NEVER BUY MAXIM

the only product I ever used from them in a thing was an SPI-programmable clock oscillator, it operated vaguely as the datasheet said but figuring out the particulars had to come from blog posts I never would've figured it out from the information _they_ provided.

rather like the Trump administration, busily trying to actively murder political rivals:

He stopped her from getting on a plane. Planes can crash. She's safer at her vineyard home.

CNN is like PBS; all they do is attack Trump, whether it makes sense or not. It's got beyond boring.

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"Nice plane ya got there! Would be a shame if something were to....happen to it"

Nah there's other news there also, sometimes they slam Giuliani and John Bolton and Newt Gingrich and other reconstituted ghouls from the 1990s that I had thought President Drain The Swamp was going to dispense with.

Giuliani is so easy it almost makes one feel bad to besmirch him, like kicking a turtle.

Yah, right. Thing is, Dems aren't used to GOPs that fight back. Note to self: never start an eighth-grade-style fight with POTUS--you'll lose big.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Reminds me of the eight-grade-style joke about being a gold medalist at the Special Olympics. Okay no prob you can be the champ if you like.

Stuff that's second-sourced, e.g. the MAX80x POR chips, is generally safe. The last time I used a unique Maxim chip was 20-odd years ago. It was the MAX900 quad comparator with latch, a truly beautiful device--about 10 ns response, and (crucially for my design) its latch was in the input structure, which meant that you could do pulse-stretching by AC coupling the output to the latch pin.

That's vastly superior to hysteresis, because (a) the minimum pulse width doesn't depend on what the signal does, and (b) it doesn't push crap back out the input.

Of course they ditched it just when my gizmo was about to go into production. (It was an interferometric particle counter for use inside vacuum chambers in semiconductor processing equipment.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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this is news?

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  When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.

err, bigly.

I heard on NPR this morning how badly Trump is doing in the polls. Funny.

I also read that his Hispanic support is now up to 50%.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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Ron Brown.

It's no doubt eight-grade ugly. I'm trying to break my T addiction*. I don't click on any news stories that have Trump in the title. That cuts out about 90%. George H.

*I can't wait to see what stupid childish thing he does next. (I dream of a Prez. Pence.)

Polls are silly these days.. it's all tribal, so ~52% don't like him and ~42% do... and it doesn't matter what the issue is that's how the poll will be. (+/-3% for statistics)

(I do look at 538... for all the 'being steady' he is dropping, the derivative is not good (for him).)

This is a revealing item about fake news CNN and the wall:

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Of course walls work.

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picosecond timing   precision measurement  

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Trump did not stop her from getting on a plane. He just stopped her from using an Air Force plane for sight seeing. Should be done for all Congregational junkets regardless of political party.

Dan

Nope. The British are one of the few countries who *do* pay their full whack towards NATO. And what's Australia supposed to be threatened by?

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Not if you're foolish enough to believe FAKE NEWS CNN they don't! :-D

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Eight grade political tit for tat. I'm afraid it will only get worse.

George H.

Sorry that was in response to who are our Allies, that stuck by us.

GH