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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 17:52:38 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Analog circuit design is an exercise in compromises. You can only ever get a circuit to do approximately what you want, and every component you use has non-ideal properties. A diode is non-linear if there is <0.6V across it. Components have approximate values and can only dissipate so much power. Everything has thermal noise and parasitic resistance and capacitance. Getting it all to work is equal parts art and science.

   1. Ricardus (ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 18:27:11 EDT Ricardus

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      @thorthenorseman I once wanted to get a circuit to start on fire, and it did EXACTLY that! 🙂