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Yesn't. They don't operate at DC, so things like placement do matter. TVS diodes should be placed right next to the connector so it has the lowest possible inductance - which means…

For the more literal people: in some weird scenarios you can actually power an MCU via its actual GPIO pins! See [0] and [1] for example. The trick here is that most MCUs have inte…

This is why the West is getting its ass kicked in non-legacy industries. Our MBAs have internalized the idea that you "win at capitalism" by buying out your competitors, making pro…

And I know very few white collar workers who are, beyond "I guess Google Search is AI now". Each their own bubble, I guess. AI has some value in some scenarios. Most models still f…

> building subway/metro infrastructure costs 3-4 times in New York what it costs in Tokyo, London or Paris. Why is that The NYC subway is one of the few (the only one?) to run 24/7…

Stop voting for politicians who keep starting pointless unwinnable wars and you can cut the military budget in half. Boom, 10% of the expenses gone, and $500B less of a budget defi…

They started with nothing , in a garage! An unused three-car garage next to their parents' mansion. While living at home, without having to pay for basic things like food. And with…

There's no obvious datum to reference, for starters. From bottom to top you've got the motherboard tray, standoff spacers, the motherboard itself, the socket, the CPU itself, the c…

Collateral murder.

> If demand outpaces supply then there’s a shortage no matter what you do. Demand is elastic. If the price of potatoes rises to $1000 / kg most people will switch to using pasta or…

People are happy to play with AI when the tech companies are burning hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize it. It remains to be seen who is actually willing to pay for it at…

As of Q1 2026: 90% market share for the Big Three, 8% CXMT, 2% everyone else. And CXMT was only 3% Q1 2025.

Nontrivial markets don't behave like Economics 101 textbook examples. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have a combined market share of 90% - with most of the rest being a very new-to-…

I honestly don't care either way. Either they are using AI as an excuse to hide their incompetence, or they are constantly going down due to the AI they have been promoting . If yo…

They have delivered some great shareholder value!

From the renders it looks like the housing can be screwed open and the battery seems to be connected via pogo pins, so it should be user-replaceable. The biggest question is going …

It's a luxury product. People spend tens of thousands on a watch, what's a few hundred for a keyboard? In this hobby people are more than happy to pay that much for a second-hand s…

From what I can see it doesn't look too crazy at first glance. It doesn't seem to have any especially rare or expensive parts or features. A few complications, but that's about it.…

The usual way of doing backlight is by having the LED underneath the switch and letting the switch transmit the light upwards. Many switches have special cutout positions for this,…

It supports multiple dials, including some flatter ones. It even lets you 3D print your own dial.

They are almost certainly the Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile[0], or else an almost 1:1 clone of them. Identical design, identical height and actuation distance. The actuation force is…

> Hetzner asking for ID is an outlier, probably inspired by German bureaucracy. No, it was 100% their own fraud prevention. They blocked my account almost immediately after registr…

I don't disagree with you, but I think there's a bit of a difference between setting up an entire cloud infra to the point that you can phish people with it, and making a basic acc…

"Hijacking"? No, those clouds providers are happily hosting phishers. They simply believe doing the bare minimum of half-hearted anti-abuse is more profitable than doing proper KYC…

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