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someone should compose some music called "waltz in c minor" and have it be in 4/4 time and in the key of G major or something
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weird things encountered on the internet today #79:
someone saying they can't get any MOSFETs in their area from well-known manufacturers and asking if an SFH154 would be suitable

SFH154 is a Fairchild part number
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we might have to just figure out how to use this simplis simulator that maxim made their models for
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annoying thing: Analog sure isn't in a hurry to get LTspice models of Maxim parts

that was the one thing we thought might be an upside to the acquisition last year, might get better simulatable models of Maxim parts
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hot take 

mangoes are overrated

guava is a much superior tropical fruit
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we have two pictures we've seen recentlyish that we really want to get printed and framed but

- we don't know how to go about doing that (i guess take it to a fedex office and ask?)
- we need to ask the artist of one of them for permission (the other has already given us permission)

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we were not expecting to be in the minority on this, we pronounce it like the first syllable of "character"
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when talking about the "char" (as in "character") datatype in a programming language, do you pronounce it:

@szymonbrycki hi, did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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you know you enjoy what you do for work when you find yourself thinking about it on your day off

i kinda want to make a synchronous motor spice model, the only motor model we can find from someone else is an induction motor
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there's something we just kinda appreciate about how titanium nitride spells out TiN, like the metal
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the fact that the irrational number that's the hardest to approximate by rational numbers is algebraic (it's (1+√5)/2) feels kind of weird, but also as you think about it it's just "well of course it would be", but then think a little more and it feels weird again
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i think about xkcd.com/1322/ a lot

the label does not define the thing
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i am curious, does anyone with some knowledge of linguistics know why it is that people with certain accents tend to put an epenthetic /s/ in the middle of the word "subtract", turning it into "substract"?

We've even seen this is writing
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when parking in a parking lot, do you

if harry is short for harold, does that mean larry is short for larold?
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it didn't mean to refer to itself in the third person but now it's just doing it more because why not
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had quite a productive week doing rather enjoyable stuff at work though so it doesn't feel super tired
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good afternoon, it's finally the weekend (for us)
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