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Maybe, but the plastic of the transformer would show signs of melting/burning way before the solder on the other side would be melting.

I can’t tell you what’s wrong, but these shorted pads aren’t it. They are added to the traces for extra thermal mass, a bit more or less solder doesn’t hurt. If you look closely, all of the shorted pads are on the same trace of the PCB, so they would be connected anyways.

A guy walk into a bar and pulls out a scale model of a grand piano, as well as a wooden puppet. The puppet immediately animates and starts playing the piano.

After a perfect performance of Mozart’s piano sonata No.11, the puppet gets up, bows to the audience and falls lifeless to the ground. Everyone is astounded.

The bartender asks the guy: “That was great! If you don’t mind me asking, where did you get a puppet like this?”

The guy hands him an old golden oil lamp. “You see, I found this lamp. If you rub it and say what you want, a genie pops out and grants the wish. Give it a try, if you want!”

The bartender is sceptical, but tries anyway. “I wish for a million bucks!” Immediately the bar is filled with a giant flock of ducks. On the tables, on the bar, on the ground, ducks are everywhere.

“What the fuck?! That’s not what I asked for!”

The guy chuckles. “O yeah, the genie is hard of hearing. Did you really think I asked for an eight inch pianist?”

Windows has that button, but only if you right-click the drive in file explorer and select “eject”. The dialog is very similar, but has the option to continue anyways. That option doesn’t appear when ejecting from the taskbar.

Which is weird, because it means that Microsoft went out of their way to make two different, almost identical dialogs. And they made the better one harder to reach.

My university used Artemis to do basically what you’re describing. Files are uploaded via git. But it seems like selfhosting would be a lot of work.

Hard to tell, a couple of the other components also look dirty. Are they just dusty, or is there some residue from a blown-up part?

What device are we looking at? I’m guessing some kind of power supply? What is the failure mode You’re trying to fix?

He proposes the cloud be owned by communities, so in a way by everyone. That’s not the same everything being owned by private companies.

I mean, I don’t like AI. But leaving in debugging messages can easily happen without AI, too.

I think most of us are pretty damn average.

That’s true. Like, by definition.

This seems to be an engineering sample CPU. Since these are pre-production, that could mean it’s basically a fully functional CPU. It could also have serious issues.

Found it!

You can use most of the connectors you would use for bigger wires. Wago lever nuts are rated for conductors as small as 0.14 mm².

If you want something to fit a din rail, standard terminal blocks (something like this) should also work.

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ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.

From the IRF1404Z data sheet:

Calculated continuous current based on maximum allowable junction temperature. Bond wire current limit is 120A. Note that current limitations arising from heating of the device leads may occur with some lead mounting arrangements.

You need to design the PCB so that the heat from the legs can be properly dissipated, or they won’t live up to the rated current.

Also, traces on a PCB are much thinner than those legs. A trace with the same cross-sectional area would be impractically wide.

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Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.

It doesn’t ask you to subtract the numbers, but to calculate the distance (i.e. the absolute value of the subtraction). So depending on which numbers are paired up, the sign of the pair can be different.

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The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.

Unpopular opinion: The license makes sense and should have been enforced from the start.

The Benchy is a benchmarking tool, not just visually but there are also various features you can measure and check against the dimensions on the website. But that doesn’t work if the model you’re printing has been modified.

If it looks like a beachy, it should have been printed from the original model, so it’s always comparable. Preventing derivatives means you can be sure of that, even if it came on the included SD card with your printer. Otherwise, manufacturers could include a modified model that makes their printers look better than they are.

Relevant xkcd