the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

just saw someone refer to something just barely lower than -0.8 atm as "almost a perfect vacuum"

@Austin_Dern This showed up in our youtube recommendations and it reminded me of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3UCBycRw60

technically, everything that happens is a world-changing event, because the world is no longer in the same state it was previously.

blrf people talking about no mans sky and it just makes me sad that we can't run it

what exactly is "za warudo"? I've seen it a couple places and uh. ???

it is now countdown time (3:21)

(similar arguments apply to diodes, but here it's the depletion region equilibrium width)

the reason it's so useful to think in terms of current controlled devices is simply that as this charge dissipates quickly, it must be constantly replenished, so what the equilibrium charge in the base region is depends on how quickly that charge is being restored--the magnitude of the current

It's commonly said, and it's a useful abstraction (it's not really wrong!) that these are current-controlled devices. Actually, what determines the state of a BJT is not the current through its base but the charge stored in its base. It's just that this charge quickly dissipates due to low-impedance paths to the collector and emitter. It's this charge that alters the potential energy to allow charge carriers through the base region, not current

someone made us realize earlier today

while it's a common misconception that the speed electricity propagates down a wire is the same as the speed of individual electrons (it's not, by several orders of magnitude)

it is actually true that the speed of electrons is the determining factor in BJTs, diodes, and other devices based on forward-biased junctions (thyristors for example, but not jfets) turning on and off

saw someone say that Sinclair devices had a very appealing aesthetic and our reaction was just... "have you SEEN the inside of those things?"

is it just me or does the word lubricant sound like it could be someone's name

like, Lou Briquant or something

ugh

friend gave us a copy of no man's sky for our birthday and I was really excited to try it

turns out our computer can't run it, we just get a white screen with flickery UI elements

if you don't know what I'm referring to, this miniboss behaves almost exactly like the phantom ganon minibosses from Wind Waker, who launch energy balls at you that you're supposed to knock back at them with your sword

okay so twilight princess has a miniboss that has a large sword, floats around, and swings the sword to launch energy balls at you....

and you're supposed to hit it with _arrows_.

No wonder I couldn't get the timing right.

silly thought: shapeshifter getting a full-body massage, decides to prank the masseuse by growing more and more taurbodies as the massage continues. I kind of feel like @kobi_lacroix might have drawn this already though

<sound of thousands of relays clicking>

beep

goodnight