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CERN’s KiCad component library now open source #kicad home.cern/cerns-kicad-co…

@NoahKingJr You and other subscribers are making millions of dollars per month for Anthropic shareholders 😂

Bought claude pro, how do I make 1 million per month??

@DabsMalone It’s in vertical position so electron have to fight gravity to go up, this explain why all the resistors looks like having values beyond their specifications 🙈

Can you spot what’s wrong with this board?

My first custom MCU(ESP32) PCB design is finally in my hands. I have been designing PCBs for others for many years. Now marks the beginning of doing it for myself as well. That is why I call it the Mark1. Let the testing begin!

@blind_via Years of experience in PBC design, an ESP43, an USB connector and a lot of parts just to light two LEDs, and I'm sure the program is arduino: loop: DigitalWrite(LED_1, HIGH); DigitalWrite(LED_2, HIGH); goto loop; 😜😜🥰

@NoahKingJr Launch Claude 🤔

TELL ME SOMETHING YOU CAN DO THAT CLAUDE CANNOT

@nxhaaa19 @LearnAI_MJ Opus 4.7 eats your tokens after three or for questions, GPT-5.5 eats them after 3 or 4 hours

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 what nobody is telling you: -Opus 4.7 wins on coding. It's not close. -GPT-5.5 wins on terminal workflows and math -Both have 1M token context windows -Opus 4.7 sees images at 3x higher resolution -GPT-5.5 uses 72% fewer tokens for the same task -Opus 4.7 is better at fixing real GitHub issues -GPT-5.5 is faster and cheaper to run at scale They're not competing. They're optimized for different work.

@mkvenkit @OpenAI Finally got it to work. In Billing, I added a new Visa card as a payment method and set it as the default. Then I tried the upgrade to 100$ again. The upgrade wind still showed only old card, but I confirmed anyway,and it worked:the upgrade went through using the old card @OpenAI

@pocketmt @OpenAI Same issue for me. Finally gave up and signed up for Claude Pro. There are so many complaints about this in forums.

trying to upgrade my @OpenAI ChatGPT subscription from 23€ to 116€ plan, it refuses, it says error in payment. I checked my visa card and everything is ok. @OpenAI can you provide another way to upgrade please? or solve this problem, a lot of users are facing the same problem

@BrianMRey @LearnAI_MJ Same here. Claude to be effective must be used with Opus model, unfortunately this model is token hungry. In very pleased with the last Codex using Gpt5.5 in medium level. Really awesome.

Codex vs. Claude code, I think I’m finally starting to lean towards codex… 😳 Never thought I’d see the day.

Sincerly, how can we consider switching from colorful icons to crappy line black icons a progress in GUI and UX ??? even the colorful ones without depth are a regression

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@CamilleRoux C'est quoi la license? je ne trouve pas de détails sur le site

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@intheworldofai I find Claude Code still better for frontend design,it gen better UI.That said,I’m using Codex more and more,and I agree,it has taken a big step forward in quality.I can really trust it for dev and refactoring work,results are awesome.Thinking to invest in $100 Codex subscription

GPT-5.5 + Codex honestly feels like the beginning of a true AI super app. Better than Claude Code! Codex can now: • Build full applications • Debug and fix issues autonomously • Use the browser like a real user • Test apps end-to-end • Analyze data exports • Generate assets with GPT Image 2 • Continuously iterate until the task is complete This is one of the biggest shifts in AI development workflows we’ve seen yet. Full video: youtu.be/8rXugE921aY

@Derek2137 Unfortunately I don't have another unit :) I think also it's a 3V3, will have to check, by tracking the CMOS ref maybe I'll get more info.

@pocketmt I would be easiest if you had another working unit to test. But I’d be willing to bet it’s 3.3V, probably 90% chance since there’s only one regulator.

opened my Logitech webcam that refuse to work. Found a power regulator completely fried, and I can't determine the ref

@mkvenkit The chip marking is not clear, I barely got the published images by fiddling with lights under the microscope.

@pocketmt If the chip marking matches, you know the spec already - it's in the datasheet

@Derek2137 Thx. I’ll Will desolder and clean all parts around and check if they are fried, then I’ll try to reverse the schematic around it. Maybe by checking other parts I’ll figure out the voltage at output, then I can replace it with any other closest reference. L3 is for sure fried.

@pocketmt Pull it off and figure out the pinout. Obvs L3 is the inductor, R54/45 are probs feedback, R50 is maybe enable line. L3 looks toast too.

@mkvenkit Thank you. I’ll check. Will de solder and clean all parts around and check if they are fried, then I’ll try to reverse the schematic around it. Maybe by checking other parts I’ll figure out the voltage at output, then I can replace it with any other closest reference

@pocketmt check these?

Amazing, make me remember TurboVision from Borland (for Turbo Pascal and for Turbo C++ later). 🤗