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BingoBoingo: Blackbag operation against
the groundhog stealling all of
the soon
to be
tomatoes last week was satisfying
decimation: wonder how many backyard warriors are planning on killing
the neighbor's kids while "defending"
their home with an ak?
BingoBoingo: Plastic ratshot still messes drywall. Also... I want it for
the challenge. Not smashing spiders with a weapon capable of felling a snake
decimation: it's actually quite elegant, rids you of
the need
to come up with some silly signed integer representation
assbot: Balanced
ternary - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
There are still WWI era Springfields
that are in nice shape, but with
the Enfields... "British Industry" producers of fine cars
that have a commonality with puppies in
their leaving of puddles
assbot: Ternary computer - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: and
the american machines were already "new jersey" style
assbot: Online Emulation of Soviet
Ternary Computer Setun / rinary
decimation: I find
that amusing, perhaps when
the 'end of moore' comes,
ternary computers will reappear
decimation: I was reading about
the history of computers
the other day ascii - early soviet machines were balance
ternary!
assbot: Baggage X-ray machine part 6 - inside
the black box. - YouTube
decimation: Yeah I bet you need a good vaccuum
too
assbot: Sticky
tape generates X-rays : Nature News
decimation: now imagine what kind of chance
the average airport mouthbreather has
to figure
things out
decimation: most good engineers would have alot of
trouble figuring out circuitry from an xray (in a short
timeframe)
dignork: the guy made a long film out of it, but he managed
to
turn it on, and
then was brave/stupid enough
to disassemble particle emitter
cazalla: mircea_popescu:
there is a new exchange here in au, cointree.com.au, i emailed and invited
them here,
they were happy
to meet for coffee or do a google hangout but no show here :\
mircea_popescu: cazalla
the disadvantage of running a neobee is
that you get
the "no news" people on your case
decimation: well sure, but
they have $100
to spend on pashtoon ak or enfield :)
mircea_popescu: in
that sense
they need sniper rifles not frigging enfields.
decimation: afghanistan is
the ideal long-distance shooting country
mircea_popescu: decimation "the half dozen or so men moved several hundred meters away and drew lots
to see who would fire in what order."
mircea_popescu: What was not noticed much outside of Afghanistan, was
that
this shift in weaponry brought
to an end a long Afghan
tradition of precision, long range shooting.
mircea_popescu: diametric not bad. i like your guy better
than
the agilent guy
decimation: I
think
the mu-metal is used
to line
the outer plastic chassis
BingoBoingo: Futbol would be a lot more interesting if
the World Cup's championship game was just Klose and Messi
taking shots from
the goal line for 90 minutes
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mircea_popescu: this is why if i managed him i'd only
take final customer items.
decimation: I can't find any comments about
the gaskets, youtube sucks
decimation: this was probably a demo unit, if
the agilent sales guys gave it
to him
decimation: " It's not unusual for
the first couple of units
to have components changed by designers who are not expert solderers just
to prove
that
the mod works as intended. Once everyone is happy
then some of
these units become demo models, "
assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser
Teardown - Page 3
decimation: heh
thru-hole parts with hand-drawn pcbs
decimation: computers could be built
this way, if people were willing
to pay for it
decimation: yeah
this video is unusally good for
this guy, usually he just rambles at
the camera for an hour rather
than showing
the goods
decimation: that way
they don't have
to slow down assembly line with firmware burner
decimation: yeah I just saw what you were
talking about,
the one in
the middle of
the board is
to load new firmware
mircea_popescu: decimation since not populated nor intended
to open i imagined it's factory diagnosis ?
mircea_popescu: so "attention
to detail" agilent is full of random wires lol
decimation: the sd slot is probably
to store pretty pictures of
the spectrum you capture
decimation: the max "resolution bandwidth" for
the device is only 3 MHz,
that's
the width of its filter as it
tracks over 20 GHz
decimation: I
think agilent makes "genesis" which does exactly
this
decimation: hehe yeah
those "pcb waveguide" filters are awesome
assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser
Teardown - YouTube
decimation: yeah
that's why all
the shielding (preventing logic spurious signals)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amorpous metal will process similarly, just
takes longer
decimation: typically you sweep from low
to high frequencies of interest
decimation: it makes an image of
the spectrum, sampled over a period of
time
decimation: it's not really an oscilloscope, doesn't need
to have 20 ghz of bandwidth
mircea_popescu: look at some of
the examples of ancient gemcutting, you'll be impressed.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but go make
the die for shells with file. << women, diamond dust, fingers.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> heh yeah
the a/d converter next
to
the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit << wtf. so 20ghz is a scam ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i see nothing in
there
that couldn't be milled on an ordinary desktop cnc machine. <<
this.
decimation: it would be fairly straightforward
to disassemble & repair, unlike macbook air for example
decimation: what's interesting is how modular and easy
to
take apart
this agilent device is