the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

occasionally I think about what it would be like if there was more than one species of human still around today but then I realize that would kick racism into overdrive and never mind about that thought

heat-pump based heating can be more than 100% efficient though, if you only look at the effect on the interior. they generally call this the "coefficient of performance" rather than efficiency though

Space heaters, the only thing that can be 100% efficient

If people argue over whether to call it aluminum or aluminium, are there similarly people who insist that it ought to be molybenium?

also this same rule meant that _any_ elected official, when leaving the city of Rome, was immediately considered "on military campaign" and held absolute power over life and death of others which seems a bit abusable even if it never seems to have been abused

Rome had a weird relationship with politics and military

Not that it _worked_ in the end, but still.

Today, we learned that in ancient Rome, the instant any military official set foot in the city of Rome, they were immediately stripped of all military power for the duration of their visit. From the lowest-rank footsoldiers all the way up to the generals, everyone was a civilian while in Rome.

This strikes me as a really good way to prevent abuse of power, at least in the ancient world. Any military force in the city of Rome is automatically illegal.

considered getting dark souls on the pc rather than just having it on xbox and: apparently the original port can't be purchased anymore and the "remastered" edition is super expensive??????

as it turns out, 6 AWG equivalent litz wire is actually closer to 3 AWG dimensionally, due to the thin insulation around each strand.

This means that it doesn't even remotely fit into the connectors we bought for it. Oops.

is this a common problem people have‽

The thing I love most about this corner of the internet is that people feel comfortable enough to be genuine, to do things without worrying about how others will react

Random bits of electrical hardware are too fun to fidget with, this is the second time I've realized I accidentally took something home from the lab

I mean both times they were things that cost only a few cents so it's not like I feel guilty about it or anything but still, this stuff is too good a fidget toy thing

music idea: a symphony where the instruments are an NES, an SNES, a Sega Genesis, and a Commodore 64

today we learned: The Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme was composed by Nobuo Uematsu

rpgs usually have really boring generic sleep music and it really bugs me so when we first played Wild ARMs it was such a good thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8pU7E0F7KQ

would the inverse of the Young's modulus be called the Old's modulus?

do they make camera 'lenses' that use zone plates instead of lenses, I wonder?

*spills umlauts all over the place*