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And Würth. Maybe I didn't think enough about that.
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Vishay really has bought up all the most celebrated brands of passives, haven't they? Dale, Sprague, Sfernice, Draloric...
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Though Rubycon, United/Nippon Chemi-con, Nichicon, and Bourns are still independent. And do Stackpole and KEMET count as celebrated brands? Well-known ones at least.
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fun bit of trivia: for incredibly high currents, an IGBT can actually be more efficient than a MOSFET, because in an IGBT the conduction loss is proportional to Ic·log(Ic), and in a MOSFET the conduction loss is proportional to Id²

the constant of proportionality is way, *way* smaller for a good power MOSFET though
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the resistor is undoubtably the most common component used, which is why we prefer the european symbol for them over the american one.

a rectangle is way quicker to draw and takes fewer strokes of the pencil than a long zigzag
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@curls Hi, did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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i don't get people who use "sth" as an abbreviation for "something"

it just feels *very wrong*
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people keep talking about BHM and I know it's black history month but we keep reading it initially as birmingham because that's the airport code for the airport we used to fly home from occasionally
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i feel old, seeing youtube videos recommended from tech channels about why there's no A: or B: drive on windows
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why the hell are chargin' chucks powerups anyway
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very weird, possibly lewd implications 

you ever just want someone to open up your head and just, mess around with your brain?
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hey did you know: i love our friends a lot <3
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now iv'e completely forgotten what i was actually going to type
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rewr

....I somehow managed to type that during a sneeze so it's going here anyway
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Orcs must be masters of art and nature, because how else do you explain the words orchestra, orchid, and orchard?
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i find it amusing that artifacts and inscriptions that show a complete alphabet (probably some kind of didactic purpose?) are called abecedaria

it's literally just a-b-c-d-thing
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