My kids were considerably larger and smellier when they started eating solids, but still nothing crazy. Changing diapers is basically nothing, but having all the stuff that they need related to diapers and just being at the age when they are in diapers is mildly challenging if you travel a lot.
Nah, disagree, things were actively better in a few ways. The big tech companies now purposely diffuse and obfuscate the value proposition to increase engagement and show more ads. There are some ways in which things have improved and that's mostly with standardization and pure accessibility, but the quality is extremely decreased.
For several of my interests I still participate in the modern version of what would previously have been dedicated websites powered by forums, but they are now on Facebook / reddit / discord and collections of YT videos. The quality of information is nowhere near what it was. The amount of spam, platform ads, and useless posts to drive engagement is easily over 50% of the content. There is no timely cohesive flow of posts or discussion. The benefits are far more members and consistent mobile access but they come with huge tradeoffs. Prioritizing mobile has many downsides and most of those users do not meaningfully contribute or even actively pollute the content.
It's not just nostalgia, the quality of content and sense of community was much better when people went into their own corners to discuss things vs everyone standing in the center and yelling over the background noise of a common ad-suoported platform.
If it's that easy to miss then the culture has comparatively died. Memes are still around, but there was a period where they were everywhere. Like the gas station would have a bad luck Brian meme if the bathroom was out of order. You walked in Kohls and there were three different variations of "Know Your Meme" type games on an end cap. The average person would see and hear multiple memes daily in the course of everyday non-internet related activities, then they fell way off. 6-7 was the meme culture dead cat bounce.
Is it really fair to say that Muslim society is "doing just fine?"
Like what amount of reasonable people from a moderately developed non-muslim country would ever want to live in a Muslim country?
Are people that come to western nations from Muslim countries able to succeed and function as well as people from other, even worse off countries?
Wikipedia offers a list of counties by alcohol consumption. Given the opportunity to roll the dice for a new home would you rather the list of choices be made from the Top 50 or the Bottom 50?
Does this help you build a custom PCB that you would send to a factory or like just design and simulate something you could build on your own? Or both / neither? I'm not fully understanding what this project does, could you offer insight?
This is File -> New Project... -> New Hello World Project. The New Project button in hardware engineering tools often don't have the trailing 3 dots.
I think most low-end projects done in KiCad are not tested beyond making sure there's no red squiggly underlines at a glance. You are your own F5 key and assembler/runtime crash reporter. Proper circuit verification through software simulation isn't needed for most digital designs unless you do your own wireless antenna, analog amps, and/or DRAM/PCIe/GbE/etc.
Your analogy is more spot on that you may know.
The syntax is just a bit off ;)
"File > New Project from Template"
KiCAD comes with all the usual suspects, including Arduino and the various hats. You can get pmod templates, etc. They're actually really nice.
I use the pmod template all the time because it saves time and they're convenient to plug into Arty dev boards. PCBs are so cheap and quick I'll often make a quick PCB with a template because I just want a cleaner connector system. PCBs are basically bread boards these days.
I guess in theory, the original question is whether this project allows a board to be sent of for construction at a company that makes and populates boards. Yes, you could do this if you wanted to. As numpad0 has said though, it's early days for these boards and if you wanted to do something commercially reliable, you will most likely run into issues with things not being completely tested on these boards yet.
These boards provide the ability to make your own boards to host the chipsets yourself, rather than relying on a third party providing the board. So what? What if you want USB-C? What if you want to make a square or a circular board? This project is a good step along the way to allowing you to make these kinds of things.
On the hobbyist and corporate side, they also provide a way to provide a modern design that can use USB-C, which is becoming very common and is better than older USB options.
As mentioned in the README.md "Available Development Boards" section, the Atmega16u2 chip was hard to come by for Hanqaqa in 2023. The Arduino guys (arduino.com ?) probably did a "lifetime buy" of these comms chips and they probably also have several shelves of fully built Arduino boards as well. Lifetime buys and keeping good stock levels mitigate the risk of difficulty building new boards... Just get one of the older working ones off the shelf and send it. However, for an organisation (even an open source board that becomes fairly popular) wanting to build their own board, not having a given comms chip is a problem. Replacing it with a commonly available one makes it much easier for people/companies wanting to build these boards in any kind of numbers.
Having the board design readily available is really useful for the reasons above. It does seem like overkill if you just want to fiddle with a board, but if you make something that becomes popular that needs any kind of hardware adjustment, having the design becomes almost essential.
He said half-decent and modest. If you are implying they are far more expensive then it's you that's out of touch. The average car on the road is 13 years old. A half decent one can certainly be had for $6000. A modest kitchen renovation, for $6K, certainly. I wouldn't even call that modest. Quartz, countertops including demo and installation can be had for $40/Sq Ft. Assuming 50 SQ ft of counter space that's $2K. $2K of paint, cabinet work and ~$2k for new appliances would be much more than a modest renovation for most people. As this article is stating, most people, the majority, do not even have THAT amount.
In ALZ and the plaque cartel the fraud was foundational and the overwhelming source of funding for research was tied to supporting that hypothesis. The big issue, even if you have a competing theory, is that the diagnostic criteria relies heavily on the plaque and presence of indicators. So you get a group of people who have elevated plaque and MCI, but many people have elevated plaque without MCI, and just as many people have MCI without elevated plaque.
So if your cure is targeting something different but the group of people you have are selected from this cohort of maybe afflicted people then it's really hard to get a significant result. Plus you tend to be dealing with old people, that have other health issues that MCI isn't causing to get any better.
There is a difference to just noticing and attributing it to and recognizing negative financial outcomes. Right now for most companies they are still adjusting to declining inflation. Their bottom lines are doing quite well because consumer price inflation is much stickier than supply inflation. We are coming off of one of the quickest and largest supply lead inflationary cycles. It may not be immediately apparent for many companies that new expenditures are a drag on profitability.
The real thing to look at is whether or not the future outlook for company AI spend is heading up or down?
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