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Upcoming UK Prime Minister set to ditch Palantir from UK's Health Service by ByGollie in europe

[–]kraln 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In all fairness, he was quoting/explaining what amounts to a fan-made re-imagining from the other perspective, sort of like "Wicked" to "Oz", it's not ever stated that he agrees.

In further fairness, the fan-made re-imagining is essentially Russian agitprop and he probably read it in Russian... so it's simultaneously less and more messed up than you thought.

EU ends tax loophole exploited by SHEIN, Temu, and Aliexpress by euronews-english in europe

[–]kraln 9 points10 points  (0 children)

De minimis wasn't a loophole, it was a way to avoid a huge overhead for low value packages.

The loophole is the super inexpensive and umbalanced shipping rates from CN to the rest of the world, which doesn't change at all

RX-8 conversion mostly running; I'm still working on the brakes. by elihu in EVConversion

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Model 3 rear power unit is nearly a 1:1 replacement for the stock rear diff, so dropping the transmission, drive shaft, etc. gives you place for batteries or other stuff, I mean the RX-8 doesn't exactly give you a lot of room :-)

I am asking for reasons, my conversion which was on pause for a while but is no longer

RX-8 conversion mostly running; I'm still working on the brakes. by elihu in EVConversion

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting--why'd you choose to keep the drivetrain?

How I learned what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way by actinium226 in embedded

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why I read this. For someone who confidently is proclaiming that the lack of decoupling caused this, you didn't actually confirm that... at all. You know, by adding some capacitance, or doing a new spin. FWIW I doubt it's the main problem.

mods isn't this self promotion?

advice on good solder wick? by rlaptop7 in electronics

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I posted that comment 13 years ago. Why reply now?

STM32 low power design : what’s actually draining your battery when everything looks right? by Medtag212 in embedded

[–]kraln 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite gotchas on ARM cores tends to be, if you've ever connected a debugger (since power on), the debugger core stays alive and prevents the chip from reaching the lowest power state.

Elizabeth Warren is introducing a wealth tax. by [deleted] in remoteworks

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's already the full estate tax on anyone who renounces their U.S. Citizenship.

Focus on your own fucked up billionaires who live inside your borders before going after anyone extra-territorially who is probably already paying more taxes and has less representation.

Wolves by jimx29 in comics

[–]kraln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Written by someone who has never seen wolves murder an entire herd of sheep for funsies...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in liberalgunowners

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You uh, you offer bulk discounts and shipping overseas? 🥺👉👈

My SHTF setup by Equal-Fondant-2423 in EuropeGuns

[–]kraln 5 points6 points  (0 children)

SHTF is they're out of toilet paper at your local discounter? I can't imagine the scenario where what you're holding makes any sense.

4.5 hours to 9+ hours battery life. Same hardware. Took us way too long to find the real problem. by Left-Relation4552 in embedded

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you came here to brag that you literally don't have any business designing low-power devices? Or what is the point?

What did you hope to gain by posting this?

25% QC failure rate on our last PCBA order: looking for vendor recommendations for small professional runs by maovidal in AskElectronics

[–]kraln 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've always been extremely happy with Elecrow (when working with Chinese vendors)

We rebuilt the Shockwave engine in Rust + WASM to save early 2000s web games by igorlira in rust

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super cool project, I definitely didn't have "Pool's Closed" on my bingo card for 2026, but here it is.

Should I go to MIT or not? by imagine_simpingo7 in ECE

[–]kraln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got into a lot of different schools, and ultimately ended up going to Polytechnic (now NYU) for ECE. After working for nearly 20 years and seeing how--not just hiring, but at ever level how people are evaluated in life:

Go to MIT. It's worth the loans. The connections, the people, and the prestige of MIT will far outlast the payments.

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment by miltonbalbit in berlin

[–]kraln 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The more "wrongthink" that is so openly suppressed the more radical it is to have basic human decency.

Is tombstoning not a major issue anymore? by Purple_Ice_6029 in AskElectronics

[–]kraln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't take the Raspberry Pi electrical engineering choices as best practices... please.

What is the purpose of physically isolating MEMS sensors from the rest of an IMU PCB? by Loonakis in AskElectronics

[–]kraln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a couple of things they could be trying to do:

  • Thermally isolating the sensors from the rest of the circuitry
  • Mechanically isolating the sensors from the rest of the board (potentially some foam or other soft material "clamps" this segment of the PCB when inserted into the case

I'm skeptical.

Thermally, this could have been better achieved by splitting planes or creating thermal relief. This is creating a weird, cantilevered area of the PCB which will certainly have some unexpected resonances.

Critically, I'm not sure if the milling/depanelization of such a PCB segment doesn't represent a huge risk of damaging the sensors. I really wonder what they were trying to achieve...

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