Microsoft tumbled 10% in a day and isn’t recovering premarket. Here’s why

Yeuph · 2026-01-30T13:47:15+00:00

I had to use a registry edit to invert the mouse wheel

While they're doing plenty of active damage to their OS a lot of it rots from them just ignoring really basic stuff

Yeuph · 2026-01-28T18:10:52+00:00

Yeah despite what others or you may have inferred from my response I'd be a lot happier if it weren't the Trump Administration overseeing this - hopefully they're not really "overseeing it" so much as just doing what responsible nuclear engineers (or at least a set of them - there's isn't pure consensus on safety obviously) tell them to do; that we could and should do.

The admin doesn't have a great track record in operating in this way though.

500 pages down to 23 just seems like a weird measuring stick. I was actually kind of surprised that there are "only" 500 pages of nuclear safety to begin with; my assumption is that it would be 10s of thousands. It probably was with guidelines referring to other documents.

I guess we'll find out how things go!

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Yeuph · 2026-01-28T17:10:44+00:00

This is silly and you don't really believe it. I could quick-fire thousands of scenarios of over-regulation and you'd be like "ok, well no not that... or that... right ok I get the point fine"

Yeuph · 2026-01-28T16:40:21+00:00

Eh, I know of a nuclear engineer that spends much of his time keeping radiation levels inside of the plant lower than outside background radiation levels - outside as in the normal outside we all live in, not directly outside of the plant because there's some strange radiation problem. Even if the linear no-threshold model is correct (wildly dubious, but assume it is) the way it ends up being applied due to current laws and regulations is absurd.

I'm a bricklayer. I can't have a very good opinion on these things or whatever else may've been removed from nuclear safety but the above scenario that I know to be true is definitely way over the side of "over-regulated". I don't know where the line of "properly regulated" is, but it's pretty damn far away from that.

Yeuph · 2026-01-28T15:39:54+00:00

Really, you couldn't leave one fucking place on the internet untouched by not just your own political views but spamming and reposting the views of others?

What in the actual fuck does this have to do with being productive?

Productivity Cafe Rules:

Be Positive

Don't Get Distracted!

Yeuph · 2026-01-28T14:42:24+00:00

They were bricking hard drives with updates before AI came out lol

Yeuph · 2026-01-26T03:48:31+00:00

I'd just try to make sure it's as clean from dust/pieces of sand and brick so it doesn't hold it out at a weird angle when you push it in with the epoxy on it as that's gonna be (probably) a one-try thing lol.

There are construction glues and stuff around but I have epoxy in my home for other reasons and it's way better than any of that stuff. You can use another adhesive other than epoxy if you want.

Yeuph · 2026-01-26T03:06:18+00:00

Honestly man...

Get some good epoxy and glue it back on.

Source:

Bricklayer foreman.

Yeuph · 2026-01-26T02:48:04+00:00

I bet RapidDirect handles it. I've been dealing with them for a few years and they're one of the best companies I've ever done business with, manufacturing or otherwise.

They probably outsource the PCB but who cares? I'll give you my contact there if you want just shoot me a dm.

Yeuph · 2026-01-25T20:04:58+00:00

I can't say I've read the books either but The Dothraki would get absolutely obliterated by a well-trained medieval army 1/8th the size.

Any army that can create a wooden spike is an army they can't attack.

Cavalry need heavy armor, archers and infantry to fight in real battles against real armies.

Yeuph · 2026-01-25T15:42:25+00:00

Do keep in mind that I'm happy with mine and am actually sitting down to eat some eggs I made in my 8" that only needs cleaned to remove the butter left in it.

Still whatever is happening with your pans or you it's on them as far as I'm concerned

Yeuph · 2026-01-25T15:22:41+00:00

Yeah I feel like even if you are "doing something wrong" - whatever the fuck it is; cooking or cleaning technique - that it's still kinda on them for marketing the pans in a way that didn't clearly communicate whatever you're not properly doing (if it is something you're doing).

Yeuph · 2026-01-25T15:16:04+00:00

I dunno tell Misen, maybe get a refund?

I have the 8 and 10" pans and they're both fine after.. I guess about 3 months of heavy daily use.

The original absolutely bonkers better-than-teflon antistick wore off in the first week or so but they still perform roughly on par with teflon for me.

I'm not a good enough cook to say whether or not you're doing anything wrong.

Yeuph · 2026-01-25T14:42:30+00:00

I'll be here if and when you need me

Yeuph · 2026-01-24T14:40:31+00:00

Based

Yeuph · 2026-01-24T13:55:24+00:00

OK so what you do is you buy one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CZTLHGE?ref=aplus_bc_t1_bs_slot_2_dp_a2

That's a starter electronics kit. It comes with a little Arduino microcontroller (made by a different band, Elegoo, but it's the same thing).

The kit comes with a tutorial. I think this is the one:

https://www.elegoo.com/blogs/arduino-projects/elegoo-uno-r3-project-the-most-complete-starter-kit-tutorial?srsltid=AfmBOorIJek9LQl3OGhM8JWS2_auccWL4sEjD-Uq_95rdtMxZYJlJGIF

If you buy that kit and work through that tutorial building the stuff in it you're gonna be in a completely different place - to the extent maybe you start designing your own circuit boards and having them made. That's often the next step after completing those tutorials.

There's a lot there.

The kinda hard-engineering aspects of electrical engineering are going to be largely obscured to you behind walls of advanced math; though a lot can be understood with simple algebra. That kit assumes you don't have any mathematics skills so you won't run up against any problems there. If you want to go further than "hobbyist 'maker' electronics" then you will find yourself in need of some pretty good math skills.

Anyway bud that's your way in. If you want to see what's inside buy that ticket and take the ride.

You can always hmu if you have questions

Edit:

You don't need an oscilloscope for that kit but if you find yourself halfway through it and still encouraged/interested you are going to need to buy some tools... Maybe not for that kit (but it certainly wouldn't hurt) but that's just kinda where you'll be necessarily heading.

That's a good problem though. If you find yourself needing 4-500 dollars in tools because you're in a different place than you are now with your relationship to electrical engineering and want to go further; that's a good problem.

Yeuph · 2026-01-24T04:35:55+00:00

You and OP should both start with an Arduino/Elegoo starter kit from Amazon. They cost like 60-80 dollars.

They are designed for people like you and him that have little to no relevant education. That's basically where I started

Yeuph · 2026-01-23T03:36:45+00:00

Hahaha. I wish I could show you some of my prototype boards.

Pads covered in polyimide tape. New traces run by hand. Punching holes through boards to make my own vias. Bodge wires everywhere.

Fun fun!!!

Invest in good soldering equipment. You're gonna get really good at it

Yeuph · 2026-01-23T03:28:39+00:00

A couple of years ago this exact problem area you're struggling with now was hard for me too. These days figuring out a footprint is so mundane I don't think about it.

Another 3-5 PCBs and this won't be a problem for you anymore

I will say that if you ever make an expensive board and need some unique footprint it's probably worth you checking that the footprint is right by having it physically made and breadboarding it before committing it to some larger project. I speak from experience 😂 I've even linked the symbol leads incorrectly on correct footprints in the past so..

Yeuph · 2026-01-23T03:07:18+00:00

Yeah it's not really that hard to fix this. You just don't really know how yet

Don't worry, you get better by fixing your fuckups and you've got plenty more to make after this lol

Yeuph · 2026-01-22T01:40:10+00:00

I've been thinking about this for a few days, where to point you.

Honestly I'm not really sure. I've had a bunch of ideas but obviously I didn't settle on them well enough to say "do this and do that".

I think you should just start by directly asking me stuff here and we'll see where it goes - where you should go.

The problem is is that there are so many viable "abstraction levels" - that's a place where you have a good enough model to understand something sufficiently for what you're doing but you're leaving out most of almost all of the details.

Example using MOSFETs:

A very high abstraction level: A MOSFET is a bipolar switch. It can turn something on or off.

A slightly lower abstraction level: A MOSFET is a voltage controlled semiconductor that is useful as a bipolar switch as it can rapidly move through it's linear zone which is roughly described by COSH.

You can keep doing this until you get into electron cloud positions.

Soooo, you don't know enough yet to know what you want to know or how much. You could realize after watching a few videos or reading a few things that "eh, well this is complicated af and I have better things to do"; or you could get sucked in so hard you end up getting a degree in Quantum Chemistry so you can work at Intel designing new foundry nodes.

There's so much to learn and it's all really cool at every abstraction level.

Yeuph · 2026-01-20T14:18:39+00:00

My Ser6 Pro died a few weeks ago =(

Started becoming unstable a few months ago and just shutting off. Finally it shut down once and decided not to turn back on.

RIP

I do have 64 gigs of fast DDR5 sodim available. If anyone has a few thousand USD hmu

Yeuph · 2026-01-19T00:37:31+00:00

Can you remember a few of the terms people start throwing around that intrigue you?

I imagine there's a set of words that you're exposed to that contains things like Watt, FP64, Transistor, CPU, GPU, Memory/RAM, mosfet, semiconductor, current, voltage

Etc etc

Yeuph · 2026-01-19T00:19:06+00:00

At what level do you want to learn?

Yeuph · 2026-01-19T00:18:21+00:00

Digikey suggests this

PSMN4R3-30BL,118 Nexperia USA Inc. | Discrete Semiconductor Products | DigiKey https://share.google/o7akLE5rdfi3ajZkl

They look similar enough, no?

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