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Also pictured, this is what a 5016 test point clip is *supposed* to look like when an industrial reflow oven does the job.
And this is what a 5016 test point clip looks like when I hand solder it instead.

1 views Also pictured, this is what a 5016 test point clip is *supposed* to look like when an industrial reflow oven does the job. And this is what a 5016 test point clip looks like when I hand solder it instead.

About time the boards started coming together (with 2x4 ribbon cables, and only half the potential sub-boards connected).
Notably 3 different eras of greatly miscalculating the actual brightness of the stupid super-bright green indicator LEDs. I corrected this on the newest (top), and in any case those are the only on-board LEDs which are intended to be user visible (light-piped sideways).

1 views About time the boards started coming together (with 2x4 ribbon cables, and only half the potential sub-boards connected). Notably 3 different eras of greatly miscalculating the actual brightness of the stupid super-bright green indicator LEDs. I corrected this on the newest (top), and in any case those are the only on-board LEDs which are intended to be user visible (light-piped sideways).

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85.7 / week

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🔥 Top post The "AI"/TESCREAL folks of the world have been pushing this notion that "because of Moore's Law" there will inevitably be a point where we'll reach "the singularity" or "human-level AGI". And that's exactly the problem with the statistical abuse (misstatement) of the law. You do… ★ 3

Also pictured, this is what a 5016 test point clip is *supposed* to look like when an industrial reflow oven does the job. And this is what a 5016 test point clip looks like when I hand solder it instead. ★ 1

About time the boards started coming together (with 2x4 ribbon cables, and only half the potential sub-boards connected). Notably 3 different eras of greatly miscalculating the actual brightness of the stupid super-bright green indicator … ★ 1 Status: Have enough shell hacks to enable power and output to LED strings. Just need to port my RP2350 WS281x GPIO programs to whatever hell zephyr requires. ★ 1 This deliciously demonstrates what went _right_ with tech in the last couple of decades: * If you have a technology which is demonstrably achievable today, but impractically expensive, then it *will* eventually become cheap enough, and sud… ★ 1 In fact, Moore's Law (re-reading the original print e.g http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/moore-crammingmorecomponents.pdf) talks _separately_ about cost and count: * He observes that there is a trend in the sweet-spot of featur… Which is not to say there aren't some nice things emerging in the high-efficiency/low-cost space, but most seem to be efforts which started long before the requirement of "AI" in the title. Everything else is going to be run on a shoestrin… But herein lies another destructive thing about the "AI" craze: it's sucked all the air out of the room for any advances if they can't be tagged with the term "AI". I've heard from many who are dismayed that nobody is putting much effort i… ★ 1 Not to labor a point, but one only has to look at wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count to see that there's no trouble in chip *packages* still exponentially increasing in total transistor count. (if you don't exclude on… ★ 1 Meanwhile all of Big Tech is suffering from survivorship bias, believing they are packed full of genius executives, and about to bring humanity into a glorious golden age brought about by (actual) AI. They're going to destroy so much, beca… ★ 2 It is dismaying to think that the real reason for advances in computers in the period ~2000-2020 is simply because the One Trick which executives understand—borrowing and spending vast sums of money—was during a part of the Moore's Law cur… RE: https://mstdn.jp/@landley/116948695798841931 I feel the need for an obligatory "That is the common misstatement of Moore's Law" but it's hard to keep up. Not cost. Not speed. Not performance. Number of transistors. That's all. [Quick e… ★ 1

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Nov 2017

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 8 years ago.

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73%

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Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
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Established account (8+ years old).

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San Francisco. He/Him. US/UK. Open to work. No "AI". No corporations. Software/hardware/chip architecture, generalist from silicon to apps, somewhat InfoSec. Ex-Big Tech. Alumni: empeg / Diamond Rio / SigmaTel / Google / Apple Mostly posting about building gadgets (PCBs, embedded firmware, etc), and snarking about big tech and politics. Carrying water for “AI”, fashtech, or having an email address ending in ".ai", gets you blocked.

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