the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

hey, discord has image descriptions now, nice
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IR cameras are neat.

Did you know the lenses for thermal cameras are made of solid germanium? Because glass is opaque to anything beyond NIR, and thermal cameras work at much longer wavelengths (and germanium is transparent to those wavelengths, but with a high index of refraction)
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mood gorning
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I wonder if Sony still uses the Trinitron brand for anything
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one single raviolus
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also apparently gryphons in heraldry always seem to look very upset
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we just got absorbed into wikipedia learning stuff about heraldry and holy fuck that's a lot of complicated and arbitrary rules and everything is in pseudo-french
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we have no idea how much this costs, but expect it would be in the thousands, as atomic clocks usually are well over a thousand and a miniaturized one probably costs more.
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oh wow, they make atomic clocks on a chip now (well, basically. it's the *size* of a somewhat large IC at least)
https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00002985.pdf
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good morning (but pronounced as the past tense of goo)
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occasionally you watch a youtube video that gets you wondering what the speed of sound in sprinkles is and then you just have to step back and wonder at what a ridiculous thing that is to wonder
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still think the final fantasy ix soundtrack has some really good cover art:

it's raised plastic on the CD case with cutouts in the shape of the main characters, actual tangible stuff, not just a flat image

which is pretty cool
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it's not a terribly interesting plastic besides its high temperature rating though
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i appreciate the plastic PEEK, because not only is the abbreviation a word, it also stands for polyetheretherketone which is just silly
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cathode gay tube
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why do so many cheap usb cables advertise themselves as "sync and charge cables"
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rrm. sleepy, but also hungry
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fun fact: @sharkNserg::Connie is fun to tease
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good morning -F

this includes stuff like gears

come on you can't just stick a whole bunch of levers together and expect it to--wait it works??
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