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YakBizzarro

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    Comment #47952789

    The claim that traditional electronics can't work at deep cryogenic temperatures is vastly exaggerated. Of course you can't take something as complex as a modern microprocessor and…

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    Comment #46709122

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XS

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    Comment #46468329

    I seriously don't get it. At my time in university, ALL the exams were oral. And most had one or two written parts before (one even three, the professor called it written-for-the-o…

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    Comment #46373485

    Maybe someonw can explain me, but I never understood the appeal of GPIB for modern instruments (legacy instruments are of course "excused"). Electrically is a terrible interface th…

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    Comment #45406840

    Not at all, it depends on the residence permit. With a C permit you can buy and rent properties, while with B you can buy only your own home

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    Comment #44893484

    God, I hate so much these videos. My son son used to ask for these when he was younger, they were so bad...

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    Comment #44855879

    with a bonding machine :) doing that manually can be tedious, nowadays for IC that are bonded and not flipchipped it's all automatic. Manual bonding is still very used in research.…

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    Comment #44364021

    these prices are like airplanes: no one with volume pays list prices, it's something else. moreover, this FPGA is very peculiar. it's used to simulate ASIC during validation, so it…

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    Comment #44080339

    Same issue, but instead I convert the USB-C signals of the laptop to HDMI/USB-A plus charging port with a cheap adapter. Then a KVM with HDMI/USB switching

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    Comment #44001977

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

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    Comment #43759729

    Funny how the manufacturer proudly claims that the protocol is encrypted, but completely forget to mitigate replay attacks,thus making the encryption completely useless

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    Comment #43516235

    In fact I'm quite surprised by this announcement. Gl.inet is famous for claiming that their os is based on openwrt, while it can be some vendor SDK that is based on some decade-old…

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    Comment #42768323

    Only for simple pcb. If you are making multi-layer pcb with complex stacks, pcb manufacturing and soldering (with associated tooling setup, validation and so) are easily 2 months o…

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    Comment #42601341

    Well, for that you need to fit it on a 720k floppy :) Unless you modded it with a 1.44 drive

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    Comment #42167548

    It was Win32s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s

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    Comment #42166650

    Availability :) a RTG requires Plutonium 238, which needs to ne created almost on purpose in a nucleare reactor. Not all nations have this ability or they are running such expensiv…

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    Comment #42090203

    "If it wasn't for him, it would be someone else." wow, I will use this defence, it's perfect!

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    Comment #41463987

    Not the OP, but his past (very significant!) achievements doesn't excuse him for present or future behaviour.

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