the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Rosemary had a neat idea the other day for a chess variant and since zhe doesn't seem to feel up to posting it ever (zhe has the worst social anxiety of all of us, i think), i will mention it here:

Consider a normal game of chess, except at the start of the game, each player gets to replace any one of the opponent's pawns with an infiltrator, which acts exactly like a pawn except that at any time the opponent can choose to take control of it (it still moves like its disguised color)
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the fact that there are two different companies that make capacitors called (three letter acronym) Corporation just feels weird for some reason

if you're wondering they're TDK Corporation and AVX Corporation, both make pretty good quality ceramic and film capacitors
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a model art museum: an uffizi effigy
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hmm. @heatherhorns is cute
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we have realized today that we have no intuitive sense of how bright a candela is and it's a problem because we need to figure out how low a current we can run this LED at and have it still be visible
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what happened to double-source FETs with current sensing? we just learned that those exist and they seem really useful; the sense source has a defined proportion of the area of the power source, so you know that it'll get an exact proportion of the current to within manufacturing tolerances--so you can use a simple current sense circuit that only needs to handle 1/100 your actual output current

but no one seems to make them anymore, they're all marked obsolete on digikey
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a liquid pig: pourk
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hmm.... molybdenum.
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oh hey this thing's really neat actually? it's an IGBT with a built-in driver IC
https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-IEWS20R5135IPB-DS-v02_00-EN.pdf?fileId=5546d46265e7dffd0165eccd826043e0
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it's only five pm but i think we are going to sleep because we're just way too tired
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i seriously think we just don't know how to not be stressed anymore
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many toba
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apparently the MSDS for some hand sanitizers has directions to wash thoroughly with water if you get it on your skin, and dispose of any contaminated clothing
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things we like about oregon, a non-exhaustive list
- you can get an X on your driver's license here (we did, havne't gotten the license yet though)
- the pharmacy sells non-gendered multivitamin supplements (why is this uncommon, seriously)

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thinking about that thing in some fantasy stories where the power of magic is fading away

and just thinking about some kind of far-future sci-fi where like, the power of chemistry or gravity or something is fading away
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why are we so tired today
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the events of the last few days really do show the truth of the saying that the downfall of fascism is the appearance of weakness
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as a follow-up to this, have you ever tried actual parmagiano-reggiano or pecorino romano cheeses?

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