John Ripley

@jripley
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US+UK. San Francisco. He/Him.

Somewhat liberal/socialist/snarky.

Software/hardware/chip architecture, systems prototyping, generalist from silicon to apps, somewhat InfoSec. empeg/Diamond/Rio/etc 1999-2007, Google 2007-2009, Apple 2009-2025. Currently gainfully unemployed, but could be convinced out of it.

Carrying water for “AI” and fashtech gets you blocked.

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John Ripley1d ago
Like Republican administration, I also have the superpower of traveling in time and space. Sadly I can only travel in time forwards at a constant rate, and in space to immediately continuous space adjacent to me at normal speeds.
John Ripley1d ago
There is absolutely no reason, in any of the incarnations of age/person identification laws, for system services to get involved. There are no strong or specific requirements on vendors. This is *corporations* pushing their internal requirements to open, public repositories, and I suspect always because there’s a promotion involved to the authors.
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You know I can see right through your mask, when you attempt to portray this joke as support for sexual assault.
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And yes, I am in favor of renaming the vast majority of streets. Not catching me out, there. Cities are named after a few dozen rich dudes who either owned people and/or committed atrocities.
John Ripley3d ago
Excited to hear that we’re going to rename all the Washington and Jefferson streets everywhere.
John Ripley4d ago

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116250982563193049

Never been convinced that there's a _need_ for any effect to exist in that point in the graph, because there's always the simpler explanation: dumb people can still learn things, but they're still dumb.

John Ripley4d ago

The “EV pullback” is a potentially fatal mistake by car manufacturers, and journalists are falling for the childish narrative that EVs are somehow becoming less popular, or some fad which will pass.

Just because there’s big money involved doesn’t mean people know what they’re doing. If anything, this era of humanity is defined by an inverted relationship between wealth and ability.

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Also, you can see I avoided any BGA or otherwise dense parts. This was somewhat for cost (JLCPCB has a bunch of "basic" cost parts none of which are BGA), but also because I'm still a total noob and it's not critical to fully size-optimize the design, yet. Plenty of things which can explode about the non-BGA design, before moving on to that.

Could easily shrink this about 30% or so, but really the biggest saving would be to replace those connectors with right-angle side mounted ones.

John Ripley4d ago

Damn, ended up slightly bigger than I hoped (85x60mm), and I have a fix for that, but it would mean changing out all the connectors... which I'm not going to do. Might as well print it and see if it explodes, first.

At least, after I fix the tombstone issues (poorly routed pad connections to tiny components will cause them to "sink" unevenly), and one of the parts not being in-stock, sigh.

Still, pretty proud of how tightly I managed to pack everything, and still somewhat neatly route it.

John Ripley5d ago
It's all very well Tim Cook can't imagine life without Apple, but the trouble is plenty of people can imagine Apple without Tim Cook.