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AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what …read more Continue reading Diagnosing Whisker Failure Mode in AF114 and Similar Transistors
While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune and enter the realm of trans-Neptunian …read more Continue reading Visiting Our Neighbor Sedna: Feasibility Study of a Mission to This Planetoid
These days ‘AI’ is everywhere, including in software development. Coming hot on the heels of approaches like eXtreme Programming and Pair Programming, there’s now a new kind of pair programming …read more Continue reading Why GitHub Copilot Isn’t Your Coding Partner
There comes a time in any software developer’s life when they look at their achievements, the lines of code written and the programming languages they have relied on, before wondering …read more Continue reading C++ Encounters of the Rusty Zig Kind
With immunotherapy increasingly making it out of the lab and into hospitals as a viable way to treat serious conditions like cancer, there’s a lot of pressure to optimize these …read more Continue reading In Vivo CAR T Cell Generation for Cancer and Auto-Immune Treatments
If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, without proper ways to aggregate and transform this data …read more Continue reading Data Visualization and Aggregation: Time Series Databases, Grafana and More
Some Mondays are worse than others, but April 28 2025 was particularly bad for millions of people in Spain and Portugal. Starting just after noon, a number of significant grid …read more Continue reading The 2025 Iberian Peninsula Blackout: From Solar Wobbles to Cascade Failures
People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds …read more Continue reading Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD
Ceran is a name brand for a type of glass ceramic that has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). This is useful for stovetops, but it is also …read more Continue reading Making Optical Glass from Ceran Stovetops
Sometimes you see an FDM filament pop up that makes you do a triple-take because it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. This is the case with a …read more Continue reading PLA With PETG Core Filament Put to the Test