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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Passing a trace through the middle is a nice trick, and definitely enabled by 1206s. I'll admit to using that one, particularly for amplifier feedback circuits where one or two parts are 1206s to allow trace pass-through, and the rest
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
This is all great advice. Making component footprints is the worst. You'd think companies would release footprint files for each part along with the datasheet (formatted for different EDA suites), but they don't. Even if manufactu
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
High Speed Digital Design is a great book (a "handbook of black magic," as its subtitle professes), and it is a nice complement to Horowitz and Hill's The Art of Electronics . You're exactly right that the former addr
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
I'd love to visit (or work in) Berlin. Can you find whole dried chili peppers, or canned? They're obviously not as good as fresh, but they'll still be delicious. Dried chiles are very lightweight, so probably not very expensi
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Agreed. On great example is the (no doubt delicious) exploration that led to his chocolate chip cookie recipe. (Explanation:) http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best-... (Recipe:) http:/&
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Kenji's (cook)book, The Food Lab , is also great, though it doesn't include everything he has on the blog. It's also inexpensive enough to make a great random gift for foodie friends, despite being a hefty hardcover: https:
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Picking up a phone book is one option for finding local manufacturing firms; one benefit of dealing with someone local is that you can pick up a phone and speak to them in your own language. Another is that it significantly reduces the iter
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Chemical antibiotics are currently the best and most developed tool we have for bacterial infection, but other options are being explored, including defensins[1,2,3] (antimicrobial peptides) and—as mentioned in the article—phage therapy[4,5
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
These are side projects of mine. All had well-received Show HN threads (thank you), but none have really gone anywhere: https://www.takeitapart.com TakeItApart is coasting, and not really supporting itself. We had high hopes tha
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Until we sequence them, we will not know for sure how similar they are. Fun to be connected across the ocean by similar blueberries!
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Are the high-bush blueberries you're talking about commercially propagated cultivars, or wild? Ours are native/wild, and none of ours grow that large. The fact that commercial berries are picked too early is definitely a factor in
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
I don't know what species they are, unfortunately. If I had to guess, possibly Vaccinium corymbosum . That's another reason I'd love to sequence them; genomic data would help identify their taxon (or since there isn't a
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
> White posted an advertisement “offering $50 apiece for wild blueberry bushes bearing berries as large as a cent.” Ah. Let that be known as the advertisement that ruined blueberries. Why do we always optimize for size over flavor? Comme
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
In addition to the vendors you mention via that link, OSH Park[1] is great option for hobbyists (or very small-volume production). This is the same source listed in OP. It's a board pooling group that puts many small-run orders on the
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
There's actually an argument to be made that some frozen or canned vegetables have higher nutrient content than the equivalent "fresh" vegetables at the grocery store, since the frozen ones are harvested closer to peak readin
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
You generally can't sue the government unless it lets you. Sovereign immunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#United_Stat...
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
In Rochester, NY we are fortunate to have a local company competing with Time Warner by offering gigabit fiber to the home[1]. The local company is hugely popular, and based on their rate of expansion, very successful. When my house was bui
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Prompt for iOS works very well: https://panic.com/prompt/
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
See this issue comment: https://github.com/alex-sherman/deco/issues/2#issuecomment-2...
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
If you check out the test file[1] in the repository for deco, it looks like you can specify the number of cores by setting the "processes" attribute of the concurrent-decorated function [object]. 1. https://github.com&#
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
It's not Py3 compatible yet, but from the commit log it seems like they're working on it (we could all help?).
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Of note is that the version of deco on PyPI[1] (0.2) is incompatible with Python 3. There have been few commits to fix compatibility, but it's not there yet. 1. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deco
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
There is a push to use 'pilot' checklists in medicine as tools for reducing human error! Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande wrote a book on it: http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/ http:/
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
The biomedical sciences have bioRxiv: http://biorxiv.org/ It is not used as broadly as arxiv.org, but that may be starting to change.
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
I sometimes use ExpanDrive on OSX, which is a nice GUI wrapper for what I believe to be something like fuse sshfs: http://www.expandrive.com/apps/expandrive/ It works well, though there can be noticeable latency s
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
If you're interested in some of the latest in low-power digital communication, check out the software of Joe Taylor, K1JT: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/ If his name seems familiar, it's bec
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
We can , but the norm (and law via FCC part 97) is for one to use "the minimum power necessary to carry out the desired communications." So if you need 1.5kW to reach your wifi robot on the other side of the valley, go for it, bu
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
If the transmission was encrypted, it would have also been illegal on the amateur bands [1]. This isn't 90s crypto-war paranoia; the concern about encryption is that if transmissions on the amateur bands are allowed to be obscured, uns
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Wow. It has 15.3 billion transistors. It's amazing we can buy something with that many engineered parts. Even if the transistors are the result of duplication and lithography, it's an astonishing number. Creating the mask must hav
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by tomkinstinch 10y ago
Indeed, and two of the 1996 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, performed their initial work on fullerenes at Rice [1]. The university has a rich history working with nanotubes and other fullerenes. 1. http:&#x2F

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