the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@starseeker @LexYeen @starkatt that's the first use that I mentioned in the post i was writing as you said that!
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@LexYeen @starkatt They're used for cases of "i need this trace to cross this trace but going from a 1-layer to a 2-layer board just for one trace feels wasteful", as well as cases of "well these two similar things could use the same board, just one of them needs a 100 Ω resistor here and the other one a short circuit" or "i need an easy way to have a couple configurable connections so the firmware knows what board revision it's on"
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@LexYeen @starkatt It's a wire that pick-and-place machines designed for precisely positioning resistors can easily handle!
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@starkatt It amuses me that they're sometimes higher resistance than things sold as e.g. 1 mΩ current shunts
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i am rather curious what currants taste like

we see them referenced a lot by british people but they just, aren't grown here or something? we've never tasted one
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@Austin_Dern i mean i can't really fault someone for wanting to slap someone being a jerk--towards the slapper's own loved ones at that
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who is will smith and why do people keep mentioning the name
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i was linked this elsewhere and *immediately* thought @owashii@plush.city should see this
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46505656/
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@pup_hime also whether their language considers two sounds to be different phonemes or different realizations of the same phoneme; a lot of english speakers don't realize there's a difference between /l/ and /ɫ/ (though i think they can usually notice it when it's pointed out), despite the fact that both sounds exist in english, because they're seen as two realizations of the same phoneme in different environments
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@pup_hime How one perceives sounds often relates to what sounds exist in the languages they're exposed to, I suppose--often people can't tell the difference between two sounds that, to someone who speaks another language, are very distinct
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@pup_hime yeah, that's the same vowel

it's possible that it's just that, as a monolingual english speaker, /e/ sounds a lot closer to /ei/ (as in bay) than it does to /ε/ (as in bet), so it's more likely we'd approximate it as /ei/ than /ε/
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@pup_hime they sound pretty distinct to me?
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@pup_hime that's an /ε/, not /e/
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@socks ah! finally got it, your hint helped realize we were on the right track but had done something wrong (pushed the red square out the top instead of the bottom)
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@socks yeah i think i could, because where we are now is what i meant by getting started--nothing up to that point felt like actual puzzle i suppose, it felt like obvious ways of moving things around
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@socks like if you put the controllable wall in there to allow for an inner push, you can't control the wall again until it's up against the outer wall again, right?
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@socks right. i can get it off the wall, but the problem is that getting both the red square and the controllable wall *out* of the 5x5 requires pushing it up against a wall, unless there's something we're just completely missing
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@socks i think you're initially controlling a red square? but it's obvious that you have to immediately switch to the wall

either way the controllable red square is what i meant
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@pup_hime the /e/ sound just doesn't exist in english, is the problem
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@socks I'm imagining that the finished state has the box you're initially controlling on one square, the 5x5 empty box on the other, and an H shape of walls in that other room with the middle wall being the controllable one, right?

The thing is, we can't figure out how to get the 5x5 grid off the wall.
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