rpaddock

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by rpaddock 1mo ago
Getting the run a round from the Duke Medical School phone system was the last straw for my late wife. She killed herself because she could not reach a Human that could help her. So yes, death does happen by phone systems. This was in 2013
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by rpaddock 2mo ago
I once had lunch with a fellow from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) which is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In his introduction he said that IARPA studies things like "Employme
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by rpaddock 2mo ago
"A well placed underscore can make the difference between a S_EXCHANGE and a SEX_CHANGE." - Intel 8048 manual ~1977. The Intel manuals of today lack such humor.
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by rpaddock 2mo ago
"... SOXS is a 3x inverse fund tied to the semiconductor index. A 96.5% rise means the underlying index fell hard and fell fast. Damage of that scale ..." Could this be tied to the 7.1 Earthquake that hit Japan a few hours ago?
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by rpaddock 2mo ago
"“Rare earths always come mixed together, whether they’re in an ore or in a waste stream..." What these College level projects never address is real world experience with Thorium. "Mixed together" very often includes Th
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
My late wife took her own life to stop Chronic Pain. See our documentary Pain Warriors about that whole saga. It can be watched for free on Amazon Prime and TubiTV and a few other places. I receive no renumeration of any kind from the doc
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
The direct link to the data sheet: https://abracon.com/datasheets/AHCR-S04R0S.pdf
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
For a similar part in this class: Low Leakage Current as small as 1µA Low Self-discharge rate, 72 hours @ discharge <5% https://abracon.com/datasheets/AHCR-S04R0S.pdf The more the Farads the higher the leakage. The
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
For anyone that wants to see a real data sheet: Nominal Voltage: 4.0V High Power and Energy Densities Cycle Life > 50K Cycles Capacitance Range: 10F-1200Farads https://abracon.com/product-lineup/frequency-control-tim
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
Research that was updated in 2013 from the quoted 1995 speculation: "… Men and women's brains are connected in different ways which may explain why the sexes excel at certain tasks, say researchers. A US team at the University of
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
I looked that up. Interesting that it appears on page 369. The numbers from the famous N. Tesla quote. Sadly we've lost such funs stuff in the modern era. Has anything been better than the Signetics Write-Only-Memory from long ago t
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
It was not an oversight, however since you asked: http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2013/04/magic-smoke-resistors...
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
Have you tried a backwards polarity tantalum capacitor? I've seen those go off just on their normal voltage when installed backwards. Sometimes immediately and other times with significant delay. Eye Projectile and Eye Flash protectio
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic p
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
I have found this ST Discovery kit extremely useful in figuring out what my USB-C power sources could actually supply. "The STM32G071B-DISCO Discovery board is a demonstration and development platform for the STMicroelectronics Arm® Co
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
In World-War-One J.H.Rogers invented and patented an antenna that worked well underground or underwater. It was used to communicate with Subs at the time. According to the late, and somewhat controversial, T.E.Bearden the Rogers system has
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by rpaddock 3mo ago
In the fall of 2023 I tried to visit Stonehenge. We arrived at 15:15 local time. I was riding in the passenger seat. There was a male and female police officer standing at the side of the road, beside a "Road Closed" sign blockin
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by rpaddock 4mo ago
I can see both sides of this. I really want different part numbers for the same reason you do. However we deal with a lot of regulated products and to just open a case at one of the Government Paper-Pusher Regulators will cost us $5,000 to
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by rpaddock 4mo ago
I got one of those take down notices because I had their catalog of Space Grade Rad Hard parts on my website. About six directory levels down; did I give TI permission to invade my site?. Any Human would have seen it as promoting their pa
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by rpaddock 4mo ago
Some companies want no records at all, see: "2028 – A Dystopian Story By Jack Ganssle": http://www.ganssle.com/articles/2028adystopianstory.htm Known as ’The Rule of 26’, which is sometimes given as a reason
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by rpaddock 5mo ago
It is a good history. Alas in the bizzarro legal landscape of today some places ban such notebooks under the Federal Rule of 26. That leads us to directly to 2028 – A Dystopian Story By Jack Ganssle: http://www.ganssle.com/
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by rpaddock 10mo ago
I remember seeing in a Popular Electronics Magazine, in the late 60s or early 70s, stating "There will never be a Blue LED". Despite looking I've not found that issue again.
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by rpaddock 10mo ago
In Tom Beardens book "Excalibur Briefing: Explaining Paranormal Phenomena" on page 166 he states: "...Briefly, two groups of cells were selected from the same cell culture and one sample placed on each side of a window joinin
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by rpaddock 1y ago
I must give some background so you don't think I'm being factious or silly by what I'm about to explain. Next week it will be twelve years since my wife killed herself due to Chronic Pain. Willing or not thrusting me into be
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by rpaddock 1y ago
Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields are an alternate explanation of the memory. https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introdu...
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by rpaddock 1y ago
Thank you.
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by rpaddock 1y ago
I've seen AI recommended things like Fluoroquinolones (Avalox, Cipro, Levaquin etc), for UTIs. The FDA itself says this class of drugs work no better than a placebo for UTIs, Sinusitis and Bronchitis. While they cause life altering si
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by rpaddock 1y ago
Yet sadly it is still on the market. Is there a number of deaths that are enough? There is also this small 2016 study: "Interference with neuronal development Pregnancy outcome following maternal exposure to pregabalin may call for co
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by rpaddock 1y ago
One of the known side effects of this drug is Suicidal Ideation. My late wife was taking this crap when she killed herself; see the documentary Pain Warriors for that whole saga. I've been warning people about this drug for years. One
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by rpaddock 1y ago
In some Embedded areas where safety is of high concern following the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) guidelines is a requirement. There may be no heap at all and memory must be pre-allocated at system initialization.

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