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I would never call a software project SPICE; I use a fucking search engine when naming things to avoid the cringe of ignorantly landing on a dupe. (And also use

I would never call a software project SPICE; I use a fucking search engine when naming things to avoid the cringe of ignorantly landing on a dupe. (And also use SPICE in the LTSpice incarnation; I should give ngspice a spin one of these days.)

kragen 4d ago
You're absolutely fucking right. Ngspice is okay but it's a bit clumsy switching between it and xschem.
Animats 4d ago
Agreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer comes out with a new analog IC, they often provide a SPICE model for it. Otherwise nobody wants to design it into their circuit. Reusing the name for another program is like calling something new FORTRAN. (I had nothing to do with SPICE, other than as a user. It's by Laurence Nagel, and I'm John Nagle. Not related.)
rjsw 4d ago
We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".
- ginsider_oaks 4d ago
  That name's already used by an even older technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
lloydatkinson 4d ago
Talking of cringe, the author of the README spent more time including their barely disguised fetish pony than explaining what "SPICE" is.
- tzs 4d ago
  Any you spent more time writing that comment than it would have taken to click the "SPICE" link next to that pony image logo, wait the ~1 second it takes to load, and read the first sentence which would have told you what it is.
- Nefarius 4d ago
  Seeing a fetish in random cartoon characters ironically tells all of us way more about you than it says about me ;D
  - lloydatkinson 4d ago
    This is a poor retort considering how well known and infamous "MLP" and "bronies" are on the internet.
- bayindirh 3d ago
  I know what SPICE is, but for anyone not knowing it, the first SPICE text is also a hyperlink. Clicking it brings the clicker to the homepage instantly. This is how it should be done: Hyperlinking pages to prevent information duplication and inconsistencies, using libraries to not rewrite every piece of code when it's required. It passes the sniff test, and a low-color palette of a pony reading a Red Hat checks out pretty nicely. Maybe we should entertain ourselves sometimes. I don't care about people's choices as long as it's universally unethical or offending or... you get the idea. Edit: BTW, That pony is the user's general avatar, it seems. Fun.

kragen 4d ago

You're absolutely fucking right. Ngspice is okay but it's a bit clumsy switching between it and xschem.

Animats 4d ago

Agreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer comes out with a new analog IC, they often provide a SPICE model for it. Otherwise nobody wants to design it into their circuit. Reusing the name for another program is like calling something new FORTRAN. (I had nothing to do with SPICE, other than as a user. It's by Laurence Nagel, and I'm John Nagle. Not related.)

rjsw 4d ago

We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".

ginsider_oaks 4d ago
That name's already used by an even older technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...

lloydatkinson 4d ago

Talking of cringe, the author of the README spent more time including their barely disguised fetish pony than explaining what "SPICE" is.

tzs 4d ago
Any you spent more time writing that comment than it would have taken to click the "SPICE" link next to that pony image logo, wait the ~1 second it takes to load, and read the first sentence which would have told you what it is.
Nefarius 4d ago
Seeing a fetish in random cartoon characters ironically tells all of us way more about you than it says about me ;D
- lloydatkinson 4d ago
  This is a poor retort considering how well known and infamous "MLP" and "bronies" are on the internet.
bayindirh 3d ago
I know what SPICE is, but for anyone not knowing it, the first SPICE text is also a hyperlink. Clicking it brings the clicker to the homepage instantly. This is how it should be done: Hyperlinking pages to prevent information duplication and inconsistencies, using libraries to not rewrite every piece of code when it's required. It passes the sniff test, and a low-color palette of a pony reading a Red Hat checks out pretty nicely. Maybe we should entertain ourselves sometimes. I don't care about people's choices as long as it's universally unethical or offending or... you get the idea. Edit: BTW, That pony is the user's general avatar, it seems. Fun.