absurdly nitpicky pet peeve:
engineers who always capitalize via as VIA
it is not an acronym people
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@IceWolf via as in "route" period, but yeah
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@Felthry Oh it's a noun too? Did not know! ^^
@IceWolf it's a noun in Latin and in engineering english, but the engineering one refers specifically to a thing on a PCB or a silicon die
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@Felthry Ahhh okay! Cool.
@IceWolf (specifically, a tiny hole drilled through and plated with metal to take signals between layers)
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@IceWolf well, signals or power or heat or whatever
when there's high currents involved, or trying to dissipate heat, you tend to see arrays of dozens or even hundreds of vias because a tiny tunnel with 35 micron copper plating isn't going to carry that much current well
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@IceWolf the meaning of the word in general english has drifted a lot from its latin root, but the usage in engineering is much closer
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@Felthry you could argue that Latin didn't originally have lower case letters :P
@Felthry via, as in like "through this route"?
Because if so, ugh, not an acronym!