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There's basically no point. Desktop PSU is a solved problem, most designs are all about cost engineering and the tiny sliver of higher power and ultra high efficiency options are n…

Well, kinda. The value is in meeting the spec, yes, but the "certifiable" part is very often a subset of the actual spec. Sort of like in software how someone will inevitably depen…

I wouldn't be so quick to make guarantees. There's cheaper spec-equivalent devices, sure, but a frequent and recurring feature of military hardware prior to the 2000s is an unexpec…

Suppose an asteroid strikes the Earth and all human life becomes extinct. What power, specifically, has been transferred, and to where?

I think the question was less about the efficacy of ABS, and more about the failure mode. Is it possible for the ABS system to "fail open" unintentionally, such that depressing the…

My employer blocks access to Google Docs as part of our confidential information protection policy. They're certainly not the only ones. I'd hesitate to call on-premises file manag…

Historically this was a huge concern because not every manufacturer implemented their ESD protection properly; or, on occasion, the process technology meant that ESD protection wou…

These parts are bonkers. The ringing on its own outputs with a few inches of trace or (heaven forbid) a connector is regularly sufficient to self-trigger the automatic direction re…

Learned a few tricks that I'm sure are buried on fstring.help somewhere (^ for centering, # for 0x/0b/0o prefixes, !a for ascii). I missed the nested f-strings question, because I'…

Because, unlike most professions, ATC is immediately, personally responsible for making decisions for which a slight mistake could instantly claim the lives of hundreds of people.

Which language is this? I'm sure some people can clue this together from the hints, but I'm not one of them.

For what it's worth, this post just helped me explain several years of failure to wake from sleep state, across several different MSI-based machines, when I've connected them to an…

As someone with a hardware background, I'll throw in my $0.02. The schematic capture elements to connect up large blocks of HDL with a ton of I/O going everywhere are one of the fe…

A lot of these environments inherit a visual presentation style (ladder logic) that comes from the pre-computer era, and that works extremely well for electrical schematics when co…

For Uno specifically: I do like the attempt to build out a WASM target, it looks usable. Uno looks to be in a lot better state internally than even two years ago, which is promisin…

If Microsoft said "Windows-only, good luck with cross platform," I'd accept it and move on. It's their prerogative to spend their resources enhancing their own platform. Instead, I…

Presumably because, much like the half-dozen other flexible cross-platform frameworks Microsoft and friends have gotten one-third of the way to a viable product before abandoning t…

This is frankly infeasible. Between the decades of trade secrets they would first need to discover, the tens- or maybe hundreds- of billions in capital needed to build their very f…

He didn't lose his brain mass, it was compressed into a thin shell around his skull.[0] Moreover, his IQ was 75 - I'm not sure ending up in the bottom 5% of human intelligence as a…

I don't agree with the premise. Integrated circuit manufacturing scales well because the cost per transistor is lower with every process improvement, so as process improvements acc…

With Cloud, as long as you don't mind solving the same problem multiple times every few years when things you depend on go obsolete, indeed it is a nice experience. A lot of people…

The US literally stopped issuing new reactor permits in 1979 (down from on-average about 12 per year), and didn't begin issuing new ones until 2012. Out of 177 reactors issued cons…

IronPython is indeed quite a pain to work with, and for a lot of reasons beyond the age. For instance, you don't get numpy or any dependencies that themselves depend on quirks of C…

Are you sure you're not thinking of Mullvad? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638917

You're already seeing it. Xilinx led the industry in chip interconnect technology, SERDES, MCMs, die stacking... they've been making chiplet designs since 2011. They were the ones …