Is there a convention, given a polarized two-pin part, about which pin should be called #1 and which pin should be called #2?

i.e. for an LED.

Diode leads are usually marked + (longer lead) and - (shorter)

@ceilingcat you mean A and K?

Yeah, Anode (+), Cathode (-)

because A and K don't correlate to +/- necessarily

@ceilingcat I should be more clear: I'm talking specifically about pad numbering i.e. in a CAD tool.

...for surface mount parts.

@DanielSank Hm... Are you creating a library?

Yeah

@DanielSank Checked the Altium layout I'm working on. It' random. SOD-523 has got pin 1 for cathode. SOD-123 has got pin 1 for anode.

I'm working from my company's official library, because I have to.

You could check how Altium assigned the pins in their libraries. (The bog-standard Miscellaneous, for example.)

Somewhat related question (although you probably have that insight already, I bet).

Hello everyone

How many more advantages does an EE who knows both English and German have compared to one who knows just English?

From the employment point of view

@DanielTork Good question...Looking for answers alongside you...

@NickAlexeev bog-standard?

@DanielSank Bastardisation of "Box Standard" or the minimum or absolute default available, no upgrades or tweaks

Also, the marked pin (polar mark on package) is traditionally pin 1

i.e. the longer pin, or anode, or the band on a diode, or cathode, or band on a tantalum, or positive terminal

@Asmyldof What do you think?

In a psuedo-schematic for intel's RDRAND instruction, it shows a 2-input 2-output 1-shot that (I think) is supposed to detech which input goes high first and output high on the corresponding output. Is there a common IC to do that, or a simple way to hook up multiple monostables to get that effect?

@Extrarius can you post the pseudo-schematic here? that's intriguing

I can't seem to find the report at its original location, but you can find it here: rambus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/…

The diagram is on page 7. It's large and already has artifacts, so I figure better to reference it than reproduce it or try to resize it without losing what little quality is left

@Shalvenay (forgot to @ you)

@DanielTork Are you looking for a job in Germany? In 15 years of work, I've never had to use German (although it did help decode some Dutch emails when we had a Dutch customer)

@ThePhoton Altijd dat gezeur over Nederlanders

@ThePhoton not even insults?

@ThePhoton Not specifically. Figured that some companies may prefer bilingual engineers over English-only speaking ones. Thought that there will be some German jargon or something like that. Thought I would debunk this myth of mine.

well, the majority of german companies I know like when you speak german

picture? why is that? @Asmyldof

@jippie The requested imagery

Still battling Flour MOths though

?

what imagery

oh wait

brushes and wires and such I believe

@Asmyldof you are not typing about pictures of my person

I didn't see any, so if you have sent them they got lost in transit.

why aren't you in the city center with a beer, like most people?

@jippie If I dress up I do it properly.

Eye infection and flour moths

maybe next year

Maybe not

We'll see

Didn't send any pics yet for above stated reasons

Have to disinfect the kitchen in one go, or I'll end up running around chasing my own proverbial tail

And get tired quick

I'm in no real rush, if I get the stuff, it also means I have to tidy up my home lab.

;-)

The good news is I have 400m of Moisture Barrier Material to vacu seal everything into while it waits in the queue for the freezer

There is someone around lately who makes new rules in my own house: One thing out, one thing in.

....

oh the moths are in the delivery?

The advantage of not being friendly and/or in public much is highly reduced risk of introducing new macroscopic life forms to my environs

No

They found their way into my kitchen a year ago

Thought I killed them

Didn't get all of the spawn

Now I had them with a vengeance

So, bleach, vinegar, eucalyptus and lots and lots of Isopropanol from top to bottom

Had to leave the front of my house twice today to not pass out when I started spraying all the openings with alcohol

Anyway, it's time for another round of fighting the invisible

every fall there is a lady bug plague here, they land on the warm brick walls of the houses when the sun shines and work their way inside the house to find a nice place to spend the winter. And multiply like crazy. I find lady bugs whole year round in the strangest places.

@jippie But ladybugs don't turn all your nuts, seeds, flours and even some plastics into mush

:-|

@jippie like this ? img.fotocommunity.com/…

@PlasmaHH Yup like that. Found them one in my bedrood curtains, threw the curtain out.

believe me, that was the easy part.

@jippie I remember a plague like that on a vacation on the baltic sea... everything was orange and smelled awfully... you couldn't go anywhere without stepping on a bunch of them... we used shovels to get them from under our trailer to reach stuff stored there

they hide everywhere and they're hard to grab off the wall or window or whatever.

hmmm not that bad here luckily, but it is amazing when you see them flying in swarms and land onto the buildings.

And the worst thing is that everybody will tell you these little bugs are cute and they are good for nature and you shouldn't fight them ... etc.

usually these things are said by people that only see a handfull of them each summer

I like them, when they are a handful in the summer in the garden

You can buy them by the bag in hardware stores.

@jippie I take it you can't live with a single bug in your house?

@DanielTork Learn Chinese