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> "What should I use for 15V 150mA DC power supply?"

Original Hexagram 45. GATHERING TOGETHER (MASSING) (Ts'ui)

Transformed Hexagram 17. FOLLOWING (Sui)

Ok.


Asking the Oracle for circuit design specs... I love it!

My interpretation for your power supply:

Gathering (45): You need to gather some capacitors? (or maybe a heat sink for the 'massing'?)

Following (17): Clearly it's telling you to use a Voltage Follower. :D


>Transformed Hexagram

toroid transformer?


LOL, I completely missed that pun!


It's called papyrus!


I still miss the clay tablet culture.


Just few days ago I argued here that kinkajou is not English word and should not be in an English word game. Is bryndza English word? Both have English Wikipedia article.


"game words" in English got a bit ridiculous nowadays. While there is around 170k in usage there are over a million known and over 8k added yearly. Apparently.

Bryndza is Central European/Eastern European product, it even means "poverty" in Polish. Wikisources say it's of Romanian/Italian origin.

But if it's commonly used in a certain language, it becomes a native word.

Their results page for different languages have some interesting plots, especially when you compare languages:

- https://www.myvocab.info/pl/results-pl

- https://www.myvocab.info/en/results-en

So based on that data:

- EN has over a million known words and is growing fast, a 12 year old knows around 10k words

- PL has around 140k words in popular dictionaries, a 12 year old knows around 40k words

I wonder how much of that is sample size and grammar interpretation (definition of word) related.


That's the greatest and one of the most frustrating aspects of English as world's lingua franca: it readily absorbs any and all foreign words and makes it a part of the language.


The absolute worst part is the wildly inconsistent orthography. I have such pity for non-English learners.


Orthography changes with time in any language. French is the same; there are many weird orthographies that became the norm with various rule changes.

Language is a living thing; it is never set in stone. We just have to adapt to it; there is no other way.


How long does raspberry pico run on CR2032?

I'm asking because used Arduino ide to program STM32L011 and it would run for months or even years.


I believe you need 5v to run the regular $4 pi pico board. The chip only requires 3.2v though so maybe it’s not a hard requirement? There are probably other lighter weight RP2040 boards but I don’t think months or years-long low power usage was an intended goal— it’s $4 (still!) with 40 GPIO pins and PIO and it runs micropython for people scared of/chafed by C— it’s a prototyping/hobby tool.


Pi Pico has a lower power mode that sleeps when not in use that draws well under 5v, but you the programmer have to activate it. I think it is called “lightsleep” but may be wrong.


Huh, interesting. I haven’t played around with one in a few years.


It has sleep current of 200microamps, so no longer than 40 days…


The STM32L011 in no way requires the arduino IDE; your code would likely compile with GCC just fine. The pico would probably work if you redesigned your project, but your hardware very likely doesn't need to change, just the software you're using.


I'm trying to make 2x15V 150mA DC power supply. The choice paralysis is killing my momentum.


First sentence (after name on the product and version number) should be short deception what the product is. Then list of changes.


You can also use various USB pd "decoy modules"


pdsink was done for more advanced scenarios, when a simple "trigger" is not enough or not rational.

- When you need dynamic load control - When mcu already has embedded USPD (some stm32g/WCH and others)

See the link to the reflow table protect in the readme.

In other words, when a simple "trigger" is ok for you, use it and be happy :). If something more complex required - then pdsink may be a good choice.


Lot of missing words like kit, sit. And wth is kinkajou? I also did word game many years ago, it took maybe 1 day to code but the rest of the week I've spent filtering out garbage from corpus (names, shortcuts, non-words, non-English words). You can use it: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvhx/game-word-puzzle/refs...


You must have been playing the "Wild Animals" category. A Kinkajou is a tropical rainforest mammal according to Wikipedia :)

The 5 built-in word lists that you can play without signing up were generated by Gemini 3 Pro - there are a few obscure ones in there!


The outrage is the AD


This gives me Leisure Suit Larry flashbacks


Ken sent me


LSL4 was my favorite.


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