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Thu Mar 17 18:01:43 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: one of the other things about 'take rectifier and power 10 - or 20 in eu - in series' is that you get one of the problems of the chinese bricks, but in spades: ripple
Thu Mar 17 18:01:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much more than analog apparatus of a century ago, that's for damn sure.
Thu Mar 17 18:00:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> by now the bricks are so shitty, and tolerance so easy, it's surprising what "digital apparatus" takes in terms of abuse.
Thu Mar 17 18:00:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> get a customizable power bridge, link pogo, see how much it'll take before it falls over.
Thu Mar 17 18:00:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> enough about this matter :
Thu Mar 17 18:00:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform if you're either bored or butthurt
Thu Mar 17 17:59:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lol show this ?
Thu Mar 17 17:56:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> etc.
Thu Mar 17 17:56:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "hey, it's not done like that since the 50s! the 50s sucked!"
Thu Mar 17 17:55:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but the EXACT same.
Thu Mar 17 17:55:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and the same EXACT arguments you use could be used to persuade me (or at least a dumber version) to use java instead of tinyscheme.
Thu Mar 17 17:55:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and from that same angle, the value of tmsr engineer is g(value of burned pogos)
Thu Mar 17 17:54:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a) i've on many occasions said, "this is stupid but will be instructive, proceed" ; b) you think this is about production, which it isn't, it's educational.
Thu Mar 17 17:53:49 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> so when $random-ba-visitor proposes doing something idiotic with financitronics, mircea_popescu says 'this is moronic' and this is a-ok, because financitronics is a mircea_popescu-competence. when i say 'this is moronic' and subj is electronics, then i am on crack?
Thu Mar 17 17:53:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> phf thinking about it, i think the switch has a lot to do with their delusional notion that they're somehow now in power.
Thu Mar 17 17:51:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jesus.
Thu Mar 17 17:51:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> what's easier than soldering a plug into a pre-prepped landing pad ? << ANYTHING that doesn't involve "pre-prepped". what's easier than marrying this girl your mommy splayed out on the bed for you ???
Thu Mar 17 17:42:03 UTC 2016 <*> mircea_popescu jew-york handwaves
Thu Mar 17 17:40:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> are you talking 50s ?!
Thu Mar 17 17:39:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well obvious or not now it's also stated.