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Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by mikepurvis on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:33PM (#43548759)
That would be like exposing a first year CS student to a situation where "it could be a compiler bug" is one of the potential explanations.
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Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by vkou on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:22PM (#43551936)
It's closer to exposing a first year CS student who has never touched a computer before to Windows, when the work is supposed to be done on Linux, and the TA is hemming and hawing, and insists that the reason the sudo command isn't working is because the student is not following the steps correctly.

It's a problem that's obvious to diagnose... If you already have passing familiarity with the material. Most people do not have passing familiarity with electronic components when they step into an engineering program.

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Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by anyfoo on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:09PM (#43552550)
The part was marked as a timer IC.
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Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass by kragen on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:32PM (#43552665)
Not just a timer IC. Literally the most common IC in the world for at least every year from 01980 to 02000 or so, maybe still today. I can understand the first-year student not recognizing it, but what the fuck was the lab tech's mental disability?
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