the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

i guess they're not that weird but it's kinda neat how easily they can be manufactured considering what they are
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dichroic filters are weird and neat
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why didn't more CD players have this sort of aesthetic, it's a cool look

like i get that the drawer-loading type allows it to be way thinner but they kinda had to be this thick anyway in the early days
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pretty sure the majority of our friends and even remote acquaintances are some flavor of queer

this thought isn't going anywhere, i just thought it
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why is h.264 264 anyway, why isn't it just 4
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Lesson learned today: If dremeling FR-4, always be sure the side of the dremel wheel that touches the board is the side that is moving downward, unless you like the idea of fiberglass dust all over you
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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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