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It's hard to build an oscillator

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219 points chmaynard | 2 comments | 21 Nov 25 07:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | source
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ofalkaed ◴[21 Nov 25 09:56 UTC] No.46002962[source]▶
When I was starting out in electronics I found the easiest way to build an oscillator was to build an amplifier and the easiest way to build an amplifier was to build an oscillator. I guess the trick is to be 7 years old and have far more ambition than skill. Couldn't guess at how many tries it took me to make an amplifier that didn't oscillate and when I moved onto oscillators, they never oscillated but they did amplify. In that first year or so, I couldn't actually read resistor color codes, but I thought I could.
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seg_lol ◴[21 Nov 25 10:10 UTC] No.46003047[source]▶
> the trick is to be 7 years old and have far more ambition than skill

Never lose this

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hollerith ◴[21 Nov 25 10:12 UTC] No.46003053[source]▶
Apologies for my bluntness, but in my humble opinion, American society would be better if it had fewer adults like this.
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1. fragmede ◴[21 Nov 25 10:43 UTC] No.46003210[source]▶
that's a helluva thing to just drop. What are your priors? Are you American yourself, or living in or near it? In what way would it be better? How so?
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2. hollerith ◴[21 Nov 25 17:31 UTC] No.46006632[source]▶
Yes, American citizen living in the SF Bay Area.