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Software guys, please, no.
strawberry:
IC output pins are current limited but LEDs are not (modern LED die sizes are small to dissipate extra power)
AndyBeez:
--- Quote from: magic on September 18, 2022, 10:29:47 am ---Well, do not confuse Windows with useful software that works in a predictable fashion.
Or, dunno, don't confuse software with something useful that works in a predictable fashion if we are at that.
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From WinNT to Win10, tech support guys spent their whole work lives doing Windows patching, often every day and night. Thank goodness for the DOS prompt? btw Microsoft dismissed the web as a 'fad', as then MS was wedded to it's business model of providing endless support (patches) for it's over priced corporate products.
langwadt:
--- Quote from: wraper on September 18, 2022, 09:47:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on September 18, 2022, 02:18:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 17, 2022, 11:36:22 pm ---But he is most definitely a software guy first and foremost. [...] well, it works for him, and he asks viewers to convince him otherwise.
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Ah, a "coder".
You know, the person who copy-pastes code off the web, until something compiles and passes through the minimal test. In the open source world, the person who responds to bug reports with "it works on my machine, so I'm closing this bug report as invalid".
Please do not confuse him with anyone who can actually develop useful software that works in a predictable fashion, okay?
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Just so you know. He wrote a significant part of Windows, a lot of his code like Task manager and disk formatter are still on your computer many years later.
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yeh, afaik he wrote taskmanager just as tool for himself and it then ended up being incorporated in in windows,
zip folders he made and sold as a standalone program before it was added to windows
I tihnk he has a video talking about his biggest commit was after he went through all of the windows source to add unicode support
tooki:
--- Quote from: coppice on September 18, 2022, 12:31:33 am ---Look on the bright side. If it wasn't for idiots, there'd be no merit in competence.
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He may not be a hardware guy, but he’s definitely not an idiot.
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on September 18, 2022, 02:18:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 17, 2022, 11:36:22 pm ---But he is most definitely a software guy first and foremost. [...] well, it works for him, and he asks viewers to convince him otherwise.
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Ah, a "coder".
You know, the person who copy-pastes code off the web, until something compiles and passes through the minimal test. In the open source world, the person who responds to bug reports with "it works on my machine, so I'm closing this bug report as invalid".
Please do not confuse him with anyone who can actually develop useful software that works in a predictable fashion, okay?
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LMAO at how insanely incorrect you are.
You have, with certainty asymptotically approaching 100%, used software he wrote. As others said, he wrote some significant parts of Windows.
--- Quote from: magic on September 18, 2022, 10:29:47 am ---Well, do not confuse Windows with useful software that works in a predictable fashion.
Or, dunno, don't confuse software with something useful that works in a predictable fashion if we are at that.
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What an ignorant statement. Windows isn’t even my preferred OS, but the fact is, it is useful software that performs well for most people who use it. It’s not perfect (no product is!), but it’s good enough that no alternative has been able to dethrone it, despite decades of attempts. (The only time Windows has ever been dethroned was in internet servers, but I’d argue that Windows’ dominance for a while was the weird blip, and that the internet’s “native” OS is UNIX/Linux.)
Brumby:
--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 18, 2022, 08:55:02 am ---For a demo like this I think it's perfectly reasonable to omit the resistor for simplicity. Nothing will burn or catch fire. The LED and GPIO pin will limit the current enough.
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I wouldn't disagree, but there was further comment that he had done this "for years" without problem. That makes me wince - just a little.
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