Activity for Lorenzo Donati
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| Edit | Post #289473 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Deriving resistor values for a taper pad attenuator Here is another take at that problem. First let's define some quantities that will be useful later: \[ \begin{align} A &= \frac {V2} {V1} \qquad\qquad B = \frac {RL} {RS} \qquad\qquad r1 = \frac {R1} {RL} \qquad\qquad r2 = \frac {R2} {RL} \qquad\qquad ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289423 |
@#8176 Yep, I had got your point, but I thought the example wasn't appropriate, because I think PID (as Process ID) is not off topic on EE. EE also encompasses telecommunications and real time systems, so I could well imagine, in a context of a question about a RTOS, people asking something related t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289421 |
Acknowledged! Thanks! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280791 |
Post edited: Corrected an abbreviation which is too specific and may stump newbies. |
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| Comment | Post #289421 |
Thank you! Excellent summarization. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289423 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Tag creation/deletion criteria I agree with the answer of Lundin except for point 3 disambiguation. >Regarding 3), in case a term does have several different meanings and all meanings are on-topic, then the most common/jangon use of the term takes precedence. Instead, I would proceed in this way: In case a term has sever... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289417 |
I completely agree.
In particular, for MCUs, the general architecture like `AVR` or `PIC` (or STM? is that a known designation for a general architecture of ST MCUs? I don't know), can be a good starting point under the MCU tag (people may be searching for questions about a general architecture). ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8176 I can see your concern about having an explosion of tags like `relay-coil-voltages`, but that's why tag curation is important to identify "too-specific" tags. In my "semantic tag" view a tag should have the right to exist if it is specific enough to identify a *reasonably defined* area of expe... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8176 But see, `int const *` _is_ the same type as `const int *` (due to a quirk of the C grammar), so you have a blatant visual ambiguity, which is resolved *behind the scenes* by a semantic rule. A person not knowing the grammar faced with the three alternatives `int const *`, `const int *` and `i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8176 What if you would want to convey the meaning of `coil-voltage` and `capacitor-current` in the same post? You would use the tags `coil`, `voltage`, `capacitor`, `current`. But there is no mechanism that guarantees the tags will be always displayed that way (Maybe devs will decide tags will be d... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8176 *"[...] such tags might give the post a meaning in combination with other tags."*
Here I strongly disagree. I see your POV of as "keywords" instead of as "semantic links" (my view). But there is a big problem when you say "in combination with other tags". In the current tag system there is ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8176 First of all, thanks for your feedback.
*"I think we have to live with on-topic tags that hold no meaning [...] But also we should not make it harder to change tags than to invent them. If we allow everyone and their mother to create tags, which is usually the case, I don't think we can re... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#56656 Sadly it's not possible for a user making an edit to avoid that "bump". There are discussions in CD.META to implement a checkbox to do that, but it's not there.
I think only devs can change things without bumping the question.
A workaround is to sort the questions by age, so you see them in... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046 After I read your comment I realized *I did do* a mistake: I got the title of the post wrong (sorry for that). As you note, I said "capitalization change", whereas I also proposed deletion.
Thinking about it, I can recollect the genesis of that title. I just wanted to ask for capitalizatio... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046 Thanks for your words, I really appreciate them. As for your proposal, that's OK for me. Do perform just the capitalization changes, they are needed anyway. Although it's the other tags deletion/merging that would allow me continue reorganizing the existing tags (some of those would have been ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046
As for the objection (D), sorry, definitely no: I'm *not* going to spend time correcting issues with any single post I retag. Some of those posts shouldn't even exist. BTW, I don't think there's a rule like on SE that mandates an edit being necessarily complete (maybe I missed that somewher... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046
On the basis of that inference I put some effort into changing the status quo (objection B), a situation that was incredibly depressing: before I began my work the tags page had ***not even one*** guideline text, WIKI, synonym or parent. ***At all***. What I got from that was that (non excl... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046
What I could add now is that objection (A) is not warranted: [_I did_ ask the community](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289204) about (1) tag guidelines (proposed by me) and (2) interpretation of the tags feature (at the end of my post). I received *no* objection at all, even from Lu... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289348 |
@#8046 Frankly, **I don't know how to proceed**. The only [explicit disagreement is from high-rep user @#8176](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289348/289363#answer-289363), to the objections of whom I replied with my edit, at least mostly. ***They didn't reply in turn, yet.***
I identify es... (more) |
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A: Cable loops between utility poles? Those are fiber optic cables that are wound back and forth between those "snowshoe" devices, which are used to limit the bend radius of the fiber. Those are needed to avoid propagation losses due to the fiber being bent more than its rated maximum bend radius. The fiber must have so much slack ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289363 |
@#8176 Please, see the edit in my question for a response. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289349 |
@#8082 List of changes added to my question. Waiting for it to be applied. Thanks! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289285 |
Post edited: Typo: corrected spelling, and capitalization according to SI rules. |
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| Edit | Post #289348 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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How to request a mass-change in capitalization for tags? In my effort to clean-up and organize tags on EE.CD I arrived at a point where there are a lot of old tags with wrong capitalization. How should I request the staff to change them? Should I post here on meta a list (maybe as an edit in this post) with something like this: old --> NEW for ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285687 |
Post edited: Typos. Added relevant tag. |
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| Edit | Post #289344 |
Post edited: Typo (phone autocorrect?). |
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| Comment | Post #289345 |
Please, read the help to understand how this site works. This is not a forum. You can't simply post a question like this. A question cannot be made up just of links. It must stand on its own feet. Provide all the information needed to understand the question ***in the question itself***. Links are OK... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289343 |
@#8045 It seems you missed a couple: `Circuit`, `differntial` (a typo), and `binary`. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289343 |
Thanks a lot!!!!! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289342 |
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