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#578 – Histogrammic or Histomagraphical
- LUNA
- ESP32-S2
- TI is building new fabs in the US
- Why are computers all 80 columns wide?
- Unintended consequences: railways are about two horses wide
- Chris has been reading Dealers of Lighning: Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age
- Douglas Engelbart
- “The mother of all demos”
- Hackers – Steven Levy
- Lee Felsenstein
- SDS 930
- Computer History Museum
- Dave is thinking about getting a standing desk
- Embedded World was rescheduled to June, Chris will be there!
- Counterfeit copy of the bible
- The ARM sale to NVidia will likely be blocked, they’re going public instead
- Open source solutions to problem sets in The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
- LaTeX
- Quantum dynamics and the question from Veritasium
- Xi’an AeroSemi (not “John Aerosmith”) part that Chris is looking at
- Wobbly 2400 SMU. Dave heard it could be a burnt out backup battery but wasn’t able to validate that fix. Chris mentions a possible problem he heard about.
- Combiscope repair
- Tin Whisker growth
Thanks to Pete Birkinshaw for the histogram(agraphical) image