the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

has anyone else noticed that your horse has headlights

why does the horse have headlights
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@tabitha@chitter.xyz How many characters had music-related names to begin with, anyway? Rock/rockman, Roll, Forte/Bass, Beat?
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@tabitha@chitter.xyz not so: forte was renamed to bass
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@pup_hime i think we might have one somewhere but we have literally never used one
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@Draekos congrats! i think we know how big a deal this is for you, and we're glad you were able to do it 💚
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@kat oh those look handy

that first one looks like you'd have to memorize triangular numbers though

--oh, on blowing up the image to full size it has them written on it, that's easier
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@kobi_lacroix infinite supply of weasel
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@kat @Kaffe@chitter.xyz a foot pedal operated one so you have both hands for handling the pills, then? i dunno how they do it it just seems like trying to count it all manually would be Hard™
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@Kaffe@chitter.xyz @kat one of those little clicker counters would probably be real handy for that

you know, the little mechanical things that just increment a number every time you push a button
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@starkatt @kat I expect you could probably design some adversarial pill shape that wouldn't work--ring-shaped pills come to mind--but who would make pills like that?
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this is a linguistic phenomenon called "suppletion" if you want to look up more about it

other examples in english are person/people, cow/cattle, be/is/was

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we remember some particularly egregious examples of this from Latin class, but can't remember what the actual examples were.
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today we learned: the reason that went is the past tense of go is because it's not the past tense of go, it's the past tense of wend, an archaic word synonymous with go, a word which apparently just didn't have a past tense? so even though wend fell out of use (except for the rare poetic use), went is still perfectly current
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womanderin orange
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@fluxom_alt evil lurking in the gender
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@kat no you're right actually! that's how it worsk for this thing -F

@kat not exactly, but sort of? in this application, that's how it's used, but the signal that adjusts the resistance can be separate from the current, which enables things like amplification and stuff--here, though, it's being used to sense current and control its resistance to keep the current constant
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@kat this is in fact a large part of the job of transistors. a transistor, to gloss over a lot of very complicated details, is a device that can adjust its resistance in response to other signals
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@kat the current listed on the power supply is the maximum it can provide

the phone does have to do something to limit the current, but it doesn't require any communication between the phone and the power supply. there's a dedicated charger IC inside the phone that makes sure the battery is charged correctly (think of it as a chip that intelligently changes its own resistance, sort of--this is an extreme oversimplification but easy to understand, i hope)
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@kat yes, but all USB power supplies are 5 V (except for quickcharge and USB-PD, which start at 5 V and can increase that but only if the phone sends a special signal asking for higher voltage)
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