the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

The equivalence between entropy and information is one of the most... profound things that I think we've ever encountered

Fun fact: The Czochralski process, which is one of the best ways to produce large single crystals of a material (used industrially to produce exceptionally pure silicon crystals for semiconductor devices), was invented when the Polish chemist Jan Czochralski accidentally dipped his pen in a pot of molten tin instead of an inkwell.

Moral of the story: keep pots of molten tin around, maybe you'll accidentally get your name attached to a hugely important industrial process

induction motors are basically just transformers that spin

what exactly is the appeal of pleroma over some fork of mastodon anyway

I see a few people using it but: why? what features does it have that make someone choose it? all I know about it is that its interface and appearance are Very Weird

i'm sure that was a design decision that made some amount of sense at the time but it's kind of weird since that's something that would be a very special-purpose application today

the fact that x11 is designed so that you can display windows on another computer entirely is really weird to me

random thought: how long until we get smart locks that are smart enough to not have exposed screws to take them apart with, but still have an exposed USB port for charging, making "overvolt it and blow up the battery" a feasible attack on a lock

why is everyone on here so cute
you're all cute

aaagh

twisted our ankle leaving class today >.<

I don't understand companies that still give out a 7-digit phone number, even if the area code is given as a sort of extra

the area code is no longer meaningfully different from any other part of the phone number

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wait there's three luigi's mansion games now

we still haven't played the first one

I get why people think tax increases are a bad thing but people really need to realize that tax increases mean the government has more money to do things with

also rich people need more taxes anyway

the joule thief circuit has a certain kludgey sort of elegance to it, if that makes sense at all

is it just me or is it really annoying when people refer to modern oscilloscopes as CROs

don't even know if it works

there is now a big CRT sitting on our computer chair and we have no room for this in our apartment why did we take it

oh right, because CRTs are neat and it was free

really need to clean up the apartment some......

because that is absolutely something toady one would do