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@rey it'd be really overkill but twinax cable would work too, as long as you only need two conductors
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@rey oh you could probably also use ordinary STP cable like good quality cat6 or cat5e cable, and Lapp's Ölflex cable has some good shielded options
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@rey look into VFD cable! i don't know if it comes in small gauges but if it does it'd be a good way to avoid transmitting much (it's meant to solve this exact problem with large motor drives, which are extremely noisy because you don't filter any high-frequency stuff out, it's way easier to just use the motor windings as a filter and the motor doesn't care)
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still think agilent was a much better name than keysight
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also they only come in n-channel but good luck finding a p-channel jfet that can handle that kind of voltage anyway, they don't make p-channel SiC devices
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vacuum tubes are really just jfets that you have to get hot
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re: Being upset with content creators who put questions in their video titles and then drag out the answer as long as possible 

@ziphi because the youtube algorithm heavily favors videos that are at least 10 minutes long
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re: Seattle Local: don't buy Starbucks tomorrow! 

@mawr huh?
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i wonder how long it will be before we no longer have vacuum tubes in every household

will they ever find something to replace the magnetron? is there even much reason to try to replace the magnetron?
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or they start contaminating everything with 1. or 1.
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this means that trying to simulate a silicon carbide fet or even a bog-standard silicon igbt is near impossible unless you make your own model (which takes a lot of time and care) because all the models have convergence problems
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not in terms of accuracy but in terms of simulability, they always seem to have discontinuities in at least the first derivative if not the i-v relationship itself, tons of b sources with conditionals and nonsense like taht
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why are manufacturers' spice models always so bad
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re: gods, theism, selfhood of god, thinking way too hard about things 

@Taylor I'd wonder if there even would be any meaningful distinction between such a being and their creation
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@rey we've been in a wafer fab before and it's full of very clean and safe-looking machines full of the most terrifying substances you can imagine
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@rey only the sparks are really that unusual an occurrence in wafer fabs, honestly
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@Edelwood i'm... glad to see you seem to be genuinely apologetic here

i don't think i'm personally ready to refollow yet but it looks like you're trying and that's a good thing

i hope you can get better, for your own sake as much as anyone else's
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sorry french people, the internet (at least my totally representative seven-person sample of it) prefers prance and trance over france
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