junon

You're conflating "what's illegal" with "what a private entity doesn't want". I don't like it any more than you do, but the first is very clear, the second is a bit harder to "solve".

Thanks, this was the info I was originally after :)

Yeesh, please tell me you didn't write all of that yourself. Which uC is it targeting, and which language?

Why does changing to Rust kill the project? I don't understand the point here.

I know all of this; assembly of a $400 board usually has a MOQ of 5 off the top of my head, which for a board that is a prototype isn't feasible.

I know about how to do reflow. I'm asking about the population step after paste deposition.

I am aware, yes. After the paste deposition via stencil, doing passives manually takes hours. I'm asking if anyone's done anything interesting with stencils for placing those.

For those of us without the cash/apartment space for a PNP, has anyone experimented with a stencil system for populating passives? Is that even a thing?

My PCB project's population time is currently 11 hours the last time I did it, from blank to tested, for one unit. The largest amount of time spent is on the resistors and capacitors - over 200 of them.

That's a stretch. This isn't a new approach to such obfuscation. Also plagiarism would mean they ripped the source material verbatim or they at least copied the methodology and intentionally used the source material's findings as their own.

It's super unbelievable they needed to. This isn't novel.

Yes of course, the transmitted audio would be mono. I meant one radio in one ear and another radio in the other ear, or if you mix them and they both play in both ears. But it sounds like they're mixed (talking over each other in a single audio stream).

This is a completely different phenomenon. Your ear/brain are tuned to rhythmic beats in the lower frequencies (footsteps). We're better at pattern recognition with the lower frequencies.

Also, our brains will encode the differences in registers to evoke emotion differently, which is often used by horror films to make a scene scarier[0]. Evolutionarily this is probably to detect screams or babies crying, a rustling bush, etc.

Speech encoding, at least per this article, has little to do with that. We don't have music encoding so much as we have pattern recognition, instinctual emotional respond to sound, etc.

Another great video about how music is perceived in animals is [1], just while we're on the topic.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-hidden-sounds-...

[1] https://youtu.be/0ZYhyewNQMo?is=0mWSRAzObOD2p32E

Perhaps a dumb question but are they center panned (or mono, i.e. talking over each other) or is it split left ear/right ear when they come through the headset?

Not really. If the services that grant you access to your own hard disk ever go under, you lose it. You do not have access to the files. You're effectively paying for a licence to play the game for a finite amount of time, for the same (if not higher) price that physical media used to cost.

That's just, like, your opinion man.

It shouldn't be the case that this is relied upon. There needs to be a cultural shift in the industry back to physical - or at least, preservable - media.

Thanks for answering all the questions in here. Fascinating work.

You do it then, if it's not rocket science :) or donate to the project, clearly you have a lot of it to spend by making demands of peoples' free time.

Correct. You're welcome to mirror or host a private one. Cargo makes it _relatively_ easy to do (saying this as somewhat of a cargo hater).

Ah yes, the for-profit companies that trained their commercial models off of all our open source code from the last 50 years need more money from us.

You can disable language checks under the paragraph or character tab for the text item (I forget which). A little annoying but at least makes them go away.

Oh this is really clever, I'll have to try this. Thank you :)

Usually when I'm working in one part of the codebase and I have sample data or something at a specific path on my local machine and Im testing the same thing over and over again will I make a Makefile or something and info/exclude it to help me keep focused. That's one way I use it.

There are. Socket, Aikido, and a number of others do this all the time.

They're the American (perhaps other places) equivalent of the little wire ties, almost exclusively used for bread. They're supposed to be quick to close the bread bag back up but in my experience they're I'll equipped for that purpose as they either break or maul the plastic.

I thought they were commonplace until I moved outside the US; at least here in Germany I never see them.

As kids you'd break off one of the half-circle parts, stick it on your finger and flick it to make a makeshift ninja star.

For the target country, i.e. the country with the rental. The comment I'm responding to implied it's also bad for the extractor's own home country, and I was asking how that could be if the money is being injected into their local economy.

Which is the target country. Not what I'm asking about.

But what about their home country?

Seems nobody has read the comment I'm responding to. I understand this part. They're saying it is detrimental to the home country. Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541141

I understand why it's not great for the target country. I'm asking why GP said it was bad for the home country.

Genuine question: how so? I'm not familiar with the economics of this.