the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

IR cameras are neat.

Did you know the lenses for thermal cameras are made of solid germanium? Because glass is opaque to anything beyond NIR, and thermal cameras work at much longer wavelengths (and germanium is transparent to those wavelengths, but with a high index of refraction)
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mood gorning
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I wonder if Sony still uses the Trinitron brand for anything
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@terrana https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/POL_Szczecin_COA.svg I dunno, this one looks like they just saw something surprising and disgusting, while also being bored. I'm not sure I get the "fierce" here.
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@terrana That makes sense! I still wonder why the gryphons look so very upset, though.
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one single raviolus
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@gardevoir apparently there's a tradition in tales of symphonia speedrunning to just pretend you can keep track of which of the shadow fragments is which while they're all following you, and give names to the ones that are being slow or getting stuck on stuff

also i think any uncooperative goats in twilight princess are named something, but i forget what. was it kevin?
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@P1L0T honestly if we were naming a chocobo i don't think we could not name them bobby corwen
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@P1L0T (this is a reference to a racehorse named potoooooooo, "pot-8-o's")
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@P1L0T tomoooooooo the chocobo
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@P1L0T i wonder if racing chocobos get similarly weird names as racing horses
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also apparently gryphons in heraldry always seem to look very upset
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we just got absorbed into wikipedia learning stuff about heraldry and holy fuck that's a lot of complicated and arbitrary rules and everything is in pseudo-french
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@Dex I believe scalie.business got closed and turned into a single-user instance for khr
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@VoxSomniator yeah that's about what we expected
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we have no idea how much this costs, but expect it would be in the thousands, as atomic clocks usually are well over a thousand and a miniaturized one probably costs more.
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oh wow, they make atomic clocks on a chip now (well, basically. it's the *size* of a somewhat large IC at least)
https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00002985.pdf
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@nautilee @pillowcat but what about *d* nbjmkxhvbfogabvhfvjhsrfuihgufhaiufh
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@P1L0T @nautilee it makes perfect sense
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@nautilee I love them
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