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901.
by crote 10mo ago
On the other hand, it was only a couple of months ago when the Navy did a double tap to kill the survivors of their attack on an alleged "drug boat". Clearly the military isn't strictly following the whole "don't fo
902.
by crote 10mo ago
Just because the engine is running doesn't mean the car is moving forwards.
903.
by crote 10mo ago
It used to be extremely expensive! The Washington Monument has an aluminum cap, which at the time was as expensive as silver. Two years later the Hall-Héroult process was invented, and as a result the price plummeted.
904.
by crote 10mo ago
That's the "a pain to work with" part. Residential aluminum is a Really Bad Idea because DIY Dave will inevitably do something wrong - which then leads to a fire hazard. Copper is a lot more forgiving. But a large scale dat
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by crote 10mo ago
That's why my calculation example used a 1.5mm2 copper wire but a 2.4mm2 aluminum one. Aluminum has a higher resistance, which means the same diameter will get hotter than copper. Make the cable thicker and its resistance drops, whic
906.
by crote 10mo ago
We should just redefine it to make the speed of light a nice even 300.000 km/s - we are so close already!
907.
by crote 10mo ago
With regards to the copper market: it keeps surprising me that some people seem to assume copper is a hard requirement for conducting electricity. In reality copper is just convenient . We use it because it's easy to work with, a grea
908.
by crote 10mo ago
The intent isn't true independence. I think we can all come up with half a dozen ways for AWS US to add backdoors when required to do so by the US government. This moves makes a lot more sense when you view it as a compliance checkbox
909.
by crote 10mo ago
No, I mean adding a "use your location" button yourself which the user has to click before it uses the geolocation API, rather than just blindly requesting it on page load. The only reason people block it in settings is because th
910.
by crote 10mo ago
I'm a bit confused about how it actually works, and somehow they decided to not include a demonstration video. If clicking on it does trigger a location permission prompt: what's the point? The "issues" with prompts ge
911.
by crote 10mo ago
CAD tools also really don't like changes in the history. A tiny change in one step can corrupt the entire model, because a subsequent step can no longer properly "attach" to a reference point which no longer exists. Fixing
912.
by crote 10mo ago
SQLite doesn't accept external contributions, and the dev team recently consisted of three people. In other words: its use of any specific VCS is pretty much irrelevant.
913.
by crote 10mo ago
The parts library has a massive value. For a lot of parts the exact details aren't crucial. If I'm using 4k7 0603 I2C pullup resistors I'm more than happy to swap them for 5k6 0402 if they just so happen to have a reel of t
914.
by crote 10mo ago
The pipeline is a massive one - especially for PCBA. Being able to get an instant quote and order in 5 minutes is worth a lot . Nobody wants a 2-week-long back-and-forth with sales and engineering for a basic prototype run.
915.
by crote 10mo ago
Aisler is decent for bare boards, but their PCBA is several orders of magnitude more expensive due to the setup & handling fees. JLCPCB has this down to a science, with their preloaded (and therefore dirt-cheap) "basic parts"
916.
by crote 10mo ago
Europe is starting crack down on individual CN import - for exactly this reason. But that's still not going to solve the real problems EU-based hardware companies run into. The whole problem is that the EU electronics industy is la
917.
by crote 10mo ago
Could you perhaps share those PCBA businesses with us? I tried quite hard to find them when I was still in the hardware world, and I never managed to find anything even remotely close to what China offers at less than 10x the price. I&#x2
918.
by crote 10mo ago
That depends on your definition of "competitive", doesn't it? Being 3x as expensive as China but 0.1x as expensive as current small-scale EU manufacturing can be extremely competitive. Plenty of people looking for <1000
919.
by crote 10mo ago
The problem is the gap between hobbyist project and hundred-thousand-unit production run. You can't easily and cheaply get 10, 100, or 1000 units manufactured in the EU the way you can in China. This pretty much kills hardware startups
920.
by crote 10mo ago
The regulations argument is a red herring: those mostly apply to electronics products sold in the EU, not manufactured in the EU. You have exactly the same burden trying to sell CN-manufactured hardware in the EU. Worker's shortage
921.
by crote 10mo ago
Small brands put a lot of energy into their sales experience and aftersales support. They are trying to get repeat customers. Amazon leads to one-off sales, with your product becoming indistinguishable from hundreds of different stores. The
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by crote 10mo ago
Except that Linus does basically zero programming these days. He's a manager, combining code from the subsystem managers below him into a final release.
923.
by crote 10mo ago
10G is looking to be the end for twisted-pair copper. 25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T were standardized 10 years ago, but there are still basically zero products available with support for it. The datacenter market just wasn't interested and c
924.
by crote 10mo ago
"10GBASE-T runs hot" is only half true. The real problem here is that 10GBASE-T is ancient . The spec dates back to 2006! And worst of all: it only saw lukewarm adoption by the datacenter industry, so there hasn't really bee
925.
by crote 10mo ago
The main difference is that tiny mistakes in the nuclear industry can have massive consequences. A seemingly-trivial change can lead to continent-sized damages and permanent condemnation of city-sized areas of land. Accidents in the fossil
926.
by crote 10mo ago
Mobile is a massive chicken-and-egg problem. The main purpose of a smartphone these days is to run apps. Nobody is going to buy a smartphone which can't run the apps they need in their day-to-day life. On the other hand, no company i
927.
by crote 10mo ago
Being indexed in a search engine benefits the website owner, as it drives traffic towards the website. Being used as AI training data provides negative value for a website owner, as it takes traffic away. It's the difference between a
928.
by crote 10mo ago
> You can search Google for free I thought the ads counted as payment? That seems to be the logic used to take technical measures against adblockers on YouTube while pushing users towards a paid ad-free subscription, at least. If viewing
929.
by crote 10mo ago
So why did the Blue Team lose the Millennium Challenge? Where were its destroyer-equivalents? Were they deliberately excluded from a massive $250M free-play wargame for operational reasons? If so, why wasn't Ripper explicitly told th
930.
by crote 10mo ago
And it's not uncommon for devices to be mapped multiple times in the address space! The different aliases provide slightly different ways of accessing it. For example, 0x000-0x0ff providing linear access to memory bank A, 0x100-0x1ff

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