madengr

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901.
by madengr 8y ago
And how do you listen to that on a stereo system?
902.
by madengr 8y ago
Agreed. Just iterating that 10% easily hits the limit of traditional retirement savings, and one has to use different avenues to have equivalent retirement income of a tech salary.
903.
by madengr 8y ago
“if” is the issue. Most people won’t contribute 10%, and that too has a tax ceiling. I contribute 15%, and I still hit the 18k limit, moving into after tax. Make too much to contribute to a Roth also. I’m in a flyover state, and tech sa
904.
by madengr 8y ago
It’s still the CD era for me, or at least I’m regressing back to that. I’ve come to despise the modern method of music consumption. If you want to listen on a simple home stereo, you have to jack around with various streaming and storage
905.
by madengr 8y ago
If they can get to 75% adoption, as stated by one source in the article, that will accelerate further to 100%. The source states the lack of personal charges will keep it from 100% adoption, but imagine a 75% reduction the the amount of ga
906.
by madengr 8y ago
The pre-selection is a big deal. The AD936x needs good front end filtering to reject n*LO. For instance 5x146 MHz = 730 MHz, which translates that 730 MHz nation-wide LTE signal smack-dab into the 2m amateur band. Unless they have a new
907.
by madengr 8y ago
If you crack open a real spectrum analyzer (not some hacked together SDR toy) you’ll still find plenty of distributed and analog circuitry. That’s what it takes to get spur-free performance.
908.
by madengr 8y ago
Screw Infineon. They won’t provide the data sheet for their 80 GHz chipset, despite my buying $5k worth through their distributor.
909.
by madengr 8y ago
TI is making a 60 GHz RADAR in a CMOS process. I’m sure R&D costs were heavy, but production will be cheap. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333330
910.
by madengr 8y ago
YouTube can censor your videos, but Google fiber can’t, though they are under the same umbrella.
911.
by madengr 8y ago
I’d delete my account if I could remember the password. The emails are sent straight to the junk folder.
912.
by madengr 8y ago
So you are supposed to just give your estate to the government? Fuck that.
913.
by madengr 8y ago
A CD-ROM rots fast due to the deyes, but what about a normal pressed CD of aluminum? Those should be pretty stable. I have only seen those destroyed with sunlight.
914.
by madengr 8y ago
I’m currently reading this book about the history of the DSN. https://www.amazon.com/Uplink-Downlink-History-Space-Network... Fascinating stuff. I wonder how they will manage the priority of getting that data back over the
915.
by madengr 8y ago
Ditto, I’m 48 and design hardware at a defense contractor in flyover country. Plenty of people working here 60+.
916.
by madengr 8y ago
Well it could be worse. Ever look at the label on a food product imported from China? For instance, dried noodles or Old Lady sauce? Here is how to make an artificial egg: https://youtu.be/bcgH6fgedoA
917.
by madengr 8y ago
TI and Fairchild make a 6 pin “tiny logic” part that can be configured for any gate. I use them frequently for glue logic.
918.
by madengr 8y ago
Optional anesthesia may be a new trend. Restraints and a bite belt are cheaper, but the hospital would figure out a way to milk that too.
919.
by madengr 8y ago
Yes.
920.
by madengr 8y ago
Learning an instrument teaches perseverance, which is a large part of success. I make sure my daughter practices her cello scales every night, which is the part she does not like.
921.
by madengr 8y ago
WWVB was a better reference due to surface wave propagation, but they added phase modulation which broke it as a frequency standard.
922.
by madengr 8y ago
A Christmas Story is the tradition in this household.
923.
by madengr 8y ago
The Breville stuff is complete garbage. Bought a expresso machine a few years ago, crapped within 1 year, William Sonoma gave a new one, crapped again, I fix it with parts from eBay, then craps again. Unsealed shit switches in a humid envi
924.
by madengr 8y ago
Americans live Chinese food, and from that: Sichuan Hunan Canton
925.
by madengr 8y ago
Responding to the parent thread, that 1/2 of those parents don’t care about the cost of children; they pass it on to others.
926.
by madengr 8y ago
They should be counting USA born, dependent children. Having a “border baby” who is eligible for welfare is a primary source of that household welfare.
927.
by madengr 8y ago
Most immigrant households in the USA are on welfare. https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrant-and-Native-Hous...
928.
by madengr 8y ago
Perhaps I should have been more specific; 3rd order IMD. The IMD3 can’t be produced by the ideal JFET drain current (Vgs-Vt)^2; tubes are the same. Of course there are other distortion mechanisms too. This is in the RF power amp world (b
929.
by madengr 8y ago
I’d think since 2nd order distortion produces harmonics at octaves (which are naturally pleasing to the brain), vs 3rd order which produces IMD.
930.
by madengr 8y ago
In some states, once you get a renter, it is very hard to evict them. Many abuse this.

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