i'm going to say here is conjecture, but I don't believe that market pressures have allowed for much innovation in the high-quality PC monitor space. In the last 5-8 years we have seen the disappearance of small economi
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by bloggie 2y ago
My optimistic side tells me that Blue Origin was founded as a tech lab / app lab / skunkworks and not necessarily as a company with the goal of putting humans in space, that has suffered from said bullshitting. But my cynical side
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by bloggie 2y ago
I have this one, it was great for debugging an annoying transient during power-on which some combinations of hardware with caps on the edge of tolerance had! In the field too!
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by bloggie 2y ago
Not using Yocto simplifies and speeds development extremely, unless you have dedicated staff familiar with Yocto. It’s a big reason to prefer Pi.
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by bloggie 2y ago
Rolex? They take $10 of cheap metal, sell it for $10k, and use the profits to fund the charity.
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by bloggie 2y ago
Small computers like RPi make it easy to access the low-level peripherals such as SPI, which this small screen uses, and others like GPIOs. If your big-computer has such peripherals available to the OS, you can use them also. Before small c
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by bloggie 2y ago
Well put. And I agree. I draw similarities between RPi and OtherOS on the PS3. Sony permitted Linux on their consoles and in exchange the hardware was locked. PS3 was not hacked until they removed the OtherOS feature and was the last consol
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by bloggie 2y ago
Funny you mention Intel. I got burned by Intel Edison getting discontinued. Intel has certainly burned their bridges with the embedded industry and I certainly would never buy from them if they chose to re-enter.
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by bloggie 2y ago
I find it confounding how 'cozy' RPi's relationship is with the open-source community given how little of their project is open-source. But I infer that open-source hardware and low-level software is much less important, inte
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by bloggie 2y ago
Can you explain? TikTok is banned in China too.
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by bloggie 2y ago
Answering generally I would say yes, they are one of the common types of lasers that could be chosen depending on the application
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by bloggie 3y ago
Keep in mind that is the constant (average) power. Assuming this is a Q-switched laser with ~10 ns pulse duration, peak power is ~70 kW. (Kind of low as far as lasers go these days, but it's just a laser marker)
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by bloggie 3y ago
These do exist, here's one I saw recently: https://www.laserpwr.net/hand-held-laser/hand-held-laser-2.h...
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by bloggie 3y ago
I like the idea that someone out there didn't want an ugly helicopter on their yacht, so they got a second yacht just for the helicopter.
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by bloggie 3y ago
I think OpenAI has been using the excuse that GPT-4 is not AGI, and therefore can remain closed-source.
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by bloggie 3y ago
Isn’t that the expected outcome when energy production eventually outpaces the planet’s ability to dissipate energy into space?
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by bloggie 3y ago
There is a lot of cost savings in taking COTS parts and qualifying them for space vs. designing new space-qualified parts, we will see more of this in the future especially with expensive niche technologies with a lot of crossover such as o
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by bloggie 3y ago
I don't really have numbers for you, but there are currently 120 kW+ fiber lasers. A lot of the difficulty is in coupling, small defects or misalignment can easily self-destruct. ( https://www.ipgphotonics.com/en/pr

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