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by jjoonathan 1162 days ago
Yeah, and this is a case where a well cultivated sense of "good enough" is actually quite important because optimizing decoupling capacitors for high capacity, small size, and low price is a recipe for picking an exotic ceramic with a wacky tempco and then having a device fail intermittently when hot or cold:

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/x7r-x5r-...