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by buescher 2y ago
If by "ridiculously tricky" you mean "requires specialized equipment and domain knowledge". Like say, skiing. With a cheapish Rigol spectrum analyzer and homebrew receive antennas and DIY wooden/pvc tripods you cou
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by buescher 2y ago
Now you just need the vintage "portable" black and white TV set to hook it up to.
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by buescher 2y ago
I am pretty sure a C64 was under $200 by then.
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by buescher 2y ago
It's more a brilliant fusion of earlier text space trader games with 3D space combat. Analogous to the way that Atari's Star Raiders made a 3D space combat game out of the old teletype Star Trek games.
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by buescher 2y ago
It does require a 32k expansion which almost nobody had - I don’t remember pricing from the era but I would guess 32k of static ram (the VIC did not have a DRAM controller) would get you more than halfway to a c64
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by buescher 2y ago
As the kids say, this is correct. It's very good. If you have never read anything like it before, it could be mind-blowing. Her later work like Engineering a Safer World (available as a free pdf if you poke around on the MIT Press we
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by buescher 2y ago
It was sort of a thing for southern California machinists to start peppermill companies, or at least two. I have a vintage William Bounds one marked "made on the third planet from the sun" and I used to have an Olde Thompson I th
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by buescher 2y ago
>Seniors today were professionals using technology 20 years ago. This is correct. Folks, VisiCalc was introduced in 1979, when today's ninety-year-olds were 44. They had not even lived half their current life.
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by buescher 2y ago
It can have wider bandwidth, lower noise+distortion, smaller Vos, maybe other things I'm not recalling off the top of my head. In practical terms, you might not be able to run any test with the ADC that can find the limits of the op a
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by buescher 2y ago
Be aware in a microcontroller design, an lm324-type op amp might outperform the on-chip ADC you’re using anyway. Even the cheapest op amps from major players are better characterized and specified on their data sheets than most microcontro
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by buescher 2y ago
Now if we could just find a way to iterate on methods of doing that, maybe use evolutionary methods, eventually we’d have practical, efficient methods of using solar power to make food!
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by buescher 2y ago
No amount of intelligence or understanding of battery chemistry will make batteries any less dismal and disappointing to the consumer. Ironically, the very cheapest carbon-zinc batteries probably would be kind of OK in this application.
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by buescher 2y ago
I saw that they recommended Energizer lithiums. So would I. Recommendations won't change that behavior, which I am very familiar with. It's ok that you aren't if you're willing to learn something today.
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by buescher 2y ago
I would also imagine someone with a fleet of these would be pretty cheesed if Apple rolled out an update that drained some fair fraction of users' batteries, no matter how fast they fixed it.
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by buescher 2y ago
The third time someone calls to complain that the alkaline batteries they put in this leaked, they'll wish they used a soldered-in 3V lithium primary cell. Even though that goes against a certain ethos.
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by buescher 2y ago
IIRC the packaging pretty much says, should they leak, Energizer really wants to hear about it. For what that's worth.
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by buescher 2y ago
Not immigration - settlement. And not even exactly that in the cases of the French and Spanish. Would you count Hawaiians as 20th century immigrants?
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by buescher 2y ago
You can do a lot of the same kinds of things with Verilog-AMS and VHDL-AMS. Generally with simulators there's a kind of analog to the Turing tarpit - it's not "can I model this thing I know how to model with differential equ
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by buescher 2y ago
Wolfram SystemModeler is a Modelica implementation.
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by buescher 2y ago
For hobby or laboratory purposes, it’s worth a try. Some probably will come back completely. But if you wanted to use them in production, and be able to blame me when it didn’t work, I’d say no.
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by buescher 2y ago
The original article is here: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/11/08/eastern-arizona-girl-sel...
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by buescher 2y ago
I wonder if cultured butters of the past also might have had anti-microbial properties.
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by buescher 2y ago
Cheap is relative, I guess. You can find a used stereo microscope on eBay for well under $100, maybe under $50. Building one out of a pair of binoculars is a classic but relatively advanced DIY project. I’m pretty sure there’s a detailed
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by buescher 2y ago
I gave your example the instruction "Reformat in two-column format, with the ingredients listed on the left side as they are used" (i.e. the style used in Julia Child's _The Art of French Cooking_) and chatgpt failed horribly
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by buescher 2y ago
Or adapting to specific dietary requirements. Simple formats and clear written language go a long way for human use cases.
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by buescher 2y ago
This hurts a little to read. Think about the use cases for recipes: - Shopping - Scaling up/Scaling down - Finding ratios of key ingredients when you're looking at multiple recipes to figure out a dish or what's wrong with t
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by buescher 2y ago
Ronald Quan’s Build Your Own Transistor Radios is pretty good but I have only read it, not built any of the radios in it. The Bowick book is solid for fundamentals like impedance matching and basic filter design. The old brown edition is
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by buescher 2y ago
Some thoughts - this is a good overview of how stagnant the hobbyist state of the art was 20 years ago. You could probably have built all of these circuits with the those exact parts in 1973. Pretty much everything in this collection but th
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by buescher 2y ago
Oh that’s so cool. I love the ribbons of copper curling up. Might be ok for use cases like prototyping antennas - one place I’d still use a pcb mill for the the turnaround time. How is it at removing larger areas of copper?
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by buescher 2y ago
All but one (arguably two) of those predate the web, incidentally.

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