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Lorenzo Donati‭

Pronouns: he/his.

Location: Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen (nothern Italy)

Former research assistant (SW Engineering).
Former SW developer in a research institution (SW for Linguistics research).
Since 2005 teacher in a technical high school.
- SW development.
- Electronics.
- Telecommunications.

Education: Master-level degree in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Pisa.

Dabbling with electronics since I was 12 and with computers since I was 13.

First computer I put my paws on: Sinclair ZX81.
First owned computer: Texas Instruments TI99/4A (2nd hand).
First owned "serious" computer: Apple //e.
Computer languages, more ore less in the order in which I made first contact with them.
_{In bold those in which I have had substantial expertise at a certain point of my life. In red if I wrote a piece of software that was at least 1000 LOC and worked well} 😄 _{(in a few cases it was more like 10kLOC or 100kLOC – comments excluded).}
- BASIC
- Assembly
- Forth
- Pascal
- Fortran
- C
- Matlab
- C++
- Java
- LISP
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- XML
- Perl
- Python
- Lua
- LaTeX
- Go

If you enjoy Electronics:

EEVblog website
EEVblog YouTube channel
Elliot Sound Products
The Feynman lectures on Physics
- If you think that's just physics, give it a go. Not only that guy won a Nobel prize for QED (Quantum Electrodynamics), but before studying Physics he went to Electrical Engineering school (he found it too practical for his tastes :-).

Computer related stuff:

Ross Anderson's Security Engineering books (2nd and 1st editions are free, scroll down) .

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Q&A Proposal to ease tag maintenance

Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege. Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding th...

posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

On EE.CO we have some tags that are utterly useless, but people keep on using them, for example voltage. For non-experts: voltage is one of the main physical quantity used to describe the behavior...

4 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question?

As the title says. Rationale: I'm in the process of giving tags on EE.CD some structure and I feel that sometimes a group of tags could be usefully grouped under a parent which doesn't exist yet. ...

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we have a "show post source" button?

Often I see a post which uses a formatting that I'd like to learn or to directly "steal". To see how it is done I'm forced to click the edit button, which is prone to mistakes and really doesn't se...

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Can we have a preview pane for comments?

I just had to reply to a staff member in a comment about some potentially "illegal" HTML code that can be entered in a post. I had to edit the comment about a dozen times because the code I entere...

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Why is there a rep system in Codidact?

I largely agree with the answer of Olin Lathrop, but I'd like to put things in a slightly different perspective. We need a rep system, even if it is not ideal, especially on technical/scientific s...

posted 4y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 4y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A When editing tags usage guidance character limit counter doesn't work.

When I edit tags on EE.Codidact I've noticed that the character limit counter for the usage guidance remains at zero. Is it a known issue? Unless there is something wrong with my browser (Firefox)...

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can we poll a community?

In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd...

2 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Sometimes I use the <small> HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasi...

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs.

I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD here. I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as ...

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance.

There is a problem with HTML entities in the tag guidance text. As you can see here I used an HTML entity (greek lowercase phi φ) to denote a technical quantity, and it shows nicely: However in...

2 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts?

I like the idea, and I was going to suggest it myself. However, I also understand the concerns of @trichoplax about the risk of abuse, e.g. "sneaky edits" that could fly under the radar. I think ...

posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Can we have different favicons for the different communities? [duplicate]

I usually work with dozens of open tabs in my browser and even when using Codidact I have several tabs open pointing maybe at different posts on different communities and/or meta. Having different...

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · closed as duplicate 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages.

I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here...

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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