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@goodun2974 it's all about dat bass! Boom shacka lacka lacka.
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@goodun2974 I never noticed a fishy smell. I've heard about it a lot though. Generally with old electronica my take is it's all old so not worth fixing. Even if you change the capacitors everything else is still old. Old resistors drift. Old circuit boards get brittle. It's all just old. Changing the capacitors doesn't change that either. So for me it's more a good money after bad situation. Even if it was all new would it really compare to new gear? A lot of times no.
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@goodun2974 I've watched people struggle soldering and invariably what was causing them problems was contamination. They think they can solder to anything. It just doesn't dawn on them that some crud causes problems. They're not planning on eating off of it so they just don't care. Or they have a dirty jobs mindset, or something. Whatever it is they underestimate the impact contamination has on soldering. How vitally critical what they're soldering has to be spotlessly clean. The solder doesn't flow or stick right and they just lean into it with the iron. Thinking if they just stick to it they'll get the job done. That tends to just make a bigger mess of things. Now they have roasted baked on grime. Theoretically flux is supposed to be a cleaning agent. But it only works so far. I love the smell of old flux. Although I'll even clean old flux a lot before soldering. Because it's probably collected dust or something.
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@goodun2974 yeah brown crud looks like caramelized sugar. The brown crusties. Consumer electronics are trash. I guess I've seen some nice stuff but overall most consumer electronics are really a cut below. It's all junk compared to the commercial industrial stuff. With pro stuff you can really taste the expensive ingredients. Parts that actually cost more than a fraction of a cent in bulk.
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@goodun2974 there's tin whiskers. That's a fun topic to explore on the Internet. Sounds like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It came from outer space. It's growing on your circuit board right now!
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@bobdeadbeef I never ran it for a long period of time and the time I did use it everything worked perfectly. Your voltage rating adds up. So with a long enough string you can get pretty high voltage. I think I was using 6 capacitors in series and they were 50V each. 6 times 50 equals 300 which is more than double the voltage I was running through them. It was all fine. They were just junk box caps anyways so I really didn't care. Caps are for what you're using them for. With a motor they're for shifting the phase of the current. That's something a lot of people don't know or understand. But I do.
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@Bubu567 sure it happens. Then all that's left are a couple leads sticking out of the circuit board. We have lift off.
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The shipping cost in space remains too high. That and space has other issues. Like cosmic radiation. Which would cause silicon defects.
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@lyrebirdcyclesmarkkelly9874 don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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@gordonwelcher9598 rail to rail is exceedingly difficult to achieve through a material that is naturally resistive. They don't call them semiconductors for nothing after all.
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You're confusing your schemes. A pyramid scheme is when you buy in and then get others to buy in. A Ponzi scheme is when you sell a worthless asset for money. I'd say AI is operating more on the Ponzi model myself.
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Only because guitarists are idiots.
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@edwardmonsariste4050 no they're not. Any filter can be digitally created today. You can sound like you're playing out of any model of tube amplifier. That tech has been available for decades. We're not living in the Stone Age now. Why with AI we don't even need musicians anymore. Chat GPT play me Chuck Berry playing Enter the Sandman please.
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Yeah mega geniuses are messed up. It's a good thing they're rare.
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Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow human.
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I wouldn't worry about it. Due to practical issues modern supercomputing has to use Linux. It was the OS positioned to get the development required for the task. AI has to deal with all of those harsh realities too. So it's a lock there as well. Someday the mind of God will have a Linux kernel. Guaranteed.
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When your workstation is sparking do not douse it with water!
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@evilherojain4412 you love it when we oppress you.
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@evilherojain4412 I'm sorry to hear that.
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@evilherojain4412 emigrate. GTFO of my country!
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Caveat emptor
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@dorfschmidt4833 right. The maximum temp spec applies to the number of hours too. With the temp and service life you can calculate how long a cap can last. Or at least have some general idea. What most do is just measure a cap and if it is shot then it is shot. Or they just replace it out of hand. Because to measure the cap right you have to pull it out. Then you test it and see. But if the cap is out you might as well just put a new one in at that point. You've done all of the work. But you test just to satisfy your own curiosity. If it is shot you can slap yourself on the back then too.
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@ytSuns26 the industry standard is to replace caps every 5 years just to avoid the consequences. That's the safety factor. After that you're playing capacitor roulette. You can win at the table, but you can lose too.
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Because corporate raiders offshored everything in the name of making a quick buck.
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You just said it. It's old tech. It's not easy to keep 20 year old technology running. How many 20 year old PCs do you see being used today? The software that tech runs on needs that vintage hardware to work. The dummies used proprietary OSes. 20 year old Windows NT won't run on modern hardware either.
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@shopshop144 the problem is maintenance. You can't fix this machinery in house and the companies that make the machines are not offering long term maintenance contracts either. It's just not how people are thinking in the industry. Old fabs get scrapped. No one's into restoring them. It doesn't make sense to build old machines when the best customers all want new machines. You chase money where it's at.
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@SviatoslavDamaschin you're not running real time controls in an emulator successfully. That's never going to happen. It is unlikely the software you're running belongs to you on the Windows platform either. So you're not going to rewrite it. Because you didn't write it in the first place.
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@SviatoslavDamaschin a company making hardware may not have the software talent to write the code they need. Or it may not be economically viable for them to invest in what it costs to create software. Generally the cost is amortized across a number of clients. It doesn't pay to just write software for yourself. They simply might not have the time. Most people need things done yesterday. Not the years that development takes.
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@Asianometry bikinis! OK maybe football fields.
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You're luckier for the USA. Who do you think invented everything? Sure you people had some vague ideas but we actually made the physical hardware. Something you could slap and it worked. We made all of the software too. We invented the compiler and high level languages. Very little Information Technology was developed outside of the USA.
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Please heat and beat carefully. kthanksbye
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@catonpillow Wikipedia is not a reliable information source. The places you cite cannot govern themselves. we are certainly not there to conquer or subjugate those nations. We wouldn't even want them as territories. They are defacto protectorates. The USA is a global superpower so we have many international interests. Just because we have agents in foreign countries does not mean we are conquering those places. We have military bases in Germany. That doesn't mean we're controlling Germany. When we completely conquered Germany we handed it back to the German people too. Unlike the Soviets.
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@catonpillow I do not need to look anything up when it comes to the history of the USA. That is a topic I am a distinguished historian and international affairs expert on myself. There's nothing in our history that even remotely suggests we have any imperialistic tendencies. Imperialists do not conquer countries then hand them back to the local populations. We do.
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@JMurph2015 so, you think Intel would want to see AMD fail? You don't see any problems for Intel if that happened? Who really worries about anti-trust anyways, right?
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There was also a glue that was used back then that went bad and became conductive. The brown crust. It was hard to tell it apart from a leaked capacitor. But they'd use that glue to hold parts to boards for when they wave soldered them.
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@junkname9983 caps all go bad so everything with caps in it can potentially have bad caps. Bad caps just went bad sooner than they should have. Eventually every capacitor will fail though. It's foil and paper wrapped up with some liquid in it. It's not going to last forever. The foil is usually on plastic. What happens is the sheets burn through. They get all these pinholes in them.
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@cjay2 I know you are. You don't have to point it out to me.
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@mr2981 I'm sure we could and have. There's just no profit in that path. I really don't think Nvidia is too interested in consumer graphics these days anyways. Why would they be? They're making far more with AI now.
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Moore's Law didn't apply to Apple. They ran Motorola chips. Which was a large part of the problem for Apple. There was no way Apple was going to compete with the whole PC ecosystem. One cannot stand against many.
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Microsoft has a solution to data acquisition as I can Recall.
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Soylent Green is people!
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Apple sued Microsoft for having a recycle bin. They'd have firebombed anyone that tried to clone their firmware. But what you describe is precisely what happened that started the IBM clone market.
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The country does welcome immigrants. We just don't want illegals. There is a difference. Anyone that wants to come has to come on our terms. This isn't a free for all.
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@maksimfedoryak the USA has the most generous immigration policy in the world. We admit more legal immigrants than any other country. 641,100 in 2022 which is 119,900 more than the next country. Just that difference would almost land us in the top 10 again.
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No one wanted a midrange 486 by the mid 90s. Heck I had a Pentium 200. I gave a 486 DX4-100 away. Chip, motherboard, RAM, all of it. Apple's problem was they couldn't keep up with the free market. You can't stand alone against the tide.
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@madzen112 why would anyone want a low end 486 by the mid 90s? You couldn't even play Quake on a 486.
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@madzen112 1996
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@madzen112 it seemed that way to me. They were grasping for straws and circling the drain.
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It was Steve Jobs. But Steve had to wander in the desert for a while before that was going to happen.
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@gtzpower that's all a matter of subjective opinion. Except for the suicide nets around Foxconn. They're physical.
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