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by xondono 8y ago
He didn’t that’s the point.
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by xondono 8y ago
I think it’s quite the stretch. By the same token, if I let my coffee thermo reach thermal equilibrium and don’t touch it, can I claim I’ve built a machine that stops time?
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by xondono 8y ago
> Coding in Rust is like an investment: it requires some commitment and slows you down initially (for the right reasons!), but pays huge dividends and return grows exponentially over time. Kind of my point. Sometimes you don’t want to ma
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by xondono 8y ago
Another point is that using rust is great for products, but not so much for PoCs, since the compiler will complain about most ‘hacks’ to release early, or even refuse to compile. I have not much experience with go, but my feeling is that it
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by xondono 8y ago
It’s a known phenomenon in economy. The modern name is “make-work bias”.
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by xondono 8y ago
The issue here is that being review units, Samsung has supposedly pre-tested them and discarded “bad from the start units”. If 4 of them have failed in 2 days, their MTTF is pretty low.
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by xondono 8y ago
> Thought experiment: if you saw an article titled "Jony Ive: The Man Behind The iPhone" would you be commenting on how unfair it is to single him out? Yes, and that’s what happens in each of those hyperbolic articles (that are
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by xondono 8y ago
I’m a hardware engineer, I’ve done some web development in my free time but I’m not nearly up to date to set up something good looking without missing critical stuff. I’ve tried looking around an AWS account, it wasn’t pretty. I got it to r
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by xondono 8y ago
It's very worrying that people seem to forget how Google plays around with their platform and tinker with the results, because for a lot of people Google Search is HOW they navigate the internet. I'm most disturbed by how articles
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by xondono 8y ago
Yes, I read a lot about tantalums and their failure modes some years ago because we wanted to set some kind of use policy for our own products. After a lot of research and testing we ended up forbidding the use of tantalums in our designs a
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by xondono 8y ago
The commenters point is that even typical SMT tantalums have leads: - A/B/C/.. type cases have tiny leads going outwards - more modern cases have metal sheet like leads bent down and inwards. The thing is that tantalums capac
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by xondono 8y ago
It’s also good to remember soakage in this kind of applications. It’s irrelevant in low voltage electronics, but once you get over 1 kV and in the order of tens of mF, you can get some ugly scares.
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by xondono 8y ago
I know, but the “email off a design” solution has been around for more than 10 years. I don’t even do prototyping of boards I do for my own projects, I just plan them so I have other things to do for a month while I wait for the cheap pcbs
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by xondono 8y ago
If you need to use macOS for any reason, I’d recommend magnet. It’s last update is a bit buggy, but it’s great
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by xondono 8y ago
Maybe it’s me, but I’ve never found prototyping boards to be worth the time it takes to set them up. I’d rather go for a PCB and set it up so I can test the circuit. If it works all ok, job is done, otherwise I have a good testbed for exper
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by xondono 8y ago
As long as you don’t try landscape..
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by xondono 8y ago
While I quite like the concept, I think there's something of a catch 22 here. 'Fact-based' generally implies 'lesser impact', it's way easier to catch eyeballs with fakes and click-bait than with better stories
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by xondono 8y ago
Even with fiduciary duty, most agents undersell property. When the first offers are underpriced, a lot of agents will pressure you into selling, because their income is tighly coupled with the number of transactions per year. There’s a coup
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by xondono 8y ago
relevant to the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qT8ZYewYEY
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by xondono 8y ago
Not really, that’s still the sweetspot for most lithium batteries as well (being under 20% is much more critical than being over 80% though). What’s different between them is battery memory effect. With NiCd & NiMH you are supposed to l
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by xondono 8y ago
Maybe it’s because english is not my native language but, how does it do with spelling? Are now-sphere-dew and now-sphere-due two distinct locations? Are they at least close enough?
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by xondono 8y ago
Chris Gammell of Contextual Electronic and Amp Hour fame? Boy I better not screw this up! :D Bad news: I use Altium Good news: I’m trying out kicad on my spare time (feel free to take the credit) As to the question, Altium is quite flexible
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by xondono 8y ago
This. I do hardware (sch/pcb) design in spain, I’m in a lead position in a small company. When I look at what I’ve built, I have experience with technologies that most of my college mates are still mystified with (e.g. DDR4 or x64 arch
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by xondono 8y ago
Not trying to start the flame war, but this: >We don't need to eat meat or fish at all to be healthy Is still heavily disputed in nutrition circles.
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by xondono 8y ago
I’m seriously kind of tired of this argument. We’ve gone from “not choosing is a choice” to “every choice is political”. I’m sorry but the latter doesn’t immediatly follow from the first. You can and are totally free to not use a technology
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by xondono 8y ago
The author has a book on the subject and is one of the main proponents of signalling in education :D
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by xondono 8y ago
>The point of this is that none of this has anything to do with signaling, but it also has very little to do with the quality of education received. The value of an e.g. Princeton degree is that you're the sort of person that could
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by xondono 8y ago
I’m amazed of how many people share this “once stablished things never change” mentality in this forum. Most of the people reading here are either thinking of or trying or actually becoming living proof that this way of thinking is wrong.
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by xondono 8y ago
According to the article at least, all his suggestions have been disclosed following the Wikipedia rules.
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by xondono 8y ago
By that standard there’s no difference between your computer and most of the consumer electronics market. You’d be astonished of how mant things run flavors of unix

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