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Just wait until they shred all the old useless books

True, but “normal schedule” is hiding a bit of subtlety there: the hpv vaccine was recommended for women up to 26 at the time, so the oldest women who got it then would be pushing …

>You're supposed to be able to order "a" 5532 without specifying the supplier This is not true. >because many vendors produce "a" 5532 This is true, in the sense of a "5532-type pa…

No, I’m talking about the guy that builds prototypes out of his magic parts box and says “oh, you can still get those” when the last direct substitute was obsoleted in 2008. Or he’…

They’re just not really standardized at all, especially semiconductors. Not in the sense you’d expect naively. Some were a long time ago, and supposedly the old Japanese sc parts w…

It annoys me too but part numbers are not a spec but more of a strong hint. The attitude of the industry is that it’s up to you to read data sheets carefully and test. Even for a 2…

This is why you should always order new parts for a new design and never, never trust the old guy with the magic parts box. Also why learning to read and compare data sheets skepti…

There is a C.S. Lewis quote that is as good as St. Paul and I don’t say that lightly: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts…

I guess it could be if you left out the bacon… and the rabbit.

When I put together my telescope setup I got a manual equatorial thinking I’d add a clock drive and my next telescope would have a go-to mount. It’s been about 20 years now.

On-screen tablet/phone keyboards seem perfect for apl to me. There’s an iOS port of J but it’s no longer available on the App Store.

I got a VIC-20 when I was about 12? Jim Butterfield loomed impossibly large over all things Commodore at that time. One of the first things I typed in on it was his TINYMON, a <1kb…

At some point you have to go from S-100 to original “8-bit” ISA. There might have been a combo backplane in period.

How did the skedd connectors work out? I assume Wuerth redfit? I'm looking at ordering some to try them.

Yes. For about 98% of embedded, you want the pinout for the TC2030-FTDI-C232HD-DDHSP-0-DTR cable that has DTR and RTS on it for STM32, ESP32, and Arduino-style bootloaders. It's 3.…

Yes. Look at the old national app notes for the lm339 family of comparators.

Piezo harvesting switches and similar (I think there’s a flywheel design out there too) are quite expensive, not terribly reliable or consistent, and require substantial activation…

Right, and they were superseded by battery-powered infrared remotes for good reasons. I would recommend revisiting those reasons before proposing this sort of technology for wirele…

> My general rule of thumb was to look something up when I came across it. That is good advice. Nethack “spoilers” are more like being let in on an “in-joke” than being told the so…

It’s about humans presenting something plausibly awful in a deceptive way, and using a machine to be plausible and deceptive.

That’s exactly what a clanker would say, isn’t it?

The amyloid hypothesis and associated fraud covered in the TFA.

No.

Just have an AI make a video out of it, I guess.

Because it told you so!