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by buescher 4y ago
Somehow they have private insurance in Europe too. Germany has universal health care and you are well advised to get private insurance if you make enough that the state will allow you to buy it. The threshold is a salary of about $68K&#x2
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by buescher 4y ago
They implemented their own complete design flow for flexible TFT. That's pretty cool. I'm not so sure there's a real use case for a 70 KHz flex 6502. Is "for IoT" the new "for developing countries", a sh
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by buescher 4y ago
I've noticed this too. A couple things: 1) The OEM battery was probably fresher than the one that wound its way through retail distribution and then sat in a drawer at your house for longer than you realize 2) By the time you have to
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by buescher 4y ago
Panasonic Eneloops and similar modern low-self-discharge NiMH batteries are really nice. Their capacity is not quite as high as alkalines, but their internal resistance is an order of magnitude lower. At loads over 100mA, they're a f
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by buescher 4y ago
Energizer lithium. It's what I put in nice things I use infrequently.
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by buescher 4y ago
Some roman may have left it in Germany.
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by buescher 4y ago
Good point.
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by buescher 4y ago
You could have position feedback on the mirrors and periodically calibrate the transfer function of mirror position to focus point at night.
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Focus on Gianduia (2011)(dallasfood.org)
1 points by buescher 4y ago|0 comments
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by buescher 4y ago
The short-lived Dallas Food blog had, among its memorable long-form pieces, a great 35+-post series on gianduja: https://dallasfood.org/2011/01/gianduia-gianduja-nutella-par...
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by buescher 4y ago
Needs a 2640 series graphics terminal or two with a plotter. I used one, briefly, over thirty years ago as an intern, and it was ancient then. I was amused that its Fortran dialect was an enhanced Fortran IV. It had a multi-user, multitas
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by buescher 4y ago
Koopman's Better Embedded Software should give you some good things to ask about.
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by buescher 4y ago
It's really more of a proto-agile approach! I've never done the manual first personally, though I had a boss that had been on a project run that way early in his career who always wanted to do things that way again. The idea is
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by buescher 4y ago
Koopman is the real deal. Big fan of the RTX-2000 here, and his embedded software book is excellent. But my recollection is that he and Barr found no such particular bit - the argument was, if one task failed, which could be due to any nu
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by buescher 4y ago
Toyota lost the lawsuit on their development processes and firmware design. As far as I know, no specific bug that would cause unintended acceleration was ever found.
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by buescher 4y ago
I can see the value of it for people who are going to say, build some electronic doodad once in their life as a sort of summer camp or survey course or adult enrichment activity.
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by buescher 4y ago
So what? Do you pass on memes about how there ought to be a required class, as if there weren't one, that you actually were required to take in school?
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by buescher 5y ago
Sorry, for some reason I saw $11, not 11 cents and thought you were looking at a broker site at a very particular part. The biggest reason I wouldn't use Padauk microcontrollers is that they're not available in north american dist
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by buescher 5y ago
555 timer is a sub-10-cent part in quantity. Digi-key even has the NE555P in stock for 40 cents onesies and 11 cents in 2500 unit orders. And there's a parts shortage on, if you haven't looked lately. Yeah, don't use cheap
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by buescher 5y ago
And your point is? Most people will learn about Alexander at some point in their education; you might notice he wasn’t American either. Same for the Roman Empire.
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by buescher 5y ago
I got in the habit years ago of writing dates “27 February 2013” - recommended by some guidelines for lab notebooks as the least ambiguous.
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by buescher 5y ago
I loved the Rhodia meeting books until I got one whose pages (they’re perforated) all fell out. The paper is nice otherwise and the format is great. A blaze orange notebook - they are available from other brands too - is incidentally very
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by buescher 5y ago
It's a subject you probably heard about at least three times in secondary school. If you forgot, look it up. It's like these people who were in the same state-required economics class I had to take in high school who pass arou
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by buescher 5y ago
I like JED for that.
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by buescher 5y ago
The poor-man's scope, yes. I still have an AM-radio-sized battery-operated amplifier from Radio Shack in my toolbox, but it's been a long time since I used it. An AM radio works too, and works above audio frequencies, wirelessly!
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by buescher 5y ago
You will use a multimeter a lot more than an oscilloscope. An oscilloscope is invaluable if something dynamic isn't working correctly. All that LCR stuff becomes real when you can see it. SPI bus and i2c bus issues become possible to
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by buescher 5y ago
That's a 10db difference in efficiency, which just means it's an efficient speaker, maybe not as efficient as a good horn-loaded speaker.
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by buescher 5y ago
You basically get all of that back with a decent rewards or cash-back card, plus you get the protections of buying with a credit card, and some of them are no fee.
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by buescher 5y ago
You can learn a lot of that kind of thing from reading app notes and data sheets carefully when you're starting out. For analog, the old applications handbooks from National, Burr-Brown, Analog, Linear, etc. are all available scanned
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by buescher 5y ago
LTSpice is probably better for beginners, and my impression is that it is faster at the things it can do. Micro-Cap is really nice and does a whole lot more, though. And they're free, so you can have both!

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