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wow emil i think either something went wrong or you just really like this post
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hi @douglasfur, did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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i wonder why there doesn't seem to have ever been a modern replacement for the 555 timer

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like you don't think of the element mercury as having any particular relationship to the concept of temperature, but gears go with time
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the fact that clockwork being a thing has led to the widespread association between gears and the concept of time is rather interesting to us
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did you know bats are cute

you should know this
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just saw a question on stackexchange asking "will a muon decay in an empty universe" and my first idea for how to answer that was "define empty"
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also the only other major hdl is called verilog hdl which *also* abbreviates to vhdl though it's never actually abbreviated that way
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vhdl is a bad name

the v stands for vhsic which is also an acronym
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i kinda want to get one of those FPGA dev boards just to mess around with

FPGAs are neat
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why do #0000 screws exist

who needs screws that tiny

what would you even call a metric version of that, M0.5? does that exist?
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blue LEDs are overused

give us back the red and yellow and green
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i think it's kind of neat how lissajous figures that are slightly detuned from a perfect ratio look like they're rotating in 3d and i'm pretty sure if you do the calculations they actually are doing what you would do to do orthographic 3d rotation
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

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random amusing thing: we know that bears used to have another name in germanic languages but not what that name was

the word bear originates from an old germanic word meaning something along the lines of "the brown one", because people were terrified of bears and the usual thing of not being comfortable saying the name of such things

i wonder if there's some minor language or dialect somewhere that's preserved something related to the original name
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is it just us or does anyone else actively avoid clicking on articles or videos with titles like "10 best whatevers that will make you rich" or "top ten ways to do a thing"?
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the ounce of copper is one of the worst units

imagine thinking that "the thickness of one ounce of copper spread over one square foot of area" is a sensible unit for literally anything
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