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by hilbert42 4mo ago
I still have well over a dozen of those IBM modules together with their paperwork and circuit diagrams (somewhere in my miles of files). They've been getting in the way and I've been meaning to chuck them away on many an occasion
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by hilbert42 4mo ago
For the cognoscenti it is—like Linux, but for the vast majority it's not. If you've ever run an IT department in a large operation (which I have) then you'd never say that. People insist on Windows at work because it's s
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by hilbert42 4mo ago
Microsoft is effectively a monopoly, to say it's anything else and that other browsers are available is a nonsense for reasons that everyone knows. Appealing to reason is a waste of time as no big monopolistic corporation will willin
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by hilbert42 4mo ago
Increasing taxes on exploitive mining multinationals that get minerals, coal and gas for a fraction of its worth and make a financial killing at the expense of the Australian public would have been much more popular but the timid Government
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
I can play Bach to some extent with practice. I'd qualify that though by saying a multi-part fugue from say The Musical Offering would be a tall order. I've never had any pretense at being good enough to entertain people with th
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
I'm left-handed too and frankly a left-handed mouse is a nuisance and awkward to use (I never use one), same with other peripherals. Still I prefer to use scissors with the left hand and most are right-handed. It's a damn nuisance
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Very true, see my comment playing piano as a left-hander.
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
See my comment, I'm much better at playing with my less dominant hand (even after many years).
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
It's interesting that the piano is essentially a right handed instrument in that melody/the main theme is mostly played by the right hand. As a left-hander, it's very obvious to me. That said—because of the above point—my rig
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Seems to me we're going to have to let the anti-encryption mob have their way until things go wrong—bigtime. No amount of expert advice will convince them until they witness firsthand the negative consequences of weakening encryption.
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
A truly great communicator, we need more like him.
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Fascinating development. That means much, much greater control over ink deposition. No doubt a potential worry for currency producers. Inkjets that have control over the physical build up of ink structure would pose an even greater threat o
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Stats—the number killed per annum through failure—will determine the true effectiveness of this change. In the meantime, I'll continue to rely on the physical movement of full atoms for my braking. Electrons without an accompanying nuc
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
I'd agree with this assessment. Moreover, if developers were to stick with the eminently satisfactory CUA (IBM's Common User Access) interface standard and further regularize that then things would be much easier. https:/&#x
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Try 'teaching calculus to a dog', it's easier to visualize.
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
"…I never was someone who could stop asking “why?”" When a kid of about four I found a pair of WWII headphones and took them to my father who pulled out the iron diaphragm and showed me magnetism at work—somehow some magical for
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Incidentally, in my post below on the MIT RadLab series I mention Vol 23. On p183 parasitic oscillation is mentioned. Also, I recall when working in the now defunct RCA prototype lab, one of the main cure-alls for parasitic oscillations was
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
"The first time I saw all the decoupling caps rendered in a single chain on the side of the diagram I was mightily confused…" If you've read my other comments here you'll realize I'm concerned that these days EE t
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Excellent training, especially the parasitic bit. Trouble is somehow many aren't taught that stuff nowadays.
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
"You learned when analogue circuitry was the norm. I learned when digital circuitry..." What's not taught properly these days is that ALL electronics is analog at the physical/circuit level. For you digital types tha
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by hilbert42 5mo ago
Ah how things have changed. When I was learning electronics we mainly dealt with radio and TV circuits and just about the first lesson one learned was to keep leads short (reduce unwanted inductance) and use decoupling capacitors everywher
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
Right, Purdue Pharma—the sleasebag Sacklers—were unethically pushing OxyContin (oxycodone) but the unethical tactics that Merck adopted in marketing its NSAID Vioxx seems to have been forgotten. Vioxx was withdrawn from the market and Merck
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
Reckon you've just summed up the US health care system to a tee.
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
"Why are COX-2 drugs like Celebrex still prescription only ?" Why? Because Celebrex (celecoxib) is a dangerous drug which can cause irreparable harm (heart attacks and related) if taken for long periods. In fact, its sister drug
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
Recently, I've had to take Celebrex (celecoxib) for a back injury and I've been taking it longer than is normally recommended—and that truly worries me (I've determined I have to come off it ASAP). Where I am (Australia), mos
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
"So I don't think it's so straightforward" Don't let them off that quickly. We've been making electrical connectors for well over a hundred years. There are books on high reliability connectors many hundreds
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
Right, I'm no fan of USB-C either. One knows why the USB alliance keeps designing such shitty connectors. After so many attempts they've got it right—it's the cheapest crappy design they could get away with.
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
What exactly is your specific annoyance?
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
"…by the time batteries wear out, most people are going to want a new a phone." Why? There have been few new features in recent years and new phones have restrictions not wanted by many. Google is closing the Android ecosystem a
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by hilbert42 6mo ago
https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/12/12/924 . Point 7.

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