the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

also konami, mostly known for their video game division that they tried (and mostly succeeded) to kill off a few years ago, who also do real estate

i guess japanese companies just do a lot of things???
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always feels weird to us that yamaha makes both high-quality audio equipment (including a number of sound chips of historic importance like the OPN, OPL2, OPL3, etc) *and* for some reason makes motorcycles? i don't know if the motorcycles are high quality
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we don't use OTAs that often but we have never worked on wireless stuff and don't plan to, high frequency stuff is hard
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i see the term "ota update" a lot and while i know it means "over the air" we keep reading it as "operational transconductance amplifier" because we deal with those a lot more than we deal with wireless stuff
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random thought just crossed our mind: using gender-specific insults for your trans friends for gender affirmation purposes
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to whoever designed the TO-247 package: why did you have to make the pin spacing 215 mils instead of just 200??
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you know, nintendo made a much more powerful 64 than commodore did
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please consider: a taur, but both torsos are anthro and stand upright

taaaaalll friend
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we need a usb type c extension cord and have no idea where to get one

looking on amazon no reputable brands seem to make them (i think they're against the usb standard but we do need one) so i'm not sure what's a good quality one
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this is not a major problem because
- jfets are super resilient and can handle that
- the jfet in question is literally the cheapest one we could find on digikey and we have like twenty more of them
- TO-92 packages are such that there's no special mounting requirements so we can just flip it around

it's just frustrating that this project has been stalled for over a week because of this (and other projects taking up time)
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anyway this meant that we had the gate and source terminals swapped on a jfet which of course means everything was broken because trying to apply a negative gate bias as is normal for an n-channel jfet was instead just forward-biasing the gate
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every other TO-92 we've ever used has had pin 1 on the left pin, which is also the case for all TO-220, TO-247, TO-263, SOT-223, SIP, and bespoke packages with pins all in a row that we've ever used

why would you do it backwards
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turns out a problem we've had at work for several days is because philips's semiconductor division (long since divested) decided that pin 1 on a TO-92 ought to be the rightmost pin

why would you *do* that
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!!attention!!

Cute spider! they want uppies!!

https://imgur.com/gallery/q4gi3T7
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why is blue tack blue, anyway

and why is it still called blue tack when it's white
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*why* is the fluke 720A so expensive? it's just a box full of resistors!
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i find it kind of funny how much of europe fought wars over access to intense spices and flavorings and then the instant those spices and flavorings became affordable to the lower classes, all the high society people (especially in france) decided that nope, unspiced food was the *real* good stuff, the blander the better, don't want to be like those *peasants* with their *tasty* food, do you?
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i am rather curious what currants taste like

we see them referenced a lot by british people but they just, aren't grown here or something? we've never tasted one
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who is will smith and why do people keep mentioning the name
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