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by buescher 6mo ago
No.
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by buescher 6mo ago
Just have an AI make a video out of it, I guess.
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by buescher 7mo ago
Because it told you so!
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by buescher 7mo ago
I am reminded of the passage in Umberto Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_ where they reconstruct a particularly wild weekend for a Templar based on the rule of the Templars and the idea that a rule exists because it's something peo
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by buescher 7mo ago
Fresh produce is pretty inexpensive here for the most part. But fresh herbs (like thyme, not a euphemism) are sold in small quantities (15g-20g) in plastic clamshell packaging in groceries for $2-$4 each. You don’t need a $900 gadget to gr
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by buescher 7mo ago
You can turn almost all of those buttons off in the settings and save it as a template. The only complaint I ever got was from somone who wanted to use the highlighter instead of the built-in comment management system.
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by buescher 7mo ago
"Can" does not mean "always will without fail". On the flip side, you will never catch things in review if you don't review. Having a specific review for new parts helps to keep footprint errors from "passing
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by buescher 8mo ago
There's another updated version of that prolog here along with some links, including an archived article from Microsoft Research on how it was (once upon a time) used in Windows NT network configuration: https://github.com&#
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by buescher 8mo ago
I thought so. I'm a fan of Glider. I personally reach for LTspice from Analog Devices first even if I have better available - it is quick, easy enough to use, and someone has ported the model you need to it already. There is a Mac ve
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by buescher 8mo ago
You can catch it with a footprint review. List all your new footprints or old footprints assigned to new parts, and have someone else check them against the datasheets. Or if you ever have the good fortune to work with a very good layout
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by buescher 8mo ago
Altium has taken over a lot of small to medium sized shops. Mostly because the price is right for its capability. It also has a history of being the least bad compromise between the odd mixtures of excellence and user-hostility Cadence an
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by buescher 8mo ago
You essentially can practice the classical art of memory on a 2D representation (think why you can remember who was at lunch by thinking about where they sat), and it's useful to have them at different levels. Almost any nontrivial sc
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by buescher 8mo ago
There are many. What's your (computing) platform and what are you trying to simulate? The more professional tools (beginning with freebies like LTspice) are oriented around letting you probe waveforms from simulated inputs and are no
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by buescher 8mo ago
I mean when they put parts down on the schematic and just attach net names to them. You know, the pull-up resistors in the corner with named nets on them, not shown attached to particular pins or buses. Usually with a dotted box drawn aro
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by buescher 8mo ago
Better simulators can do parameter sweeps and monte carlo simulations so you can explore tolerance stackup issues. But most of the failure modes you've listed there are just why you shouldn't build your circuits for one on breadb
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by buescher 8mo ago
Schematics also help explain your circuit because the idioms of drawing them communicate intent. Which is one of the things the Shenzhen/Ladyada/Sparkfun/SeedStudio crowd don't get with their "schematic as data ent
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by buescher 8mo ago
Some people like Everycircuit and Falstad for that.
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by buescher 8mo ago
I'm not too familiar with the ESP32 ADCs except I remember they're unusually lightly specified even for microcontroller ADCs. If "the knowledge" involves things you couldn't do - or rely on - in production like care
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by buescher 8mo ago
It's not surprising that people who write professionally would learn one tool to the point it gets out of the way and then not want to change. It's not just sticking with the first thing they learned - there's a constant chu
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by buescher 8mo ago
Probably SharePoint lists, even though they’re even less relational. That’s probably a good constraint on most users ironically.
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by buescher 8mo ago
I increasingly use the rubber-ducking I do with an llm as a sort of engineering notebook or complement to one - I wish they had better search features.
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by buescher 8mo ago
There's a digital code as part of the WWV transmissions (!) but you're right that the typical "atomic" clock doesn't sychcronize to the HF stations. There are weak wwvb simulators out there as phone apps and such th
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by buescher 8mo ago
>because I simply want the person to shut the fuck up Because you don't want to think about what they have to say, which is why you choose that approach to ending the conversation.
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by buescher 8mo ago
That’s another one that’s true but particularly irritating when used as a cheap shot. I have responses for that like “Is it good when it breaks? Who owns it when it does?” Sort of like “are you fast if you don’t finish? Are you finished
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by buescher 8mo ago
“All models are wrong, some are useful” is frequently misused or misunderstood this way.
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by buescher 8mo ago
You can find the fcc notices in manuals if you search on espressif’s module grantee code which is 2AC7Z. Espressif is extremely widely used.
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by buescher 8mo ago
Yes. Lapack was the successor to linpack and I seem to recall some of the linpack routines going back much further than the eighties. MATLAB (which existed before the commercial release in 1984) was built on linpack.
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by buescher 8mo ago
At this point, I hoard llm chats and projects, and struggle to turn them into action. There are only so many hours in a day.
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by buescher 8mo ago
It depends on the system's potential failure modes and what's required by your safety standard, not on one engineer's opinion of what's "best".
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by buescher 8mo ago
Interesting. I didn't know that.

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