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It's hard to build an oscillator

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219 points chmaynard | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 07:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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immibis ◴[21 Nov 25 10:31 UTC] No.46003157{3}[source]▶
Ambition develops skill. One of the problems with American society is people thinking they have skill when they don't. If people knew they had ambition and no skill, they'd try things and learn.
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1. majorchord ◴[21 Nov 25 14:44 UTC] No.46005061{4}[source]▶
Dunning-Kruger actually applies to everyone, especially to people who openly and over-generalizingly criticize an entire nation's supposed lack of skill.