Notices by Richard Hendricks (hendric@astronomy.city)

@whitequark Does it detect Cadmium?

@whitequark Catherine, you cant upgrade its firmware or plug it into a Glasgow.

@whitequark Did the tin whisker Apocalypse never end up happening

https://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/

@whitequark big brain solution: put pieces of your infrastructure on everything, that way if any of them goes down, you are down.

Wait a minute...

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@whitequark You are never getting rid of that overly rabid fan club, are you? 😉

@whitequark ugh, that really sucks.

*moves social interaction knob more to introvert*

@whitequark yes, exactly.

@whitequark ugggh, splitting multi bit fields across a nibble is my pet peeve. Yelled at so many clouds (aka hardware devs) over this 🫠.

@whitequark cute.

@whitequark I was expecting him to be thrown out through the garage door. Doing jackassery like this without a helmet is peak male.

@whitequark A coworker was visiting Palm (old PDA vendor) and the reason they moved from the nice tactile side click wheel to buttons was because their ESD test using a 5 kilovolt probe would send a spark right through the click wheel to the PCB and blow up parts.

@GossiTheDog sent a couple of bits. Thanks for all you do in the community.

@eniko @kaia Nice to see such a strong woman character on the command deck!

@eniko @kaia *sniff* What if Worf had been a horny female Klingon?

_checks ao3_

@whitequark I rate you 624 out of 625!

Funny story, back at ye olde semiconductor company, a customer's ops team heard something funny in one of our vac packs. They did medical devices including x-rays, and sent us an x-ray picture with a big angry red circle around the loose solder balls in the pack. Uh, oops!

@whitequark I mean, that's kinda good. 🙂

@whitequark Well I shall talk to the appropriate devs. 🏏🏏🏏

@whitequark Yeesh. Have you ever tried the one from Silicon Labs, Simplicity Studio? We've tried hard to improve the UX for it, I hope we're not this boneheaded.

@whitequark In former role before IOT radios, I wrote the firmware for the CP2102N USB to UART. Fun project, managed to squeeze 3 mbps out of an 8051 core at 48 MHz. I still have nightmares over the things I had to do to get software flow control working. 😨 But by god, it worked, and we found 4 bugs in our FTDI chip we used for testing.

@whitequark Looks like someone is going over spec, that's why the edges look so bad. Signals look like 920.1 kbps, Max3232 is only rated to about 230kpbs, Max3237 has a megabaud feature pin to get to 1 mbps.