pie314isi

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by pie314isi 2y ago
what a load of crap. every sentence is bullshit.
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by pie314isi 3y ago
it doesn't. it only works incidentally. The author isn't an EE and has designed a circuit as if an artist (or an AI) drew a picture of what a circuit looks like. The weird topology voltage divider attenuates the signal. the op-amp
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by pie314isi 3y ago
once, when complaining to a colleague about our workplace and their hiring and staffing idiosyncrasies, I quipped "I should give <manager> a copy of TMMM". My colleague, without missing a beat said "You should give him
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by pie314isi 3y ago
I thought about making one of these - actually I designed it, but never made the PCB for it - because the internet is full of similar ones: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/195143066807
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by pie314isi 3y ago
If excel is the right tool for the job, you're doing the wrong job.
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by pie314isi 3y ago
There are a few dynamic pricing energy retailers in Australia too. It often goes negative, sometimes for many hours at a time. Usually it’s hard to make money off it because it’s often at times of the year and day that there is no need for
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by pie314isi 3y ago
I think a lot of people would be very interested if you had a general method for many brands of camera
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by pie314isi 3y ago
I knew it would be this page before I clicked. Was not disappointed. This is the most amazing wordplay ever.
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by pie314isi 3y ago
it's actually persisted more recently. I just checked a High Sierra machine. "Messages" has an "Add Jabber Account" menu option. An it's recent enough that it plays nice with all my existing more modern iPhone&
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by pie314isi 3y ago
In the slightly olden days, iMessage - or whatever it was called then - had a built in jabber client, and there was brief period (Sierra era?) that iMessage/iCloud could sync up all your messages across google and apple and SMS. I _thi
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by pie314isi 3y ago
I have once of his Klein bottles. It came in the most amazing personally decorated package that I've kept that too, and value it almost as highly as the glassware.
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by pie314isi 4y ago
I have a HP laserjet 6L from 1993. It still works, although the paper feed needs to be encouraged sometimes. Doesn't get a lot of use anymore, but I think we only ever bought one new toner cartridge for it.
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by pie314isi 4y ago
If they don’t have a vernier scale they’re just calipers
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by pie314isi 4y ago
Sometimes you can get away with just guessing pull-ups, but sometimes you need to calculate them. Drive strength, speed, line capacitance, line length, number of devices, supply voltage, threshold levels... it's all stuff you take into
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by pie314isi 4y ago
So, this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztFaYvgDAg
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by pie314isi 4y ago
yes. it comes up green, but is delivered to all other same account iCloud devices. you can reply too, and it works it out. I send and receive SMSs via my MacBook and iPad.
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by pie314isi 4y ago
I suspect it doesn't matter. if the phone is powered and on, it's still doing the iCloud stuff in the background, even if it's locked.
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by pie314isi 4y ago
the phone in a drawer solution works basically by default on apple devices. Very common solution in outback Australia (satellite internet only, no phone coverage)
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by pie314isi 4y ago
I agree, it makes no sense. I am a real hardware electronics engineer and I don't understand his explanation. I believe the LDO could fail in a temperature dependent way. I do not believe the explanation.
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by pie314isi 5y ago
Oh yeah, I remember that the battery was an odd size and expensive. I think it was 4.5V(?). We had a battery holder for some AAs hanging out the side. I feel like our 16k bee had more than one ROM in it. I think you could boot into word bee
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by pie314isi 5y ago
We had a 16k tape only bee before the disk one. I loved that they had battery backed SRAM. You could turn it off and come back later and your program was still there. I just had a look, and didn't find anything, but I have a sneaking s
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by pie314isi 5y ago
I still have a microbee. A 56k dual 5.25" floppy beast. I fired it up recently and it all works. Most of the disks are readable too. good times....