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by buescher 4y ago
Could be so, and it can depend on the flux and the processing, but it's almost never the flux. From a 10,000 ft look at your project, I wouldn't expect it to need the high isolation or high impedances that would drive a serious c
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by buescher 4y ago
Sponges - if you have a decent iron, you should be using a clean, damp-not-wet, sulfur-free, cellulose sponge. This means: buy the type sold for use with a soldering iron, squeeze the water out of it after wetting it, and switch to a fresh
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by buescher 4y ago
They were all broken, but there is still material about the projects out there. https://hypergami.org/ https://agentsheets.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/modelitproject/learner
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by buescher 4y ago
Neat. I thought it was a peculiar visualization of Conway's Life at first, but it's got a more complex set of rules. The presentation and controls are pretty good. I'd like to be able to see which organism type is which, a
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by buescher 4y ago
You should be terrified, then, that humans walk among you.
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by buescher 4y ago
Here's the account in his own words, including the famous quote: "Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms, and yet he knows perfectly well that if I had him in a steel trap I would shut out all human succor and wa
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by buescher 4y ago
I am pretty sure I have seen it on Ubuntu also.
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by buescher 4y ago
There are in fact human-readable ascii formats for board layout, like the old PADS ascii format and whatever KiCAD does. I saw some experiments using ChatGPT to make KiCAD footprints and it was not promising.
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by buescher 4y ago
This happened at some point in the nineties, right?
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by buescher 4y ago
>Public schools are heavily funded by property taxes. Not in California.
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by buescher 4y ago
What I frequently see is "the simplest thing that could plausibly work"
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by buescher 4y ago
Stands to reason. Most of the working population is borderline illiterate in English anyway, why would anyone want to major in it? One thing some of the STEM-is-the-only-way-to-keep-the-wolves-from-the-door advocates might not realize is t
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by buescher 4y ago
They do make some attempts on their web site to steer you into the yearly subscription, or into buying a yearly support contract if you do buy a permanent license, so some folks might not realize the permanent licenses are still available w
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by buescher 4y ago
C-f "cultural appropriation"... nope.
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by buescher 4y ago
Yeah, resistor kits. Supplement them with an ample supply of 1K and 10K resistors.
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by buescher 4y ago
Especially don't buy: old-school digital IC assortments (if they still market those) and electrolytic capacitors. If you are using substantial discrete digital logic in 2023, we can be friends if we're not already, but you shouldn
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by buescher 4y ago
Bingo. If you can't afford a used Metcal, you can afford a Hakko clone and Hakko tips, and if you can't afford that, there's a pretty small gradient from a $5 Harbor Freight open-loop carpet-burner to whatever else is in-bet
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by buescher 4y ago
Animals, disasters, machines, and viruses don't make chatbots or conduct the thought experiment of hooking them up to lethally hazardous machines.
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by buescher 4y ago
I think self-driving cars are sort of nuts too for other reasons but the companies doing those are supposed to be doing a lot of safety engineering - to make sure responses in safety-critical controls are predictably safe. Nothing is perfe
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by buescher 4y ago
I don't think we really disagree. It is a human moral decision to kill that kills, so it is a human that is morally responsible. Putting an unpredictable chatbot in a safety-critical loop is simply deranged in a very strict sense of
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by buescher 4y ago
AIs don't kill people. People kill people.
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by buescher 4y ago
I used it in place of the calculator on mine.
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by buescher 4y ago
The ESP32 is very roughly equivalent to a Pentium 90, right? So I would expect early 80s arcade emulation to be marginal to good. You could get DOS and Windows packages of emulated arcade games in the early-mid 90s.
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by buescher 4y ago
Except that the Mechanical Turk is actually playing chess - there is no hidden chess master.
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by buescher 4y ago
But of course, you'll need practice emulating a robot in the future, just to live with everyone else who does.
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by buescher 4y ago
Humor involves a point of view, and that's not allowed. Just ask ChatGPT.
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by buescher 4y ago
But then they'll go shopping and burn more fossil fuels and buy more things that set Bangladeshi factories on fire! And throw their old things in trash incinerators! Shouldn't they just have to eat their old boots when they can&
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by buescher 4y ago
Oh ok, I was wrong. Working people should spend more of their paychecks on boots to prevent fires in Bangladeshi factories, and then it will be more comfortable walking to work because they can't afford a car. And no shopping in your
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by buescher 4y ago
The boots theory does not really hold for mass produced items, including boots. A usable pair of cheaply made boots costs less than resoling a good pair of boots. I propose the Buzz Bissinger boots theory: Buzz is not rich because he buys
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by buescher 4y ago
There are obviously many things wrong with modernity. Keep going.

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