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The problem is that (we have every reason to believe) models like Claude were trained on existing translations. Now they're being used to generate things that are direct replacemen…

That shield is a drain wire combined with either a woven braid (most effective at lower frequencies) or a solid aluminized mylar foil (most effective at higher frequencies), or, fo…

We had good results testing Cable Matters stuff here at work, but that was for non-critical use so I didn't go too hard on the tests. (Actually, I didn't go too hard on any of it s…

I'm not so sure about cheap. All the cheap ones I've tried have been pretty flaky, and ended up in the junk bin. I picked up this guy for work: https://bit-trade-one.co.jp/en/adusb…

I wish there were more domestic assembly companies that catered to high-mix/short-run. The few there are are mostly terrible or unaffordable. But it's a tough business to be in. Yo…

No, I mean all LEDs. The cathode marks are basically randomly assigned. This is because each company more or less designs one leadframe/package structure per size or type of LED. S…

> If the assembly fab had access to the schematic (I know a lot of people wouldn't want to share the schematic, but if we suppose that's not a problem), would that clarify most sit…

All LEDs are like this. It's horrible. The only good thing about it is that every professional in the entire industry has come to expect that if it's an LED, something somewhere wi…

Why is this posted here? It's old, and it's not terribly relevant, though it's not useless. For anything larger than 2 pins, pin 1 at upper left and pin 1 at lower left are both qu…

To be fair, sometimes the blinding is a piece of duct tape over the display on a piece of fancy OTS industrial equipment. Though we needed to poke at it occasionally, so we needed …

> the people solving the problems have conflicting interests as they are paid hourly LOL. No, no they are not. There's a lot of reasons I'm out of that game, and this is one of the…

Yes, this, exactly. The moment someone has a theory that's experimentally testable somehow (somehow possible, anyway), there will be plenty of interest. There has never been such a…

> in 1925 most theoretical physicists decided that we [are done] No. Just... no. Even advancing that fifty years to 1975, the Standard Model reigns not because people want it to re…

You would probably be very surprised about just how much work is put in to characterizing these things. My graduate work was on another experiment (though our postdoc worked on one…

Celebrating the mistakes is, as you're saying, perhaps a bit too far. But mistakes will happen, it's just the nature of the world. That makes developing a robust error correction m…

The V5 is a great pen! They used to be my daily driver, and if you want what they do well, they're hard to beat. (Fountain pens can and will, but they're fussy, and everyone knows …

I think there absolutely are 10x doctors! When every doctor or specialist you meet in a field says "yeah, Dr X is a massive asshole and I kind of hate him personally but if I ever …

The G2 definitely does glob. That's one of its bigger faults. (Others being that I, personally, prefer a line width between the 05 and 07 options -- obviously this is world-stoppin…

If you love the V5, then the next step is definitely a fountain pen. There are plenty of guides out there, so I'll not waste time doing an inferior job of making a specific recomme…

The modern version of this is the Pilot G2. Scatter 'em around everywhere! 80% as good as fountain pens at 1% of the fussiness. I have a Lamy 2000 (well, more than one...) that I a…

Would anyone downvoting care to explain? I'm genuinely interested in seeing anything that suggests there's either some secret breakthrough (completely plausible, but there's no evi…

Agreed. This looks from the outside like someone read a report, got unnecessarily spooked, and now the rest of the herd is following along. But it's also very possible that hypothe…

The word "uncorrelated" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that claim. Most DRAM error sources are pretty clearly correlated, if you're paying any attention.

FYI, it's not so much photons (gamma rays) as muons. Muons are nasty little buggers.

We're right here! Some of us just prefer to stay out of these silly irrational debates because we know that neither of those two crazy camps will listen to a word we, or anyone els…