#EEVblog #electronics #video from 8 years ago visualizing the effects of bypass capacitors, including 1GHz low-inductance oscilloscope probing and making transmission lines out of copper tape. Some aspects of this video feel like they're from 30 years ago. 5-volt logic, film bypass capacitors, through-hole components. Finally at 17'27" he solders in a 2.2nF 1206 bypass cap, which does a great job. He’s using a 1MHz quartz crystal oscillator (5 divisions per cycle at 200ns per division) with an HCMOS line driver built in; a lot of the ground-bounce action is like 240MHz (4.8 cycles of ringing in 5 divisions at 4ns/div at 11'26", for example.) He gets the high-frequency return paths wrong, though.
#EEVblog #electronics #video #toread about bypass capacitors and whether you can remove them
#EEVblog #electronics #video #toread about bypass capacitors (overview)
#Malta offered citizenship for €600k starting in 02014, but the #EU European Court of Justice ordered it to stop in 02025. #law
“The ethos of the aristocracy as exemplified in the English public school greatly influenced Pierre de Coubertin. (...) The 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was discovered that he had taken expense money playing semi-professional baseball before the Olympics.
“The advent of the state-sponsored “full-time amateur athlete” of the Eastern Bloc countries eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at a disadvantage. The Soviet Union entered teams of athletes who were all nominally students, soldiers, or working in a profession, but in reality they were all paid by the state to train on a full-time basis. (...)
As a result, the Olympics shifted away from amateurism, as envisioned by Pierre de Coubertin, to allowing participation of professional athletes,[187] but only in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its influence within the IOC.” #history #Olympics
#Java Generics came from GJ (Generic Java) and Pizza, by Odersky and Wadler.
ThinkGeek used to sell the SoundBug for US$27.
Apparently “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is sincere: “In an interview by Bruce Fessier for USA Weekend Magazine in 1988 #McFerrin said, “Whenever you see a poster of Meher Baba, it usually says ‘Don’t worry, be happy,’ which is a pretty neat philosophy in four words, I think.” #music #history
book Tove K.’s #review of Ettore Biocca’s Yanoama - The Story of Helena #Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, 1996. “Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.” #Yanomamo
“One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the one and only book in English about her, I’m convinced of that. Her insights into a primitive society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn’t only study stone age life. She lived it. For two decades, she lived among the Yanomamö horticulturalists of the Amazonas, after having been kidnapped at the age of 11, in 1937.”
excerpt from Ettore Biocca’s Yanoama - The Story of Helena #Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, 1996 #Yanomamo
discussion of whether, and how often, in the #history of European colonization of America, colonists kidnapped by the “Indians” preferred to stay with the “Indians” or not
#humor #video of “God Damn It, Boom Boom. You can’t be inside the house. It’s dangerous.” pet bison (tame but not domestic). Sadly, BoomBoom died the next year. RIP.