Shoutbox Archive Thread (slow Load - Long Posts)

[shelldon kooper]

yeah they use hollow copper cause high frequency ac all gathers around the edge of a wire, this happens caues the magnetic field around AC current causes an opposing current inside of itself to cancel it out

 

[shelldon kooper]

so its entirely a cost cutting measure lmfao

 

[VintagePC]

my day job is basically EE adjacent and I take the stuff they build/design and develop the software and operating systems that run on it. it is bonkers

 

[VintagePC]

but I'm sure that goes both ways

 

[VintagePC]

I'm sitting there going "dude you designed a whole frigging tiny computer system from individual chips" and they go "dude you put together all the SW bits and pieces that make it run a full fledged operating system and actually make the hardware do something"

 

[shelldon kooper]

hell yeah, im in the same boat basically

 

[shelldon kooper]

i know people doing like cutting edge hardware research and the way they organize everything is like hundreds of excel sheets

 

[VintagePC]

that sounds... painful but I guess if it floats your boat lol

 

[shelldon kooper]

i'm like "but,.... python "

 

[shelldon kooper]

but tbf they optimized their computer skill points for working in simulation softwares

 

[VintagePC]

I have written and patched my fair share of linux kernel drivers over the years

 

[shelldon kooper]

i could never navigate an emf sim software like ads

 

[VintagePC]

and bootloaders

 

[VintagePC]

some days it's still kinda bonkers that it's all literally just millions of transistors doing stuff

 

[VintagePC]

in a very specific and orderly way in a chaotic world

 

[VaultBot]

but on the bright side... it's probably still better than the before

 

[VintagePC]

yes, yes it is vaultbot

 

[shelldon kooper]

true thank you vaultbot

 

[VintagePC]

the stuff I build could not exist if everything was still vacuum tubes

 

[shelldon kooper]

it would just be huge