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4:44 AM
grEEtz all.
 
5:06 AM
@AnindoGhosh chEErs
 
morning
 
 
1 hour later…
6:10 AM
@jippie @AnindoGhosh Morning, grEEtz!
 
@abdullahkahraman Hello, young bright person
 
@AnindoGhosh lol
@AnindoGhosh that means I am not energy efficient
 
@abdullahkahraman Logical fallacy there: Bright can be efficient. It's all about how much of input power gets converted to photons.
 
@AnindoGhosh know of any good, efficient LED drivers?
@AnindoGhosh lol, I wonder what would happen if a normal guy would read this conversation
 
@abdullahkahraman More details please? How many LEDs, what voltage, what current, how many LEDs in a string, PWM needed or not?
 
6:21 AM
@AnindoGhosh lol, this should be specific for HMN PCBs
 
@abdullahkahraman Currently I'm a bit sour on normal people.
 
@AnindoGhosh What happened?
 
@abdullahkahraman What's a HMN PCB?
 
@AnindoGhosh Wow, you surprise me, you don't know your roots? Human Machine Nerd
(Actually I typed HMN for "human", but had to make "Human Machine Nerd" up. )
I am wondering how old technology (a.k.a old models) dealt with this issue.. Oh, I have a chance to learn! Hello @rawbrawb! (wink to @AnindoGhosh)
 
@abdullahkahraman Ahh some consulting contract I was negotiating for, was almost confirmed till some accountant guy in the company (American) shot it down saying since I am Indian, I should be doing the contract for $2 per hour instead of the $19 per hour that was already agreed and paid for past work.
 
6:25 AM
@abdullahkahraman Hello, long time no see!
 
@abdullahkahraman And that too for a use-or-lose 40 hours a month contract. :-( Not happy.
 
@AnindoGhosh Aaah, thus double standards ....
 
@abdullahkahraman What pisses me off the most is, the same company pays $37 to $50 per hour to US consultants who report to me.
@rawbrawb Ah. Yeah that.
 
@AnindoGhosh Bastard
@AnindoGhosh That is racist, wow!
 
@abdullahkahraman I have to agree ...
 
6:37 AM
@AnindoGhosh Do you want me to attack that company headquarters in US, you know I am a terrorist, I can do that :)
@AnindoGhosh But you will help me build a 555 LED and 7-Seg circuit :)
Ah, oh, this chat ends up in Google, right? Tomorrow, I am going to meet NSA guys!
 
@abdullahkahraman Oh, it's not the NSA you have to worry about. They don't leave their server centers ...
 
@rawbrawb lol
 
@abdullahkahraman Don't even type stuff like that on the Internet. You'll find out that all net traffic gets monitored, and you'll be refused a US visa some day.
 
@AnindoGhosh That is serious?
 
@abdullahkahraman Holy crap! It must be true, Anindo is GONE! THat was fas
2
 
6:56 AM
@abdullahkahraman Yes, I am serious.
@rawbrawb Hilarious. Especially the incomplete last word ;-) Well played!
 
@rawbrawb lol
 
 
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1:12 PM
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A: Creating a simple toggle

ReubenI believe an S-switch could give you the output re. capacitor that you are looking for. It would create a input signal as follows: http://static.flickr.com/34/122530930_6e16f1eb5c.jpg.

I'm not convinced that particular cat would have a fast enough response time to answer the question.
 
1:26 PM
@PeterJ Flag as spam.
 
@AnindoGhosh, had already. Just wanted to make sure it didn't get lost amongst the other bumped questions, not that there was any problem I can see with the re-tags just made.
 
@PeterJ cute faty
 
@PeterJ I believe retagging a bunch of posts not currently on the front page is generally frowned upon, across the SE network, as it floods out other new or modified questions. However, I see no simple way of telling Collings that.
 
does anyone know a good book for designing reliable/robust quality designs to suggest?
for electronics specific
 
@EwokNightmares That's a bit broad, but have you had any luck with the couple of questions on the site regarding book suggestions, that have over time garnered fairly comprehensive answers?
 
1:38 PM
@AnindoGhosh have not seen them
 
@EwokNightmares search
 
@AnindoGhosh, there was a Meta.EE post about re-tagging where Kortuk (I think) recommended no more than 5 a day. It's a bit confusing though, for example on StackOverflow I've seen 20 at a time is OK but they have multiple questions per minute anyway, so it's probably a bit of common sense on the site rather than a fixed rule.
 
@AnindoGhosh found 0 :/
i see 1 on amazon but it is originaly made in 1972
 
1:51 PM
@PeterJ Yup, the number of retags should be a function of questions per minute, since the objective is to prevent front-page flooding.
@EwokNightmares If it's been around since 1972, I'd say the book at least is pretty robust.
 
@AnindoGhosh it sits on the shelf at $500 USD :)
 
@EwokNightmares That's as robust as a concrete bunker. :-)
 
found another but it is at $343 and lots was for EMI
 
@EwokNightmares Not bad, that's a 31.4% saving already. Keep at it :-D
 
2:57 PM
Hi all.
 
@DavidKessner hi
 
 
1 hour later…
4:10 PM
morning
 
@jippie good morning
 
hey there
 
4:28 PM
who starred my Olin remark?! I'm not proud of it :-/
 
@jippie Oh? Maybe I should star it too! :)
 
@DavidKessner Yeah it is always good to know that I have friends here.
 
@jippie That's the American way! <snicker>
 
@DavidKessner Better one friend on the net than ten in real life.
 
@jippie Exactly! Now you're getting it.
 
4:37 PM
 
My PCB CAD software has something called an "Embedded Cavity Report". Sounds Rated-R to me.
 
Is it just me or is that USB cable a bit tight wrapped?
 
@jippie Yeah, but not in a bad way.
 
no it won't bread within a week
If my girl friend would wind a cable like that, I'd kick her out
maybe that's why I'm single ..
maybe it is better that way :o)
 
@jippie I'm sure that's not the only reason why you're single. :)
 
4:40 PM
@DavidKessner I like to squeeze my cat when (s)he doesn't expect it :o)
 
@jippie I hope the cat has been declawed or you have chain-mail gloves.
 
@DavidKessner they're not like you that
 
What the heck causes a measurement to oscillate with a period of 10.4 minutes ?
 
ah I like riddles
 
Meaning, I'm measuring something over and over again every 30 seconds for 4 hours, and I see the measurement cycling with a 10.4 minute period.
Not just the voltage, but something like the amplitude of a much faster signal.
 
4:50 PM
@ThePhoton maybe it is a much higher repetaive frequency, and you're hunting aliasing?
 
@jippie I've thought of that. But aliasing from 25 GHz down to 1.6 mHz would be crazy.
(OK, It could be aliasing down from the ~0.5 Hz of my sampling rate ....)
 
measure every 31 seconds ;o)
who starred that!?
 
5:07 PM
@jippie Wasn't me. But I'm thinking about it.
 
This @codingcorgi charachter got a lot of social life home work. Same for @camilStaps
we have to do all our editing and ranting ourselves
 
Pssst! Don't look now. I think there is a crazy guy lurking... :)
He might be your Buddy...
 
@DavidKessner mentor?
 
@jippie Nahh, @CrazyBuddy. :)
 
@DavidKessner I am from yesterday :D
 
5:17 PM
@CrazyBuddy Welcome!
 
Thank you :)
@DavidKessner So, you're the active guy in this room?? O_O
 
@CrazyBuddy Or bored. Not sure which.
 
Hah... :D
 
I have 10 minutes until I take off for lunch, and I don't want to start any new tasks. My task swap time is high these days.
 
Lunch..??? O_O
2 hours to midnight 12 :)
 
5:20 PM
@DavidKessner I ate too many snickers ice cream because of that remark, now I have a full blown suger rush.
 
@jippie Don't drag your personal problems into this chat room! :) #neverstoppedusbefore.
 
@DavidKessner What..? What's wrong with ice-cream? You do allow beer... o.O
> A place to talk with friends from the EE community about vacuum nanotubes ... and beer..
 
@CrazyBuddy Yeah, beer! Not Ice Cream. :)
 
could you make ice cream from nanotubes?
 
Ice Cream is for people who are too young for beer.
Good ice cream would have nano-crystals of ice.
 
5:24 PM
Oh my.... -_-
 
@CrazyBuddy you are the physicist her, you should be able to answer the simple question.
 
@jippie Nah... I don't even know what actually is force. Usually, I bury my physicist personality when I enter chat rooms :P
Okay EE people... C'yall later :)
Sleepy :D
 
@CrazyBuddy Force is what you get from the midi-chlorians.
 
@DavidKessner What? Who are they? I thought Energy is being generated in Hogwartz and so, force is roughly the light from the chambers divided by Dumbledore's wand length :P
 
6:11 PM
@CrazyBuddy darth vader would crush dumbledores wand with his hands at a distance
 
 
1 hour later…
7:35 PM
i need one of those hardware accelerators for pspice :(
falling asleep watching my simulation take forever
 
@EwokNightmares What you need is a decellerator board for your overachieving coworkers. That way you still look good while having the opportunity to take naps.
 
7:50 PM
@DavidKessner there is no one for me to be compared to
i work in a vacuum
well
the guy who was making leaps and bounds progress on his arduino is calling it a day to fix his wife's computer
i think he maybe worked . . 4.5 hours
I guess arduino saves us a lot of time
 
8:42 PM
@EwokNightmares ...cough...cough..bull****...cough...cough
 
@DavidKessner enough to skip out of work to be tech support for someone else :P
 
@EwokNightmares It is not "just" someone else. It is his household accounts payable department.
 
@DavidKessner I left out the detail it is his wife's -work- computer and she is a secretary at someone else's office so i guess he is fixing that someone else not his wife's computer
very odd priorities
 
@EwokNightmares It still is the household accounts payable dept, even if indirectly. While it might seem odd on the surface, after being married for a long while I tend to understand and overlook these things.
 
@DavidKessner i think his tech suport job might just be so she can keep her own job
i dont ask too many questions tho
 
8:49 PM
@EwokNightmares It's usually safer that way. :P
 
yes and hopefully the favor is returned if it is ever needed
and hopefully it is never needed, at least for bs like that
 

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