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You can buy one here: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/P2-Pentalobe-Screwdriver-...

I think the main thing is it’s really rare to just have one project in the works anymore. So you buy the 5day turn and work on something else in the interim. If somehow you really …

Do fuses count as an electronic component or does it have to be an active device? If so then I can name a couple. :)

I wonder why Apple would even want to protect a battery charger IC? All of the interesting stuff would be in software anyway. Maybe the reason repair shops can’t buy it is more mun…

You can actually see this for yourself in the new open source PDKs. https://skywater-pdk.readthedocs.io/en/main/contents/librari... See how there are six foundry provided cell libr…

I think that word replacement, in a court of law, might be harder to do than you think because caste is not officially recognized by American law. I'm not sure how you could prove …

I was using us to mean all customers in Apple Store. The stories from winter when there was unionization talk were horrific. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-employees-plan-wa…

> The bullshit thing in my mind is that Apple took away the ability for store staff to make discretionary calls to bypass stuff like this and do what’s right for the customer. It c…

There are trade-off there to consider. One get's ruggedness but carbon fiber is generally not a good thermal conductor which could be a problem for a laptop with no fans. And titan…

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/16/class-action-lawsuit-screen-c... Filed in Sept 2021. "A class-action lawsuit is being planned on behalf of M1 MacBook owners who say that screen crac…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER “It will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment and the largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.” Do…

Maybe, but it worked out really well last time we did this. I say the government ended up with a tremendous ROI. https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/history-lesson-the-198... Wha…

I’m super happy to see these things, and some money is better than no money, but judging by how much my lab spends per year, $50M/yr isn’t going to get them very far. And we do con…

> How should they know where they want to go if they're entry-level? I think it’s totally reasonable to expect people to have a plan. It’s also totally reasonable, and expected rea…

There are variants of STM32 that are 90nm. A 90nm foundry was just announced. Not sure if they’re planning on making STM32s, probably not, but there are non-leading edge foundries …

I think the usual technique for soldering a BGA is a lot easier. https://hackaday.com/2021/02/28/bga-soldering-and-inspection... At the bottom of the page you'll see a link to some…

A small GreenPAK is perfect for this. There’s also mixed signal versions just in case you also want an opamp, or two. https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/products/programmable-mixed-si..…

If only the world was so simple. I think the connection is more direct than you might suspect. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/magazine/neil-degrasse-ty... And https://www.goodr…

I suppose one can argue about the output but there have already been spin-offs from the JWST inventions that do have practical applications. https://webb.nasa.gov/resources/JWST_sp…