the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Basque is certainly quite a language, wow

that is too many cases

today we learned that this is a thing.

https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/cuneifont/

I think you can probably understand why I might mix them up and think that Ursus arctos arctos is the polar bear, right?

this is a repost to fix an erroneous earlier version of this post, where I mistakenly said that bear bear bear was the polar bear, when it is actually the brown bear

Reminder that the bat-eared fox's scientific name literally means "eardog bigears"

while we're at it, the brown bear's scientific name translates to "bear bear bear"

oh I forgot I posted this, we got the car problem taken care of; it was a dead battery. The CD player apparently ejects its disc when it unexpectedly loses power to prevent the disc getting stuck inside

Signs Your Car Has A Problem: when you turn the key, instead of turning on, the CD player ejects its disc

gender: incomprehensible

Sappho of Lesbos must have been quite a person; she was so gay she got two entire words for the very concept of being gay named after here!

also I am sad that Fairchild got bought by ON

I have Strong Opinions on strange things that most people don't even know exists

like whenever TO-247 is an option I'll use that over TO-220 any day

I would rather use a Microchip, Linear Technology, or Analog Devices device than a TI or Maxim one

solderless breadboards are a necessary evil but an evil nonetheless

30 mil trace width minimum when I can get away with it

SOT-23 is good, SOT-23-6 is bad

I am not a fan of TO-263s or TO-253s. (an unpopular opinion but they're hard to solder)

so is phosphor bronze

copper alloys in general have good colors

beryllium copper is a nice color

oh wow @VoxSomniator your icon is super cute

idea: fediverse bot that posts "Gender of the day:" and then a randomly selected part from digi-key, with picture

everyone else is doing it so why not

for some reason there aren't that many wire-to-board connectors that can handle high currents

molex makes a connector that can do 30A per contact, so I guess we can use their four-position one of those for this, just all four in parallel (they also have another series that a) looks fancier and b) has much higher current capacity but it costs like two or three times as much)

I don't really know when to call someone a friend, but... I'm happy I have as many friends as I do, both on here and elsewhere. <3

fun fact: if you put your cell phone in a microwave and close the door, it will be unable to receive any calls until you open the door again

bonus fact: if you do this and then turn on the microwave, it will be unable to receive any calls ever again