uberrice

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riser mount for smd component⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … I’m sorry to say that was a joke, because well, capacitors like to go boom (MLCCs as in here not so much, but still).

  What I do know though is that these MLCCs often dramatically change their actual capacitance with temperature, so maybe this is a sort of “temperature isolation” to keep the capacitor more stable? Honestly, no idea though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riser mount for smd component⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an airburst capacitor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shirley you cant be serious!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get how people go abroad and don’t just get a local sim. In most countries, a travel sim is something between 20 and 40 bucks. In my opinion, that’s pretty essential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wages grow at record rate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know. I’m Swiss, so a lot of this inflation is very evident to me.

  In 2022, 1 CHF was around 0.8GBP. Now, in 2023, 1 CHF is around 0.9GBP.

  Guess what, that 8% pay rise was lower than inflation. 8% on top of 0.8 is only 0.864.

  Without any more pay in Switzerland, I got an effective raise higher than these ‘great’ 8% in GB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t really compare an 8800gt to a 1070 to a 4080.

  8800gt was just another era, the 1070 is the 70 series from a time where they had the ti and the titan, and the 4080 is the top gpu other than the 4090.

  If you wanted to compare to the 10 series, a better match for the 4080 would be the 1080ti, which I own, and paid like 750 for back in 2017.

  Sure, they’re on the money grabbing train now, and the 4080 should realistically be around 20% cheaper - around 800 bucks, to be fair.

  Thing is though, if you just want gaming, a 4070 or 4060 is enough. They did gimp the VRAM though, which is not too great. If those cards came standard with 16gb of VRAM, they’d be all good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always write comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think a block of code needs a comment, turn it into a method and give it a proper name instead.

  Really depends. Yes, if someone doesn’t get what’s wrong with this statement, they should. But you shouldn’t wrap something in a method all the time just because. Sure, maybe you can make it an inline method, but usually, a method call takes time, and while it’s not a lot of time, in constrained or complex system that can accumulate. A lot. Sure, the compiler might optimize stuff away, but don’t just go blindly trusting your compiler.