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but it's cheap, relatively strong (even stronger with small amounts of copper and other metals in it--most stuff sold as aluminum is actually an alloy), lightweight, has excellent thermal and electrical conductivity (not as good as copper but still really good, and cheaper)

it's just a pain to work with
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oh and it makes terrible crimped connections because you can't break through the oxide very well

and it's really hard to wirebond to
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aluminum is a nice enough metal but it's a pain to work with

can't solder to it worth crap without special solder and really aggressive flux, can't weld it without tons of practice
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?

or is there some manufacturer who does it different, i'm pretty sure at least the ones we're most familiar with (lecroy, rigol, and keysight) do it this way
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when exactly did we settle on yellow, red, blue, green as the four colors for a four-channel digital oscilloscope, and always in that order too
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this has been "taurs with various punctuation", thank you for your attendance
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taurs!
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taurs.
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i don't know how to do things to make things not hard

is anyone able to help
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things are hard
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good evening friends and not-yet-friends
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taurs.....
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genders.... there's a lot of them
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EEEPROM
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thinking about ottaurs
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A.
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ugh, paypal is doing craptocurrency nonsense now
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i have no idea what this means
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