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Comment Re:Don't believe you (Score 1) 138

A typical LM3576 IC has leads less than 1mm wide, with less than 1mm spacing, and it's DEAD OBVIOUS when the pins are fucking shorted.

Tell me you don't do soldering work on power circuitry without telling me you don't do work on power circuitry.

https://www.analog.com/media/e...

Go down to the dimensions on the 16-pin MSOP package.

I've soldered hundreds of thousands of those. Note the pin spacing.

Go the fuck back to school.

Comment Re:I didn't even know this was a thing until recen (Score 1) 304

Or I can just rely upon the dozens of times I've passed a vehicle stopped at a traffic intersection or on the 405 or the 110 or the 605 with its emergencies on because the car auto stopped in traffic and wouldn't start back up, causing hours-long delays.

That technology is utter shit.

Comment Re: Put a price on water - tragedy of the commons (Score 1) 118

California has a water surplus ON THE SURFACE.

Now let me tell you about under the Mojave Desert and Colorado desert, where the water table is dropping because rainfall can't replenish what's being pumped up.

And if you don't believe me, you can go to 34.835594 -116.206203 and check the measurement wells for yourself in the Mojave. I'm there every other week.

Comment Re:No doubt they want you to stay on them for life (Score 1) 175

I don't think it's malicious. Most people who lose weight by any sort of diet end up putting it back on. The whole concept of a "diet" is inherently flawed. It should be looked at more like treating alcoholism or drug addiction, except that you can't go cold turkey, and you probably can't even control your lifestyle.

What we fundamentally need is a device that monitors our calorie intake and our calorie expenditure and starts asserting itself when our budget is off. The one nature provided isn't working out.

Comment Re:If you're under 40 there's no reason to change (Score 4, Insightful) 145

This is the super rich who have crashed the economy yet again trying to calm you down so you do not demand they fix the problem they caused.

There is a continued push to convince people to do things, or have their kids do things, the speaker won't do themselves:
- Join the military
- Skip college
- Take up the trades
- Nursing!
- Do manual, unskilled labor

All of those are fine options in theory, but there are definitely reasons we aren't doing them until better options have run out. I'm not optimistic those reasons have changed, just the rate at which better options are running out.

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