Its kind of interesting: the 555 is such _horrible_ timer. It can't do a 50% duty cycle without extra BOM parts, even more parts to make a real PWM out of it, and it has terrible temperature and voltage stability. But somehow it persists.
I just listened to the examples on the front page. I'm blown away.
I watched streaming kill the dreams of 90's bands, when getting a demo CD in the hands of an A&R rep was legit pursuit. This will kill the streamers. I expect to see an AI streaming service in the next 7 years with channels, and another in 15 years that will match my current mood. Honestly, I'm kind of excited about this because sometimes I just want music that serves a purpose and not some kind of emotional/nostalgia trip... but I can also see a future with a much smaller population of people who know how to play instruments and missing the variety of music writers.
I think there should be a higher standard than just posting random links without context. How about a single line of text explaining why it is interesting to them?
I'm pretty sure if I knew I could never lose a dime of my billions of fortune I'd be working on teleporters, warp drives, and time machines. People would call me a genius because I could pay for the press. Musk isn't a visionary, he's just a rich nerd throwing money at really cool things other visionaries imagined before he was born (all of his companies were ideas other people already had been working on; 100%), and then failing upwards when it doesn't work out.
What parts of this can be reused? I bet the engine is OK, but seems like the sides of the ... tube ... were pretty roughed up. I guess that's probably the cheapest part of the assembly though.
There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why the change.
I have a 42 year old apple //e that had been in an uninsulated attic in Boston for 30+ years. It booted fine and all the 5 1/4" floppies worked. I know that C64s need the caps replaced and the org external power supplies can catch fire. I'd be really surprised if 1990's pcs failed. There was a period of transition to non-lead solder where many pcbs from that era suffered shorts from whiskering but everything else should be fine. Electromigration tolerances in the 90's cpu families was even more strict than today.