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31.
by setquk 7y ago
I love blowing electrolytic capacitors up. I still do that today.
32.
by setquk 7y ago
Good to know. Thanks for posting.
33.
by setquk 7y ago
That’s terrible. I hope nobody is hurt
34.
by setquk 7y ago
Ouch!
35.
by setquk 7y ago
I've done stupider things during last ditch repairs. Once time I replaced the tantalum caps on a board blindly hoping that it would cure a power rail short. I'd never used SMD tants before and didn't know that the band was a
36.
by setquk 8y ago
Neither. They are an infection vector.
37.
by setquk 8y ago
Well at least we're leading in something in the UK still: craziness.
38.
by setquk 8y ago
Well that was depressing. My wife has sarcoidosis. However while depressing it's gloriously mind opening and motivating to do some quality stuff.
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by setquk 8y ago
I could generalise it as anything with fast rise times. A 74lvc14 can kick out a 400ps edge even if you clock it at 1Hz for example. That's got quite some harmonic energy. Also it's usually the really slow stuff I have that oscill
40.
by setquk 8y ago
Totally agree with direct to PCB if the problem domain does not fit manhattan or dead bug. I usually do that if anything is non trivial anyway as it's less of a PITA generally
41.
by setquk 8y ago
Trying to express a circuit design onto any fixed layout has non trivial side effects that you don’t want. Parasitics and poor grounding are a nightmare. I don’t know why people use prototype boards at all. I am using this construction tech
42.
by setquk 8y ago
I don't want to live anywhere other than London.
43.
by setquk 8y ago
In UK that's downpayment for a shed.
44.
by setquk 8y ago
Three worries for me: 1. I know the risk of only being able to peer through the fence at the distant piece of software that is running your business, unable to gain any insight while your production application is limping badly and customer
45.
by setquk 8y ago
Sorry for the delayed reply. Have been too busy. Today I got a delivery for 6 revision books for my daughter. One is incorrect. I know when I return it, I'm going to get the same damn wrong book again because somewhere along the line s
46.
by setquk 8y ago
plusnet and EE are turds. Total turds. The worst of all of them to be honest apart from possibly Talk Talk.
47.
by setquk 8y ago
I'm only talking 2 years ago. And we do have netflix and it's simply tough shit! In 2002, I had 1mbit.
48.
by setquk 8y ago
Perhaps the poster has a new MacBook Air with butterfly keyboard? :)
49.
by setquk 8y ago
There's going to be a massive rise in this sort of stuff over the next few years. Firstly consolidation, then organisations too large to care about their clients, then semi-automated punishment. Always remember that Amazon is in the sa
50.
by setquk 8y ago
I spent years with 5 people on 12mbit ADSL2. I'd rather have that than virgin and blocking any day. I suffered Virgin for a couple of years and it was hell. Now I'm on ~64mbit VDSL with no blocking at all on Zen. We pull 500G+ a m
51.
by setquk 8y ago
This is what I’m doing. Linode box.
52.
by setquk 8y ago
You’re probably on a major ISP. Only the major ones in the UK are blocked and regulated. The smaller ones aren’t deemed as important.
53.
by setquk 8y ago
The only reason I don’t run a BSD derivative is laziness. It requires more maintenance effort than xubuntu. Back in the distant past I ran NetBSD on SPARC at home. I’d quite happily be paid to work with it all day but no one wants to hire m
54.
by setquk 8y ago
I returned it because of duplicate keypresses being registered. Same problem my friends faced with their machines. The keyboard feel was fine. Takes a couple of days to get used to it but I prefer it. I had it for three weeks. They had exte
55.
by setquk 8y ago
Everyone I know who bought a 2018 MBA, me included, has returned it due to keyboard issues. Which is a shame because I loved the damn thing apart from that.
56.
by setquk 8y ago
Non issue. This is just haptic feedback when you get to the limit. I hope it does log the speed as well as the last two accidents on the road I live on people were killed by idiots doing 40+ mph in a 20mph limit. What is a problem is fixing
57.
by setquk 8y ago
Having had chicken pox as an adult I hope he enjoys it as much as I did. Took me two years to get over it completely.
58.
by setquk 8y ago
Because you're not exfiltrating data on a web server. It's already there!
59.
by setquk 8y ago
No because we formed study groups and did it collectively.
60.
by setquk 8y ago
I think they understand that if you give customers no option they will be forced to comply with their wishes and act as a monthly revenue stream. However they also misunderstand people's reluctance to put all your eggs in a large baske

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