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just saw someone talk about "using extra thin solder" while using solder that's at *least* 25 mil diameter, which is about double the diameter of our everyday solder (28 AWG, 12.6 mil diameter)

i think we use thinner solder than average
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then also tell me an uninteresting fiction about your species!
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tell me an interesting fact about your species!
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bad bot idea: bot called "broken clock" that posts the current (correct) time at exactly two random moments each day
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would anyone happen to know where we could find a 12x15 picture frame for not too much money? One that at least looks sorta nice
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huh, apparently stepper motors use a different design nowadays, not the switched-reluctance motors we're familiar with
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engineering humor 

*uses an IGBT as an amplifier*
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oh what the fuck someone got a new world record in super mario bros any% the other day
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

happy birthweek to two of the best dragons on the fediverse and also in the world

for @chr :dragnheart:

concept: POV picture with the POV of a multi-headed person, it's actually two or three pictures, one for each head
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has there ever been a case of two companies merging and it resulting in actually better products from them?

squaresoft and enix merged and now their games don't seem to hold up to their classics

hp and compaq merged and now nothing they make is anywhere near as good as it used to be

keithley and tektronix merged and now they... basically just make the same stuff as before at the same quality so i guess that's the closest to an improvement
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Fantasy football sounds sorta interesting but where are all the dragons and magic and stuff
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Sharklava and boygirl, the aquatic lava monster and their queer nonbinary sidekick
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

the european standard of indicating voltages by drawing an arrow pointing to the negative terminal feels backwards
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racist slurs now as well as ableism re: textual ableism directed at us, screenshots of a stackexchange comment section, no image description 

oh goodness, went back to look and, well, just look at this (reverted) revision:
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re: textual ableism directed at us, screenshots of a stackexchange comment section, no image description 

oh and now the same person is using racist slurs to refer to people, great
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textual ableism directed at us, screenshots of a stackexchange comment section, no image description 

Well that might be the first time we've run up against this sort of ableism. it doesn't feel good and i don't know how to react to this
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