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dhdc··on Test Microwave for Radiation Leakage
A live test would be quite dangerous if the microwave does leak EM.
dhdc··on Test Microwave for Radiation Leakage
Actually, this is not as stupid as it seems. I was first baffled by the idea that a website can read the RSSI of the device I'm on, then I realized its probably just measuring the latency by pinging every second.
dhdc··on Verilog Is Weird
Related: https://insights.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/verilogs-major-flaw/

This is why if you want complete determinism, use VHDL. Unlike verilog, VHDL was developped specifically for describing hardware behavior.

dhdc··on Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)
Before the 2000s or the Agilent spin-off, HP was the undisputed king in electronics test equipments. Their flagship multimeter HP3458a, launched more than 30 years ago, is still the standard in metrology. And Keysight (spin-off from Agilent) is still making them with little to no significant modifications over the years.

They also made some great RPN calculators.

dhdc··on Comparing DDR5 Memory from Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix
More importantly, because of the low-power requirement, LPDDR typically have better binned dies than DDR.
dhdc··on NanoVNA: Low-cost handheld 4GHz vector network analyzer
Be careful, this isn't something you should talk about/admit in public at all. Feds really don't like it when people mess around licensed bands.
dhdc··on How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
Okay, but its not very useful is it? Sure, you can propagate the state vectors directly, but even tiny amount of noise may be amplified and can make the results useless. Also, read up on why Euler Method is bad for solving ODEs numericaly.

This is exactly why we use Kalman filters.

dhdc··on How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
The actual power of Kalman filter lies in its ability to estimate states/variables that can't be measured directly, not just filtering time-series data.

With Kalman filter, you not only get your output filtered, but along with the state of the system at each step as well. No amount of low pass filtering can achieve that.

dhdc··on Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher
Should add "Moskowitz" to title. Right now it looks like UC Berkeley's official statement.
dhdc··on A sharp-eyed scientist became biology’s image detective
Non-paywalled link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210701031117/https://www.newyo...

dhdc··on Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?
The article is over 4 years old.
dhdc··on Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?
Emphasis on bias. Though factual, the words used by the website are heavily loaded and clearly serve a purpose.
dhdc··on Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?
cough Advil cough Motrin cough

Just because its an industry front doesn't mean it treats (take money from) all companies equally.

And the fact it calls Tylenol out rather than its generic name acetaminophen just adds to this.

dhdc··on Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?
Reminder regarding the source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-council-on-science-a...

Please read the *entire* report.

dhdc··on A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Speaking of evidences, do you know that underlined texts are clickable?

Also, please kindly point out any biases in the article if you can.

dhdc··on A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Get that pseudoscience garbage out of here.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudosc...

dhdc··on USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
If you just want to know if a usb cable can safely delivery a certain current, then a cheap multimeter might do.

If you want to test whether a cable will work with a certain protocol at a certain data rate, just plug it in and see if it works. Because the alternative method[1] costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[1]https://www.keysight.com/ca/en/products/bit-error-ratio-test...

dhdc··on Teardown of a PC Power Supply
Be careful though, ATX power supplies don't have a crucial feature that bench supplies do: setable current limits. They will pump out as much power as they can to maintain the output voltages until they saturates.

Which can result from releasing some magic smoke if you are lucky, to a call with your insurance company.

dhdc··on Teardown of a PC Power Supply
I am pretty sure M.2 uses 3.3V exclusively, and depending on the implementation, RAM sometimes gets its power from down regulated 3.3V as well.

Though you do have a good point, nobody misses -12V and -5V.

dhdc··on Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer
Probably non-existent since the thickness of insulation layer isn't controlled.

Surprisingly, silicone rubber has a dielectric constant between 2 and 4 [1], which is pretty close to FR-4's 4.4. So maybe it isn't impossible?

[1]https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/polymers/polymers-09-00533...

dhdc··on Teardown of a PC Power Supply
...which puts all the DC conversion on the motherboard.

Honestly, I can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

On the plus side, power supplies will be much simpler to design and test, with potentially better efficiencies. On the other hand, all those additional DC-DC converters will take up quite a bit of space on the already crammed boards, and now you got more heat to manage.

dhdc··on Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone
Forever sitting in your wallet, because its an "investment" and cannot be spent normally?
dhdc··on We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
Just positive feedback loop. The term "positive" or "negative" refers to the effects of the feedback path on the overall system, a negative feedback loop attempts to negate any changes in the outputs, while a positive feedback amplifies any changes.
dhdc··on New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking
I believe that is highly illegal in many countries. Here's what FCC has to say about jammers: https://www.fcc.gov/general/cell-phone-and-gps-jamming
dhdc··on Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal
From my very limited knowledge of physics, time crystals can theoretically oscillate forever without any excitation at their ground state, though laws of theromodynamics are not broken and energy cannot be extracted from their oscillations. In a normal crystal oscillater, power is needed to keep the crystal oscillating.
dhdc··on NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
The amount of astroturfing in the reddit thread is just awful. VPN hosters market in the most aggressive ways possible, probably due to the fact that its usually impossible to verify a VPN hoster's claims (without a breach), so assuming they did most of the VPN stuff right, any new users they lured in are gonna stick, at least for a while.
dhdc··on Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned
Yes. In addition, wafer size is another important metric of fab capabilities aside from process node, since it roughly translates into production rate.
dhdc··on Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)
Chinese here. A good place to start would be 知乎,zhihu.com, or chinese quora. I'm by no means skilled in mathematics(still an undergraduate after all), so there could be some more specialized websites/forums I'm missing here.
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