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decimation: heh yeah, most of what you pay for is in
the
tracking oscillator
decimation: heh yeah
the a/d converter next
to
the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit
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decimation: yeah I guess if
they aren't
tight you are going
to get alot of cold joints
decimation: I
think you
typically glue
the components down first
decimation: actually
the best solution is probably a wave-soldering machine
decimation: on
the youtubes people just use a squeegie
decimation: yeah I guess a proper solder
template is made of metal
decimation: like
the plastic
that you put over
the board so you can apply
the solder paste?
decimation: ascii did you use your laser cutter
to make solder masks?
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decimation: I wish I had access
to a high spec metal mill
decimation: in a proper
technology company you would keep your high-end engineers busy building esoteric stuff, while
their knowledge & expertise
trickles down
to other areas
decimation: "agilent" is going
to go
to
the bio-bezzle company
decimation: "keysight
technologies" will be
the name of
the new
test&measurement division
decimation: I know, but
they are going
to spinoff again
decimation: asciilifeform - but
to your point about bio stuff -
that's probably why agilent is keeping
the agilent name for
the bio side of
the new company
decimation: yeah
this is one of
those portable deals. You can give agilent at least 2-3x
that for a high quality lab grade spectrum analyzer
indiancandy1: a romanian one and all
there food is garlicy when u sweat does it smell like garlic?
decimation: if you want quality
that's what you pay
mircea_popescu: something
tells me
that if it were, you';d bitch about machined silver
mircea_popescu: tightly packed handled mass produced electronics like
these...
decimation: he does point out "well it will probably have
to be recalibrated"
decimation: yeah, I can reasonably guaruntee
that for 20 GHz equipment, it's not like it never happened (for
this guy)
decimation: the system is complex, it needs
to separate
the RF portion from
the computer portion, and also conduct heat. I suspect compromises were made between
the competing priorities
decimation: 3e8 m/s / 20 GHz = 15 mm wavelength at 20 Ghz -
that's why you see all
the esoteric shielding
mircea_popescu: why don't
they have insulant between
the
two modules is beyond me.
decimation: there are some interesting design choices (some he points out, some he doesn't). as ascii would say, figuring out
the details is an excercise for
the alert reader
decimation: so
that's what he focuses on,
the board construction
decimation: I
think his past experience was as a pcb designer
decimation: heh yeah for him
the computer is
the uninteresting part, he cares about
the rf parts hehe
mircea_popescu: what interests him are
the fully machined aluminum blocks.
mircea_popescu: the smart comment was re "some processors or something but we don't care about
that"
decimation: they are famous for making $20k
test equipment
that runs windows xp
mircea_popescu: how do i know it's
the actual
thing if he doesn';t sample anything with it first ?
decimation: the us still makes very high quality stuff, you just have
to pay golden
toliet prices
to get it
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cazalla: it'll go
to a shootout where messi misses and germany wins
TheNewDeal: if you can make it
that far, it doesn't really matter
BingoBoingo: I hope for an Argentina Germany final where
the only players
to survive
the jerkoff pregame festivities are Messi and Klose
TheNewDeal: he showed me a brief clip of a brazilian person in
tears
mircea_popescu: i don't even
think
this happened before, in a wc match
TheNewDeal: not sure if he didn't know
the english word for siete
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TheNewDeal: I was freaking out
today. Just bet against
the
top scorer last night,
then some mexican dude whips out his phone
today at work and was
telling me germany had 9 goals
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i didn't actually watch
the
tennis chick either
cazalla: indiancandy1: do you like Germans? my oma met
the fuhrer
TheNewDeal: haha you want
to bet but aren't interested in watching
the game?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And you know
that because people are doing
their jobs atm
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i watched
the last 5 minutes of germany-brazil by accident