On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 19:35, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > Anyway. It is a classical "hack" which means taking something you > have and extending it in some unexpected and usually very creative > way. Enjoyable, most of the time extremely useful, in a nutshell: > the engineers core value :-)
> But I stand by "ugly". Which isn't intended to be dismissive. > P.S: I've no aversion to analog electronics, but I think it's > rim-full of ugly hacks "we just pretend this transistor has > no VBE0 and is a linear device" or something :-) Nooo, please stop digging this hole deeper :) Those are not hacks (by your definition above). Rather, they're ugly lies, which if believed will result in tears :) Simplified models can assist learning, like those 1-dimensional models in the physics class ;p But there is much more learning required beyond this level, for anyone who wants to achieve real-world results. </offtopic>
