How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?(electronics.stackexchange.com)

152 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 154 comments

Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)(electronics.stackexchange.com)

167 points by dilawar 3 years ago | 616 comments

Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?(electronics.stackexchange.com)

401 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 311 comments

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question asking whether limiting lithium battery charging to 80% defeats the purpose of extending battery life.

How can I implement a simple asynchronous DRAM controller? (2018)(electronics.stackexchange.com)

22 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 8 comments

Lev Landau's “Theoretical Minimum”(physics.stackexchange.com)

70 points by belter 3 years ago | 45 comments

Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)(math.stackexchange.com)

98 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 74 comments

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(danielmangum.com)

47 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | 28 comments

Blog post explaining why microcontroller-based IoT devices are likely unaffected by the eMudhra intermediate CA private key compromise, due to minimal pinned root CA bundles.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

I sent an Ethernet packet(github.com)

372 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 119 comments

A GitHub-hosted blog post by Francis Stokes about sending an Ethernet packet from a microcontroller as the start of building a TCP/IP stack from scratch.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum(kraktoos.com)

415 points by kraktoos 3 years ago | 255 comments

A blog post arguing that Discord is a poor choice for a project's Q&A forum, citing chaotic message flow and terrible search and discoverability.