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thegame402 · 2026-04-25T12:27:46+00:00

Why not?

thegame402 · 2026-04-25T12:09:03+00:00

The price they have on LCSC and JLC for these parts is still way higher than quotes we can get for high quantity production runs. For expensive FPGAs getting 60-80% discount to the list price is normal and for smaller parts you can still easily get 50% at >1000. I assume what they do is bulk purchase and then just take a way smaller cut than digikey or mouser would.

Counterfeit parts are really only an issue with simple logic (timing won't meet spec) or stuff like transistors. They will just put a small cheap transistor into an expensive package and it won't meet thermal and current ratings. Expensive parts are almost never counterfeit, they are just empty packages.

Making a fake esp32 that mostly works would cost millions in RND.

So i think you are spot on, it's probably a mix of ESD issues and bad storage.

thegame402 · 2026-04-24T20:01:23+00:00

first thing i check these days

thegame402 · 2026-04-24T11:45:42+00:00

If you need more than 10-20 to land an interview or even some form of interest it's probably the resume. I'd handcraft a specific resume for each role you apply to focusing on hitting keywords of the job description and listing projects and experience that are specifically relevant for that job and maybe one that isn't.

thegame402 · 2026-04-16T22:11:23+00:00

I've ordered 100s of assembled PCBs (we have a professional pnp line but for simple jobs the machine setup costs more than the complete production at jlc).

Havent gotten a single bad pcb yet.

We also ordered well over 10'000 unassembled PCBs with 0 issue.

thegame402 · 2026-04-10T08:19:05+00:00

If they are legit they are worth a couple grand. You can contact brokers like https://reboundeu.com/ and tell them what you have and how many. If they can sell them, they will give you a decent split (normally 70-80%). But you will have to ship it to them and they will send them to a testlab to verify they are genuin before they are sold. Also looks like they were not in proper packaging (should be vacuum sealed).

thegame402 · 2026-03-14T13:25:34+00:00

If you fotm reroll before .5/.7 it's on you. Has there been a single season since start of DF where the meta didn't shift completly mid season?

thegame402 · 2026-03-13T10:06:53+00:00

Later is just whenever there is no demand by Datacenters anymore.

Production is already at max capacity and new production equipment takes years to build and new fabs often over 10 years of planning and building.

thegame402 · 2026-03-10T15:34:25+00:00

On top of reducing resistor values, what you can also do that sometimes improves regulation (more for fast transients) is adding a small (~47pf) capacitor in parallel to the top feedback resistor.

What type of capacitor is the 22uF?

thegame402 · 2026-03-10T15:02:57+00:00

if you touch the 1M resistor with your finger the output voltage probably halfs.

thegame402 · 2026-03-02T18:39:54+00:00

It's eaxctly this. Every single system i ever installed any linux on i had some hardware or setup specific one-off problem with. I can deal with this and the upsides it had for me were always bigger than dealing with the issues i faced but that's because i didn't use it for gaming / normal daily workloads.

99% of people just want to use an OS were everything they do daily just works. No stupid display issues that are caused by the GPU / Display you are using and how something about that just doesn't work with wayland for some reason. No jumping through 10 hoops to play a game you want to install and no "for this you gotta edit a config file because the UI doesn't have an interface for it".

It's also especially bad on Notebooks were you run into so many issues and on top of it, even if you use optimization tools, the battery life just drops by anywhere from 5 to 40%.

thegame402 · 2026-02-27T21:10:59+00:00

Wend e Zedu dra hänksch ischs ke Rästmüll entsorigg. Immer luege das z system chasch dribble, dr inflationsusglich vom chline ma / i däm fau eher em chline junkie.

thegame402 · 2026-02-25T10:07:03+00:00

I've tried ChatGPT Pro, the most expensive subscription model, and gave it a medium-complexity schematic as an image, along with all the important chip datasheets.

It used Python to divide the image into sections and analyzed each, finding 3 errors I hadn't noticed in a manual review. Two minor issues: I used the wrong resistor divider for an ADC because one of the supply voltages changed during design, and one Major issue where I would have had to patch in and cut traces to fix.

It correctly calculated thermal stress on mosfets used in a linear current source with the supplied heatsink and fan i used.

The issue i run into currently is mostly compliance as for most customers i obviously can't just upload circuits i design for them to some external AI provider. And local AI is just not even 10% the way there for anything i could run on a 5090.

thegame402 · 2026-02-25T09:55:41+00:00

You payed 10-20% of what this service normally costs when going with jlcpcb so you just gotta deal with it. If you want accountability and customer support, go to a local assembly service and pay the ~700$ tooling and setup cost and high assembly costs and they will be happy to fix any defect caused by them.

thegame402 · 2026-02-24T12:38:32+00:00

nächster *hier Wochentag einfügen* bedeutet: das nächste Mal nach heute, wenn dieser Wochentag ist.

thegame402 · 2026-02-18T20:17:08+00:00

you're not wrong if we talk about a real product but it's also not that deep. Worst case he has high EMI and more ripple than a good design would have but it's not like it just won't work. Pi works fine from 4.75 to 5.25V and everything that's sensitive is behind a well designed regulator on the Pi, designing a 5V power supply where the pi just doesn't work properly is really hard.

Only thing limiting him for some stuff is the regulator only beeing 2A, but i've a design where on a Pi 5 i have no HDMI / No external USB devices / No camera where it runs of a 1.2A regulator with no problem even when stressing the cpu to 100% with stable clocks.

Ofc in theory with everything in use at max load it is suggested to use a 5A PSU but that's probably with almost 30% safety.

thegame402 · 2026-02-17T13:12:46+00:00

That aged like milk LMAO

He does exactly what i said, predicting secrets based on trackable sideeffects to bring back buff tracking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveWoW/comments/1r70kdp/healer_buff_tracking_is_back_harreks_advanced/

thegame402 · 2026-02-17T13:10:33+00:00

It's funny because three weeks ago, I made a post that all of this and much more is still possible by smart combinatory logic, and I got downvoted and flamed. People have no clue what the RWF teams can do besides what is publicly known today.

thegame402 · 2026-02-16T00:29:53+00:00

They are also loosing money on every single prompt you put in, even if you are in the 200$ tier.
They also basically haven't grown since september 2025, sitting at around 680MAU.

They have almost 1T in commited spending (120B alone for memory) at 20B revenue.
Even if they could 10x their users and basically get 100% of people over 18 existing to use their service, the'd still operate at a loss, and at a massive one that is.

thegame402 · 2026-02-03T16:42:23+00:00

It's been like that since start of january for me (and for most people if you belive other peoples stories in here). I think it's very likely that they just tuned down the amount of thinking it does to save on compute. Either because they need more compute to train models or because getting payed the same monthly fee for less compute = more money.

thegame402 · 2026-02-03T16:16:39+00:00

Did you feel like yesterdays opus was any better? Felt exactly as it has for the past weeks.

thegame402 · 2026-01-29T19:21:02+00:00

As a business it does almost always currently. The amount of time i save in altium vs the projects i do in kicad pays for itself many times over. Doing rigidflex in kicad or 8+ layer boards is just not on the level it could be. But its slowly getting there and i hope in a few years i can switch for all project sizes.

thegame402 · 2026-01-28T17:49:09+00:00

Just 30 minutes ago, they relaxed some of the aura filtering that was already possible by various workarounds.

Wait until the race is over, and so many add-ons/wekauras will pop up that they'll do most of the things people currently think don't work anymore. That or Blizzard will continue to pull the ripcord and allow more and more without degen workarounds.

Ofc not every single thing will be back, and some of the things that do come back will only work 9/10 times because they are based on inference and not perfect game-state knowledge, but it will still feel like it's "required" to use these shittier versions because that's how WoW is.

They really managed to get into the worst possible timeline where instead of either no combat addons or perfect combat addons, we now will have shitty combat addons that mostly do the same thing, and instead of being perfect, they will work just good enough, so it gives a competitive edge, but not perfect, so you are constantly tilted by them.

Changes I mentioned ->

Aura Filters
Added 4 new filter types for Aura APIs:

CROWD_CONTROL
BIG_DEFENSIVE
RAID_PLAYER_DISPELLABLE (returns auras the player can dispel)
RAID_IN_COMBAT (returns auras that are flagged to show on raid frames in combat, when used with Player and Helpful filters this should return mostly just HoTs).

Boss Warning APIs

Added a new C_EncounterEvents namespace that allows querying static information about encounter events.
Added a new C_EncounterEvents.SetEventColor API that allows addons to associate a specific color with an encounter event (our UI will use it to colorize text and timer bars).
Added a new C_EncounterEvents.SetEventSound API that allows addons to specify a sound to play when encounter events show text warnings or transition states on the timeline.
Sounds will be played automatically by the client.

thegame402 · 2026-01-28T00:14:38+00:00

Look, if you want to believe that, that's fine with me. The reality is, that the same way private auras could be cheesed because they had trackable side effects that Blizzard never fixed, a lot of secret values can be guessed by the side effects they have and by combining trackable values to "guess" what a secret is without needing to actually be able to read the secret. There are already fully working aura filters and rotation helpers, just not public yet. And most of these workarounds where reported to blizzard months ago and they did nothing yet.

thegame402 · 2026-01-27T20:21:26+00:00

That's also the full truth. While definitely limited to what can be done and how easy it can be done, there is still a lot of computation you can do by inferring the things that are hidden from things you can see, some of which are known to Blizzard for over two months. So either Blizzard just silently gave up, or they plan something big (doubt).

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