Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 39

@alphakamp My point was actually that I don't care if the processing is a bit slower, since the guy would be handling it manually, since the shipping is so damned slow anyway, so if said guy could get me datasheets for everything I order, it'd be worth it.

The other option would be to get a job in Hong Kong and take the ferry to Shenzhen to shop parts.

If I knew a guy in Shenzhen who could get me data sheets for all those obscure Chinese parts, I'd gladly buy all my parts through him instead of Alibaba or eBay. It takes weeks and months for the parts to arrive here anyway, so I wouldn't mind simply emailing him lists of the parts I need and send him money.

Vertical tabs give you a dangerous level of freedom.

I'm more comfortable about a face reveal now than I was 30 kg ago, since I no longer look like Jabba the Hutt.

I'm more comfortable about a face reveal now than I was 30 kg ago, since I no longer look like Jabba the Hut.

Face reveal.

...also, new shirt!

They really missed an opportunity by not using the extension .FeO for Rust files.

@dd86k AMERIKANSK TELEFONMAST 🇳🇴

What a shame to live a perfectly healthy life, only to die of nothing.

@dredmorbius I feel it ought to have a one-word name, like the other seasons. It makes enough of a nuisance to deserve a one-word name.

There is a season that occurs between autumn and winter, and winter and spring, that I like to call "the goop". It consists mostly of sleet and everyone is wet, cold and miserable.

"It was the middle of goop, and I was out walking, wishing for powdery snow."

@jk @Mainebot I'm surprised that some crazy diamond hasn't reverse-engineered the whole thing and uploaded it to a blog somewhere at this point.

@jk @Mainebot At this point, having a digital oscilloscope at your disposal, plus a service manual, would probably be helpful...

@jk @Mainebot With looping buffers like that, some kind of DMA or counter is usually involved, together with some piece of code getting stuck so it can't actually fill that buffer with valid data.

@jk @Mainebot What does the DX7 do if the NVRAM contains random data?

@Mainebot @jk That's good input. Yeah, have you checked your power rails? 9 times out of 10, if a circuit is dead, it's related to the power rails.

@jk Ah, a battery diode. Shouldn't matter at all, then. If you're designing such a circuit. Batteries can easily vary by as much as 0.3 to 0.6V over their lifetime. Frying a chip with static is a possibility, especially with old chips like that.

@jk I mean, it's possible that a pin on a chip can't take a certain higher voltage, say 15V, that is sometimes present on a bus, but sometimes, when that voltage is not present, needs to pull that bus up or down within its own voltage range, say 0 to 3.3V, but that would be fairly exotic, and it would be more sensible to use some kind of level converter chip for that, since whatever's on such a bus probably wants to see the higher voltage range... again, it'd have to be pretty wild...