the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

That trait being split arms. Four hands and four forearms, splitting off at the elbow from two upper arms.

It's a really nice look, and very underrated.

Thinking about getting a picture done in the near future. I've been feeling a particular trait especially strongly lately, and I want to have a picture that fits the shape I'm wearing currently.

77K is a good temperature

Just learned that Intel named their fifth generation processor Pentium because a US court ruled that they could not trademark a number, so they couldn't trademark the name 80586

More computers should have GPIO.

weird thought: what happens if you grow a fruit in a vacuum chamber? Of course the plant itself still needs co2 but could you enclose a fruit, like how they make those cube-shaped watermelons and stuff?

just saw someone refer to something just barely lower than -0.8 atm as "almost a perfect vacuum"

@Austin_Dern This showed up in our youtube recommendations and it reminded me of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3UCBycRw60

technically, everything that happens is a world-changing event, because the world is no longer in the same state it was previously.

blrf people talking about no mans sky and it just makes me sad that we can't run it

what exactly is "za warudo"? I've seen it a couple places and uh. ???

it is now countdown time (3:21)

(similar arguments apply to diodes, but here it's the depletion region equilibrium width)

the reason it's so useful to think in terms of current controlled devices is simply that as this charge dissipates quickly, it must be constantly replenished, so what the equilibrium charge in the base region is depends on how quickly that charge is being restored--the magnitude of the current

It's commonly said, and it's a useful abstraction (it's not really wrong!) that these are current-controlled devices. Actually, what determines the state of a BJT is not the current through its base but the charge stored in its base. It's just that this charge quickly dissipates due to low-impedance paths to the collector and emitter. It's this charge that alters the potential energy to allow charge carriers through the base region, not current

someone made us realize earlier today

while it's a common misconception that the speed electricity propagates down a wire is the same as the speed of individual electrons (it's not, by several orders of magnitude)

it is actually true that the speed of electrons is the determining factor in BJTs, diodes, and other devices based on forward-biased junctions (thyristors for example, but not jfets) turning on and off

saw someone say that Sinclair devices had a very appealing aesthetic and our reaction was just... "have you SEEN the inside of those things?"