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so why does eating spicy food make your nose run anyway
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specifically its script, we've not heard what the language itself sounds like so it may be pretty i don't know
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Idly wondering why electrostatic CRTs were comparatively rare outside of electrical test equipment. Why did they always use electromagnetic ones that are harder to drive? Or are they easier to drive and we're just wrong?
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and now that @sharkNserg starred that i'm thinking about that one picture of taur connie....
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i want to just spend a while appreciating taurs
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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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