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by r3012 4y ago
You can buy one here: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/P2-Pentalobe-Screwdriver-...
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by r3012 4y ago
I think the main thing is it’s really rare to just have one project in the works anymore. So you buy the 5day turn and work on something else in the interim. If somehow you really blew it in the project planning stage, and you simply must
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by r3012 4y ago
Do fuses count as an electronic component or does it have to be an active device? If so then I can name a couple. :)
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by r3012 4y ago
I wonder why Apple would even want to protect a battery charger IC? All of the interesting stuff would be in software anyway. Maybe the reason repair shops can’t buy it is more mundane. Basically it’s an expensive part, particularly to App
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by r3012 4y ago
You can actually see this for yourself in the new open source PDKs. https://skywater-pdk.readthedocs.io/en/main/contents/librari... See how there are six foundry provided cell libraries that make different pe
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by r3012 4y ago
I think that word replacement, in a court of law, might be harder to do than you think because caste is not officially recognized by American law. I'm not sure how you could prove equivalence without a definition to work from. It seem
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by r3012 4y ago
I was using us to mean all customers in Apple Store. The stories from winter when there was unionization talk were horrific. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-employees-plan-walkout... I don’t know, but if it were me be
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by r3012 4y ago
> The bullshit thing in my mind is that Apple took away the ability for store staff to make discretionary calls to bypass stuff like this and do what’s right for the customer. It could be that, or retail workers are sick of us and aren&#
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by r3012 4y ago
There are trade-off there to consider. One get's ruggedness but carbon fiber is generally not a good thermal conductor which could be a problem for a laptop with no fans. And titanium is very expensive compared to aluminum. Like all e
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by r3012 4y ago
https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/16/class-action-lawsuit-screen-c... Filed in Sept 2021. "A class-action lawsuit is being planned on behalf of M1 MacBook owners who say that screen cracks were occurring durin
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by r3012 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER “It will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment and the largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.” Does the $3.9B spent on ITER not co
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by r3012 4y ago
Maybe, but it worked out really well last time we did this. I say the government ended up with a tremendous ROI. https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/history-lesson-the-198... What about the safeguards, which are in
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by r3012 4y ago
I’m super happy to see these things, and some money is better than no money, but judging by how much my lab spends per year, $50M/yr isn’t going to get them very far. And we do consumer electronics.
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by r3012 4y ago
> How should they know where they want to go if they're entry-level? I think it’s totally reasonable to expect people to have a plan. It’s also totally reasonable, and expected really, for that plan to change over time. But workin
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by r3012 4y ago
There are variants of STM32 that are 90nm. A 90nm foundry was just announced. Not sure if they’re planning on making STM32s, probably not, but there are non-leading edge foundries being run and more are being made. Here is an announcement
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by r3012 4y ago
I think the usual technique for soldering a BGA is a lot easier. https://hackaday.com/2021/02/28/bga-soldering-and-inspection... At the bottom of the page you'll see a link to someone who followed your s
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by r3012 4y ago
A small GreenPAK is perfect for this. There’s also mixed signal versions just in case you also want an opamp, or two. https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/products/programmable-mixed-si...
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by r3012 4y ago
If only the world was so simple. I think the connection is more direct than you might suspect. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/magazine/neil-degrasse-ty... And https://www.goodreads.com&#x2
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by r3012 4y ago
I suppose one can argue about the output but there have already been spin-offs from the JWST inventions that do have practical applications. https://webb.nasa.gov/resources/JWST_spinoffs_v122011.pdf