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by vatys 5y ago
You might be better off getting a fixed power profile from the brick and regulating down to your desired voltage separately. While it's possible the brick will be well regulated, it's likely to have some noise and output voltage
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by vatys 5y ago
The burger joint was in real life “Orcutt Burgers” in Santa Maria. At the time the movie came out, I often visited a friend who lived a block from there, and we ate there regularly. It was a trip to see the movie with him and instantly re
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by vatys 5y ago
> The chip has 3 pins, but there are 8 pads on the die. The other pins appear to be used for testing. By activating one of the pins, the chip can be put into a test mode. The test mode runs through the songs at 512× speed so the chip can
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by vatys 5y ago
The block-diagram level breakdown of the different sections of silicon is really a wonderfully helpful way to look at this. It makes the zoomed in view of each section more meaningful. Then seeing the die photo of individual transistors o
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by vatys 5y ago
I prefer the reverse: Alucard theme for Terminal https://github.com/lysyi3m/macos-terminal-themes
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by vatys 5y ago
Depending on the application and how far you want to discharge them, Li-ion batteries generally can transfer more charge when drained with DC. Each battery chemistry has different impedance curves. See the plot in the 2nd to last page of t
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by vatys 6y ago
My favorite example of this is what I can only assume is (if real) a document made after the “new” Pepsi logo came out, to justify it with some verbose design-speak nonsense. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uplo
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by vatys 6y ago
Yes, thanks for expanding on that. I used the ‘97 most recently so it was the part number I remembered. The open drain ones make good level translators as well, since the output can be pulled up to a different voltage. If you find that cha
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by vatys 6y ago
And in some cases, smaller than a transistor (as commonly packaged). 74AUP1T97 comes in a variety of packages, some less than 1mm square. It’s a clever mix of gates internally which can be turned into many common AND/OR type functions
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by vatys 6y ago
I've been using the free SketchUp (now SketchupMake) for many years, and it seems that no longer exists. I think it's been replaced with a new web-only free version. I found it to be pretty nice for simple woodworking and home p
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by vatys 6y ago
> humanly impossible at the moment to fit it into the button of a baseball cap It’s actually pretty close, considering the size of this LiDAR module: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=xz6CExnGw9w
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by vatys 7y ago
I’ve used the Langer probes in so many shops that I almost forgot there were other manufacturers of near field probes. https://www.langer-emv.de/en/category/rf-passive-30-mhz-3-gh... Generally these are connected
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by vatys 7y ago
For me it's a BASIC one-liner which generates mazes 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 I found this specific one via slashdot[1], but something similar, which I've never managed to find/replicate, was used to g
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by vatys 7y ago
This is still one of my favorites. In a list of magic numbers, sorted by magic-ness, 0x5F3759DF would sit pretty high.
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by vatys 7y ago
Left entirely alone, I think the trees maintain themselves rather well
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by vatys 7y ago
Ah yes, the good old days. When manufacturing jobs were plentiful and American production was second to none. It’s important to remember the cost of what made America “great” back then.
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by vatys 7y ago
https://www.metafilter.com "Best of the Web" since 1999 A broad set of interests are represented there, not just programming or technology focused. The submission quality is high, and it is well moderated. MetaFilter
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by vatys 7y ago
I agree, though I might put it the other way: Amazon is less pleasant than eBay. I've stopped using Amazon entirely, and I now get things on eBay I never thought I would back when it first started and was "the flea market of the
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by vatys 7y ago
Truly. But a story which inevitably must end with expansion, cooling, and a new need to huddle around stars.
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by vatys 7y ago
Back then everything would have also been so much closer together. The universe could have been like one great bustling city. Perhaps, from that perspective, we are already in some long-tail end-of-days time. Planets and stars and galaxi
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by vatys 8y ago
Apple seems to be taking steps in that direction https://www.apple.com/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overvi... All Mac notebooks with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures the mi
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by vatys 8y ago
That also made me think of Spaceward Ho! I know it may be too simple a game for a “serious” 4x game conversation, but I still in joy its style of gameplay. Sometimes a game like Civ can be too deep, or demand too much time for a satisfyin
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by vatys 8y ago
Hover input on touch screens is cool tech but I’ve yet to see an implementation of it where it really added usability. More hidden UI just seems like more difficulty for average users. More hidden UI in a car seems like the absolute wors
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by vatys 8y ago
the worst thing about having read the USB PD specification is having to live with this knowledge Having done the same, I agree completely
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by vatys 8y ago
Libraries are quiet. An all-caps logo is the branding equivalent of yelling.
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by vatys 8y ago
Exactly. GF is making lots of chips on 130 and 180 nm process. There’s a lot out there that isn’t bleeding edge CPUs. We’ve got power chips, port controllers, high speed linear re-drivers. Not every ASIC needs tiny transistors, in fact
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by vatys 8y ago
To Stankovic, chief of the division of otology and neuro-otology, the problem did not sound idiopathic; she suspected that Behforouz had inadvertently fractured a tiny delicate bone in her middle ear called the malleus. When she examined t
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by vatys 8y ago
I assumed this would be about the DSP engine from Symbolic Sound. Though I am a fan of the large rodent creatures with a chill attitude.
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by vatys 8y ago
6 with night shift on 0 with night shift off (0 is perfect score) Interesting how much the yellow shift impacts the ability to discern color difference. My night shift slider is only about a quarter of the way up. Good reminder to not do c
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by vatys 8y ago
This reminded me I have two of this chip sitting in my parts bin, with nice little DIP format adapter boards even. It bugs me that I bought the chips ~18 years ago and still haven't done anything with them. My project queue needs som

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