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by m0xte 7y ago
If you look at the vetting processes in the defence sector they have strict nationality and background checks. Why should the same not be true for something with a damage multiplier the size of github which is basically carrying a big chunk
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by m0xte 7y ago
Yep. We used to regularly buy old British army MRE packs when we were kids that were 10-15 years out of date. And we ate the contents and they were fine! It’s all about storage.
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by m0xte 7y ago
Wow we’ve gone full circle. This is reminiscent of Visual Basic for MSDOS which was quite frankly excellent.
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by m0xte 7y ago
This would make a good film.
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by m0xte 7y ago
That’s not quite as ugly as a serial cable in a production dialup mail pick up box I found once. Someone was clearly missing a DB25-DB9 cable for the modem but had a DB9 shell floating around. They made a cable with some telephone wire, str
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by m0xte 7y ago
Similar to diode balanced mixers in RF stuff.
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by m0xte 7y ago
Exactly. I actually have few ex Tektronix trigger tunnel diodes here[1]. Repairing the infernal scopes was a hobby of mine until I got fed up of it. By the mid-80s we had cheap ECL comparators which were much faster, required no bias calibr
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by m0xte 7y ago
I bet it does suffer ESD issues. Even “SWR proof” RF BJTs are fragile. Anyway not that it matters really here even for CMOS as the ESD protection is just on the die lands. Most of the devices on the thing don’t have ESD protection on CMOS.
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by m0xte 7y ago
It’s got a terrible reputation on repeatability on a process. One reason tunnel diodes never went anywhere. They were expensive, tetchy and unreliable!
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by m0xte 7y ago
Bloody awful things. I’ve built a few simple analogue PID loops and simple analogue computers over the years and it’s an art and a half. I think the biggest pain I had was before the availability of reasonably stable log converters was tryi
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by m0xte 7y ago
Yeah Agilent took the HP way with them...
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by m0xte 7y ago
I was stupid and took a major risk. I had a nice secure job in the defence sector writing embedded software. This was a suddenly ramp up in work after 9/11. But i had some ethical issues continuing in this space. I also developed in in
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by m0xte 7y ago
Photos is one reason I always end up back on windows. My photo library is windows explorer and the file system. It just works. And it’s not hidden in any weird opaque and fragile abstraction. Every time I’ve used macOS (I’ve had three MacBo
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by m0xte 7y ago
It fits in my head.
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by m0xte 7y ago
Yet
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by m0xte 7y ago
I would be very very happy about that if it happened. It filled the gap where firefly was supposed to be.
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by m0xte 7y ago
Or a 200 axle one breaks somewhere and 56 axles roll back over the sensor.
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by m0xte 7y ago
In the UK they come in large boxes by ship unwrapped. They are green when they arrive. I’m sure japan can manage that. I suspect it’s a social thing rather than a necessity.
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by m0xte 7y ago
I miss knowing what I'm doing :) Git has so many footguns it's unreal.
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by m0xte 7y ago
This is one thing I really loved about subversion. I just used the VCS revision as the tag and version therefore avoiding this issue. Didn’t even need to create tags. That was until the version overflowed the 16 bit field it was stored in t
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by m0xte 7y ago
I think I’ve spent less time debugging it and having software issues than my HP 3636 inkjet though. I care about the result more than the fettling and it does me well.
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by m0xte 7y ago
The “no name” drivers are a bit more complicated than an H bridge: https://www.pololu.com/file/0J450/a4988_DMOS_microstepping_d... The typical H bridge has many failure modes and disadvantages which are handled by
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by m0xte 7y ago
Note: former EE. I’ve taken it and the provided power supply to bits before I even fired it up. 1. They’re IRLR3103PBF operated within their SOA. They’re fine. Most MOSFETs fail short due to the construction of the MOSFET. I’ve actually go
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by m0xte 7y ago
I saw someone burn their house down with a high quality Weller soldering iron. Anything with a thermal control loop of some sort is potentially dangerous and should not be left unattended. Lest you get home to a pile of ash one day.
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by m0xte 7y ago
I’m using mine to produce enclosures, replacement parts and new mechanical parts for my other interests. As well as printing things for the kids who have an endless stream of ideas. It turned into an unexpected family activity. Finishing an
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by m0xte 7y ago
It’s not. I bought an Creality Ender 3 recently for a lot less than that (152 GBP next day in UK) and the thing is perfect. It is also entirely open source. https://github.com/Creality3DPrinting/Ender-3 Quality is pret
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by m0xte 7y ago
It's not possible to boycott China so no.
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by m0xte 7y ago
So refusing to run it then franchising it out to a less respectable organisation under the same brand is an approach that is morally acceptable? Let's skip the whataboutism in these threads. That solves nothing. Incidentally I do a lot
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by m0xte 7y ago
It's not about breaking laws but about not having to break laws by not operating in regimes like China.
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by m0xte 7y ago
I've been using Microsoft stacks since 1991. I am at home with Python, an editor and a terminal at this point. F5 to run is terribly inefficient in the long run (wait until you get a 2MLOC recompile and then secondary compile when your

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