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by slededit 8y ago
Things have changed a lot. You can get proper stainless steel stencils from lots of providers now, most PCB houses have it available as well - done to the same specs as your PCB. The only time it really fails is if I'm lazy applying t
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I use a 10x jewelers microscope and tweezers to get the alignment perfect. The hardest part is actually applying the solder paste there is no room for registration errors. I triple check everything. As for the reflow profile I raise the t
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by slededit 8y ago
I personally find them more annoying than just BGA. But conventional wisdom is they are easier since technically you can solder them with a soldering iron and eventually you'll get lucky and remove the last solder bridge without creat
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by slededit 8y ago
While that worked great to avoid the bowels of win32 functions, it didn't work for a lot of STL library calls which are very obtuse.
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Seigniorage used to be an important revenue generator for governments. This has largely subsided with the transition to bank notes which don't operate under the same market dynamics. But the historical inertia is still there.
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Its more that it allows communities to interact negatively with each other too much. Generally speaking nobody in the "toxic" communities is worried about the speech there or they would unsubscribe. The problem is when they brig
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It should be noted that Andreas Olofsson used to run Adapteva and close to singlehandedly designed the Parallella processor.
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by slededit 8y ago
BGA is actually easier than leaded SMD parts. The tiny leads tend to bridge easily. With BGA you can be up to half the pitch off and it will center itself. I actually only go for leadless and BGA now because anything else is more of a ha
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You don't need XRay and your reflow oven can be a toaster oven. I do recommend a cheap microscope and a good pair of tweezers though. With this you can do 0.5mm pitch BGA although that is pushing it. I've made hundreds of proto
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by slededit 8y ago
The problem is beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I've been around long enough to see a few cycles of "best thing ever" -> "never do this". Each time massive disruptive changes were done to the code base, an
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Microsoft had an older e-mail implementation with their DLs (short for discussion lists). They exist for all manner of topics from where to find free food to finance, liesure and even politics. While I have seen them get heated or controv
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by slededit 8y ago
Its pretty great to get groceries the day of on your way home from work. Ingredients are fresh, and nothing sits around wasting away in your freezer or fridge. Your town has to be setup well for it though.
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It certainly solved a lot of problems, the US is at full employment now. It took over a decade for interest rates to start ticking up with the exception of the housing market and stocks. The money supply is only one factor in inflation, v
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by slededit 8y ago
The value comes from the same place of gold, and to a slightly lesser extent fiat currency. When something is used as a medium of exchange the item itself gains value from this utility. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, but it does derive v
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by slededit 8y ago
Religion is one of the earliest protected classes. So early its enshrined directly in the constitution.
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Because now that steel from around the world can't easily enter the USA it will be looking for somewhere to go. The Trump tarrifs have massively destabilized prices.
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This article is strange, they provide lots of counter evidence that in fact there are 10x programmers. They don't really provide any evidence for their thesis at all except to say the concept makes others feel bad, and that they are t
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We're already in a new cold war. If hacking power plants and publicly releasing government secrets to sway elections aren't acts of war, legal market activities like selling treasuries won't be either. It would certainly be
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There seems to be a middle ground where someone posts a link to the older thread, and people upvote the current one depending on how interesting it is. Dupes aren't against site policy unless they are spam; however they do seem to off
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They can dump their treasuries on the open market satiating demand. This glut would make it extremely difficult for the US to raise the money it needs to fuel its record $1 trillion deficit.
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>Even though I don't know you, I'm sure at some point you've omitted some fact that was contrary to your option or some narrative you were expressing (because literally everyone has). Does that make you a propagandist and
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The path to transition is pretty easy, you quit, go home and figure it out. You'll end up working on something different than what you planned anyways unless you've already been talking to customers.
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"Plastic" isn't a single molecule. Different types have different amounts of decomposition. PLA will break down in human timescales.
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You either want it or you don't. If you haven't been laying the ground work for years it's not likely to work out. Have you saved enough? Structured your living situation so you can move to wherever is most optimal? Not only
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I really hope they take some time to introspect on how this happened for a second time. From an outsiders perspective it was placing everything on a rewrite and zero perceived progress for years. It's good for the internet that Firefox
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Can't speak to race issues, however there is a difference between anger at a specific situation and anger at the straw that broke the camels back. It has to be an issue everyone can immediately understand without needing a back story f
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Not what the article is getting at, but I have seen displays of righteous anger cause positive changes. Sometimes you need to communicate that you aren't just griping and this is a red line. Doesn't work if people already think yo
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The only large tech company with sufficient control over their employees is oracle, and it's unlikely they'll have the necessary capabilities anytime soon. They're still trying to figure out this whole cloud thing.
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Most of America is empty and teeming with opportunity. Source: driving across the country right now.
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There are cheaper kit clones of the Altair and others with front panel switches. I just find it weird that they don't let you touch the one thing that can't be emulated well, given the mission of the museum.

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