Brendan Moran

Tweets are my own. find me at @bm@toot. community

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@_salkinium Long Covid?

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@_salkinium 😅

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@_salkinium I wonder how much of twitter’s infosec team is still around.

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@_salkinium 🤣

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That’s it, we are now in last call for Software Update for the Internet of Things! If you have comments, now’s the time!

https://t.co/VscwjsHuW3

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@_salkinium Metrics create perverse incentives. Be careful what you measure

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@4n6woman @controlpl4n3 That’s exactly the point. No one is happy with it. But everyone is equally unhappy. It’s a compromise.

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@_salkinium @0xc0170 __asm(

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@_salkinium Yeah it’s if the two shorter sides are shorter combined than the longer side

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@_salkinium Oh you’re not thinking of the 0-length side.

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@_salkinium Define “valid triangle”

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By probing the cartridge resistance, I can limit the output current by limiting the max voltage.

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Progress on the DIY soldering station:
I can control the voltage of a buck converter with a DAC. I can probe the resistance of the soldering iron cartridge by feeding 0.25V into it and measuring the current.

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Probing the resistance is important because I need to control the current output. The buck converter has voltage feedback but not current. I have a 5A limit on my buck converter and a 3.2A limit on my current sensor (clearly need to change that sense resistor).

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Reasons not to use a dedicated thermocouple reader for a soldering iron controller:
1. Shared ground treated as fault
2. No control over when the measurements are done

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@Scott_Holmes I used to use them all the time in a previous life. Good for terminating parallel buses IIRC

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@_salkinium Safety risks are overblown when considering modern designs. Waste is a problem.

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@_salkinium I don’t know German politics well enough to comment, but I don’t see any options other than nuclear. The risk of failure isn’t great enough to leave the status quo alone.

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@_salkinium If we’d built them 20 years ago, we’d be patting ourselves on the back right now.
The best time to plan for the future is now.