the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

The semiconductor device that grows on trees, the moss fet

by the way if you are reading this it is almost certainly not about you. sorry if I caused any stress

I just.. this whole thing has me feeling really bad x.x

mrrf, I felt a need to apologize for something that happened the other day and sent a dm and it's just been ignored so far and now I'm wondering if the person has me blocked or muted or whatever because I don't know, I don't know how to deal with people

turns out the transistors we already ordered are in a very unfortunate SOT-418FL package instead of SOT-23 like we'd thought. That means they're going to be basically unusable for what we wanted to use them for because we are not soldering that by hand, it's like half the size of a SOT-23

this means they can measure resistances up to 10 PΩ which is also _utterly ridiculous_

Apparently Keysight's B2980A series meters have a resolution of 0.01 fA which is _utterly ridiculous_

well I just went to class an hour late because I forgot when class was, how is your morning going?

"Make sure you come back in one piece!"

"No promises!"

Where did the trope of evil villains laughing come from anyway?

does anyone laugh like that outside of media?

@azushark (and I mean at the level of transistors and stuff, I understand the principles of FM synthesis)

seeing @azushark talk about sound card stuff has me wanting to see how exactly the sound chips work

Food is annoying at times.

I like this headline

(respectively, the Three Meter Geodynamo, the Proton rocket (or any rocket, really), Super-Kamiokande, vacuum tubes in general, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory)

I love the ridiculous things people make for science.

a giant spinning ball of liquid sodium, a tube-shaped explosive that launches itself upwards, a gigantic tank holding fifty thousand tons of distilled water, a glass tube filled with literally nothing, Just A Really Deep Hole, a giant block of permafrost in Antarctica surrounded by sensors...

or if it even is a quote. maybe I came up with it and thought it was a quote. I dunno

I can't remember who this quote is from

"Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough."